10/11/2026
🍎🍂 Let’s show our local farmers some extra love this fall! 🍂🎃
We really missed apple picking this year at one of our favorite local spots, Eastmont Orchards. Unfortunately, unusually warm temperatures in April followed by a sudden frost damaged many of the cherry, peach, nectarine, and apple crops across our area and throughout New Jersey. It’s been a difficult season for so many of our local farmers, with significant crop losses and lost revenue.
Eastmont Orchards is working to make up for some of those losses by offering plenty of fun fall activities and local goodies, and we encourage you to visit if you can! 🍁 Weather permitting, you can pick pumpkins and colorful Indian corn, take a hayride, wander through their alien invasion-themed corn maze, snap some festive photos among painted hay bales, and enjoy treats from a local vendor. You’ll also find beautiful flower bouquets, local honey, jam and maple syrup, fresh local produce like sweet potatoes and winter squash, hay bales, decorative corn stalks, and more!
🍩 Another favorite, Battleview Orchards, has pumpkin picking, hayrides, hot donuts, apple c***r, and lots of local produce in their country store.
🌽 McCormack Farms has had a challenging year, too, and could use our support. They’re open through Halloween with a wonderful selection of farm-fresh produce, including eggplant, winter squash, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, greens and lettuces, onions, baby carrots, pumpkins, and more!
Supporting local farms means so much more than picking pumpkins or filling a bag with fresh produce. It helps sustain family farms, supports the people who grow our food, and keeps our local agricultural community thriving. When a season brings unexpected losses like this one, that support matters even more.
So if you’re planning a fall outing, consider visiting one of these farms, shopping their farm stands, or picking up some locally grown produce for the week. Bring the family, enjoy the beautiful fall season, and spread the word! ❤️
Our local farmers need us, and every little bit of support counts. 🍎🌾
No season is guaranteed. Shop local. Support our farmers. Keep NJ agriculture growing.