Saturday, October 9, 2010
10 AM to 4 PM
Guadalupe River Park / Discovery Meadow
(Woz Way & San Carlos)
San Jose

 

Giant Pumpkin Patch
Scarecrow Row
Fresh Apple Cider
Guadalupe River Education
Lots of Free Kid’s Activities
Children's Concert

No cans, bottles, alchohol, or dogs.

Jump down the page:
Volunteers
Sponsors
Entertainment
Donation Drawing
Participating Companies & Organizations
Disney On Ice Tickets
Giant Sunflower Contest


Scarecrow Making Contest

 


More Info>>>
Volunteers

We need lots of help to make Pumpkins in the Park a success.  Volunteers staff every area and position from setting up, volunteer registration, children’s activities, food and beverage sales, surveys, bounce house, apple cider pressing and much more.  We are hoping that you will be able to assist us and be a part of making this event enjoyable for all who attend. Click here to sign up!
Sponsors

 

 

Cortese Brothers Farms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Entertainment
10:15-10:45 Center Stage Dance Company
10:45-11:15 Grupo Folklorico Valencia 
11:15-11:45 Andy Z
11:45-12:30 Radio Disney Road Crew
12:30-1:15 Andy Z
1:15-2:00 Zun Zun
2:00-2:45 TBA
2:45-3:30 Zun Zun
3:45 - 4:00 Raffle/Closing

All Day

  • Bounce Houses
  • Pumpkin Decorating
  • Motion Maker Puppeteers
  • Apple Tasting
  • Bean Bag Game
  • Bookmobile
  • Corn Husk Dolls
  • Face Painting
  • Fresh Pressed Cider Tasting
  • Hazardous Waste Information
  • Health Education
  • Kaiser Kids Course
  • Ohlone Activities
  • Sand Art
  • Trail Info
  • Watershed Education
  • Weaving Demonstrations
  • Wildlife Demonstrations

Donation Drawing
Proceeds benefit the nonprofit the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Tickets are $1/ticket or $10/12 tickets. We can fill the tickets out for you and place them in the drawing or you can swing by and handle that yourself. We can also mail you tickets and you can mail them back all filled out.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@grpg.org or 408-298-7657.

Enter amount you would like to donate...

Prize List
Participating Companies & Organizations

Air Systems Foundation
Bay Area Glass Institute
Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
Bill Wilson Center
Breathe California of the Bay Area
City of San Jose Anti-Graffiti & Anti-Litter
City of San Jose Environmental Services Department
Clif Kid
Cortese Brothers Farms
Elan Espirit Pre-School
Family Life Chiropractic
Farm Fresh To You
Garden City Sanitation
Girl Scouts of Northern California
Glenna Harris Weavers Guild
Greenwaste Recovery
Happy Hollow Park and Zoo
Head Start
Healing Lab Acupuncture Clinic
Jerome & Jeckyll the Crow
Junior League of San Jose
Kaiser Kid's Course
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County
Motion Makers Puppeteers
New Hope Chiropractic
One Seed Too Many
Our City Forest
Provident Credit Union
Radio Disney
Rebekah Children's Services
Salmon & Steelhead Restoration Group
Sand Art/Candle Art
San Jose Host Lions
SCC Home Composting Education Program
SCC Household Hazardous Waste Program
SCC Reading Council
Santa Clara Open Space Authority
San Jose Public Library
Scentsy Wickless Candles
Silica Valley Glass Studio
State Farm Insurance
Walden West Center/SCC Office of Education
Walk For AIDS
Watershed Watch
Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley
The Worm Dude
Youth Science Institute

Food & Beverage Vendors

  • Buchser Music Association -- Kettle Korn
  • Guadalupe River Park Conservancy Pizza Booth
  • Guadalupe River Park Conservancy Cider Pressing
  • Guadalupe River Park Conservancy Apple Tasting
  • Mogo BBQ (Korean taco truck)
  • Kicks Cookies and Ice Cream
  • Awake Up Call (Coffee!)
  • Road Dog Cafe
Disney on Ice Tickets!

Thanks to our friends at NBC 11 we have Disney on Ice tickets again! There are two ways you can take advantage of this great deal:
  • Come to Pumpkins in the Park and put your name in the hat for a free drawing. Ticket vouchers will be given out throughout the day. Stop by the information booth.
  • Purchase a minimum $35 new membership with Guadalupe River Park Conservancy and we’ll give you two (2) ticket vouchers for free (while supplies last). If you’re already a member, you can upgrade your membership or purchase a gift membership for friends or family.

You will be required to take your vouchers to the HP Pavilion ticket office to exchange them for the actual tickets. The sooner you take your vouchers to the box office, the better seats you'll get. These vouchers are only good for the following shows:

Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 PM
Thursday, October 21, 7:30 PM
Friday, October 22, 10:30 AM

To purchase a membership now, please use the secure form below!

Enter the membership level you would like to contribute...our membership levels are $35, $50, $100, $250, and beyond!


Contact Program Manager Phil Cornish at 408-298-7657 for more information.
Giant Sunflower Contest

The Guadalupe River Park Conservancy in conjunction with One Seed too Many is holding the first annual Giant Sunflower Contest at Pumpkins in the Park. Here are the details:

  • Pre-registration is not required, participants can just arrive at 9:00 AM to enter. The contest booth will be next to the main stage.
  • The winner will be selected on who has the largest sunflower head measured by diameter just before the edge
  • We will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, with a prize for the 1st place winner
  • The winners will be announced at 11:45 from the main stage.
  • Participants are encourage to mingle and show off their entries with the general public, but this is not required.

For more info, please click here and shoot us an e-mail.
Zero Waste

We've decided to make this a Zero Waste Event as defined by the City of San Jose. We hope you can help us meet the requirements...here are some of the things we are doing:

  • Eco-Stations will be strategically located throughout the event. They will offer visitors the option to place things in the trash, in the recycling bin, or in the composting bin. Volunteers will staff each station to help people make the right choice.
  • All of the food we will be serving will be compostable itself and be served on paper products that can be composted.
  • Many of the materials used to produce the event are reusable, such as burlap table clothes, reusable signage, etc.
  • We've gone almost entirely digital...very few paper fliers were printed this year!

To learn more about this program, visit click here!

 

If you would like to be a vendor, sponsor, contributor or volunteer, please Contact Us