Deck Your Halls and Everything Else in Your Home!

It's officially Christmastime at Potters Way! We want to welcome you out to our shop this weekend as we open for the Christmas season! Remember, we're only open 2 weekends this year, so you better put us at the top of your list!

We can help you deck out your mantle with garland and more...

and give you ideas for your tree or the bench by your door!

Whatever your holiday decorating needs, we are here to help! Don't forget about our custom centerpieces you can order for special occasions!

Come and shop the barn for fresh wreaths, trees, garland, cut greens and treetops.

We wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving Day with family

and we hope to see you this weekend!

Christmas Open House!

What: Christmas Open House

Where: Potters Way

When: Friday, November 27th from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm!

Who: You and all your family and friends!

Why: Let us count the reasons...

• Register for 2 door prizes (a decorated fresh wreath or a custom fresh centerpiece to be delivered at any time)

• Hot cider and cookies


• Great selection of Christmas decor and ideas to make your home festive

Keep on checking the blog as we get our Christmas displays set! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Goodbye to Fall...

While the weather feels more like fall now than it did while we were open, we would be remiss if we didn't officially say goodbye to fall and thank all of you who came out to enjoy our farm for our fall activities!

We did receive some pictures from a couple of families and we love sharing family pictures so here they are! Little Isaiah Wertz is as cute as can be with his bucket of apples and a bale of straw! See parents? You don't need expensive toys to keep kids occupied!

The Townsend's from Warner, SD also made the trek up to Oakes again this year and had GREAT pictures to share! They took advantage of every single photo opportunity we had!

We again want to thank all our family and friends that helped us make Potters Way what it is...a fun-filled place to enjoy spending the day with your family! God bless and we'll see you at Christmas!

Updates for this weekend...

Due to the effect the weather has had on our corn maze, we have made the decision to close it for the season. BUT...

We still have LOTS of pumpkins to choose from for carving and other great fall produce for decorating! It sounds like the sun might shine this weekend, so it will be fun!

We will be serving the following for food on Saturday:

BBQ's, nachos with cheese, apples with homemade caramel sauce, and bars...

We'll have hot cocoa, hot cider and coffee to warm you up!

Don't forget to come and have the Sunday pie special which is pumpkin pie and coffee for $1.99!

Top Ten Reasons to Visit Potters Way for the Last Weekend of the Season...

Well, you'd never guess this is a picture of a pumpkin farm, now would you? We can hardly believe it ourselves! Again, such a great reminder that we are not in control, so when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade!

Or in our case, you serve hot cocoa and hot cider! (Which we'll be serving this weekend and is the #10 reason to visit.)

Our barn may not be heated, but the produce inside is still beautiful and it's dry! (#9) Just wear an extra layer or 2, and it will still be fun!

We are running a couple of specials for our last weekend....

Fall wreaths are 20% off!! (#8)

Sunday Pumpkin Pie Special: $1.99 for pie and coffee (#7)

(You can't beat that...even on a chilly day!)

We live in North Dakota, so you never can tell what the weather may do! Even if it doesn't warm up for the weekend, you should still come and see us and take a look in the barn and the shop! We still have great things for sale!(#6)

#5. Dorothy is still out in the corn maze and needs help finding her way home...

#4. While we might not have really had a fall, we can't just give up! If you decorate your home for fall, it will feel like fall!

#3. You can brag to your relatives that live in warmer climates that you actually went out into a field and picked your pumpkin. Then you knocked the snow off of it.

#2. Are you seriously going to skip carving pumpkins for Halloween because of the weather? We're tougher than that and it's tradition!

And the #1 reason to come and spend a little time at Potters Way

this weekend is...

It's the experience of being together with friends and family that makes everything worthwhile! No matter how young or how old, how big or how small, there's something for everyone at Potters Way!

Baby, it's cold outside!

Despite the below normal chill in the air, we will be open this weekend, for those willing to brave the elements!

Again, as a reminder, bring your boots! It's still pretty muddy out in the corn maze and pumpkin patch!

