Field of Dreams: Halloween pumpkins with a social purpose

Down Syndrome Cork’s social enterprise and education centre is in the middle for its annual Pick-a-Pumpkin festival

The team at Down Syndrome, Cork 'Field of Dreams, located at Clash Road, Curraheen, Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

It's a bright autumn morning and Nicky Green squints in the sunshine as she looks out across a curious landscape: Two small fields of about a third of an acre, covered in black weed membrane, with huge orange orbs dotted around its surface.