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

We are open Monday, October 13th, for a regular farm day! No festival on October 13th. Open 9-6

WHEN: Every Saturday & Sunday for 5 WEEKENDS beginning SATURDAY, September 27th THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.  

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

The entrance fee to The Fall Harvest Festival and Family Playgrounds is $15.00 per PERSON (plus tax), for children and adults.  Children age 2 and under are free!   (Our everyday entrance fee to the Family Play-Grounds is always $6.00 per person.   The Fall Festival event is an additional $9.00 if wanting to attend, for a total of $15.00 for admission, plus tax.)  PUMPKINS SOLD SEPARATELY at .75 cents per pound. **2025 Fall/Winter Season Passholders only pay the Fall Festival event fee of $9.00, since the Season Pass already gives access to the Family Playgrounds until February 28, 2026.

UPON ARRIVAL TO BRAEHEAD FARM ON FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS, YOU HAVE 3 OPTIONS!

1. 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 .75 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!
2. 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. $6.00 per person (children and adults), age 2 and under free (plus tax).
3. 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 .75 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!
• Pumpkins are sold separately at .75 cents per pound. (Pumpkins not included in the Fall Festival price.) 
• We have pumpkin patches where you can pick the perfect color and size pumpkin!  ALL PUMPKINS ARE SOLD AT .75 CENTS A POUND!
• Visit the Braehead Farm Kitchen for Concessions such as Kettle Korn!   Fresh Apple Cider, dairy fresh ice cream cones including Pumpkin ice cream, candy apples, whoopie pies, cotton candy, pretzels, popcorn, apple cider and more!
• Braehead Farm Kitchen lunch items include our delicious Braehead Farm BBQ with your choice of one of our delicious BBQ sauces!  Hamburgers, hotdogs, salads, chicken salad, grilled chicken, and more!  Gluten Free items too!  You can bring your own lunch!
• Braehead Farm will also have a different food vendor attending each day to offer more variety!
• Shop in the Braehead Market and Bakery for already picked pumpkins, fresh apples and cider, jams, sauces, local honey, dairy fresh ice cream, milk, pork, 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 .75 cents a pound.    
• 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.

Current Produce Field information:

• Available to pick or purchase in the market: Okra, green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant, beets, carrots, hot peppers, bell peppers, sweetpeppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes. Also a variety of flowers and sunflowers!
• We are open rain or shine-NO RESERVATION NEEDED TO VISIT!  There is no admission fee to the front pick-your-own fields, just pay for what you pick! 

Let us do the baking for you!  Call ahead to order your pies 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: Pecan, Pumpkin, and Sweet Potato.
  • SLICEABLE LOAF CAKES: Apple Caramel, Blueberry, Cinnamon Burst, Banana Nut, Cranberry Orange Nut, Zucchini Nut, Pumpkin, Triple Berry, Peach Melba, Triple Berry Loaf and French Vanilla!
• COOKIES: Chocolate Chunk, Double Chocolate Chunk, Sugar Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin, Ginger Molasses, Smore’s, snickerdoodle, coconut pecan.  
• MUFFINS: Peach, Cranberry Orange Nut, Chocolate Chip, Double Chocolate with chips, Pumpkin, Blueberry, Banana Nut, Lemon Poppyseed, Red Velvet, Rum Butter.

*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 $25.00 per person, age 2 and under free.     

Rental Barns for parties and events! Go to our party page!  Parties! – Braehead Farm : Braehead Farm

The Braehead Farm Lunch Kitchen is open weekdays from 11am-3pm and weekends from 11am-4pm.  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. View our current menu:  Braehead Farm Lunch Kitchen | Braehead Farm

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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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Gather with friends for a farm roast! Here at Braehead Farm we have fire pits, with picnic tables under shade trees in the Family Playgrounds!  These fire pits and tables can be reserved for your special group!   Each fire pit and picnic table (table seats about 10 adults) area is $55.00 and includes the wood for the fire, our staff will get the fire going and will extinguish the fire when finished.   This firepit fee does not include our daily admission fee to the Family Playgrounds of $6.00 per person, age 2 and under free.  Also, during an event such as Fall Festival or the Santa Event, there is an event fee to enter into the event.

Available “Farm Roasting” times

9:30 AM – 12:15 Noon | 12:30 PM – 3:15 PM

3:30 PM – 6:15 in Spring/Summer/Fall

Check in at our Farm Market for your reserved pit area and head to your designated fire pit!

