Butler’s Orchard’s guide to picking the perfect pumpkin

Butler’s Orchard’s guide to picking the perfect pumpkin

When you have a question about your feet, you ask a podiatrist. If you need information about your taxes, you call an accountant. But if you want to know how to keep your pumpkin from rotting on your front porch, you head to Germantown, Maryland, and ask someone at Butler’s Orchard.

From apple picking to cutting down Christmas trees to visiting the pumpkin patch, families from around the D.C. region have been making memories at Butler’s Orchard for generations.

Who better to give pumpkin picking advice than someone who has been working at Butler’s since he himself was 10 years old — and has since taken over as Farm and Finance Manager at the orchard.

“I’m 36 now,” Ben Butler said. “And I have a degree in horticulture and crop pr