Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Toms River, NJ

Toms River

Ariel Herbs grows herbs on Silverton Road in Toms River and lists itself as an organic operation. Small organic herb growers like this sell culinary and medicinal plants, cut herbs, and starts, often at local farm markets. Contact the farm to confirm what's available and how to buy.

Toms River

Silverton Farm is an organic farm on Silverton Road in Toms River, Ocean County, near the Jersey Shore. It grows organic produce and runs a seasonal farm stand. Contact directly for what's in season and current hours.

Forked River

Argos Farm sits a mile west of Garden State Parkway Exit 74 in Forked River, best known for u-pick sunflowers and pumpkins. The fall season stacks up more than 30 attractions, a corn maze, live music and festivals like Jacks & Lights and Baby Animal Fest. Icarus Brewing pours craft beer on-site. The farm also hosts weddings and private events.

Forked River

Area 51 Farm is on Lacey Road in Forked River, Ocean County, near the Pine Barrens of Lacey Township. What it grows or sells isn't posted online. Contact the farm to find out whether it runs a stand, pick-your-own, or seasonal events.

Wall Township

Atlantic Farms runs a farm market and garden center on Atlantic Avenue in Wall Township, Monmouth County. Through the growing season it sells local produce, plants and flowers. Autumn is the big draw, with a pumpkin patch, corn maze, hayrides and a fall festival. It's a short drive inland from the Jersey Shore.

Wall Township

An alpaca farm on Allaire Road in Wall Township, Monmouth County, near Allaire State Park. Alpaca operations at this scale usually raise the animals for fleece and sell yarn, socks, and other fiber goods, sometimes opening for farm visits by appointment. Edel Haus keeps little presence online, so contact the farm directly to confirm whether tours or a farm store are open before making the drive.

Freehold

Patterson Greenhouses grows seasonal plants and flowers on Adelphia Road in Freehold, selling annuals, hanging baskets, and fall mums along with hay and straw. The same family runs the Patterson Family Barn Venue on the property, a wedding and event space about 20 minutes from Freehold Raceway Mall that seats up to 200 guests. Reach the greenhouse at (732) 431-5271.

Manchester Township

Champion U-Pick offers pick-your-own harvest in Manchester Township, part of the Ocean County Pine Barrens where blueberries and cranberries grow well in sandy, acidic soil. No website surfaced online, so the exact crops and picking season aren't confirmed.

Waretown

Home to about 30 Huacaya alpacas alongside mini Highland cattle, sheep, goats, and emus. The farm runs hour-long tours where visitors pet and feed the animals, plus guided one-mile alpaca hikes; kids 10 and up can lead their own alpaca. A gift shop sells alpaca yarn, socks, hats, and rugs. Reservations are required, and the owners also bring animals to schools, libraries, and assisted-living homes.

Waretown

Brookville Farms is on Wells Mills Road in Waretown, Ocean County, near Route 72 and the Pine Barrens. The setting suits seasonal produce and roadside farm sales. Public detail is limited, with no website found.

Freehold

A small farm operation based on Marcy Street in Freehold, Monmouth County. Public information on Madge Farms is limited, and the address sits in a built-up part of Freehold rather than open field, pointing to a small grower or farm business rather than a large pick-your-own destination. Reach out directly to confirm what they produce and whether anything is sold to the public.

Freehold

Downtown Freehold isn't a farm — it's the district organization that runs a seasonal outdoor farmers market in the borough's center, along with concert series and festivals. The market brings regional growers and food vendors downtown on scheduled dates through summer and early fall. The same office manages the business directory, parking, and community events for the historic Monmouth County downtown.

Colts Neck Township

Eastmont Orchards offers pick-your-own peaches from July through September and apples from early fall, plus pumpkins and family activities on Heyers Mill Road in Colts Neck, Monmouth County. The orchard also hosts class trips during the season. Reach the farm at 732-542-5404.

Stafford Township

A small agritourism spot in Stafford Township, on the mainland just across the bay from Long Beach Island. The Beachview Avenue location and the farm name are about all the public record shows. No website or detailed listing turned up, so hours and what they grow aren't posted.

Freehold Township

Wemrock Orchards runs a country farm market on Route 33 in Freehold, stocked with fresh-picked strawberries, peaches, apples and pumpkins in season. The store bakes its own pies and apple cider donuts, and shelves jams, butters, local honey and New Jersey wine from Tomasello Winery. It's open daily year-round, staying later Thursday through Saturday.

