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Braehead Farm is open year round! We are open every day from 9am-6pm.

We have vegetables to either “pick your own” or to purchase in the market: Tomatoes are in transition with one crop going out and one coming in. We have yellow squash, zucchini, green beans, carrots, beets, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, canary melons, honeydew melons and cantaloupe and watermelons!

Peppers!…Bell, snacking, banana, jalapeno, habanero, chili, and Hungarian wax.

Norton grapes are ready to pick.

BERRY UPDATE: RASPBERRIES ARE AVAILABLE TO PICK YOUR OWN. Blackberries and blueberries are done for the season.

SUNFLOWERS AND Zinnias, Celosias, Salvia and Black-eyed Susans!

PLEASE check in with the market before heading to the fields.

Visit Braehead Farm year round! There are three parts to our farm:

1. Front Pick-Your-Own Fields. There is no admission fee, just pay for any fruits, veggies, or flowers that you pick. Currently available to pick or purchase in the market:
2. Farm Market and Bakery. The Market will begin to offer “Grab and Go” lunch items, such as salads, sandwiches, snacks, fruit, and drinks. You are always welcome to bring your own food. You can picnic beside the market or in the Family Playgrounds if you have paid admission.  We do have limited table spaces inside the market for lunch and ice cream. The Bakery offers, pies, loaf cakes, muffins, cookie, and more.
3. Behind the Farm Market is our Family Playgrounds. *Daily Play in The Family Playgrounds (where the animals are!) – no reservation needed. The daily admission is $6.00 per person, children and adults.  Age 2 and under are always free.  You pay this admission in the market when you arrive.  You can visit the farm animals, play in the hay barn, play equipment and picnic.  We also offer a Seasonal Pass for unlimited visits during the 6 month pass dates.  It is $28.00 per person, age 2 and under free.     Rental Barns for parties and events! Go to our party page!  Parties! – Braehead Farm : Braehead Farm

Let us do the baking for you!  Call ahead to order your pies, cookies and cakes!

• Feel free to call the Market and pre-order for pies, cakes, muffins, cookies, dairy items, for a pickup!  Let us make that special occasion dinner dessert PIE or sliceable LOAF CAKE for you!  Call the Braehead Market at 540-899-9848
• PIES: Apple, Dutch Apple, Caramel Apple Nut, Blackberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Coconut Custard, Peach, Fruits of the Forest, Strawberry Rhubarb.  Seasonal pies: Raspberry, Pecan, Pumpkin, and Sweet Potato.
  • SLICEABLE LOAF CAKES: Apple Caramel, Blueberry, Cinnamon Burst, Banana Chocolate Chip, Banana Nut, Cranberry Orange Nut, Lemon, Zucchini Nut, Pumpkin, Triple Berry.
• COOKIES: Double Chocolate Chunk, Chocolate Chip, Sugar Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin, snickerdoodle. Big cookies 4.5 oz: M&M and Apple Caramel Crisp Cookie Seasonal: Gingerbread men…get them by the six pack or singles!
• MUFFINS: Chocolate Chip, Double Chocolate, Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Blueberry, Banana Nut, Peach, Red Velvet.

*****FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS!*****

WHEN: Every Saturday & Sunday for 5 WEEKENDS beginning SATURDAY, September 26th THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25th from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.  We are open Monday, October 12th, for a regular farm day! No festival on October 12th. Braehead Farm is open every day from 9am to 6pm.

PICK-YOUR-OWN front fields – no admission fee to enter this area. You pay for anything you pick. Flowers, Sunflowers, Vegetables and Raspberries, and of course, PUMPKINS! Pumpkins are .90 cents per pound. Check in with the front informational tent or a cashier for field directions or help with pricing. Or you can purchase PRE-PICKED pumpkins and gourds. Shop in the market and stay for lunch and ice cream!

COST:  Pay upon arrival. No pre-purchase tickets needed.

Family Playgrounds Admission fee – See a Market cashier or any outside cashier for a WRISTBAND for entrance to the Family Playgrounds. Play on the grounds or in the hay barn, picnic and see the animals. It is always, year round – $6.00 per person (children and adults), age 2 and under free (plus tax).

