After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become the owners of a small but very unusual piece of property.
Farmer Ben takes a dim view of the cubs' plan to hold a Halloween Festival to help save his floundering family farm, and the situation is complicated when a couple of Ben's dead ancestors show up.
A rooster forgets the words to his morning crow and is mocked by all the other animals, but when a fox tries to sneak into the sleeping barnyard, the rooster comes through.
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny investigate a mysterious ghost with a glowing pumpkin head when it is time for visitors to buy pumpkins and go on hayrides at the Beckett farm.