Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Morristown, NJ

Morristown

We have many opportunities at The Urban Farm and at our Early Street Community Garden. We are incredibly proud of the work that we do in educating our community and growing food sustainably. In 2021, The Urban Farm grew 30,000 pounds of produce and donated 11,000 pounds to local food pantries. We offer classes and volunteer opportunities for participants of all ages to learn about the benefits to growing your own food.

Denville

Union Hill Farms sells its harvest through a roadside stand on Cooper Road in Denville and at farmers markets around Morris County. It bills itself as the oldest continuously run farm in the county, with roots back to 1793 and the current operation now marking 40 years. The stand carries seasonal Jersey produce.

Harding Township

Wightman's Farms sits on Mount Kemble Avenue (Route 202) in Harding Township near Morristown, Morris County. The long-running operation is known for pick-your-own apples in fall, a farm market with produce and baked goods, and a garden center. Apple season and market hours shift year to year and aren't fixed online.

Chatham

Crabtree Honey is a small-scale beekeeping operation in Chatham, Morris County, working from a residential address on Burgess Street. Raw local honey from nearby hives is the whole trade. There's no storefront or website; buyers reach the beekeeper directly.

Hillview Farms is on Meyersville Road in the Gillette section of Long Hill Township, Morris County. It's a produce farm in a pocket of preserved farmland near the Great Swamp. Contact directly for what's in season and current hours.

Pine Brook

Bader Farm is on Change Bridge Road in the Pine Brook section of Montville Township, Morris County. It's a local produce and garden farm in the Passaic River lowlands of northern New Jersey. Current crops, farm-stand goods, and hours aren't confirmed in public listings.

Mendham

A cut-your-own Christmas tree farm on West Field Road in Mendham, Morris County, growing Fraser, Concolor, and Canaan firs plus Meyer spruce. Along with pre-cut and choose-and-cut trees, it sells wreaths and greens and runs a $3 Christmas train ride, bonfires, and hot chocolate on weekends. The farm opens in late November and takes cash or check only, with an ATM on-site.

Montville

Conklin Farm runs a pick-your-own operation and farm stand on River Road in Montville, Morris County. Seasonal PYO here usually means strawberries in June and other fruit and vegetables through summer and fall, sold alongside a stand of local produce. Fields open and close with the harvest, so check current picking conditions before heading out.

Mendham/Randolph Township

Miller's Hill Farm is on Combs Avenue near the Mendham-Randolph line in Morris County, north-central New Jersey. It runs seasonal agritourism. Reach out directly for what they grow and their hours.

Boonton Township

Brookhollow's Barnyard is a family farm on Rockaway Valley Road in Boonton Township built around animal encounters. Goat yoga, donkey cuddles, a pony club and train and tractor rides fill the day, with a sunflower patch and a holiday light show by season. General admission runs $7.50, and it operates May through early November, closed Mondays. No pets allowed on the grounds.

Randolph

Sun High Orchard is a pick-your-own apple orchard on Canfield Avenue in Randolph, Morris County. Apple picking runs through the fall harvest, and an orchard like this usually pairs it with a farm market selling cider and baked goods. Exact varieties, pricing, and daily hours shift by season and aren't fixed online.

Warren

Wagner Farm Arboretum is a nonprofit arboretum and community farm on Mountain Avenue in Warren, Somerset County. The grounds hold display gardens, rentable community garden plots and open green space, with hands-on horticulture and youth education programs. A seasonal farm stand sells produce grown on-site.

Boonton

Gooserock Farm keeps about 100 honeybee colonies across four apiaries in northern New Jersey and sells raw, minimally filtered local honey plus beeswax creams, soaps, lip balms, and candles. The beekeeper teaches classes locally, and the farm has won prizes for its honey and cosmetics at regional competitions. It is based near Boonton and Montville; find it on Facebook.

Wharton

One of New Jersey's largest haunted attractions, located on West Dewey Avenue in Wharton, Morris County. The complex runs multiple walk-through haunted houses during the Halloween season plus horror-themed escape rooms open much of the year. It's an indoor scare experience rather than a working farm, drawing horror fans from across the state each October.

Mendham

Middle Valley Farms is on Pleasant Valley Road in Mendham, Morris County, in the farmland of north-central New Jersey. It's listed under agritourism. Contact the farm for produce, seasonal offerings, and hours.

