Terhune Orchards offers family fun at Fall Festival weekends
Celebrate the fall harvest season with your family at Terhune Orchards’ popular, activity-packed fall festivals that run every weekend, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, through the end of October.
Pam and Gary Mount and family love sharing their beautiful farm with everyone young and old. Everything great about fall is on the farm — pumpkins, apples, cider, Indian corn and cornstalks — lots of nature’s most beautiful decorations.
Pick your own fresh apples, pumpkins and gourds, take a tractor-drawn wagon ride, enjoy live music, visit Terhune’s “Everything about Pumpkins” adventure barn, walk the farm trail and enjoy farm fresh snacks and homemade country food.
Fall festival weekends at the farm offer plenty of special activities for children, including face painting, pumpkin painting, pony rides, the popular cornstalk maze and a new hay bale maze.
PUMPKINS AND APPLES
Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Apples, Apples, Apples — All grown at Terhune Orchards, in all shapes and sizes. Fall is apple and pumpkin time on the farm. The huge pumpkin patch is open for pickyour-own pumpkins. Choosing just the right one for your jack-o-lantern is a family affair.
The farmyard is loaded with piles of pumpkins as well. Each weekend Terhune will have a pumpkin painting station set up for children to decorate their own pumpkins. Pick-your-own pumpkins are located at the home farm on Cold Soil Rd. Don’t forget the 27-acre farm on Van Kirk Road, which is all set up for pick-your-own apples, a fall favorite activity. Take a wagon ride to the orchards on weekends.
THE ADVENTURE BARN
The Adventure Barn — The theme this year is “Everything About Pumpkins.” Children will have fun learning about pumpkin lore and traditional pumpkin stories.
BANDS & MORE BANDS
Bands play every weekend. Fall Harvest Festival has become a tradition for country and bluegrass music fans. Local bands play every Saturday and Sunday between noon and 4 p.m. until the end of October.
BAND SCHEDULE Sept. 29: Sept. 30: Oct. 6: Oct. 7:
Riverside Jimmy Lee Ramblers Mountain Heritage Stormy Horizon
Oct. 8: Oct. 13: Oct. 14: Oct. 20: Oct. 21: Oct. 27: Oct. 28:
Jay Smarr Mountain View Heavy Traffic Blue Grass Band Borderline The Bon Ton Lizard Sauce Swingin’ Dixie
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FOOD, FOOD & MORE FOOD
Make sure to bring an appetite. At Pam’s down-home food tent staff will serve barbecued chicken, pork sandwiches, hot dogs, soup, vegetarian chili, homemade pasta, fruit salad and more. Satisfy cravings for dishes made with apples! There will be apple pies, cider doughnuts and applesauce. Quench your thirst with cold or hot cups of Terhune’s own apple cider.
VINEYARD
Stop in at Terhune’s Vineyard and Winery Tasting Room in the 150-year-old barn and sample Terhune’s award-winning red and white wines, plus popular apple wine. Beginning Oct. 6, stop in the tasting room to see the display of the winners of this year’s photo contest. The beautiful photos of the farm will be on display through October.
FARM STORE
Terhune’s farm store is filled with the bounty of harvest from the 200-acre farm, including: lettuces, pepper, potatoes, beets, carrots, and tomatoes, which are among the more than 35 crops grown each year. In the bakery, staff makes homemade cookies, apple crisps, fruit breads, brownies and other goodies using Pam’s family recipes. Hundreds of pies are baked, so there is plenty of pie for everyone.
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!
The weekend fun continues on Columbus Day on Monday, Oct. 8, for families looking for fun activities for the holiday.
ADMISSION & LOCATION
Admission to the festival area is $5 (Children 3 and younger are free). There is no admission to the farm store, winery tasting room, and Van Kirk pick your own on festival weekends.
Parking on the farm is free. There is no admission to the farm on weekdays (except Columbus Day).
Terhune Orchards is located at 330 Cold Soil Road in Lawrenceville. Visit the website at terhuneorchards.com or call the farm store at (609) 924-2310 for directions.