Carpinito's has an excellent reputation amongst gardeners and the locals. These are the people with the bark hills that you can see from 167. They have fabulous beauty bark. My old neighbors and I took my minivan down there one spring day and came back with 28 of those HUGE bags of beauty bark. Great deal too, if you buy it directly from them instead of from one of the several grocery stores that they supply. They have a great variety of veggies during the summer months at great deals. They are not organic though...which is the only bummer.
They also operate the pumpkin patch and corn maze (one of the best ones by far!) off the 277th exit on highway 167 during the Fall. We come here every year to get our pumpkins, as it's so much fun for the kiddies. Carpinito Bros is terrific, and with their family service and unique, quality offerings, I'm always up for the drive here. And yes, the parking lot sucks!
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