To reserve your space, call Braehead Farm at 540-899-9848.  A reservation with a $20.00 deposit is required to hold your date and time.

Braehead Farm is open YEAR ROUND! Shop, play and stay for lunch! 

Spring through early Fall hours are 9am-6pm. Winter hours are 9am-5pm

Our lunch kitchen is open year-round from 11-4 on weekends and 11-3 weekdays.  Call ahead for a pickup!  540-899-9848. Check out our Lunch menu page…click link…

Braehead Farm Lunch Kitchen | Braehead Farm

Located at 1130 Tyler Street, Fredericksburg, VA  22401.  540-899-9848

Stop into the market for all of your farm fresh items and local made gifts!

• Fresh seasonal produce!  See our CROPS page.    Crop Schedule – Braehead Farm
• White potatoes and sweet potatoes, and apples in the market.
• Beef and pork
• Homemade pot pies, chicken and beef
• Fresh Free range chicken eggs
• Dairy fresh milks, creams, ice cream, cheeses
• Jams, pickled items, sauces, ketchup, mustard, hot sauce, BBQ sauces, ciders, syrups
• Locally made peanut butters 
• We have fresh baked pies, cookies, muffins and loaf cakes! 
• Baking mixes, gourmet popcorns, and more
• Gluten free items

10lb FRESH slab of sliced Kunzler bacon.   Order by 12:00 Noon on Wednesdays for Thursday pickup.  Call the market for current pricing.  540-899-9848

Most of our produce that grows in our fields is also available in our market.  You can either “Pick-Your-Own” or purchase already picked in the Market! 

The Family Play-Ground is also open ($6.00 per person, age 2 and under free.  So come on down to pick, shop and play!  Picnic with your family! Check out the indoor glass beehive!  We also offer a Season Pass to the Family Playgrounds ($25.00 per person, age 2 and under free.)  Visit the animals, play in the playgrounds, the hay barn, picnic, play tether ball, volleyball, walk on the slack line, rope the steer heads, and more! 

CALL AHEAD FOR YOUR SPECIAL ORDER BAKERY  ITEMS OR STOP IN

• 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 PIE or sliceable LOAF CAKE for you!  Call the Braehead Market at 540-899-9848
• PIES: $19.99 each:  Apple, Dutch Apple, Caramel Apple Nut, Blackberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Peach,  Fruits of the Forest, Strawberry Rhubarb and Coconut Custard.  Seasonal pies: Pecan, Pumpkin, and Sweet Potato.
• LOAVES: $8.99 each: Apple Caramel, Blueberry, Cinnamon Burst, Cranberry Orange Nut, French Vanilla, Zucchini Nut, Pumpkin, Triple Berry, Banana chocolate chip, Banana Nut, Lemon, Peach Melba.
• COOKIES: Chocolate Chunk, Double Chocolate Chunk, Sugar Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin, and Ginger Molasses.
• MUFFINS: Peach, Cranberry Orange Nut, Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Apple, Double Chocolate with chips, Pumpkin, Blueberry, Banana Nut, Red Velvet, Rum Butter and corn muffin.

The Market accepts cash, local check with ID or credit card.  Be sure to see the OBSERVATION BEEHIVE!  It is a glass, working beehive.  It is sure to captivate the children while you shop!

 OPEN DAILY! SPRING, SUMMER AND EARLY FALL HOURS ARE 9AM-6PM starting on March 8, 2025.  OUR WINTER HOURS ARE 9AM-5PM STARTING ON NOVEMBER 2, 2025. 

Admission: The Family Playgrounds is a $6.00 (+tax) per person admission area of the farm. Age 2 and under are free.    This admission gives you unlimited hours of same day play during business hours and includes:

**PLEASE NOTE: DURING SPECIAL EVENTS BRAHEAD FARM MAY HAVE AN ADDITIONAL EVENT FEE TO GO INTO THE EVENT  IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE.  (Fall-Harvest Festival Weekends, December-Santa Clause Christmas Event)

• Play barn with rope swings
• “steer heads” to rope!
• Swings and slides!
• Sand piles with trucks and toys!
• A tree deck with slide!
• Corn pit!
• Trikes and push tractors for the little ones!
• slack line to walk across!
• FARM ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION!  Braehead Farm has many animals for you to see!  These animals are all rescues from various situations and have been brought to Braehead Farm to live!   Our farm animals include….chickens, cows, pigs, goats, alpacas, sheep, horses, donkeys, rabbits…and honey bees to watch in their visual hive!
• Picnic tables!  Bring your own picnic or enjoy our Braehead Farm Kitchen!  The Kitchen is open from 11am-4 pm weekends and weekdays 11am-2 pm .  Delicious BBQ, hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken salad and more.
• Fire pits with picnic tables to rent!
• Age 2 and under are free!
• The Family Playgrounds also offers two barns – “The Red Shed” and “The Block Shed”,  for hosting your own events and birthday parties.

