Summer – the amazing time of year when fresh fruits and vegetables are bountiful! It’s easy to eat healthy when nutrient-packed vegetables, such as juicy tomatoes and cucumbers, are fully stocked in the Terhune Orchards farm store. Our crisp crops are picked daily and compliment every homemade meal. Choose green and yellow zucchini to sauté with olive oil and garlic. Or stay healthy with a salad made with our organic lettuces and mixed greens. Kirby cucumbers are the most common variety for pickling recipes, but their crunchy mild flavor is also great for gazpacho. Visit farm store or online store to browse the bushels overflowing with colorful, just-picked fruits, vegetables and herbs. Available Terhune-grown fruits, veggies and herbs include: Apples Cabbage, red & green Carrots Cucumbers – slicing, kirby Beets Blueberry Blackberry Broccoli Eggplant Ichiban eggplant Kale Lettuce Mixed greens Nectarines Peaches Peppers … [Read more...]
All of Your Thanksgiving Needs & Pies at Terhune Orchards
Get all of your Thanksgiving needs at Terhune Orchards From the appetizers to dessert course, Terhune Orchards has all the local, fresh and delicious trimmings for your holiday meals and entertaining. Make your family’s favorite side dishes with our hearty winter greens, Brussels sprouts, apples, winter squash, and more fresh from our fields and orchards. Our fresh cranberry relish and cranberry salsa, apple sauce and apple salsa, tomato salsas and guacamole make great starters and farm fresh additions during all of your fall and winter entertaining. Our freshly pressed apple cider is excellent served hot or cold. Visit the recipe page for some of the Mount family’s favorite holiday side dish recipes including cider scalloped potatoes, turkey stuffing supreme with sausage and apples and butternut squash and apple soup. Everything you need to make your Thanksgiving fresh, local and delicious can be found here at the farm. Terhune Orchards is taking orders for Thanksgiving pies. We … [Read more...]
Apple Days Harvest Festivals Sept. 15 – Oct. 28
For over 40 seasons, Terhune Orchards has held festivals to celebrate our abundant apple harvest. Over the years as our family continues to grow, we also have planted new varieties in the apple orchards. Our enthusiasm for everything apples continues to grow bigger and stronger! Join us on any or all weekends, from September 15 through October 28 to experience the joy of fall on our farm for Apple Days Harvest Festivals, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. During these seven fall weekends, a full day of fun on the farm awaits the entire family. Enjoy the view of trees laden with red, golden and green apples during a tractor-pulled wagon ride around our preserved farmland. Explore our corn stalk maze. Sit a while and listen to some good old-fashioned country music. Inhale the aroma of fragrant apple pies wafting in from our bakery. Warm up with a cup of our freshly pressed apple cider and famous donuts. Stroll on the Farm Trail to get up close and personal with nature. … [Read more...]
Back-to-School Season Means Tons of Apple Fun at Terhune Orchards
What says “back-to-school” better than an apple? Pack a fresh apple in your child’s lunchbox to start the school year right. Visit Terhune Orchards for a wide variety of crisp, fall apples. Pick Your Own Apples is open every day starting August 31, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting. All of the trees in our Pick-Your-Own orchard are dwarf varieties, so even the littlest visitors can easily pick from them. Thirteen varieties of apples are available for picking throughout the season. Early season varieties are Gala and Honeycrisp. Call the farm store at (609) 924-2310 to find out which varieties are available on the day you plan to visit. Pick-your-own apples are sold by the pound. There is no admission fee. Apples are the perfect lunchbox or afterschool snack. A medium apple has approximately 95 calories, is fat-, sodium- and cholesterol-free, and is an excellent source of fiber. Make homemade applesauce for a treat your children will enjoy—without the unnecessary … [Read more...]
Celebrate Love with Wine & Chocolate Weekends and Cherry Pie Sale at Terhune Orchards
Celebrate Love for Wine & Chocolate During February Weekends at Terhune Orchards This February Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery will celebrate two things most people love – wine and chocolate. We join other wineries across the state for the Garden State Wine Growers Association’s weekends of wine and chocolate – Feb 8 & 9 and Feb 15 & 16 from 12-5 p.m. Bring your favorite wine and chocolate lovers to sample our award winning wines. For both weekends, we are collaborating with Pierre’s Chocolates of New Hope, a local artisan chocolate maker specializing in old world Swiss recipes with a modern twist. We will pair their exceptional chocolates with wines from Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery. These special tasting weekends will include a tasting of five Terhune Orchards wines paired with a selection of Pierre’s chocolates and a souvenir glass for $20. Enjoy our 16 wine varieties including red, white and fruit-based wines by the glass or as a tasting … [Read more...]
