From her renowned Halloween outfits (which she looks forward to creating every year) to the sensational foliage that takes over her farm in Bedford, N.Y., Martha is an authority when it comes to celebrating fall. To guarantee you get whatever out of the season that you potentially can this year, we’re sharing a few of Martha’s must-dos comes autumn.
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Make a Halloween Costume
Something we anticipate every year is finding out which outfit Martha has actually picked to wear for Halloween. From GrandMartha (a play on the fairy godmother caricature) to Motha (an ensemble created to look like a moth), Martha is no complete stranger to a well-thought-out Halloween costume. This year, pay homage to the All Hallows’ Eve queen herself by making your own ensemble.
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Decorate for the Season
Martha never misses out on an opportunity to embellish her home in Bedford, N.Y.,– and fall is no exception. In this decorative display screen, Martha utilized her wrought-iron plant stand to display pumpkins, and attentively rounded off the look with leaf garlands in colors of red, orange, and brown. Among her beloved Chow Chows blends completely into the fall scene.
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Make Homemade Apple Cider
One thing Martha always has actually time for come fall is making homemade apple cider with her granddaughter June. She puts her bounty of apples in a hand-crank press and runs the fruit through until there’s adequate pulp to make a batch of cider.
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Serve Seasonal Cocktails
With fall comes scrumptious brand-new seasonal flavors to take pleasure in, which Martha enjoys to work into her mixed drinks on special occasions. Her signature Apple Cider Bourbon Sour was a struck in 2015– the drink features bourbon (Martha’s favorite is Michter’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon), apple cider, and lemon juice.
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Host a Bonfire
Few things are more satisfying than ending the night around a cozy bonfire on a crisp fall night– a belief Martha understands well. On her farm, she has 2 substantial cast iron sugar kettles (which weigh more than 300 pounds) that she keeps as fire pits.
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Bake a PieOf course, it wouldn’t be succumb to Martha without a day invested baking seasonal desserts. At past Thanksgiving events, she has set up a whole table filled with various flavors of pie, from apple and pumpkin to bourbon brown butter pecan and Atlantic beach pie (one of Martha’s favorites).
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Serve Candy to Trick-or-Treaters
Make like Martha (who gets about 100 trick-or-treaters every Halloween!) and supply revelers with homemade reward bags filled with goodies, like Snickers, Hersheys, and Twix. One year she even put a $1 bill into each bag as an additional surprise.
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Go To the Pumpkin Patch
It’s not fall without a trip to the pumpkin spot. Visit your local haunt and gather some gourds in various colors and sizes to sculpt, include in your fall patio screen, and turn into roasted seeds.
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Create a Themed Tablescape
When participating in a celebration hosted by Martha, expect a gorgeous tablescape that leans into the occasion’s style. Throughout fall, this implies a screen of gourds dotting the table. In the display visualized here, Black Futsu and Long Island Cheese pumpkins, in addition to bowls of knobby black radishes, produce a gorgeous autumnal centerpiece.
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Bake a Spooky Dessert
Come Halloween, Martha can’t resist baking a dessert that’s simply as bone-chilling as the vacation itself. The “cemetery” is made with skull candies affixed to cookies with melted chocolate.
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Carve a Pumpkin
Throughout fall, you’ll discover a pumpkin spot’s worth of gourds dotting Martha’s residential or commercial property. And naturally, a few of them are developed into Jack O’ Lanterns. Whether you choose something more sinister or the charming woodland animals visualized here, be sure to make time for your own pumpkin carving celebration this year.
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Delight In Fall Flowers
Martha’s garden is in complete blossom come fall. The plant produces gorgeous lavender-hued flowers and Martha has enjoyed its color over the seasons.
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Make Themed Place Cards
No tablescape is total without place cards. Not only are they part of your tablescape design, however they also help guests locate their seats. For these Thanksgiving location cards, Martha composed her guests’ names in gold on a brown background and attached them to the feathers of faux turkeys.