Add on The Fall Festival Event to the Family Playgrounds fee – for an additional $9.00 per person (children and adults), age 2 and under free, for a total of $15.00 per person (plus tax), you can get a WRISTBAND to enter the Fall Festival area of the farm. Pumpkins sold separately at .90 cents per pound.

PAY IN THE MARKET or at ONE OF OUR OUTDOOR REGISTERS, get your WRISTBAND to wear in the Family Playgrounds and Fall Festival and join us for:   

• Hayrides around the farm and through the decorated forest!
• A corn maze!
• A scavenger hunt game through the corn maze to find out who stole the farmer’s pies!  So much fun!  Also, educational info along the way!
• Stroll along the Sunflower walk!
• PHOTO OPS!  Bring your cameras for these photo ops!  Be sure to visit the Great Pumpkin for a photo op in the pumpkin patch and more!`
• Play and picnic in the “Family Playgrounds” with the hay barn, corn pit, swings, sand piles, slides, visit the many farm animals and more!
• We have pumpkin patches around the farm where you can pick the perfect color and size pumpkin!  ALL PUMPKINS ARE SOLD AT .90 CENTS A POUND! PUMPKINS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE FALL FESTIVAL TICKET PRICE.
• Visit the Braehead Farm Market for concessions such as dairy fresh hand dipped ice cream and milkshakes, kettle korn,  fresh apple cider, whoopie pies, cotton candy, popcorn, and more!
• Braehead Farm lunch items include our delicious deli sandwiches for offer in our market and our rear concessions stand; turkey and cheese, ham and cheese, and chicken salad sandwiches or cold plate.
• Braehead Farm will also have a different food truck vendor attending each day to offer more variety! Also, we welcome this year, SOFTLY SWEETS dessert truck!
• Shop in the Braehead Market and Bakery for already picked pumpkins, fresh apples and cider, jams, sauces, local honey, dairy fresh ice cream, milk, Braehead Farm Angus Beef cuts, Pork cuts, fresh baked pies and cakes and so much more!
• There is never an admission in the front “pick-your-own fields”, you just pay for what you pick!  We will have lots of pumpkins, squashes, gourds, flowers, sunflowers to pick!  Grab a wagon and pick, then roll it into the market to purchase or you can check out at one of the outdoor checkouts!  You can also join in the Fall Festival in the back of the farm.  Just purchase your wristband at an outdoor or indoor checkout.

*Weekday Fun! The Family Playgrounds is $6.00 per person, age 2 and under free (no festival/no hayrides during the weekdays.)

During the weekdays at Braehead Farm we are Open Daily from 9-6.  Activities during the week, including the October 13th holiday are…

• Play in the “Family Playgrounds”!  $6.00 per Person, age 2 and under free!  Farm animals, hay barn, tree house, sand piles, swings and more!  Enjoy many of the Braehead Farm lunch items and picnic!  (The Fall Festival Area is closed during the weekdays.)  Visit our front “Pick-Your-Own” fields for the perfect pumpkin (no admission) pumpkins are sold at .90 cents a pound.    Pick Sunflowers!
• Shop in the Braehead Farm Market where you can purchase a pumpkin already picked!   Enjoy an ice cream cone, popcorn, kettle Korn, fudge, apple butter, cookies, muffins and more!

Note: We do not operate hayrides during the weekdays for guests in the “Family Playgrounds”.  Hayrides during the weekday mornings are reserved and paid for by school groups. Hayrides for guests are on the weekends in the Fall Festival only.

A note for our weekday guests: We do have school groups that come during the week and pick pumpkins, tour the farm, get a reserved hayride and educational lessons.  The groups arrive between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM.  Their tours will be spread out around the farm for these lessons and take about two hours, and then they eat lunch.   We do limit the amount of children coming on a school group as to not overload the farm or a tour group.

 

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Contact Us

Phone: 540-899-9848
Fax: 540-899-9847
Email: info@braeheadfarm.com
1130 Tyler Street
Fredericksburg, VA22401
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