Events

Jersey Shore Wine Country Weekends

Weekends, June 16 - December 23 |

4JGs will be open for tastings and events every weekend from June 16, 2018 thru December 23, 2018. Jersey Shore wine country weekends will include relaxing weekends by the firepit, simple picnics or special events....stay tuned for special event weekends. Plan to enjoy 4JGs beautiful setting and award-winning wines during this time. We are located minutes from the Garden State Parkway and the Jersey Shore in beautiful Colts Neck horse country. Reservations are not required.

4JGs Orchards & Vineyards, 127 Hillsdale Road, Colts Neck

Fall hayrides and pumpkin picking

Saturdays, September 29 - October 27 | 10:30 AM - 4 PM

Take a scenic hay ride through our 30 acre farm to the pumpkin patch and pick the perfect pumpkin! Bring the whole family for some Fall fun on the farm.

Abma's Farm, 700 Lawlins Road, Wyckoff, NJ 07481

Fall Fest

September 16 - October 29 |

Haunted Hayrides to a Haunted Greenhouse, Corn Mazes, House of Horror, Pumpkin Picking, Cowboy Shows and a Petting Zoo… WE HAVE IT ALL! (Corn Maze and Wild West Show start Sept. 23)

Antonio Casola Farms & Greenhouse, 178 Highway 34 & Schanck Road, Holmdel

Pick Your Own Pumpkins

September 29 - October 31 | 9 AM - 6 PM

Pick your own pumpkins, hay bale maze, corn maze, hayrides, equipment displays and demonstrations. Food and picnic area. School groups welcome.

1506 Atlantic Avenue, Wall Township, NJ 08736

Harvest Festival

October 13 & 14 | 12 PM - 5 PM

A day in the sun featuring live entertainment, food trucks, wine tasting and wine sales, crafters, hay rides and an educational winery tour for $10.00 entry fee. Outside food and leashed pets welcome.

870 West Malaga Rd, Williamstown, NJ 08094

Harvest Party

September 22 & 23 | 12 PM – 5 PM

With the harvest season underway, it's time for a celebration! We're striking up the band all weekend on September 22nd and 23rd. Feel the one-of-a-kind sensation of grapes between your toes in the grape stomping barrels or feel the wind in your hair on one of our hourly vineyard trailer tours. Tasting will be available throughout the day in the tasting tent with bottle and growler sales inside the tasting room.

150 Atlantic St, Landisville, NJ 08326

Group Therapy

Every Saturday & Sunday (Year Round) | Saturday 6-9 pm and Sunday 2-5 pm

Live music held on our beautiful stone patio with a bonfire during nice weather or inside our unique heated Tropical Oasis in the cold and rainy months. Feel free to bring a snack or order directly from an on-site food truck, and sip and enjoy great wine in good company.

1 Jeremiah Lane, Pittstown, NJ 08867

Annual Harvest Festival

October 27, 2018 | 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Come enjoy our annual Harvest Festival with special food, music, trick-or-treating and other events for kids.

Blairstown Farmers Market

Chili Cook-Off

October 20 | 9:00AM

Bring your best chili and our expert Firefighter Cooks will judge just who makes the best chili in Brigantine. Prizes are awarded for First, Second and Third Place.

Brigantine Farmers Market

Fall Fest

September 30 | 10am - 6pm

Come spend the day on the farm and celebrate the beginning of the Fall season! Bring the whole family for hay rides, live music, delicious food, pumpkin picking, the Bullock Barnyard, and lots more! Tickets are $13 per person (children 2 years and younger are free) and will only be sold on the day of the event.

Bullock Farms, 83 Emleys Hill Road, Cream Ridge

Zombie Zone Paintball

Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays September 28 - October 30 | Fridays: 6:30pm-10pm Saturday & Sunday: 2:30pm-10:30pm

Help us with the war against the zombie outbreak on our farm. You'll ride deep into the woods armed with a paintball gun mounted on our Zombie Zapper wagon. Be ready to fight the onslaught of zombies. Shoot as many zombies as you can, and try not to get infected.

Cheesequake Farms, 191 Highway 34, Matawan

Cow Parade

November 3, 2018 | 1pm-7pm

Celebrate the end of the harvest at the Cherry Grove Farm Cow Parade. Music, Food trucks, vendors, face painting, tastings, cow parade and bonfire. S'mores by Mecha. Cake off!

3200 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence, NJ 08648

Harvest Festival

October 20, 2018 | 11 am - 2 pm

At City Green's Learning Garden, located in Paterson's Eastside Park.

