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 One of the reasons I was so excited about the farm stand (other than the obvious) … there used to be a farm stand in Melville called “Meyer’s Farm”.  I suspect it was owned by the same family as own the store in Woodbury.  While the farm stand in Woodbury is just a store, the place in Melville had a few small fields.   They grew pumpkins on site.  My dad used to take us there for our Halloween pumpkins.  Later, I took my own children for pumpkins, hay rides and pony rides.  It’s a  public park  now. And yes, the cauliflower was really good. And yes, those three small pumpkins in my yard came from Meyer’s. We had a nice number of trick-or-treaters yesterday.  It was unseasonably warm so I really got to see costumes.  Best one was a dinosaur, best group were kids dressed as minions from Despicable Me, cutest was the newborn in the pumpkin onesie. The ring doorbell crowd … they’re all complaining about candy thieves,  same complaint every year.  If you leave a bowl of candy out for trick