Scotch Plains

Parker Gardens is a family-run garden center on Terrill Road in Scotch Plains, Union County. It sells annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs, along with soil, mulch, and pottery. The stand shifts with the seasons — spring vegetable starts and hanging baskets, mums and pumpkins in fall, poinsettias and cut Christmas trees in December.

Chester

Parks Farms is on Route 24 in Chester, Morris County, an area known for farm markets and orchards in north-central New Jersey. It's listed under agritourism. Contact directly for produce and seasonal hours.

Fairfield

Fairfield Farms and Greenhouses grows on Big Piece Road in Fairfield, Essex County, in the Great Piece Meadows farmland along the Passaic River. As a greenhouse grower and nursery, it's the kind of operation that raises bedding plants, vegetables, and seasonal color. Retail hours and current stock aren't posted online.

Peapack

An alpaca farm on Willow Avenue in Peapack, offering hands-on alpaca encounters, feeding, and guided farm tours by reservation. A farm store sells alpaca products including clothing and stuffed animals, and visits are booked through the farm's online system. Weekend hours run 10am to 4pm, with weekday visits by appointment. A family-friendly stop in the countryside of Somerset County's Peapack-Gladstone area.

Ripple Hill Farm is on Mountain Road in the Basking Ridge area of Bernards Township, Somerset County (ZIP 07920), north-central New Jersey. It's listed under agritourism. Contact directly for produce and seasonal hours.

Chester

Family-run farm market and pick-your-own operation in Chester with fields of apples, strawberries, raspberries, pumpkins, and vegetables. The market carries NJ-grown produce, dairy, baked goods, and seasonal plants, and a separate garden center on Route 24 sells orchids and annuals. Fall brings a large corn maze and fun park, and the on-site Rebel Sheep Winery pours tastings. Certified organic by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.

Bridgewater

Full Moon Farm sits on Washington Valley Road in Bridgewater, Somerset County. Its crops and offerings aren't clearly documented online. Farms along this stretch tend to grow vegetables, flowers, and seasonal pick-your-own. Contact the farm to confirm what it grows and when it's open.

Pequannock

Suz Bee's is a small agritourism listing in Pequannock, Morris County, in northern New Jersey. Little detail is available online. Contact them directly to learn what they offer and their seasonal hours.

Pompton Plains

A small apiary in Pompton Plains, Morris County, producing local honey. Backyard-scale New Jersey beekeepers like Tanis typically sell raw wildflower honey by the jar and sometimes beeswax, often direct from the house or at nearby markets. There's little listed online, so reach out directly to ask about availability, since small-batch honey sells out fast after each season's extraction.

Chester

A large working farm on Route 24 in Chester, Morris County, with pick-your-own strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, apples, pumpkins, and flowers across the seasons. Fall brings a themed corn maze and sunflower trail, hayrides, and a hard cider garden, while the farm store carries homemade ice cream, baked goods, and dairy. Alstede runs seasonal activities nearly year-round and hosts farm tours, birthday parties, and events. It's one of the better-known agritourism farms in northern New Jersey.

Bridgewater

Taida Orchids grows phalaenopsis and exotic orchids at a greenhouse on Foothill Road in Bridgewater, selling both wholesale and direct to the public. Beyond potted orchids in several sizes, they carry arrangements, succulents, and cut flowers. The store is open to walk-ins Monday through Saturday, unusual for a grower this size, so you can browse the greenhouse stock in person. Call ahead during holidays, when orchid demand spikes and stock moves fast.

Chester Township

Hacklebarney Farm Cider Mill presses its own apple cider and bakes fresh doughnuts and baked goods, sold alongside apples, hot dogs, and other treats at its stand on State Park Road in Chester Township, near Hacklebarney State Park. The farm opens for the fall season around Labor Day weekend and hosts school field trips, group tours, and private parties.

Wayne

A roadside farm stand on Black Oak Ridge Road in Wayne, Passaic County. Stands like this sell seasonal Jersey produce, sweet corn, tomatoes, and fall pumpkins straight from nearby fields, usually running spring through the holidays. Farmview keeps no real web presence, so stop by during growing season or call ahead to check what's in stock and current hours.

Montclair

New Ark Apiaries is a small beekeeping operation based on Montclair Avenue in Montclair, Essex County. It produces local honey from hives in suburban northern New Jersey. Availability is seasonal; reach out directly to buy honey or ask about hive products.

