Wickham Farms

Wickham Farms Mission Statment:

At Wickham Farms, we believe in the importance of spending quality time with family and friends.  We strive to make our working farm a place where guests of all ages can enjoy fun and interactive farm activities while creating lasting memories together.

Our Story:

Bill Wickham begain growing his own pumpkins at the age of 8 while growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in Flint, NY. While attending Cornell University in Ithaca and obtaining a degree in agriculture, Bill met his wife Debbie. Since meeting, Bill and Debbie have shared a passion for growing fruits and vegetables for the local community, most notably – pumpkins. This passion has been passed on to their three children, Kevin, Paige and Dale Wickham and their daughter in law, Carolyn. Although not all of the children live locally, it is not uncommon to find the entire Wickham family helping out at the farm on the busy October weekends.

Wickham Farms as you know it today had humble beginnings. We began selling our first pick your own pumpkins to the Penfield public in the fall of 1988 out of a red road side stand on the honor system. As the farm slowly gained popularity, we added a small corn maze and begin to sell pumpkins from a tent instead of the covered wagon. We also began to host the local school children for educational field trips on the farm each fall. Finally, in 2004 we built the red barn to give the farm a heated store area to sell product from. From there we have vastly expanded our farm and fun attractions. Today, you can see most of the farm’s expansion across the street on Sweets Corners Road where our pick your apple orchard is and all of the Wickham Farms CSA produce is grown. Through all of this expansion, the Wickham family has stuck to its roots and focused on keeping the farm as a local, family owned business.