First and foremost, Wenninghoff’s is a produce farm — family-owned on the same north-central Omaha corner since 1956. But come mid-September the fall side takes over, and it stays deliberately low-key: their own pitch is that the season “is not about wicked witches, blood thirsty bats, or spooky goblins. It’s about the simple things in life like the fall harvest and having good old-fashioned, ‘playin’-in-the-dirt’ kind of fun.”
Activities skew young — dress-up barn, hula hoop and bean bag toss, hay bale climbing, a combine slide, tractors, a corn maze, the petting zoo, and hayrides on weekends — plus pumpkins, hay bales, and corn stalks for decorating. Entry to the patch is free; you pay for your pumpkins. It’s a good counterweight if you’ve been pumpkin-patched out by the big metro operations and just want the simple version done right.