Just because it's cold, doesn't mean everyone still won't need pumpkins for carving and decorating for Halloween! We have plenty left and we'd be willing to bet there's one with your name on it! Come and see us soon!

Our recent visitors...

The Scarlett O'Hatters came out to Potters Way one evening last week and had a wonderful time! We appreciate the pictures you sent and hope you'll come and visit us again soon!

DiAnn Sigafoos from Ellendale came out last weekend with her boys and some friends. She shared a few of the moments of their fun afternoon!

Having fun picking our gourds in the barn!



Makes you wonder how we ever operated this place without those special black kitties?

Getting a photo with ghosts in the barn!

Posing with a scarecrow and lounging in our "designated lounging area"....

Thanks for sharing and remember, please let us know if you have pictures you'd like to share! We LOVE sharing with everyone!

Rain, rain....go away!

Due to our recent monsoon-like rain, we will not be opening the corn maze this weekend and the wagon ride to the pumpkin patch will be unavailable also.

We will still have the animals available to view and we'll have a full barn full of produce! The kids can still play in the straw bales and we'll have our normal concessions available in the shop.

As always, we rely on God to provide, so we hope you'll still come out and enjoy what's available! Pray for sunshine!

Bring your galoshes....

Or your rainboots, your overshoes, or even your pair of beat up old tennis shoes. We hope you'll make the trek out to see us this weekend, but if you do, it's pretty wet from our recent rains, so we just encourage everyone to wear shoes that can get a little dirty and Mom won't mind! We'll see you soon!

Random Acts of Fun...

Here's the Dethlefsen family from Oakes shopping for some gourds after going through the corn maze and choosing their pumpkins. These girls know how to shop and they know exactly what they want, too!

The Muggli family stopped for a quick photo op with the ghosts in the barn!

Even as the sun starts to sink below the barn, it's a perfect time of day for a wagon ride!

We'd tell you that little Nathan Schmitz is a pumpkin that's for sale, but he's already been put in a customer's wagon!

It's clear...he LOVES fall just as much as we do! :-)

Who Can Find the Biggest Pumpkin?

This weekend at Potters Way, we decided to keep track of who had purchased the biggest pumpkin and some families were definitely up to the challenge of finding the biggest one! It was fun to see people get so excited about it...it wasn't so much fun to haul these big guys out to the cars!

Shari Wendel and her kids with their friends came out on Friday and through that day, had purchased the most pounds of pumpkins by one group. The real surprise was that their wagons weighed EXACTLY the same! How ironic! The must have planned that!

Saturday morning, Abby came out with her family and chose the biggest pumpkin yet...it weighed 60 pounds! Abby also LOVED our black kitties, and they loved her right back!

By Saturday evening, Abby's pumpkin had been beat by Paulina's. This pumpkin weighed 62 pounds!

Not to be outdone, Bill and Tara Schmitz's kids, Allie and Brianna, and their cousin, Grace, came back out on Sunday and fought the wind to find what is now the reigning champion of pumpkins at 63 pounds! We really thought there was at least one out there that weighed over 70 or 80 pounds...maybe if they sit out there a bit longer, they'll continue to get bigger!

The challenge has been thrown down! We'll see how big the biggest can be!

The Fun Never Ends at Potters Way!

Our opening weekend provided us beautiful weather and great food from Schwan's to make it a really memorable visit for our customers! We love to share photos of the families that come to visit, so remember to send them to us so we can post them!

Families rode the Pumpkin Express out to the patch to pick their perfect pumpkins!

Little people rode the little wagons courtesy of Grandma Karen...

A pile of pumpkins....

a barn floor covered with straw...

and a bin to look in can keep kids entertained for HOURS!

We had visitors from ALL over the place our opening weekend! People came from Aberdeen, Jamestown, Groton, Steele, Gackle, Wisconsin, Ellendale, LaMoure, and Fargo! We also can't forget our local Oakes folks who took advantage of the great pumpkin picking weather! We'll continue to share stories and pictures, so send them our way!