This baby pumpkin will soon be ready for you to carve. Our opening day is Friday September 18th. Today's post is about a boring but important topic that unfortunately affects your experience on the farm: liability insurance.
After 18 years of inviting the public to our farm with zero insurance claims, our insurance provider told us in May that they would no longer cover several important parts of our business. It took us all summer to find a new provider that would insure all of our operations. The cost is staggering. But the really painful part is that a liability waiver is now required for every visitor who enters our playground or purchases an activity ticket. If you are only on the farm to eat or buy pumpkins, then a waiver is not required.
We will use the same waiver system that we have used for the Goat Walk and Kid Walk, and if you have already signed a waiver for these activities, you don't need to do it again. A link to the waiver is provided at the top of our webpage, and there will be a plethora of QR code links when you enter the farm allowing you to sign the waiver on your phone. Everyone who uses the playground or buys activity tickets will ideally complete the waiver in advance (or while standing in the check-in line), then will get checked in and purchase any tickets at our new General Store.
Each completed waiver is good for one adult or one adult plus minor(s). So a two-parent family must complete one adult waiver and one adult plus minor(s) waiver. At check-in we will confirm your waiver by your name or by scanning the QR code that is in the waiver email you will receive.
We have hired additional staff and have added a lot of equipment to facilitate this process, but our peer farms that have already made this transition warn us that it will be a painful experience. We ask for your patience as we work out the inevitable bugs.
