Fall has come in central Illinois, and I have the sudden urge to be surrounded by pumpkins, drink cider, and have an excuse to break out my jacket.

For the past two weekends in a row, I’ve taken my 15-month old son to the Curtis Apple Orchard on Duncan Road in Champaign. It is his new favorite place, as he is obsessed with pumpkins now, and wants to carry one everywhere he goes.

The orchard is home to an apple orchard, pumpkin patch, and also fresh peaches, bees and therefore honey, and an assortment of goods in its country store.

I was surprised to see all of the interpretive signs the orchard has—and something I’m now familiar with through working at Taylor Studios: flip doors! There is some dispute as to whether a flip door constitutes an interactive exhibit, but in this instance, I think it does. I wasn’t the only one discovering what bees made honey from the flip doors.

The orchard has themed Wizard of Oz objects and signs throughout, with a Flying Monkey Café and the Cowardly Lion greeting guests as they cross into “Munchkin Land” (the toddler playground). The flow is not exactly cohesive, interpretively, as there are also farm animal signs (the orchard is home to a petting zoo) and a train play form, but my son and I had so much fun, I didn’t even care.