Don’t sit on the pumpkins, NJ farm warns photo-happy visitors Jen Ursillo Published: October 9, 2025 Damaged pumpkins at Von Thun's Country Market in South Brunswick (Van Thun's via Facebook)

🎃 A New Jersey farm is pleading with pumpkin-pickers: don’t sit on the pumpkins!

🎃 Damaged pumpkins can’t be sold — and some end up as snacks for the pigs instead.

🎃 Von Thun’s Country Market says social media “pumpkin photo shoots” are costing them big. loading...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Pumpkin picking at the farm. It’s an annual rite of passage.

You dress up the kids in their best autumn-themed outfits and pose them sitting on pumpkins, flashing those pearly whites to get the perfect shot with the incredible backdrop.

Seems harmless, right?

Not necessarily. One New Jersey farm has a wa

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