00:00and i basically i went and saw this pumpkin village in dallas and there was nothing like
00:07it in the uk to this scale anyway every a lot of pumpkin patches have houses and they have a big
00:13spread but this i was like there's so many popping up that we need to go bigger and better spooky
00:18season is well and truly upon us pumpkin patches ghost trains houses of horror are all popping up
00:23around the country but one farm in south wales is doing something that they think has never been
00:28done before in wales playwell farm known for their seasonal events have taken halloween to new
00:33heights this year and have seriously ramped up the spooky vibes as they open up their pumpkin village
00:38for the first time alex who's been the brainchild behind the whole project has let me have an
00:44exclusive look at the site before it opens so we thought well village an old school village has to
00:50have a church and actually for halloween it goes really well with like a spooky church and also
00:55every time i google ginger you know an actual gingerbread biscuit village there'd always be a
00:59little church in it as well so we've got the wind turbine as well because we also do renewable
01:03energy on the farm and then the idea is to turn one of these into a tavern so the building you can't
01:08see over there is next year i want to turn it into a tavern like uh building and then we've got this
01:14building up here which it has a front on it which i'm thinking by next year could turn into like a
01:20clock tower building and the idea is for the village to keep evolving some halloween festivals you see
01:25are absolutely vast but they aren't put together by a small team like here at clearwell and alex says
01:30it's important to remember that while this is all being put up it's still a working farm and what we
01:36want to stick by is that we are just a farm so when you come here it is not commercialized at all
01:42that it is just done by us like everything you can see is done by us and a small team of people that
01:47help us and it is really just there's nothing commercial about it even though we've built
01:52something on a say commercial scale it is actually just still us and me with a piece of paper and
01:58then oh how are we going to do this the plan for alex with these buildings is that they can be reused
02:04they're here they're sturdy can be turned into basically anything the farm needs so these pumpkin
02:09houses can soon be christmas themed host festivals and plenty more ideas in the future the idea is with
02:16something of this scale these buildings can be used so if we need to turn one into a workshop not
02:21that we will or we want to have vendors because the idea is to turn this into kind of a a food festival
02:27as well as kind of like a pumpkin festival christmas festival and with the weather we need buildings
02:33that can be people can go into because popping up and down marquees and you know these are completely
02:38movable and i can change them around and having structures that people can actually walk into and
02:43um escape from the elements really halloween's absolutely massive nowadays it's become a proper
02:49staple families are looking for different spooky things to do and alex loves the fact that this farm
02:54can bring some magic to people's halloween this year
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