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Without any long lines, we took full advantage of them to capture some stunning pictures of ourselves on the swings, in the bathtubs, in front of the little Volkswagen Bug, on the massive chair, and alongside the colorful doors that are scattered around.Īt the entrance they have a Lemonade and Kettle Corn Stand, plus cute little animals to pet or look at if you come with little kids.Įverything is streamlined, super - organized, clean and pretty. This year, we came on a weekday morning when there were very few people there, and so the props were ours for the picking. They seem to be getting better each year. This year they outdid themselves with the very large zinnia and Sunflower fields with the props and photo-ops (with cute sayings on them) that serve as the main attraction for some amazing pictures. They have cultivated Mother Nature in all her beauty – Lavender Patches in late- spring, Zinnias, Sunflowers, Blueberries and Raspberries in summer, and Pumpkins and Corn Mazes in fall. We have come in different seasons, and have been amazed every time.
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We have been coming to this wonderful farm for several years now. They do have concession stands serving food and drink on premise No outside food, pets or smoking is allowed. We arrived at 2:20pm on a Sunday and picked until about 4 pm. Hours for the farm are from Wednesday to Sunday 8 am to 3pm. So the five of us paid over $100 to collect 3 sunflowers and 1.5 lbs of blueberries over a period of 2 hours. We chose the ½ lb and 1 lb containers for $3 and $6.
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For the blueberries they give you a choice of 3 different sized plastic containers from $3 to $12 to fill up. They also offer sell containers to carry your flower stems in for an additional fee. In addition you pay $2.50 per sunflower stem and/or two for $1 for zinna stems. The price for sunflower picking is $15 per person, zinnia picking is $10 per person and blueberries is $3 per person. You pay an additional fee for each flower stem you take and for the quantity of fruit you collect. You pay a fee to enter the fields to pick your choice of flowers and/or fruit. But we still have two good sunflowers, over a pound of freshly picked blueberries and great family photos of our visit.Ī visit to the Happy Day Farm is not cheap for what it offers. In hindsight we should have to brought a water container or cooler to keep them fresh for the trip home. We put them in water at home but we still lost one of the flowers. Unfortunately we stopped for dinner on our way home and left our sunflowers in a hot car. You pay for the blueberries based upon the size of the container you select. When you pay to pick blueberries the farm gives you a plastic container to place them in. The blueberries are small but they are sweet. The blueberries are located in a field that is surrounded by mesh on each side and overhead. It is best to plan ahead and bring your own sheers so you do not have to wait on a long line to borrow sheers from the farm as we did. You can borrow sheers from the farm but you will have give them $10 in exchange for the sheers which they will return to you when you give the sheers back. Sunflower stem are very thick and you will need cutting sheers. Our group cut three long sunflowers stems to take home. Beware when you approach one, there are bees in the field that do land on the sunflowers. Walking through the fields I was surprised by how high and heavy sunflowers are when you bump into them. The Farm has props set up in the midst of the field - like colored doors and a giant high chair – for you to pose surrounded by the field of flowers. It offered many good opportunities for family photos. But seeing so many of them with their large yellow petaled flowers and dark yellow/brown centers all facing in the same direction was an impressive and very pretty sight. They are not a very attractive flower to me. After a short tractor ride we found ourselves surrounded by a field of sunflowers. In fall they offer fall festival and pumpkin picking starting in Sept.) (Sunflower picking ends on Aug 18th but moves to their sister farm Arrowhead Farmstead after Aug 19th to Aug 29th. We visited the farm near the end of its sunflower, zinna and blueberry season and decided to collect just sunflowers and blueberries.
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Mid -August, the farm offers sunflower, zinna and blueberry picking, and free tractor rides to and from the fields. Happy Day Farms is a great family outing located near Highway 33 in Manalapan NJ.