Freehold

Battleview Orchards runs a pick-your-own fruit farm on Wemrock Road in Freehold, next to Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Monmouth County. Apple picking anchors the fall, with other fruit through the season and a farm market selling baked goods, cider, and ice cream. It has stayed a family operation for generations and gets busy through apple and pumpkin season.

Jackson Township

Dracula's Domain is a Halloween-season haunted attraction on Monmouth Road (Route 537) in Jackson Township, Ocean County. It runs on farm property and typically combines a haunted hayride, a walk-through haunted house, and a corn maze under one admission. Like most Jersey haunts, it opens Friday and Saturday nights through October after dark.

Marlboro

A family farm and garden center in Marlboro, Monmouth County, best known for its fall season: pumpkin picking, hayrides, a corn maze, and the long-running Field of Horrors haunted attraction with haunted hayrides and walk-through houses after dark. Triple C Nurseries handles the plant and landscaping side. The property sits on South Main Street (Route 79), drawing crowds from across central New Jersey each October.

Colts Neck Township

A farm in Colts Neck Township, in Monmouth County's horse-and-farm country. Little is published online about its hours or products, so contact directly before planning a visit.

Browns Mills

A specialty nursery on Pasadena Road in Browns Mills, set in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It focuses on fruit crops suited to the region's sandy, acidic soil, including blueberries, cranberries, and other native plants. Contact directly to confirm what's in stock and whether the site is open to visitors.

New Egypt

DeWolf's Farm runs Kim's Country Store on Colliers Mills Road in New Egypt (Plumsted Township), Ocean County. The farm sells seasonal produce through the store, and farms along this Pinelands edge commonly add fall pumpkins and pick-your-own. Contact the farm to confirm what's in season and store hours.

Manalapan Township

Ogule's Farm is on McCaffery Road in Manalapan Township, Monmouth County, an area known for sweet corn, tomatoes, and roadside stands. The farm's specific crops aren't posted online. Contact them to confirm what's for sale and when the stand is open.

Millstone Township

A small organic farm on Olde Noah Hunt Road in the Clarksburg section of Millstone Township, western Monmouth County. The name signals chemical-free or organic growing methods, though the farm keeps a low profile online. It sits on the same quiet rural lane as Trappers Honey, a few doors down. Hours and any pick-your-own for small Monmouth County farms like this shift with the season, so check locally or call before visiting.

Clarksburg

Trappers Honey sells raw honey from Clarksburg, in Millstone Township, Monmouth County, including a Gourmet Honey Spread that has taken Best in Show at state honey competitions. The lineup runs to beeswax, candles, and gift baskets alongside the extracted honey. It's a small direct-sale operation on Olde Noah Hunt Road rather than a storefront, so order or arrange pickup through their site. Fresh honey supply follows the season's extraction.

Manalapan

Happy Day Farm in Manalapan, Monmouth County, runs pick-your-own raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, lavender, sunflowers, and zinnias through the growing season, plus a fall corn maze and field trips. The farm also sells maple syrup and honey, and admission tickets are required for the pick fields. Reach it at [email protected] or 732-977-3607.

Browns Mills

Browns Mills

The Whitesbog Blueberry Festival takes place at Whitesbog Village in Browns Mills, the site where Elizabeth White developed the first cultivated blueberry in the early 1900s. The Whitesbog Preservation Trust, the nonprofit caretaker of this historic cranberry-and-blueberry village inside Brendan Byrne State Forest, runs the annual summer festival with food vendors, crafts, and village tours.

Manalapan Township

Maple Leaf Farms sits along Route 9 in Manalapan Township, Monmouth County, in central New Jersey's remaining farm country. It's listed as an agritourism farm. Contact them for produce, seasonal activities, and hours, which change with the growing season.

Marlboro

Stattel's Brookrest Farm sits on Route 520 in Marlboro, Monmouth County, selling seasonal produce from its own fields. It runs as a traditional local farm and stand in a stretch of preserved Monmouth farmland. Little detail is posted online.

Manalapan Township

This listing is a Dunkin' Donuts on Gordons Corner Road in Manalapan Township, Monmouth County — not a farm. It appears in the directory by mistake; there is nothing agricultural at the location, just a coffee-and-donut franchise. The entry should be corrected or removed rather than described as a farm.

