Spieker's Pumpkin farm is a family owned farm. First a dairy farm, then a hog farm and now a pumpkin farm. The farm has been in the family for over 100 years. We purchased the farm from Tom's parents Merlin and the late Lois Spieker in 1988. Merlin's mother Elvira and his grand father the late Otto Spieker owned the place previously and purchased it from the late Mary and Emil Spieker.
Our love for gardening brought us to plant a small patch of pumpkins. We sold a small trailer full that first year and planted a bit more each year after that. We then added squash, indian corn. gourds, corn stalks and dried flowers. As the inventory expanded we ran out of space in our garage so we opened our barn for business. We then added the petting barn, straw maze, corn field maze, weekend wagon rides to pick your own pumpkin and school tours.
Today we plant over 30 acres of many varieties of pumpkins, gourds, indian corn, squash and broom corn.
Our children, Tyler and Ross are a huge help on the farm. They also have their own endeavor and grow over ten acres of sweet corn and sell it right at the farm.
We are very blessed in this venture to be able to work together as a family and share our farm at harvest time!