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10/17/2025 | Press release | Archived content
Fall harvest
Fall harvest
Article by Molly Schafer Photos courtesy of Tim Filasky October 17, 2025
Middletown's favorite pumpkin patch: The Blue Hen alumni behind Filasky's Produce and Farm Market
As the air turns crisp and the leaves begin to fall, the Filasky family breathes a sigh of relief.
"Everybody's happy in the fall," said Cindi Filasky, co-owner and operator of Filasky's Farm in Middletown, Delaware. "Picking pumpkins when it's cooler outside, that's the fun part of farm work!"
Autumn also brings local families to the farm, eager to select the perfect pumpkin or test their wits in the soybean maze.
"It's a great community event to show people that farms do exist, and they exist very close to you," said Tim Filasky, UD Class of 2001 alumnus and Cindi's youngest son.
All three of Cindi and John L. Filasky, Sr.'s children, Julia Winkler (Filasky), John Filasky Jr., and Timothy Filasky, attended the University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR).
"Dad said we could go to college anywhere we wanted, as long as it was at the University of Delaware," said Julia Winkler, UD Class of 1997.
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