Current Pick-Your-Own Crop Conditions & Availability:
2025 Winter Season
Our apple-picking season has ended. We are not offering pick-your-own apples. Check back with us in the springtime for strawberry picking updates!
When in season, Pick-Your-Own activities are available until one hour before the farm market closes. Our current hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 am – 6 pm, and Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm. It’s always best to CHECK FOR UPDATES BEFORE YOU VISIT! All information is subject to change. For up-to-the-minute crop and picking conditions, call 908-852-9122 (x1). See you on the farm soon!
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Donaldson Farms hosts seasonal Fall Fun Harvest Weekends during our apple and pumpkin harvest season. Join us for a day of family farm fun! Our 500+ acre family-owned and operated farm market and activity area is surrounded by long-range views of growing crops and mountains. You will delight in the natural setting and authentic farm setting when you visit!
Join us for our Harvest Festival Weekends late-September through the first weekend in November October.
Important Policies
- Reservations are not required.
- No dogs. Thank you!
- All information is subject to change.
Fall Fun Harvest Weekends Highlights
(Info subject to change)
- Pick-Your-Own Pumpkins – click for more info
- Pick-Your-Own Apples – click for more info
- Hayrides to and from the apple orchard and pumpkin patch $3/pp – children ages 4 and under are free
- 9-Acre Corn Maze – click for more info
- Pony visits (12-4 pm weather permitting)
- Select Food Trucks and Vendors*
- Kettle corn, freshly-squeezed lemonade
- Caramel apples
- Apple Cider & Apple Cider Donuts by the 1/2 dozen
- Freshly-baked pies and baked goods
- Czig Meister Brewing Company Can Shack features samples and sales of craft beer, hard tea, and Czeltzers from 12 pm until closing on most Saturdays, Sundays, and Columbus Day in October. These award-winning spirits are a neighborhood favorite!
- James on Main will serve its award-winning BBQ on select dates throughout the fall season on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 4 pm (hours subject to change). Check specific dates below.
- Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream Truck serves up seasonal delights!
- See our Special Guests section below for highlights each weekend!
* All information is subject to change and weather permitting.
Harvest Weekend Dates & Info
2025 DATE & HOURS:
Sept 27th – Nov 2nd
Saturdays & Sundays
PLUS Columbus Day (10/13)
COST: No entry fee. Activities and food priced individually. PYO activities are priced by the pound.
2025 Fall Harvest Weekends Special Guests
Don’t miss this line-up of local businesses who will be at the farm for our Fall Harvest Weekends!
September 27th
Live music by Doug McClure 12 – 3 pm! James on Main BBQ, Angry Archies Food Truck, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, A Bobbin’ & a Weavin’, & Child’s Play Challenge Courses!
September 28th
Kettle Corn, Lemonade, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, & A Bobbin’ and A Weavin’
October 4th
James on Main BBQ, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, Dismal Harmony Distilling, Marley’s Wings & Things, Mt. Taco, Green Goddess Apothecary, Parissart Face Painting!
October 5th
Live Music 1-4 pm by The Doug McClure Solo Project, James on Main BBQ, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, Marley’s Wings & Things, Balloon Art & Face Painting by Tetiana Event, Green Goddess Apothecary
October 11th
James on Main BBQ, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, Dismal Harmony Distilling, Marley’s Carinderia Filipino Cuisine, Green Goddess Apothecary, Lavish Everlasting Permanent Jewelry, & Parissart Face Painting!
October 12th
Angry Archies Food Truck, Marley’s Wings & Things, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream
October 13th Columbus Day
Pocono Raceway! See their Pace Truck, visit with Tricky the Fox at 3 pm, enter to win Sunday tickets, and get two (2) free tickets to the ARCA Menards Series Race on June 12th, 2026!
Horse-drawn Wagon Rides, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, Common Sense for Animals Pet Adoption, & Lavish Everlasting Permanent Jewelry!
October 18th
James on Main BBQ, Angry Archies Food Truck, Eugenia’s Craft Kitchen, KBS Danes & More Rescue, HT Toppers, Dismal Harmony Distilling, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, Stitch & Timber Co., By D&B Gnomes, Han & Nan Crochet, & Parissart Face Painting!
October 19th
Live Music 1-4 pm by The Doug McClure Solo Project, James on Main BBQ, Angry Archies Food Truck, Eugenia’s Craft Kitchen, The Greek Kitchen Food Truck, Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, By D&B Gnomes, & Parissart Face Painting!
October 25th
Angry Archies Food Truck, Tetiana Event Balloon Art & Face Painting, Coldstone on Wheels, Kettle Corn, Czig Meister Brewing Company, and Cider with a Cop event hosted by the Mansfield Township Police Department!
October 26th
Coldstone on Wheels Ice Cream, Gustosa Venezuelan Street Food, Czig Meister Brewing Company, Tetiana Event Balloon Art & Face Painting, Line Dancing with Sandi of Willow Creek Events, 3:00 – 6:00 pm!
November 1st
Coldstone on Wheels, Czig Meister Brewing Company, Kettle Corn, & Mansfield Boy Scout Troop 154 Popcorn Sales
November 2nd
Czig Meister Brewing Company & Parissart Face Painting! No hayrides today. Guests are welcome to walk to the apple orchard and pumpkin field.
Vendors
Vendors are invited to apply to participate in our Harvest Festival Weekends. [vendor application form]
