Category: Events

Food Truck Festival

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Don’t miss the official kick off of summer on the farm! After a long winter, it’s time to celebrate Spring outside with a fun family festival. Join us for a great event featuring food trucks, live music, games, and activities for all ages! Please bring blankets & chairs. (Seating is not provided.) No outside food, drinks, or coolers allowed. No pets, please. Service dogs only.

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Activities: Throw House Hatchet Toss, ARTstitution, Boardwalk Style games, balloon artist for the kids, and more!

Live Music: Naughty Humphrey, Katie Henry Band and Bombed Opera!

Featuring Czig Meister Brewery!

Food Trucks include:
Empanada Guy
The Angry Chouriço BBQ
Eat My Balls
Mexi Boys
Cas Pierogi
Artic Dog
Summer Dayze
Amanda Banana
Jersey Curbside Eats
Angry Archies
Eddie Dee’s Global Eats
Why not Burgerz
Pita Bowl
Ice Cream Creations LLC
Chank and Go pizza cones
Philly Pretzel Company
JerZey Girl Pickles
Jersey Jack’s Kettle Corn

Pricing:
$8 for adults and $5 for children 4-16 at the door
$6 for adults and $4 for children if you purchase online in advance

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Only tickets purchased through Mega Bite Events will be honored.

Christmas at Donaldson's Greenhouse & Nursery

Christmas Trees & Carriage Rides

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Visit Donaldson’s Greenhouse & Nursery for their Holiday Open House Weekend (December 5th-6th from 8am to 8pm). There will be horse and carriage rides (11-4PM) through the farm on both days, live and fresh-cut trees, and all you need to complete you holiday decorating!

The Greenhouse & Nursery offers:

  • Live and fresh cut trees in a wide selection of sizes and varieties including Balsam, Fraser, and Concolor
  • Fresh wreaths in Balsam and Fraser in a variety of sizes and decor styles
  • Fresh grave blankets, roping, greens, swags, and kissing balls
  • Gorgeous poinsettias in many colors shapes and sizes
  • Cyclamen
  • Amaryllis
  • Christmas Cactus
  • Beautiful centerpiece for your holiday table

Take the private drive from the Farm Market to the Greenhouse & Nursery. Enjoy views of the farm – but please remember to drive slowly!

Learn more at donaldsongreenhouse.com

Harvest Weekends at Donaldson Farms

Harvest Weekends

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Join us for our Harvest Weekends at Donaldson Farms and enjoy a day of fall fun! You’ll enjoy all the quintessential fall farm activities set in the backdrop of our 500 acre, modern-day family farm and surrounded by stunning vistas and mountain views.

Harvest Weekend Activities: Sat. & Sun. 10am – 5pm

Farm Market Weekend Hours: Saturdays  & Sundays 8am – 7pm

DATES: Click here to view dates

COST: No entry fee. Activities and food priced individually. PYO activities are priced by the pound.

Corn Maze 2020: Celebrating healthcare workers

2020 Corn Maze

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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 Heartfelt Thank You to our Healthcare Workers!’ Donaldson Farms is proud to announce that our 2020 Fall Corn Maze celebrates healthcare workers near and far and will donate $1 from every corn maze entry this season to American Red Cross – New Jersey Region!

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Raspberry picking

It’s Raspberry Time!

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Deliciously sweet, fresh raspberries grown right here on our farm are now available! Pick your own berries or purchase pre-picked berries from our Farm Market.

Face masks must be worn in our farm market and in our picking fields.

  • No entry fee.
  • Raspberries are $7.49 per lb.
  • Pint & Quart containers cost $.50 cents/per container
  • Picking Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 9am – 5:30pm and Sunday 9am – 4:30pm
  • No raspberry picking on Mondays
  • Check our Facebook page for the most up-to-date information on picking conditions and/or call ahead. #908-852-9122, x1.

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2019 Corn Maze - Dedicated to the Hackettstown-Mansfield P.B.A. Local 369

2019 Corn Maze

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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!

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Black-Oil Sunflowers

Sunflower Tours have ended! Thanks for a great season.

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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:

  • Hayride with optimum photo locations – at just the right time of day – to capture these gorgeous, happy flowers at their best!
  • Ample time to enjoy and photograph the sunflowers
  • Farm-fresh fruit & water provided during tour
  • Pollinator Safari Hunt for kids. How many pollinating insects can you find?
  • Sunflowers are available for purchase: $3.00 each.
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2018 Corn Maze Theme

2018 Corn Maze

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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.”

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Farm Camp 2014

Sign up now for Farm Camp!

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A unique, educational and fun-filled week of fresh air on the farm for children six years old and up! This year, Donaldson Farms will offer two engaging Farm Camp Programs: Little Farmers (children ages 5 – 8 yrs old) and Farm Camp Extreme ages 9 – 14yrs. Farm Camp will be held August 5th through August 9th, 2019. Registration will open soon!

Farm Camp is an opportunity for your child to experience what it is like on a daily basis at Donaldson Farms. Your children will make new friends, observe and participate in planting and harvesting activities, learn how to care for our farm animals, create arts and crafts projects, enjoy healthy eating and living lessons, participate in cooking lessons, sample freshly picked fruits and vegetables and of course play great summer games!

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