One of the great things about Framingham is that you can get to lots of fun places on less than a tank of gas.<\/p>\n
This weekend we headed up to Greenfield New Hampshire to see pumpkins thrown by a trebuchet (a super-sized catapolt.)\u00a0 A farmer, inspired by a program on PBS about these medieval war weapons, built a trebuchet and has been demonstrating it on weekends by launching pumpkins over 1000 feet.<\/p>\n
Inspired by the Medieval war machine, he also built a mock castle, a huge spiked mace, and created a moat like pond across the street from his farm stand.\u00a0 A snack stand is housed in a turret like hut.<\/p>\n
It's charming and awesome, and free to wander and watch the demonstrations.\u00a0 While there is a donation bowl, there is no charge.<\/p>\n
The farm stand is modest and fairly priced\u00a0and we bought some of the best and largest apples that we have enjoyed in a long time.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a fun day away for very little and a different kind of destination for a family adventure.<\/p>\n
The trebuchet is named \"The Yankee Siege\" and the owners have entered in in \"pumpkin chuckin\" contests and have vanquished all comers.<\/p>\n
There's one more weekend to enjoy the demonstrations.\u00a0 The farm stand and fantasy castle land are located on Route 31 in Greenfield, NH.\u00a0 To learn more, visit www.yankeesiege.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the great things about Framingham is that you can get to lots of fun places on less than a tank of gas. This weekend we headed up to Greenfield New Hampshire to see pumpkins thrown by a trebuchet (a super-sized catapolt.)\u00a0 A farmer, inspired by a program on PBS about these medieval war weapons, built… [read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}