Gilly's Pumpkin Patch is hosted at one of the original homesites in all of Castle Rock. The home on the property was built in 1889 and has had several additions to the home in the years since. 

The basement of the home still shows off the amazing craftsmanship of the builders of the home and the stone foundation that holds up the home to this day.

The home on the property is the primary residence of the family who owns and operates Gilly's Pumpkin Patch. Most of the year the property is simply our home.

Did you know that Gilly's pumpkin patch was only intended to be a 1 year project?

The patch was started as a fundraiser for an organization near to our hearts - Shoe4Africa. We worked to raise money to build the first public childrens cancer hospital in all of Sub-Saharan Africa and sent 100% of the proceeds from Gilly's to support that cause.

After that first year as a fundraiser we received amazing feedback asking us to open again for year 2. Due to your kind words we decided to launch Gilly's as a business and work to make it better and better every year.

We continue to donate a portion of the proceeds to Shoe4Africa every year thanks to your generosity. 

The main portion of the home and several outbuildings at Gilly's Pumpkin Patch including the milk house(pictured), the main chicken coop, and old building foundations on the property are all built from stone.

Rhyolite stone quarried nearby was used in the construction of these buildings at Gilly's and was also used to build many of downtown Denver and downtown Castle Rock's oldest buildings.

You can still see remnants of the old rhyolite stone quarries in the bluffs above the home, at nearby Rhyolite Park, and all around the property at the pumpkin patch.

Gilly's Pumpkin Patch gets its name from the youngest member of our family. 

While in the hospital enjoying the peace that comes after the recent birth of a new baby we spoke to our realtor about this piece of land we were trying to purchase. It was there, with Gill in our arms, that we found out that we were indeed under contract to purchase the historic 16.1 acres that makes up Gilly's Pumpkin Patch.

Every year we celebrate Gilly's Pumpkin Patch's birthday alongside our son's birthday. 

We love each and every one of our children and they all have dedicated significant time and effort to making the patch what it has become. It just so happens that it is named after the little boy who shares a birthday with the patch.

We seem to get more and more questions every year about another member of the Gilly's team - our Livestock Guardian Dog. 

His name is Taysom Hill - yes, named after the wonderful NFL and BYU football player. He is a breed that is now affectiontely being called - the Colorado Mountain Dog. He is  1/2 Bernese Mountain Dog and 1/2 Great Pyrenees. He was born in November of 2024.

Taysom can often be seen sleeping and lounging around during the daytime hours. He is catching up on his sleep because he is usually awake and very active at night. Taysom spends his evenings running around the entire property, watching the fence lines, and listening for any predators, intruders, or disturbances on our property. 

As a Livestock Guardian Dog he serves to save the lives of our children and animals. He is not simply a pet. He has chased a bear away from our young child, fought countless coyotes and raccoons, been speared in the face by a porcupine, faced off against chicken-eating skunks, chased off and treed MANY black bears each year, and kept bobcats and cougars away from our animals. Prior to adding Taysom to the farm we had animals on our property killed by each one of the predators listed above. 

If you see Taysom feel free to give him a tip-of-the-cap. He is a hard working dog and deserves our appreciation.

If you have ever looked at the white building at the back of Gilly's Pumpkin Patch and wondered what it is - you are not alone. 

Our barn has served many purposes over the years since it was built, Right now it serves as our construction, storage, and general gathering place for many things related to our farm animals, our construction equipment, and lots of items related to our farm. Please excuse the mess, farming is a dirty business.

In the past it was the milking barn for the dairy cows that grazed on the land. 

The barn even includes the mark on the wall about 5ft off the floor showing the high water mark from the great flood on June 16th of 1965 when about 14 inches of rain fell over a period of about four hours causing flooding along every river, creek, and stream in the area - including Sellers Creek that divides our property in half.