800 Broadway, Paterson, NJ 07514

Apple Pie Contest

October 13 | 10 - 11 AM

Collingswood Farmers Market

Harvest Festival

October 21, 2018 | 12 - 9 pm

Community members gather to help with the carrot harvest after which we enjoy a bonfire and potluck meal as well as sing-a-long.

41B Silver Lake Road, Blairstown, NJ 07825

Pumpkin Princess Party

September 23 & October 21 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Hayride, pumpkin picking & decorating with your favorite pumpkin princess.

20 Route 77, Elmer, NJ 08318

Pumpkin Fest

October 8 | 11am-4pm

Each year on Columbus Day, we host a fun-filled Fall family event! It’s everything you love about fall, wrapped into one big festival. Crafts, games, live music, local food samples, and even an antique tractor display to get you in the fall mood.

Delicious Orchards, 320 Route 34 Colts Neck

Grape Stomp

September 22 | 12pm-5pm

$35 includes grape stomping, a bottle of your grape stomped wine with a custom-printed photo label of you grape stomping

951 8th Street, Hammonton, NJ

Harvest Festival

Saturdays & Sundays, September 22 - October 28 | 9 AM - 2 PM

Pick your own apples, pumpkins and indian corn. Large corn maze adventure, hayrides to the apple orchard and pumpkin patch, pony rides, duck rides, snack stand, cider donuts, candy apples, music, farm animals and large sandbox play area.

358 Allen Road, Hackettstown

Hispanic Heritage Lunchtime Concert Series

September 25, 2018 | 12-2 pm

The EAP will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Lunchtime Concert featuring Latin Jazz and Salsa Bands outdoor at Union Square Plaza, the site of the Farmers Market.

One Union Square, Elizabeth, NJ 07201

Fall Pop-Up Market

September 22 | 10am-2pm

Stop by the farm to stock up on all your home apothecary needs! We’ll have a special selection of herbal teas, tinctures, elixirs, balms, sprays, and oils available for purchase. Check out our fresh herbs and live plants for sale, and take a relaxing stroll around the garden. We hope to see you there!

71 Barbertown Idell Road, Frenchtown, NJ, 08825

Fort Lee Historic Jitney Tour

October 28, 2018 | 9am – 2pm

Twice a year Fort Lee Historic Jitney Tour free to the public – buses operate out of Farmer's Market from 11am – 2pm and tour sign up is at market from 9am to 11am. Tours vary each time but it is a historic tour of the borough of Fort Lee with stops at various historic sites and our Fort Lee Museum.

1355 Inwood Terrace (tour start and end – farmers market), Fort Lee, NJ 07024

Fall Harvest Weekends

Everyday in October | 10 AM - 6 PM

155 Fresh Pond Rd. East Brunswick, NJ

Bike Fest

September 24 | 1pm – 6pm

This event, offered in partnership with the Greater Mercer TMA, offers bike safety lessons, riding instructions and learning course, free bike repair, and free helmets and other giveaways.

427 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, NJ 08609

Apple Festival

September 15-16 & 22-23 |

Join us for live entertainment, activities and attractions. We have a variety of apples, fresh apple cider & donuts, fresh apple pie, candied apples, apple slushies, and so much more!

97 Daum Road, Manalapan

Great Pumpkin Festival

Weekends: September 15-November 4, Weekdays: October 3-26 | Weekends 10am-6pm, Weekdays 12pm-5pm

Your admission includes over 30 fun filled activities: Pig Racing*, Hay Maze, Spider Web Crawl, Maggie The Milking Cow, Monster Sling Shots, Barnyard Sports Ball-cade, Post Pounders, Hay Crawl, Corn Boxes, Bee Barn with Glass Bee Hive,Visiting Farm Animals, Boo Barn, Chicken Little Show, Chick Barn, Dancing Robot Show, Duck Racing, Vortex Tunnel, Obstacle course, Tether ball, Poly Pong, Lincoln Log Cabin builder, Giant Sand Box and the “Pirate Treasure Corn Maze Adventure” and the Fabulous Finger find maze game for your young corn maze adventurers.

Heaven Hill Farm, 451 Route 94, Vernon

Apple Kick Off Festival

September 15 |

Live Music, special characters for children, Food of all sorts, Moonbounce, Games

Hill Creek Farms, 1631 State Highway 45, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062

U-Pick Apples

2nd weekend of September - last weekend of October |

6 Davis Road, Branchville, NJ 07826

Annual Tractor Show & Pig Roast

Saturday, October 13 | 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Antique tractors - trophy awarded, band, grill, ice cream, fall festivities

219 Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844

Thanksgiving Week

November 18-24 | 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

The store and storefront at 1414 Atlantic Avenue are a buzz with turkeys, people and everything you could possibly want for a Thanksgiving Feast!

