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Do peaches taste better when you pick them yourself? Is corn sweeter straight from the vine? Find out at these local PYO farms.
Delicious Orchards began in 1911 as a small orchard located on a farm road (present day CR 537), connecting Colts Neck with Freehold. The Applegate family, of Freehold Township, bought the orchard in 1922, having three generations of the family run the farm. [1] The orchard eventually grew to 110 acres throughout the years.
Melick's Town Farm is a New Jersey farm in three Hunterdon County towns—Oldwick, Califon, and Bridgewater. [1] The farm, which totals nearly 300 acres, is one of the largest fruit growers in New Jersey. [1] The farm is currently owned by George and Norma Melick, the ninth generation of Melicks. [1]
Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. [5] It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States. Wakefern was the largest private employer in New Jersey in 2018, with 40,200 employees. [6]
A You-Pick ("U-Pick") or Pick-Your-Own (PYO) farm operation is a type of farm gate direct marketing (farm-to-table) strategy where the emphasis is on customers doing the harvesting themselves and agritourism. [1] A PYO farm might be preferred by people who like to select fresh, high quality, vine-ripened produce themselves at lower prices.
Springdale Farms was founded in 1949 when Alan Ebert purchased the land. At the time, three quarters of Cherry Hill was farmland. Alan's widow, Mary, along with her children, took over operations of the 100-acre (40 ha) farm after his death. A fire in 1988 destroyed the farm's 3,800 square feet (350 m 2) retail building. [4]
Terhune Orchards is a winery in Lawrence Township (mailing address is Princeton) in Mercer County, New Jersey. [2] [3] A family produce farm since 1975, the vineyard was first planted in 2003, and opened to the public in 2010. [2] [4] Terhune has 5 acres of grapes under cultivation, and produces an estimated 1,100 cases of wine per year.
Airaya U-Pick Farm 25221 Marsh Creek Road, Brentwood; (408) 515-5878 You can pick your own nectarines, apricots, Asian pears and pluots from 21 different trees at Airaya U-Pick Farm in Brentwood.