Somewhere in eastern Nebraska, past a stretch of gravel and a long line of brake lights, there’s a farm where a crowd gathers on wooden bleachers to cheer for pigs sprinting toward a cookie. It sounds like a joke until you’re standing there yelling along with everyone else.
What looks from the road like an ordinary pumpkin field turns out to be a sprawling autumn operation with fire shows, apple trees, and six miles of walking if you try to see it all. The pigs are only the start, and they are very, very fast.
A Sarpy County Farm That Swells Every Autumn
Rolling ground south of Gretna holds something that stops behaving like a farm the moment September arrives. Vala’s Pumpkin Patch & Apple Orchard sits in Sarpy County, close enough to Omaha for an after-school run and far enough out that the drive still feels like a trip.
Calling it a pumpkin patch undersells the scale. Families routinely spend six hours here and leave saying they saw maybe half of it…