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Photos: Hayrides, pumpkins and fall sunshine at DelVal’s Harvest Fest

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Hay wagons, pumpkin patches and golden-hour light: scenes from Delaware Valley University’s Harvest Fest.

Photos by The Aggie Insider

Students piled onto hay wagons, wandered rows of pumpkins and soaked up the late-day sun at Delaware Valley University’s Harvest Fest in early October.

Tractor-pulled hayrides carried students and families out to the pumpkin patch, where visitors hunted for the perfect pick, posed for photos and lingered as the sun dipped behind the fence line.

Back on campus, student clubs set up tables, a grill fired up and students settled in to paint pumpkins.

Clubs, crafts and cookouts

Members of Alpha Gamma Rho sit behind a table with the fraternity’s Greek letters, framed by corn stalks.
Alpha Gamma Rho members at their table. (The Aggie Insider)
Students stand behind a table next to a yellow hexagon sign for the Apiary Society.
The Apiary Society’s table. (The Aggie Insider)
Two students stand behind an Artisans Guild table with tote bags and a poster board.
The Artisans Guild shows off tote bags and crafts. (The Aggie Insider)
Students sit behind the Plant Breeding Club table with a photo poster board.
The Plant Breeding Club’s table. (The Aggie Insider)
Two students sit at a club table with a decorated poster board on the lawn.
Students staff a club table on the lawn. (The Aggie Insider)
Four students stand behind a table of food in foil trays.
Students staff a food table. (The Aggie Insider)
A student in a baseball cap tends food on an outdoor grill.
A student works the grill. (The Aggie Insider)
Two friends smile at a table decorated with a pumpkin and flowers.
Friends share a table on the lawn. (The Aggie Insider)
Students sit along a long table painting small pumpkins.
Students settle in at the pumpkin-painting table. (The Aggie Insider)
A pink painted pumpkin reading Boo sits on a paint-splattered table.
A freshly painted “Boo” pumpkin. (The Aggie Insider)
A small orange pumpkin painted with white faces sits on a table with red cups.
A freshly painted pumpkin. (The Aggie Insider)
Students walk along a path carrying pumpkins.
Students carry their pumpkins along the path. (The Aggie Insider)

All aboard

A sandwich-board sign reads Pumpkin Patch Hayride Pick-Up.
A sign marks the hayride pickup. (The Aggie Insider)
A blue tractor pulls a hay wagon past a campus building as students watch.
A tractor and wagon roll through campus. (The Aggie Insider)
A green hay wagon full of riders waits as students line up behind it.
Riders fill the wagon as others wait in line. (The Aggie Insider)
Students with backpacks line up to board a hay wagon.
Students line up to board the wagon. (The Aggie Insider)
A rider climbs aboard a green hay wagon on a campus road.
Riders climb aboard. (The Aggie Insider)
A blue New Holland tractor pulls a wooden hay wagon full of students.
A tractor pulls a wagon full of riders toward the pumpkin patch. (The Aggie Insider)
Riders climb onto a hay wagon while a student carries a pumpkin.
Riders load onto a hay wagon. (The Aggie Insider)
Young children gather beside a hay wagon as adults help riders aboard.
Young visitors wait their turn for a hayride. (The Aggie Insider)
Students crowd the rails of a wooden hay wagon.
Students fill the wagon for the ride out. (The Aggie Insider)

Into the patch

Visitors walk through a gate into a fenced pumpkin field.
Visitors head through the gate into the patch. (The Aggie Insider)
People search for pumpkins inside a wire-fenced field.
The hunt for the perfect pumpkin begins. (The Aggie Insider)
Two large pumpkins sit in the grass in the foreground as visitors walk the field behind them.
Pumpkins wait in the grass as visitors walk the field. (The Aggie Insider)
Students walk among scattered pumpkins under a clear blue sky.
Students walk the pumpkin patch. (The Aggie Insider)
Close-up of orange pumpkins in a field.
Pumpkins ready for picking. (The Aggie Insider)
Pumpkins stretch across a field under a blue sky with a single cloud.
The patch under clear October skies. (The Aggie Insider)
Visitors walk through a pumpkin field in the late-day sun.
Visitors explore the patch. (The Aggie Insider)
Rows of orange pumpkins glow in low sunlight.
Pumpkins glow in the late-day sun. (The Aggie Insider)
Close-up of pumpkins with curled stems in a field.
Pumpkins ready for picking. (The Aggie Insider)

Picture perfect

A student in a red sweatshirt photographs while holding a pumpkin up toward the sky.
A student holds a pumpkin up to the sky while framing a shot. (The Aggie Insider)
A smiling student in a red sweatshirt holds a small pumpkin with a camera around the neck.
A student shows off a pick from the patch. (The Aggie Insider)

Golden hour

Students are silhouetted against the low sun beside a metal farm gate.
The late-day sun lights up visitors at the farm gate. (The Aggie Insider)
Riders sit along the sides of a hay wagon in the evening light.
Riders fill the wagon in the evening light. (The Aggie Insider)
A tractor pulls a full hay wagon past a wire fence.
Riders head back from the patch. (The Aggie Insider)
A loaded hay wagon waits on a farm road under a blue sky with puffy clouds.
A wagon waits for the next load. (The Aggie Insider)

Friends of every kind

Five students pose on a lawn with a golden retriever in an orange bandana and two pumpkins.
Friends and a golden retriever pose with pumpkins. (The Aggie Insider)
A yellow Labrador service dog in a vest rests on the floor of a hay wagon.
A service dog on duty during the hayride. (The Aggie Insider)
A rider cradles a pumpkin on a hay wagon as a service dog rests nearby.
A rider cradles a pumpkin on the wagon. (The Aggie Insider)
A yellow Labrador service dog rests between riders’ feet on a hay wagon.
A service dog rests between riders’ feet. (The Aggie Insider)

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