Long Valley

Valley Shepherd Creamery makes more than fifty artisan dairy products, cheese especially, on its farm at 50 Fairmount Road in Long Valley. The old-fashioned creamery blends European dairy practices with modern equipment and opens for farm tours, tastings, and special events, all within about an hour of New York City. Reach them at [email protected] or (908) 876-3200.

Long Valley

Totten Family Farm, also called Heritage Valley, sits on Naughright Road in Long Valley, part of Washington Township in western Morris County's farm belt. Public detail is limited. Family farms in this rolling valley run to livestock, hay, and seasonal produce. Contact the farm directly to learn what it raises or grows and whether it sells to the public or hosts visitors.

Melick's Town Farm's Oldwick location is the flagship of New Jersey's largest apple and peach grower, a family operation running for generations in Tewksbury Township. The farm presses its own cider and produces Melick's hard cider, and the Oldwick market sells apples, peaches, pumpkins, baked goods, and cider doughnuts. Fall weekends bring pick-your-own and a busy market. Check the website for pressing dates, pick-your-own openings, and market hours across the season.

Oldwick

Melick's Town Farm is New Jersey's largest apple and peach grower, run by the Melick family, who have farmed in the state since 1728. The Oldwick site houses a cider mill and farm market that presses fresh cider through the fall. The operation also runs locations in Califon and Bridgewater, with pick-your-own apples, peaches, and pumpkins in season plus a bakery.

Fords

Stiles Apiaries is a honey producer and beekeeping operation on King George Road in Fords, part of Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County. Raw local honey from an apiary like this tracks the spring-to-fall nectar flow. Ordering and product specifics aren't posted online.

Somerset

A small beekeeping operation on Welshs Lane in Somerset, Somerset County. Local apiaries like this produce raw honey and beeswax products from their hives. Contact directly to find out what's for sale and how to buy.

Franklin Township

Wolgast Tree Farm is a small, watershed-friendly Christmas tree farm and apiary on Bennetts Lane in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, running more than 40 years. Cut-your-own and precut trees anchor the winter season, alongside handmade grave blankets. The farm also sells its own honey and beeswax, oyster mushrooms, and bluebird nest boxes. It's a genuine small family operation, so hours are limited, mainly weekends in the Christmas run plus mushroom pickups.

Franklin Lakes

Campgaw Bees is a small beekeeping operation in Franklin Lakes, near Campgaw Mountain Reservation in northern Bergen County. Apiaries this size usually sell raw local honey and beeswax products directly to neighbors. No website or public listing details turned up online.

Andover

Sussex County Strawberry Farm runs pick-your-own strawberries each June on Route 206 in Andover, then shifts to summer produce and a fall pumpkin patch with a corn maze. The farm pulls families from across northern New Jersey during berry season. Its site is sussexcountystrawberryfarm.com.

Passaic

A year-round haunted attraction at 2 Brighton Avenue in Passaic, built as a large walk-through experience with live actors and film-quality effects. Beyond the main asylum it runs additional attractions including Subculture and The Bleeding Grounds, plus mini escape rooms, axe throwing, and a horror-prop museum with pieces from films like Friday the 13th. Busiest during the Halloween season but open for horror events throughout the year.

Hillsborough Township

Sunhaven Farms is a farm in Hillsborough Township, a large agricultural township in Somerset County crossed by the Millstone River. It's listed for agritourism, but its crops, activities, and visitor hours aren't detailed in public listings.

Newton

Hillsborough Township

A family farm and market on South Branch Road in Hillsborough, selling its own beef, pork, lamb, goat, eggs, and seasonal poultry. Through the year it runs farm events like Touch-A-Tractor days and outdoor line dancing. In fall it becomes Scare Farm, its Halloween attraction with a haunted hayride, corn maze, and haunted barn after dark. The farm store keeps weekday daytime hours and shorter weekend hours.

Green Township

Bob Cahill Farm is on Pequest Road in Green Township, Sussex County, along the Pequest River valley. Its offerings aren't detailed online. Contact the farm directly to learn what it grows and whether it sells at the farm or nearby markets.

Franklin

Santa Maria Farms is on North Church Road in Franklin, in New Jersey's Sussex County highlands. Not much about the operation is published online. Farms in this part of the state raise hay, corn, vegetables, and livestock. Reach out to the farm directly to find out what it grows and whether it sells to the public.

Hillsborough

Hillsboro Farm sits on Hillsborough Road in Hillsborough Township, Somerset County — a stretch of central New Jersey still worked for row crops and produce. Public information about the farm is limited. Contact it directly to learn what it grows and whether it sells to the public.