Cream Ridge

Bullock Farms is a family farm on Emleys Hill Road in Cream Ridge, in Monmouth County's Upper Freehold farmland. It's known for a fall season of pick-your-own pumpkins, hayrides, a corn maze and farm animals. Seasonal festivals and group visits round out the year.

Manalapan Township

Happy Day Farm runs pick-your-own by season on Iron Ore Road in Manalapan: blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries in summer, then lavender, sunflowers, and zinnias. Fall brings a corn maze and pumpkins, and the farm store carries its own maple syrup and honey. School field trips are offered. The picking calendar shifts week to week, so check the site first, and the farm posts daily updates on Facebook and Instagram.

Cream Ridge

A large u-pick flower farm in Cream Ridge, best known for spring fields of more than eight million tulips and a fall festival with pick-your-own sunflowers, dahlias, and gladiolus. A winter walk-through pairs tulips with holiday light displays. The Dutch family operation adds food vendors and family activities during each event. It sits off Rues Road in the Monmouth County countryside, an easy drive from Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore.

Holmdel Township

Antonio Casola Farms & Greenhouse pairs a plant nursery with seasonal agritourism in Holmdel, Monmouth County. The greenhouse stocks bedding plants, hanging baskets and garden starts through spring and summer. In autumn the farm turns to pumpkin picking, hayrides, a corn maze and Halloween attractions off Schanck Road.

Morganville

A u-pick lavender farm on Pleasant Valley Road in Morganville, where visitors cut their own bundles (about $6 to $10 depending on size) during the summer bloom. The farm shop sells lavender soaps, sachets, and other goods made from the crop grown on-site. It runs Tuesday through Sunday in season, shifting to weekend and Wednesday hours in late summer. A Monmouth County stop, roughly an hour from both Philadelphia and New York.

Morganville

Betty's Farm is a small farm on Harbor Road in Morganville, in Monmouth County's Marlboro area. Seasonal produce is the likely trade in this stretch of preserved farmland. The operation keeps a low profile, with no website found.

Morganville

Peppadew Fresh Farms operates on Harbor Road in Morganville, Monmouth County, under the Peppadew name known for sweet piquanté peppers. The operation is part of New Jersey's fresh-produce industry. Contact the company to confirm what it grows and whether it sells directly to the public.

Monroe Township

Etsch Farms works two sides of the business on Buckelew Avenue in Monroe Township: a hay, straw, and grain supply operation, and a fall agritourism season built around a large corn maze. Autumn weekends bring hayrides, group tours, and party bookings. It's a working Middlesex County farm rather than a polished attraction, so call ahead for corn-maze dates and hours.

Upper Freehold Township

Westhaven Farm is in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, in the Cream Ridge and Allentown farm belt of rural western Monmouth. It's listed for agritourism; the farm's crops, products, and visitor hours aren't detailed online.

Monroe Township

Indyks Farm sits on Spotswood-Englishtown Road in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, a produce-growing area of central New Jersey. No active website was found online, so its current crops and hours aren't confirmed.

Monroe Township

Cranbury Brook Farm is on Federal Road in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, near the Cranbury line. Public information about the operation is limited. The surrounding area grows sod, grain, and vegetables and hosts several horse farms. Contact the farm directly to learn what it produces or offers.

Wrightstown

Edward's Christmas Tree Farm is a cut-your-own tree farm on Jacobstown-Cookstown Road in Wrightstown, Burlington County. Farms like this open for the weeks after Thanksgiving, letting families walk the rows to cut their own spruce, fir, or pine, and usually sell pre-cut trees, wreaths, and stands as well. Hours are seasonal, so confirm the opening weekend before visiting.

Browns Mills

Rumson

A Rumson-based group tied to grape growing and winemaking in Monmouth County's Two River area, named for the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers. The Center Street address appears to be an organizer's location rather than a public vineyard or tasting room. No public website is posted online.

East Windsor

Field of Terror is a Halloween-season haunted attraction on K&S Farms along Windsor-Perrineville Road in East Windsor. It packs four separate walk-through experiences into one ticket, built around a backstory of a farmer's genetic experiments gone wrong, with haunted trails, buildings, and after-dark scares. The daytime side of the same farm runs pick-your-own and a pumpkin patch as Sunshine Acres.

