Farm Market & Corn Maze
Get creative… our 2020 Fall Season Photo Contest is on! It’s easy to participate – just post a favorite photo from your visit to our farm this season directly on our FB page and you could be presented with a $50, $30 or $20 Donaldson Farms Farm Market gift card! We’ll share our favorite fall pics shortly after Halloween.
📷 Thanks to Ashley Lee for entering this photo of this sweet baby girl taking a ride in a wheelbarrow through our pumpkin patch.
NOW OPEN with special hours! Please view this info about current farm market hours, safe shopping guidelines, and other important announcements BEFORE visiting our farm.
One of the area’s largest selection of John Deere toys – for all ages! Stop by to check out our selection of toys and other gifts.
Each fall, we create a new maze design in support of a charitable organization that makes a difference in our community. This year’s theme is “A Season of Support: PBA 369.” Donaldson Farms is proud to announce that our 2019 Fall Corn Maze is dedicated to the Hackettstown-Mansfield P.B.A. (Police Benevolent Association) Local 369! Their mission is to provide volunteer service and support to those in need in the local communities of The Town of Hackettstown, Mansfield Township, and throughout the State of New Jersey. Their organization is a non-profit made up of the union members of The Hackettstown and Mansfield Township Police Departments in the Northeast Region of Warren County, NJ. We will be donating $1 from every corn maze entry this season in support of their annual Shop with a Cop holiday program! Join us this fall in support of the Hackettstown – Mansfield P.B.A, Local 369 as they continue the valued traditions of police-community relationships!
Our 2019 season has come to an end. We’re looking forward to 2020!
Donaldson Farms is pleased to offer fun and picturesque tours of acres of Black-Oil Sunflowers that are planted throughout our farm during the summer and fall! The black oil seeds of the sunflower have very thin shells, easy for virtually all seed-eating birds to crack open, and the kernels within have a high fat content, extremely valuable for birds, especially as food during migration and winter. They also attract more of a variety of bird species than use of other seeds. Come enjoy the bloom of acres and acres of sunflowers in and around our farm!
Our educational and fun tours include:
The secret to how to cook fresh spinach properly is to not overcook it.
HOW TO SAUTE SPINACH – SIMPLE RECIPE
Taste the spinach, and add a pinch of salt, if needed, and fresh cracked pepper to taste. Top with fresh lemon zest.
The market is now open! Stop by to shop our wide variety of NJ-fresh produce and many items you can’t find anywhere else in the area! Fresh produce, local milk and cheese, sauces, salsa, jams, jellies, pot pies, premium meats, pies, baked goods, gift baskets, John Deere toys, and more. [learn more]
Also, don’t miss our other upcoming spring and summer events including the Strawberry Harvest Weekends, strawberry picking, educational school tours, private group tours, and more.
Registration is now open for our 2019 Healthy Bites Buying Club! Sign up early and save on a weekly assortment of our own, fresh fruits and vegetables – plus other favorite local products. [learn more]
Update August 25, 2019 – Our apple season is just beginning. We are not offering Pick Your Own Apples quite yet. Our market is stocked with the early Zestar variety and they are delicious. Check back for updates!
An apple a day keeps the doctor away! We’re stocked with more than a dozen of our own apple varieties including Gala, Empire, Jonagold, Golden Delicious, Cameo and more. Visit our Farm Market today!
This year’s theme corn maze theme is “Brighten Someone’s Day!” Donaldson Farms is pleased to share that $1 from every entry into our corn maze this season will be donated to Tomorrows Children’s Fund! Our family and staff have selected this caring and encouraging organization as the inspiration of this year’s theme in honor and support of so many friends and local families that have had their children hospitalized, in treatment and battling many illnesses.
We are so excited to announce that Anya L. of Chester, NJ is our 2018 Corn Maze Design Contest winner! This Fall season her inspiring artwork will be incorporated into our nine acre corn maze which will spotlight the importance of ‘Tomorrows Children’s Fund’ (TCF).
It was very difficult for our farm family to select the winning entry – we received so many creative and uplifting drawings! Anya’s design and story very much represented the theme of ‘Brightens Someone’s Day!’ The description that accompanied Anya’s entry read “This is Anya with a sunflower behind her (just like the ones she saw in your field last summer). She is holding the word hope and there is a butterfly. The butterfly was the theme we used during her transplant to symbolize the metamorphosis Anya’s body was undergoing. The H in hope connects to the hand for an early exit.”
