Superstition Farm Indoor Christmas tree lot and Mooo-re is 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. today and Saturday at 3440 S. Hawes Road. The event includes an indoor tree lot, petting zoo, hayrides, bonfires, hot and cold treats, and farm tours at noon. Admission is free. Information: (602) 432-5600.

Take a hayride, shop in the marketplace, visit the petting zoo and warm your hands in front of a bonfire while sipping hot chocolate, roasting s’mores and listening to Christmas music at this annual Superstition Farm event. Santa, atop a vintage red tractor, will also be available for pictures.

SuperFarm Market: Shop for veggies, dairy products, grass-fed beef, chicken, fresh-baked breads, and Alaskan seafood harvested by a Gilbert family. Dinner is available and admission to the petting zoo is free during the market.

Superstition Farm is open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturday during the holidays for hayrides, bonfires and hot and cold treats. Admission to the farm is free and includes a visit to the petting zoo. Families can purchase a live Christmas tree.

Bring the family to the farm this summer without needing too much dough. On select days during June, Mesa’s Superstition Farms is offering free petting zoo admission.

Why not try a new way to celebrate the Fourth of July this year?

Celebrate National Ice Cream Month with Superstition Farm and its cows. The farm is hosting dairy tours, hayrides and visits to its petting zoo on $5 Days in July. The fee includes an ice cream treat from Udder Delights, the farm’s Gilbert dessert boutique that uses fresh dairy ingredients from Superstition’s herd.

Picking out a pumpkin is a Halloween tradition. And if your search for the perfect pumpkin goes beyond a grocery store’s produce section, then the Great Pumpkin Festival at the Desert Botanical Garden is a great place to find one, says Katy Landry, special events manager for the garden.

No matter your preference — red, Golden Delicious or Rome beauty — record heat in Willcox means sweeter apples to pick at Apple Annie’s third annual Apple Harvest Celebration this weekend.

Do your shopping at Superstition Farm’s weekly farmers’ market, where you can purchase fresh veggies & fruits, grass-fed beef, chicken, fresh-baked breads, eggs, pasta, barbeque sauce, mustards, catsup, salsa, desserts, and of course, SuperFarm ice cream, farmers cheese, aioli, milk, and butter.

Everyone knows Schnepf Farms is the place to go for chili and pumpkins in the fall and peaches in the summer.

Everyone knows Schnepf Farms is the place to go for chili and pumpkins in the fall and peaches in the summer.

Everyone knows Schnepf Farms is the place to go for chili and pumpkins in the fall and peaches in the summer.

Poinsettias don’t party (they count on us for that), but more than 20,000 of these festively arrayed holiday creatures will attend the Poinsettia Festival at Gardener’s World in Phoenix.

Chris Birkett soon will be able to make as much noise as he wants. The Scottsdale man convicted in June of disturbing the peace with an elaborate holiday display at his Scottsdale home in 2004 now is setting up his locally famous Christmas display at Schnepf Farms, a family-owned farm in Queen Creek.

You wouldn’t know it from all the parking lots and shopping centers in our immediate vicinity, but out on the fringe of suburbia, acres of peaches are growing fat and juicy in the warm spring sunshine.

We may daydream of autumn’s changing leaves, but here in the desert, Phoenix’s holey red Papago Buttes are where it really starts to feel like fall. Desert Botanical Garden’s Great Pumpkin Festival kicks off Oct. 25 at the base of the mountains, and it’s a good spot to grab a pumpkin and snap a few fall photos.