Current Pick-Your-Own Crop Conditions & Availability:
Please take a moment to review the additional crop-specific information below this box to plan your visit. Dogs are NOT permitted. Thank you for leaving your pets at home.
Berry Picking Update: Week of July 15, 2025
Pick-Your-Own RASPBERRIES: Now picking RED RASPBERRIES, BLACK RASPBERRIES, & BLACKBERRIES! Our crop is beautiful. Weather and crop conditions permitting, raspberry picking is available Tuesday through Sunday. The raspberry field is closed on Mondays. Please scroll down the page for raspberry picking details.
Our strawberry season has ended. We are no longer offering pick-your-own strawberries.
Pick-Your-Own activities are available until one hour before the farm market closes. 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 and 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 (12-4pm 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
Weather permitting, James on Main* will serve their award-winning BBQ on September 21st & 22nd, October 12th & 13th, 19th & 20th, and 26th & 27th from 11 am to 4 pm (hours subject to change). Czig Meister Brewing Company* will sell and sample their local craft beers and hard Czeltzers from 12 pm until closing on most Saturdays, Sundays, and Columbus Day in October. These award-winning spirits are a neighborhood favorite! See our Special Guests section below for highlights each weekend!
* Subject to change
Harvest Weekend Dates & Info
2024 DATE & HOURS:
Sept 7th – Oct 31st
Saturdays & Sundays
PLUS Columbus Day (10/14)
COST: No entry fee. Activities and food priced individually. PYO activities are priced by the pound.
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 28th
Face painting with Kayla, Crunch Fitness Hackettstown & Bandy’s Bandana’s
September 29th
Tia B’s Street Tacos, Chick Wings & Things, A Bobbin’ & A Weavin’, Face painting with Kayla, & Bandy’s Bandana’s
October 5th
Dismal Harmony Distillery, Sourdough & Breadcrumbs NJ & Bandy’s Bandana’s
October 6th
Marley’s Wings & Things, KDS Danes Rescue & Bandy’s Bandana’s
October 12th
James off Main, Tia B’s Street Tacos, Dismal Harmony Distillery, Dom of Grace, Shimmering Strands Fairy Hair & Bandy’s Bandana’s
October 13th
James off Main, Marley’s Wings & Things, KDS Danes Rescue, Dom of Grace, A Bobbin’ & A Weavin’, Bandy’s Bandana’s
October 14th (Columbus Day)
James off Main, Endless Empanadas, Chef D Grilled Cheese, Common Sense for Animals, & Of Bee Essence
October 19th
Country Line Dancing with Henry, James off Main, Designer Dawgs, Tia B’s Street Tacos, Pudgy’s Famous Fries, Dismal Harmoney Distillery, Blankets Extraordinaire, Fabulyss Faces, Center for Family Services, Bandy’s Bandana’s & Dom of Grace
October 20th
Pictures with Crunchy the T-REX, James off Main, Chick Wings & Things, Carinderia Filipino Cuisine, Streaks Running Club, Face painting with Kayla, Bandy’s Bandana’s, Dom of Grace & KDS Danes Rescue
October 26th
James off Main, Blankets Extraordinaire, Dom of Grace & Bandy’s Bandana’s
October 27th
James off Main, Chick Wings & Things, Blankets Extraordinaire, Dom of Grace & Bandy’s Bandana’s
Vendors
Vendors are invited to apply to participate in our Harvest Festival Weekends. [vendor application form]
