Verrill's Fall Festival

One of my favorite local spots around is a place called Verrill Farm. Located in Concord, MA, it's a farm, store, and cafe of sorts. The farm grows a lot of their own goods, and also source them locally.
Veggies, fruits, cheeses, baked treats, sandwiches, specialty items... they have it all!
Super fresh and even more delicious.

Having ourselves a busy, errand-running Saturday, we stopped at Verrill for a quick bite to eat.
And stayed a lot longer than planned...

When we first arrived, we browsed around outside

picked a pumpkin or two

and got in the Halloween spirit.

We made our way inside for lunch - and got sidetracked by the yumminess...

 

And the prettiness...

 

And the funniness on display.

Once in the cafe area, we tortured ourselves a bit more by browsing the baked goods before ordering.

Raspberry White Chocolate Scones (and other flavors...clearly I'm partial to the raspberry).
Need I say more?

  Oh and their trail mix (nuts, raisins, coconut, chocolate) cookies? Yeah... I could eat a dozen.
Barely Able to control ourselves around these temptations, we ordered lunch and took a seat.


I ordered a turkey panini with cheese, tomato, onion, pickles and spicy mustard on marble.

Crunchy bread, melt-y cheese, spicy mustard - you can't go wrong.
As we enjoyed our lunch, we realized that today was Verrill's annual Fall Festival.

Not wanting to miss out on the fun, we took our last few bites and headed around back to join the festivities.
And I must say, they had a ton of things going on. There was: music, dancing, arts & crafts, games, hayrides, food, raffles, pumpkin carving contests, and more.

Having enjoyed ourselves thoroughly, we realized that the afternoon was flying by and we needed to get back to our errands. This was supposed to be a "quick" stop after all!
But hey, aren't the serendipitous moments often some of the best ones?
I think they are at least.

 

"Bye Verrill! See you soon!"

xo Belle