East Windsor Township

K&S Farm's Sunshine Acres sits on Windsor-Perrineville Road in East Windsor, the daytime family side of the same property that hosts the Field of Terror haunt after dark. Sunshine Acres offers pick-your-own vegetables and a farm market through the growing season, plus a fall pumpkin patch and hayrides. It's a working central-Jersey produce farm in Mercer County.

Hazlet

Green Meadows Petting Farm operated on Middle Road in Hazlet, Monmouth County, as a hands-on animal farm aimed at families and school groups. Visits centered on feeding and petting farm animals, pony and hayrides, and fall pumpkin picking, run as guided seasonal tours in spring and autumn. Confirm current status before planning a trip, since the location may no longer be open.

New Lisbon

New Lisbon Blueberries grows blueberries in New Lisbon, in the Burlington County Pinelands. This part of New Jersey is where the state's cultivated-blueberry industry began, near Whitesbog. Fresh berries come in the summer picking season; call ahead for pick-your-own or pre-picked availability.

Matawan

A farm market on Route 34 in Matawan, Monmouth County, near the Cheesequake State Park area. Roadside markets like this sell seasonal produce, fall pumpkins, and garden-center plants. Offerings shift with the season, so it's worth confirming what's in stock before making a trip.

Chesterfield

An orchard and farm on Extonville Road in Chesterfield, Burlington County, near Allentown in central New Jersey's farmland belt. Growers in this area are known for tree fruit and mixed vegetables. No website or verified contact details are posted online for the farm.

Pemberton

Haines Berry Farm grows blueberries on Sheep Pen Hill Road in Pemberton, Burlington County, at the edge of the Pine Barrens where New Jersey blueberries first took hold. The farm sells fresh and pick-your-own berries through the summer harvest. Its website is hainesberryfarm.com.

Chesterfield

A sheep farm on Sykesville Road in Chesterfield, Burlington County, in the preserved farmland belt of central Burlington. As the name suggests, Laurie's Lambs raises lambs, likely selling freezer lamb and possibly breeding stock, wool, or 4-H animals, the pattern for small flocks in this area. Little is posted online, so contact the farm directly to ask about lamb availability, which is seasonal, and how to order.

Robbinsville

Oasis Family Farm supplies landscaping materials in Robbinsville, Mercer County: dyed and natural mulches, nutrient-rich topsoil, and seasoned firewood, sold retail or wholesale with pickup or delivery. The business cites more than 20 years serving local homeowners and landscapers, and runs occasional farm events through the season. Call to arrange a delivery.

Chesterfield Township

Grossman Farms works land on Sykesville Road in Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, near Wrightstown and the Fort Dix area. The farm is recorded as agritourism, but its crops and any visitor offerings aren't posted online.

Chesterfield Township

Strawberry Hill Farm grows produce on Ellisdale Road in Chesterfield Township, farmland in Burlington County near Crosswicks and Bordentown. The sandy loam here supports strawberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, and other Jersey vegetables through the warm season. Crop details and farm-stand hours aren't posted online.

Pemberton

Wilson Blueberries grows blueberries on New Lisbon Road in Pemberton, in the Burlington County Pine Barrens at the center of New Jersey's blueberry country. The crop ripens from late June through July. Whether this farm offers pick-your-own, along with its pricing and hours, isn't posted online.

Pemberton

A blueberry farm on Magnolia Road in Pemberton, Burlington County, in the sandy Pine Barrens soil that made South Jersey blueberry country, the highbush blueberry was first cultivated commercially not far from here. Small growers like Piper sell fresh berries in the July peak, often pick-your-own or by the flat at the farm. Little is listed online, so call during blueberry season to check picking availability and hours.

Hamilton Township

Evergreen Farm sits on Yardville-Allentown Road in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, in the Yardville farming area south of Trenton. No website or public listing details were found online, so its current crops and hours aren't confirmed.

Cranbury

Dey Farm works land on Dey Road in Cranbury, Middlesex County, one of the state's preserved-farmland towns of flat, fertile soil. The farm's specific crops aren't documented online. Reach out directly to learn what it grows and whether it sells produce locally.

Ash PYO Blueberries, run by Warren Ash, is a pick-your-own blueberry field on Magnolia Road in Burlington County, part of the Pine Barrens blueberry country near Hammonton. Pick-your-own runs through the summer harvest, roughly late June into August. Call before heading out to confirm the fields are open and the fruit is ripe.