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2024

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FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS – Every weekend from September 28th through October 27th!  Five weekends of festival fun!  Weekday fun too!

Open Daily 9am-6pm! 

WEEKEND Fall Festivals and Weekday fun too!
We are open on the holiday October 14th, for regular everyday weekday fun (no festival this day…see below for details of weekday fun!)

Please join us at Braehead Farm for our favorite season of the year… FALL SEASON!

WE HAVE FREE ADMISSION AREAS – Open everyday 9am-6pm Braehead Farm’s “Pick-Your-Own” fields in the front of the Braehead Farm Market never have an admission fee.  Just pick your pumpkin, produce or flowers (SEE OUR “PICK YOUR OWN” PAGE FOR A LIST OF AVAILABLE BERRIES AND VEGGIES!)  and pay for it in the Market!  Pumpkins are sold for .75 cents a pound.  We will also have plenty of pumpkins in the Market for those who do not want to pick!  Pumpkins of all sizes, shapes, colors, gourds, squashes and colored squashes!  We have corn stalk bundles at $9.00 per bundle and straw bales at $9.00 a bale too.  We also offer a bulk pumpkin discount for our small pumpkins which are about the size of a large cantaloupe, at $2.00 per pumpkin and we pick them for you once you reserve them.   All other bulk pumpkin orders are PYO by the pound.

 AND ADMISSION AREAS

Behind the Market is the admission area where we have our “Family Play-Grounds”  which is open year round and is always $6.00 per person, age 2 and under free!

The Fall Festival Event on the weekends is an additional $9.00 to attend, age 2 and under free.  (Details below!)

There are pumpkin patches in the front “Pick-Your-Own” fields which has no admission fee (Just pay for what you pick)  and in the Fall Festival Field! ALL PUMPKINS ARE SOLD AT .75 CENTS PER POUND.   Bring your wagons or we have wagons too, that are first come-first serve.

FALL FESTIVAL WEEKENDS!

WHEN: Every Saturday & Sunday WEEKEND beginning SATURDAY, September 28th THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27th from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.  Open October 14th holiday for *weekday fun! (No festival this day.)

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 SEPERATELY at .75 cents per pound.

**2024 Fall/Winter Season Passholders only pay the Fall Festival event fee of $9.00, since the Season Pass gives access to the Family Playgrounds from August 19, 2024 through to February 28, 2025.

You can PAY AT 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 farmers 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 sized 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!  Delicious pie and ice cream!  Whoopie pies! Cotton candy, pretzels, popcorn 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!
  • 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! Family Playgrounds is $6.00 per person, 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 14th 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.    Visit our Pick-Your-Own section of our webpage for a listing of available berries and produce!
  • Shop in the Braehead Farm Market where you can purchase a pumpkin already picked!   Enjoy an ice cream cone, popcorn, pretzels, cookies, muffins and more!

Note: We do not run hayrides during the weekdays for guests in the “Family Playgrounds”.  Hayrides during the week 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!   The Braehead Farm Santa Event is always the first two weekends in December!  Visit with Santa in The Red Shed and make Snowman Soup with Santa’s helpers!  Make aAn old man wearing Santa Claus dress putting a gift marshmallow roasting stick and roast marshmallows over the many firepits!  Play in the Family Playgrounds and visit the animals!  Shop in the market and stay for hot chocolate and lunch.

Braehead Farm is open daily, year-round. Winter hours are 9am-5pm. Spring, Summer and Fall hours are 9am-6pm. The PYO fields do not have an admission fee to enter and are open daily to pick seasonal produce.

The Family Playgrounds is open every day!  Play, picnic and visiting the animals.  We have party barn rentals, picnic tables throughout and firepits!

Located at:  1130 Tyler Street, Fredericksburg, VA  22401

540-899-9848