One of the few Space Coast patches with confirmed 2026 festival dates, run by a church rather than a farm — strong on vendors, crafts and a gem-mining sideline, and silent on what any of it costs.
No admission price is published on the event site. The only figures listed are vendor booth fees.
Church-run patches are consistently the most under-rated option on any Florida fall list, and this one has a feature almost none of its neighbours can match: confirmed 2026 dates. The festival runs on three October weekends — the 10th and 11th, the 17th and 18th, the 24th and 25th — from 10am to 5pm. Across the Space Coast, most patches we looked at in August 2026 had published nothing at all for the coming season. Knowing when to turn up is worth more than it sounds.
What the festival adds to an ordinary pumpkin lot is a fair: arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, live entertainment, gem mining and ice cream making, plus the patch itself. It is a community event with pumpkins in it rather than a farm attraction, and the difference is worth naming because the two are priced and paced completely differently.
The event site publishes no admission price. The only numbers on it are vendor booth fees, which are what a stallholder pays to set up, not what a visitor pays to walk in. Many church patches are free to enter and make their money on the pumpkins; some charge a small festival admission. We do not know which this is, and we are not going to guess.
The second gap is the season. The three festival weekends are confirmed, but a patch of this kind usually runs longer than its festival days — often most of October. The page that would have told us was returning an error when we read the site. So if you want a quiet weekday pumpkin run rather than the festival, call and ask whether the patch is staffed.
Given no gate price is published, the spend is the pumpkin plus the extras, and gem mining is the extra to watch. It is one of the most reliable child-magnets in the agritourism business and it is almost never included in a base ticket anywhere. Ice cream making is the other. Neither is expensive on its own; both are the kind of thing that happens three times.
Florida cannot grow a commercial fall pumpkin crop — the climate does not allow it — so pumpkins at every patch in the state arrive by truck from somewhere with a real autumn and are arranged for you. Church patches in particular tend to buy through the same regional suppliers the farms use, and the money you spend usually funds a mission or a youth programme rather than a harvest. Whether that makes the pumpkin better value is a personal question, but it is a genuine difference from buying one at a supermarket.
The festival runs three weekends — October 10-11, 17-18 and 24-25, 10am to 5pm each day. The first weekend is the one to take. The last weekend before Halloween is the busiest date on any Florida patch calendar, and a church lot with craft vendors handles a rush less easily than a farm with forty acres to spread people across. Within the day, the 10am opening beats the middle: October in Titusville is still warm, and a vendor field is open ground.
Two to three hours on a festival weekend, which is enough to walk the vendors, eat something, do the gem mining and pick a pumpkin. Outside the festival weekends the patch itself is a twenty-minute stop.
Three festival weekends and nothing else scheduled means demand concentrates into six days. October 24-25 lands on the final pre-Halloween weekend and will be the peak. Mid-morning on the October 10 opening weekend is the quietest festival slot available.
Unconfirmed. The site is a church on Cheney Highway, so expect a church lot supplemented by overflow onto grass when the festival is running. Overflow grass after a Florida afternoon storm is mud, and a busy festival weekend is exactly when the overflow gets used.
Unconfirmed, though a church campus is generally a better bet than a farm field for a stroller or a wheelchair — paved lots, permanent restrooms and level ground are more likely here than at an agritourism site. We have not verified any of it.
You want a farm day. There is no hayride, no maze and no animals in what the event publishes — this is a pumpkin lot plus a craft and food fair. Skip the festival weekends specifically if crowds and vendor stalls are the thing you were hoping to avoid, and just visit the patch on a quieter day.
Titusville sits directly across the Indian River from Kennedy Space Center, and the Space Coast's other patches are strung down US-1 to the south. If you are combining the day with anything, check the launch schedule first — a launch window turns Titusville's riverfront roads into a car park, and October weekends are busy ones for the range.
None is published. We read the event site in August 2026 and the only prices listed anywhere were vendor booth fees for stallholders. That is not the same as confirming entry is free, so ask before you plan around it.
The festival runs Saturday and Sunday on October 10-11, 17-18 and 24-25, 10am to 5pm. The wider patch season is probably longer than those three weekends, but the site's dates-and-times page was returning an error when we checked, so we cannot confirm when the patch opens or closes.
Yes, on the terms church patches are always good for toddlers — flat ground, contained space, nothing pre-paid. If the visit lasts fifteen minutes, you have lost nothing but the drive.
October 10 – October 25, 2026. Festival weekends: Saturdays and Sundays. Hours: Festival hours 10am-5pm.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. No admission price is published on the event site. The only figures listed are vendor booth fees.
1355 Cheney Highway, Titusville, FL 32780, in Brevard County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Space Coast.
We track 5 patches in Space Coast, 1 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.
Its season runs about 16 days against a regional average of 24, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
There are 4 other patches we track in Brevard County. All Space Coast patches →
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Checked August 2026.