South Florida does not get much of an autumn, but it does get Bedner's. The family farm on Lee Road west of Boynton Beach has opened its Fall Festival 2026, which runs every day through Sunday, November 1, with a pumpkin patch, a corn maze, a petting zoo, a sunflower field and tractor rides through the fields. For a lot of Palm Beach County families, a trip out here is the closest thing to a fall tradition the calendar allows.

What the ticket covers

Admission is a single price that covers the main attractions: $19.99 on weekdays and $24.99 on weekends, plus tax, with children under 2 free. Tickets are sold at the gate only, credit cards are accepted and parking is free.

That one ticket gets you into the pumpkin patch, the farm's animal area and petting zoo, a tractor ride and entry to both the corn maze and the sunflower field. The farm notes that the maze and the sunflowers depend on the weather and how the crops grow, which is the honest caveat of any real farm in October.

The weekday price is the bargain, and the farm says so itself, pitching weekdays as the less crowded option. Weekends cost five dollars more and add balloon animals, face painting and axe throwing, along with entertainment, food trucks and vendors.

Bring an appetite

The food is half the point. Mostly on weekends, the farm sells homemade ice cream, roasted corn, smoked turkey legs, cider doughnuts, sandwiches, empanadas, hand-tossed pizza and tacos, with cotton candy, hot dogs, popsicles, fresh lemonade and frozen apple cider rounding it out. The menu may vary, so treat the list as a guide rather than a promise.

A farm that has been here since 1960

What makes Bedner's more than a seasonal attraction is the family behind it. According to the farm's own history, Arthur Bedner and his wife Henrietta came down from Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and started farming here in 1960. Their sons Charles, Bruce and Steve took it on, and today a third generation, grandson Jesse among them, is working the same ground.

That continuity is rarer every year. The farm sits in the western stretch of the county where most of the remaining agricultural land is concentrated, and plenty of neighboring fields have become subdivisions in the decades since the Bedners arrived. A working family farm where children can still pick a pumpkin off the vine is something many South Florida kids would otherwise only see in a picture book.

Before you go

The festival is open daily from 9 a.m., with last admission at 5 p.m. The address is 10066 Lee Road, Boynton Beach, and the phone number is 561-733-5490. Pets are not allowed. The farm's regular market and U-pick fields operate alongside the festival, and the U-pick is closed on Tuesdays.

The best plan is a weekday visit in the late afternoon, when the heat has started to break and the light over the sunflowers turns gold. Do the maze first, ride the tractor second and finish with cider doughnuts and a pumpkin from the patch. The festival has only until November 1, and after that the season belongs to strawberries.