A downtown Ocala church patch with evening hours and live music that is very likely returning in 2026 — but as of late August the church had not announced dates, and no prices are published anywhere.
Admission and pumpkin prices are not published.
The honest headline here is a gap rather than a feature. As of late August 2026 the church had confirmed the pumpkin patch is coming back and had published nothing else — no opening date, no closing date, no prices. Everything below the name of the venue on this page is either from the 2025 season or is a reasonable expectation, and it is worth knowing which is which before you put a Saturday on it.
What we can say with confidence is the shape of the thing. It is a downtown church patch, not a farm, on East Silver Springs Boulevard rather than out in Marion County horse country. The 2025 pattern was evening-weighted — 4pm openings Monday through Thursday, later on Friday, with proper daytime hours only on the weekend — and the extras listed are wagons for hauling pumpkins, live music, children’s activities and a scattering of special events through the run.
That evening bias is genuinely a point in its favour. October afternoons in Ocala are hot and prone to storms, and a patch that does not open until 4pm has effectively pre-selected the good part of the day for you. The trade-off is that a weekday visit is an after-work errand, not an outing.
The 2025 run was about two weeks, which if repeated makes this one of the shortest seasons on our Florida list. Short seasons concentrate demand hard, and a central downtown location concentrates it further. The last weekend before Halloween will be the busiest evening of the year here by a distance.
One thing to set expectations against, common to the whole state: Florida’s climate cannot support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so the pumpkins at any Ocala patch arrived by truck. At a church patch that is barely a criticism — the pumpkins are the fundraiser and everybody involved knows where they came from — but it is worth adjusting the mental image before a child asks where the vines are.
The action item is simple. Phone the church, get the dates and get the prices, and only then decide.
Evenings, because the hours barely leave you a choice: in 2025 the patch opened at 4pm on weekdays and did not open at all in the mornings except on Saturday and Sunday. That is not a bad thing in Marion County in October, where a 4pm start means you miss the worst of the heat and most of the afternoon storm window.
Thirty to sixty minutes. Longer if you catch one of the live music sets or a special event, which the church schedules across the run rather than daily.
If 2026 mirrors 2025, the entire season is roughly two weeks ending on Halloween — one of the shortest runs of any patch we track. A short season plus a central location means weekend evenings will be busy and the final weekend will be the worst of it.
A downtown church on East Silver Springs Boulevard, so this is street and church-lot parking rather than a farm field. That is good news after rain and less good news on a busy Saturday evening.
You need certainty. Neither the dates nor the prices are published, and the 2025 run was only about two weeks long. If you are planning a trip around this, you are planning around a phone call you have not made yet.
It has not been announced. When we checked the church's page in August 2026 it confirmed the patch is returning and asked visitors to watch for the opening date. For reference, the 2025 run was roughly October 17 to 31 — a short season, and one worth confirming before you drive.
Not published. Neither admission nor pumpkin prices appear on the church's page or in the local tourism coverage we read.
The listing includes wagons for hauling pumpkins, live music, children's activities and special events across the run. What runs on any given evening is not published, so treat the extras as a bonus rather than the reason for the trip.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. Admission and pumpkin prices are not published.
1126 E. Silver Springs Boulevard, Ocala, FL 34470, in Marion County. It is one of 15 patches we track in North Florida.
We track 15 patches in North Florida, 2 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 11 of the 15 patches we track in North Florida had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 6 other patches we track in Marion County. All North Florida patches →
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fumcocala.org
Checked August 2026.