Season Passes!  Enjoy unlimited, daily play in the Family Playgrounds during operating hours with a Season’s Pass.  A Seasonal Pass is $25.00 per person, age 2 and under free.   The Spring Summer Season Pass starts for use on February 19, 2024 and goes through Labor Day, September 2, 2024.  We then start our Fall Winter Season Pass from pre-sales starting on August 19, 2024 through February 2025. (6 months)  See cashier for details!

Note: Some special events will not be included in the pass or will have a  separate or additional fee, such as our Fall Festival and Santa Event.  Season Passes are non transferrable to other people and is non-refundable.  The pass does not include staff led farm educational field trips and tours.   They also are not for use of the barn rentals.  Barn rentals are a separate fee with counted wristbands.  The pass is for entry to the Family Playgrounds only and is not related to rental barns or field trips or special event fees.

FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS!

WHEN: Every Saturday & Sunday for 5 WEEKENDS beginning SATURDAY, September 27th THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.  

COST:  The entrance fee to The Fall Harvest Festival and Family Playgrounds is $15.00 per PERSON (plus tax), for children and adults.  Children age 2 and under are free!   (Our everyday entrance fee to the Family Play-Grounds is always $6.00 per person.   The Fall Festival event is an additional $9.00 if wanting to attend, for a total of $15.00 for admission, plus tax.)  PUMPKINS SOLD SEPARATELY at .75 cents per pound.

**2025 Fall/Winter Season Passholders only pay the Fall Festival event fee of $9.00, since the Season Pass already gives access to the Family Playgrounds until February 28, 2026.

UPON ARRIVAL TO BRAEHEAD FARM ON FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS, YOU HAVE 3 OPTIONS!

1. 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 .75 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!
2. Family Playgrounds Admission fee – See a Market cashier or any outside cashier for entrance to the Family Playgrounds. Play on the grounds or in the hay barn, picnic and see the animals. $6.00 per person (children and adults), age 2 and under free (plus tax).
3. 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).

PAY IN THE MARKET or at ONE OF OUR OUTDOOR REGISTERS, get your wristband for 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!
• Pumpkins are sold separately at .75 cents per pound. (Pumpkins not included in the Fall Festival price.) 
• We have pumpkin patches where you can pick the perfect color and size pumpkin!  ALL PUMPKINS ARE SOLD AT .75 CENTS A POUND!
• Visit the Braehead Farm Kitchen for Concessions such as Kettle Korn!   Fresh Apple Cider, dairy fresh ice cream cones including Pumpkin ice cream, candy apples, whoopie pies, cotton candy, pretzels, popcorn, apple cider and more!
• Braehead Farm Kitchen lunch items include our delicious Braehead Farm BBQ with your choice of one of our delicious BBQ sauces!  Hamburgers, hotdogs, salads, chicken salad, grilled chicken, and more!  Gluten Free items too!  You can bring your own lunch!
• Braehead Farm will also have a different food vendor attending each day to offer more variety!
• Shop in the Braehead Market and Bakery for already picked pumpkins, fresh apples and cider, jams, sauces, local honey, dairy fresh ice cream, milk, pork, 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 .75 cents a pound.    
• 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.

SANTA IS COMING TO BRAEHEAD FARM THE FIRST TWO WEEKENDS IN DECEMBER!  

DECEMBER  6, 7, 13, AND 14 2025.  Santa will be waiting in the Red Shed to visit with you! 

Santa will be in The Red Shed sitting in his BIG HAY CHAIR, waiting for you to visit him from 9:30 -12:30 and 1:30 – 4:30. No waiting in line! Go play until your number is shown on the screen!

Receive a special ticket from Santa! Make Snowman Soup with Santa’s helpers! Make a marshmallow snowman and roast marshmallows in the fire pits! Play in the Family Playgrounds and shop in the Market.

Open 9am-5pm

YEAR ROUND FARM FUN!

Braehead Farm is open daily from 9am-5pm in the Winter and 9am-6pm the rest of the year!