Califon

The Califon Orchards are Melick's pick-your-own site, spread across hillside blocks along County Road 513 in Hunterdon County. This is where visitors head in fall to pick apples straight off the tree and, earlier in summer, peaches, part of the same family farm that runs the Oldwick and Bridgewater markets. Rows open variety by variety as fruit ripens, so check Melick's website for what's ready to pick before driving out.

Hillsborough Township

Doyle's Unami Farm works land along Mill Lane in Hillsborough, Somerset County, and opens to the public mainly in fall. The season centers on a corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkins, and hayrides out to the fields, with a stand selling the farm's own produce. It's a working family farm that turns its acreage over to agritourism once the harvest comes in.

Garfield

Mountain Man Sweets is listed in Garfield, Bergen County, in densely settled northern New Jersey. The name points toward maple products or confections, but specifics aren't verified online. Contact them directly for what they make and where to buy it.

Vernon

A farm on Route 515 in Vernon Township, in the mountains of northern Sussex County near the New York line. Details on Mount Vernon Farms are scarce online. Farms in this hilly corner of the state tend toward livestock, hay, and seasonal produce or Christmas trees rather than large row crops. Contact the farm directly to confirm what it grows or sells and whether it's open to visitors.

Newton

Rockywood Farm is based in Newton, the Sussex County seat, in northwestern New Jersey's highlands. It runs as a small agritourism farm. Reach out directly for what they grow and their seasonal hours.

Lafayette Township

Lucey's Berry Farm grows berries on Beaver Run Road in Lafayette Township, Sussex County. Small berry farms in this part of northwest New Jersey typically offer summer pick-your-own or pre-picked strawberries and raspberries. Call ahead to check which berries are ripe and whether the field is open.

Newton

Windy Brow Farms has grown fruit near Newton in Sussex County since 1946, with more than 45 apple varieties and 15 peach varieties plus cherries, plums, and apricots. Pick-your-own apples run September into October. The farm store sells fresh fruit, artisan breads, pies, and its own ice cream, and a wood-fired kitchen serves pizza on seasonal nights.

Lafayette Township

Ideal Farm and Garden Centre is a garden center on Lafayette Road in Lafayette Township, Sussex County. Little is published online beyond its location. Centers like this generally stock nursery plants, bedding flowers, vegetable starts, soil and mulch, and seasonal items such as mums and pumpkins in fall. Call ahead to confirm hours and current stock.

Newton

Lentini Farms grows Jersey Fresh tomatoes and sweet corn picked daily, plus apples, peppers, squash, and pumpkins, selling through several farm stands including its Route 94 location in Newton, Sussex County. Fall brings a 10-acre corn maze, hayrides, and a pumpkin patch. Contact is [email protected] or (973) 579-2424.

Lebanon

Valley Brook Farm is on High Street in Lebanon Borough, Hunterdon County, in the rolling farm country of west-central New Jersey. It's listed for agritourism, but crops, products, and visitor hours aren't posted online.

Neshanic Station

Sun Meadow Farm is on Old York Road in Neshanic Station, part of Hillsborough in Somerset County. The area is a mix of small produce farms and horse farms along the South Branch of the Raritan River. Little is published about the operation, so reach out directly for details on crops or farm products.

Sussex

A farm on Pond School Road in Sussex, in the northwest corner of the state near the New York and Pennsylvania borders. Information on Acadian Farms is thin online. Farms in this rural stretch of Sussex County commonly raise livestock and hay or grow seasonal vegetables. Reach out to the farm directly to confirm what it produces and whether any of it is sold retail.

Wantage

A roadside farm market on Route 23 in Wantage, Sussex County, in New Jersey's far northwest. It sells seasonal local produce through the growing season. Hours change with the season, so confirm before stopping.

East Brunswick Township

A farm on Cranbury Road in East Brunswick Township, part of Middlesex County's remaining band of central Jersey farmland. The area is known for sweet corn, tomatoes, and other summer vegetables. The farm turns up in local agritourism listings but keeps little presence online, and no website or contact details are posted.

Newton

Giordano's Tree Farm is listed at 350 Route 94 in Newton, Sussex County, the same address as Timber Valley Tree Farm, so the two names point to one Christmas tree operation on Route 94 rather than separate farms. Expect fresh-cut and cut-your-own trees in the December season at this Sussex County location. Because the listings overlap, confirm the current name, phone, and cutting hours before visiting so you reach the right people.