1414 Atlantic Avenue Manasquan, NJ 08736

Pumpkin Hollow

End of September until October 31 | Weekends and Columbus Day

Hayride, haunted barn, u-pick pumpkins, bakery, cider donuts, fall squash, apples and cider.

222 Route 15, Lafayette, NJ 07848

Farm Heritage Day

October 1 |

PYO pumpkins, hay rides and pig races will be the making the high lights of the day.

Indigo Farms, 695 Challenger Way, Forked River

Apple and Pumpkin Picking Hayrides

September 8 - October 14 | M-F: 10 AM - 5 PM on the hour, Sat & Sun: 10 AM - 5 PM continuous

133 Church Rd, Medford

Fall Harvest Weekends

Saturdays & Sundays, September 15 - October 28 | 10 AM - 5 PM

What better time to come out to the farm than on those crisp Fall days! Take a hayride to explore our 5 Acre Corn Maze and pick your own Apples and Pumpkins. Every weekend starting September 15th through October 28th we celebrate with a Fall Festival. When you get back from the hayride, we welcome you to visit our Animal Farm and spend the afternoon enjoying live music and delicious food from our Food Tent!

2691 Monmouth Rd., Jobstown

Harvest Festival

September 29 | 11 AM - 4 PM

561 Blairstown Rd. (Ct. Route 521) Hope, NJ

National Drive Electric Week

October 27 | Market hours

Electric cars on display with their proud owners nearby to answer questions. Raising awareness of electric and hybrid cars.

Corner of Pearl St & New St, Metuchen, NJ 08840

Corn Maze & Hayrides

October | Monday-Friday - School trip to a corn maze. Saturday-Sunday - Hayrides to pumpkin patch.

3460 Oak Road, Vineland, NJ 08360

HARVEST & CRUSH EVENT

September 22 | 1 PM - 6 PM

Live entertainment, tours, tastings, wine by the glass or bottle, sangria, wine slushies, local food and craft vendors. Bring your own food for a picnic in the vines or order from our new menu. Free admission.

221 N. Delsea Drive, Cape May Court House, NJ 08210

Fall Festival on the Farm

September 15 -November 1 | Weekdays 12-6 and Weekends 9-6

Spend a family day on the farm in scenic Long Valley, NJ. As the leaves change on the mountain, big tractors pull hayrides down the pumpkin patch, where you can search for the perfect pumpkin and pick it right of the vine. Get lost in our corn maze and visit our friendly farm animals. Our farmstore is also open with fall favorites like delicious local apples, apple cider, apple cider donuts, pies and more! Weekday store hours are 9-7 and activities open from 12-6. On the weekends our activities are open 9-6 and in addition to hayrides to PYO pumpkins, corn maze we also have Monster Truck Rides, train rides, an apple cannon and pony rides. No admission fee. For more information visit www.ortfarms.com/fall *Concessions available on weekends*

25 Bartley Road, Long Valley, NJ 07853

Fall Family Fun Day

October 4, 2018 | 10 am - 3 pm

A family fun day to raise money for our veterans. We will have local vendors, car show, BBQ, Bounce house, face painter and so much more

636 Adelphia Road, Freehold, NJ 07728

Living History Weekend & Civil War Reenactment

October 5 - 6 | TBA

Living history weekend. Come visit the campsites and meet Civil War reenactors. For more details, visit www.27thNewJerseyCompanyF.org

962 Route 517, Glenwood, NJ 07418

Make it & Take it Fall Container Class

September 29, 2018 | 10 am

Join us for this class which shows which fall blooming plants can be planted together for a great container that will bloom through the fall months! Choose from asters, mums, flowering cabbage, and other fall bloomers. Add a pumpkin and cornstalks, and your fall decorations will be complete! $30

1146 Old White Horse Pike, Waterford, NJ 08089

Day at the Race's

October 7 | 11am-5pm

A FUN FAMILY EVENT WITH

Race Farm, 87 Belcher Rd., Blairstown

Apple Festival

September 23, 2018 | 9 AM - 2 PM

apple cider making, pies, cakes, jams, everything appleMusic, children's crafts, entertainment

2 W Main St, Ramsey, NJ 07446

Fall Festival

October weekends | 10:00 - 17:00

1139 Van Houten Ave., Clifton NJ 07013

Fall Festival

Weekends in October | 12:00-4:00

Live entertainment, hayrides, pony rides, face painting, games, pick-your-own pumpkins, crafts.

704 Lloyd Rd, Aberdeen, NJ 07747

Flashlight Friday in Corn Maze

Sept. 14, 21, & 28 and Oct. 5, & 12 | 6 pm - 10 pm

Go through corn maze at night using a flashlight.

