Produce Farms near Milford, NJ

Milford

Phillips Farms grows fruits, vegetables, and flowers on Crab Apple Hill Road in Milford, Hunterdon County, and runs a big pick-your-own program, strawberries in spring, then blueberries, cherries, and other crops through the season. The farm market sells its own jams, salsas, and baked goods, and Phillips also brings produce to farmers markets across New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Call the pick-your-own line for what's ripe before you drive out.

A produce farm on Bloomsbury Road in the Milford area of western Hunterdon County, named for the raspberries at its center. It sits in a rural stretch of New Jersey where small berry and vegetable growers sell through the summer. Beyond the name and location, no website or further detail is posted online for this operation.

Kintnersville

Trauger's Farm Market is a 60-acre family fruit and vegetable farm at Route 611 and Island Road in Kintnersville, Bucks County, with an on-farm store open year-round and greenhouses in full swing each spring. The farm also runs a CSA and sells Saturdays at the Doylestown Farmers Market, with an annual Oktoberfest on the calendar.

Washington township

Raritan Township

Washington

Real farmers working a real farm since 1983, the Vacchiano family carries on generations-old Italian farming traditions across northwest New Jersey — harvesting fifteen acres of vegetables, tending American hybrid wine grapes, and raising beef, lamb, poultry, and heritage-breed turkeys on vegetarian, high-protein feed. A fixture of northern New Jersey farmers markets since 1992, the farm also runs a production kitchen turning out all-natural prepared meals with no preservatives.

Stockton

Glen Gardner

Neshanic Station

Vacchiano Farm has been a family enterprise since 1983, working 100 acres in New Jersey's Skylands region — 15 acres of vegetables with 25+ tomato varieties, an 11-acre vineyard in the storied Warren County wine appellation, and free-roaming beef, lamb, chickens, ducks, and heritage turkeys. The huge farmhouse store on Route 202 in Readington adds chef-prepared meals, sauces, deli sandwiches, and catering, with picnic grounds overlooking the fields.

Bethlehem

Valley Fruits and Veggies runs a farm market and seasonal u-pick on Colony Drive in Bethlehem, Northampton County. Spring brings pick-your-own strawberries, summer adds fresh fruit and vegetables, and fall means pumpkins, a corn maze, hayrides, and festival weekends. The market also scoops ice cream and milkshakes, and the farm hosts birthday parties. It's a family-run stop for produce and fall outings.

Bath

Filchner's runs a nursery and garden center on Monocacy Drive in Bath, in Northampton County, with more than 30 years in business. They grow bedding plants and vegetables and sell seasonal produce through the growing season. It's a well-established local stop for gardeners stocking up in spring and for fresh produce later in summer.

Pennington

Pennington

Emmaus

Hackettstown

Saylorsburg

Apple Ridge Farm in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania is Penn State environmental scientist-turned-farmer Brian Bruno's sustainable operation on his family's 1860s farm — naturally grown produce, pastured chickens and pigs, hydroponic lettuce, and a wood-fired brick oven sourdough bakery using regional organic flour and a natural starter. The farm also runs Scratch, a wood-fired pizza pub in the Easton Public Market, and fuels its oven with sawmill slab wood.

Chester

Far Hills

Brodheadsville

Blairstown

Lawrenceville

Flanders

Ashley Farms in Flanders, New Jersey is a fourth-generation family farm specializing in home-grown turkeys, sweet corn, and tomatoes, run full-time by Larry Ashley and his children Scott and Aimee with family and staff support.

Coplay

A pick-your-own strawberry farm on Clearview Road in Coplay, in the hills north of Allentown. Its name points to the high ground it sits on, and berry fields on well-drained slopes like these often ripen a touch later than valley-floor plantings. Lehigh Valley strawberry season generally runs from late May through mid-June, so call for daily field conditions before you go.