As leaves begin to fall and summer becomes a memory, the season needs a new pallet; delicious peaches and tomatoes turn into crisp apples and pumpkins. The air shifts almost overnight as autumn begins. The season being known for its pumpkins, apples, and corn mazes, East Lyme is lucky enough to have all autumnal festivities within reach.
Scott’s Yankee Farmer, which stands on Boston Post Rd, a few minutes past the high school, is the perfect staple for anything reaching the autumn aesthetics. The family-owned farm, aging from 75 years ago, provides generational and timeless products just make the harvest season complete, having autumnal flowers just outside, and pumpkins crowded inside.
“They were just looking for something sustainable that they could pass through their family and it turned into something bigger,” Abbi Scott, a member of the Scott family, said.
Beginning as something small to supply money and food and then building it through years and more years to come, Scott’s has seen a share of change.
“Mostly in the past few years, it’s definitely become a younger crowd that comes in, where it used to be mainly the older community,” Scott said.
Scott’s is a place for everyone, with countless festivities to celebrate the Autumnal season: apple picking, delicious apple cider donuts, and the corn maze, with this years theme being knights and dragons. The maze costs $12 with a $5 admission fee, along with the self-pick apples that are $2.49 per pound. Not only that, but there’s always something new along with all of its traditional specialties.
“We’ll add a new variety of maybe tomatoes or apples and change it up—especially with apples, which we are always mixing it up,.” Scott said.
During the autumnal season at Scott’s, there are corn mazes to venture through, apples to pick, and pumpkins to carve.