1638 S. Springdale Rd. Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

Hopewell Harvest Fair

September 28, 2018 | 10am-4pm

A volunteer community event designed to provide a day of fun for families and friends of the Hopewell valley, featuring a farmer's market, community groups and vendors offering crafts, games, rides and food. Proceeds benefit local charities.

Hopewell Elementary School grounds, 35 Princeton Avenue, Hopewell, NJ 08525

Beekeeping Basics

Year round, Fri-Sun | 10am - 4pm

Basics of beekeeping with Q&A, visit of facility and honey tasting.

54 Rick Road, Milford, NJ 08848

Apple Day

September 15 & 16 | 10 AM - 5 PM

Over the years, Apple Day has become a local tradition. We are pleased to welcome many of the same families who return year after year because they so enjoy being part of life on a family farm, even for just one day. If you were fortunate enough to attend the first Apple Festival in 1976, you might have sampled fresh apple crisp baked by Gary’s mom, helped make our batter-dipped apple rings, and parked your car with assistance from the Mount relatives!

330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton

Mushroom Tasting Dinners

Varies throughout the year |

7 West Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ 08525

Harvest Opera Gala

Sunday, October 7 & 14 | 2pm

Held in our versatile Vintner’s Room, the Opera Gala at Tomasello Winery presents four times a year. These afternoon events are a thrilling matinée for the senses; featuring fine wines, elegantly prepared cuisine and thoughtfully selected operatic arias. For a sensory experience to savor, the music is complemented by a delicious four-course gourmet dinner prepared by our excellent Executive Chef, Jason Hall, who expertly pairs his creations with our award-winning wines.

225 N. White Horse Pike, Hammonton, NJ 08037

Fall Festival

Last weekend in September to Halloween | 10 am - 5 pm

Hayrides, corn maze, u-pick pumpkins, kids fun tent, petting zoo, apple cider donuts, pies and cow train.

47 Decker Pond Rd., Andover, NJ 07831

Wine Fest NJ

September 15 & 16 |

New Jersey’s most attended and longest continuously running wine & music festival is scheduled for another year of great wine, the best south Jersey bands, and unlimited selection of food trucks and dining options. Limited advanced tickets will be sold to this year’s event in order to control the crowds. There will be no tickets sold the day of the event this year. We listened to our customers and made the changes necessary to ensure WineFest is the most fun and most comfortable music festival in New Jersey!

1320 Old Indian Mills Road, Shamong, NJ

Flavors of Fall Wine and Cheese Reception

October (TBD) | Winetasting event to celebrate the year's harvest and its donations to the food pantries and food bank.

14 Allerton Road, Lebanon, NJ 08833

Harvest Festival Weekends

Saturdays & Sundays, September 22 - Halloween | 10 AM - 5 PM

519 Ridge Rd, Monmouth Junction

Festival in the Borough

September 22 | 11:00 am – 10:00 pm

Northwest New Jersey's largest music and street festival features 3 stages of music, vendors, children's activities, food, beer garden, and shopping. Music genres from acoustic to blues and rock; local, state and national acts. The event is FREE.

Washington Borough Farmers Market, 44 East Washington Ave, Washington

Food Writing & Photography Panel

September (check facebook page for event) | 10:00-12:00

Join us as we chat about the fascinating world of food writing and photography.  This lively panel discussion, now in its fifth year, brings together a wide mix of local and global writers.  New Jersey's peak produce season is the perfect backfrop for this well attended event.

West Windsor Farmers Market, 2 Vaughn Drive, West Windsor

Harvest Festival

Weekends in October | 10 AM - 6 PM

Corn maze, hayrides, apple picking, pumpkin slingshot, picnic and play area, food trucks and farm market.

Whitman's Farm, 1111 Mt. Kemble Ave., Morristown

William Heritage Wine Festival

September 22&23 | 12pm-5pm

William Heritage Winery, 480 Mullica Hill Road, Mullica Hill

Good Eats Food Truck Festival

September 16 | 11am-4pm

The Good Eats Food Truck Festival is a delicious event in South Jersey this season. Visit us at Willow Creek Farm & Winery in West Cape May for world cuisine, live music, fun for the kids and more. 6 trucks will line the winery’s terrace area with retail and craft vendors to provide the ultimate culinary experience. Willow Creek wines will be available for purchase inside the winery, kids can enjoy face painting and games, and guests over the age of 18 years old can enter our cornhole tournament, where the winners will receive cash prizes up to $250! In addition to all the fun, four lucky guests can join the local celebrity judges to select the winner of the Battle of Good Eats, where the food trucks will provide their best dishes to win the title. The event is FREE to enter all day from 11 AM-4 PM, with attractions moderately priced for all to enjoy.

Willow Creek Winery, 160-168 Stevens St, West Cape May