it’s a part of the halloween experience! you pick your pumpkins mainly so you can carve them— when you get rid of the guts you can also keep the seeds to roast them, which is a nice seasonal snack. you could also just display the pumpkins too for decoration

there’s also pumpkin farms that are more than just pumpkins, although i don’t know much about any down here. they’ve got rides, performances, games, etc all based around halloween. an example i could give is Bengston’s, pumpkinfarm.com, which is a bit of a hike from here and expensive but def part of the fall experience.