Celebrate the Holidays — All You Need at Terhune Orchards
Pies, Fresh Produce, Gift Baskets, Cookies and Wines: For your holiday meal & everyone on your list! Celebrate the holidays with us. From the appetizers to dessert course, Terhune Orchards has all the local, fresh and delicious trimmings for your holiday meals and entertaining. Make your family’s favorite side dishes with our hearty winter greens, apples, winter squash - fresh from our fields and orchards. Serve our freshly pressed apple cider chilled or hot. Our selection of red, white and fruit-based wines will delight any palate. Terhune’s bakery is busy making more than a dozen seasonal favorites that are perfect for gift-giving, family gatherings, and holiday dinners. Our signature apple crisp, apple blueberry and apple cranberry crisp are family favorites. Terhune Orchards bakery freshly bakes over twenty kinds of pies and apple crisps during the holiday season. Choose from pumpkin, apple, pecan, coconut custard, blueberry, strawberry rhubarb and many more … [Read more...]
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Those Near & Far from Terhune Orchards
This February, Terhune Orchards celebrates Valentine’s Day with ways to share love and treats with your family, friends, and special someone – near and far. Give a little something to say "I love you" from Terhune Orchards. Our Valentine’s Day gift box and Sweet Treat Valentine’s Basket are hand packed and filled with delights that are sure to brighten the day of your special someone. Fresh from our own bakery, homemade chocolate chocolate chip cookies, fudge brownie, fruit bread and specially decorated heart sugar cookies. For your sweet, chocolate pretzels, hot chocolate, local chocolates and Lindt chocolates. Our crunchy apples and strawberry preserves are sure favorites. Gift boxes can be shipped nationwide and gift baskets can be delivered locally or picked up in-store. Children will love our special Valentine’s cookie decorating kits. Filled with our homemade sugar cookies, frostings, and candies – this fun Do-It-Yourself kit is a sure hit. For wine lovers, … [Read more...]
Come Celebrate Apples at Terhune Orchards’ Apple Days Harvest Festival on September 14 and 15
We’re kicking off seven weeks of Apple Days Harvest Festivals on September 14, and we invite you to join us! At Terhune Orchards, we love apples—and we celebrate them with the community in the fall. Visit our farm on September 14 or 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to enjoy all things apple and tons of old-fashioned fall fun. The theme of our September 14 and 15 festival is All About Apples. Come pick your own apples, snack on apples and make apple crafts. Enjoy a tractor-pulled wagon ride around our preserved farmland and listen to live music from Daisy Jug Band (on Saturday) and Jimmie Lee (on Sunday). Enjoy the challenge of our hay bale and corn mazes and take a relaxing, nature-filled walk on our Farm Trail. Visit our Pick-Your-Own pumpkin patch to find pumpkins in all sizes to bring home to display or decorate. Our festival is the perfect venue for electronics-free family fun! Children will enjoy scavenger hunts, pumpkin painting, pony rides, rubber duck races, face … [Read more...]
Farm Camp at Terhune Orchards
Terhune Orchards offers two summer camp programs for children ages 7-12. Experience life on the farm and become a farmer for the week. Activities blend learning, doing and of course fun! Campers will explore the Children’s Garden, orchards and barnyard here on our family farm. They will harvest and eat their own “Jersey Fresh” snacks from fruits and vegetables they pick. There is nothing like eating what you grow! Terhune Camps are certified by the State of New Jersey Youth Camp Standards. Camp sessions meet from 9 a.m. - 3:30pm. Register early. Space is limited. For additional details or questions, call the Farm Store at 609-924-2310 or visit https://terhuneorchards.com/summer-camp/ Farm Camp These one-week sessions focus on how the farmer and nature work together to grow healthy crops. This hands-on program includes a variety of activities, games, crafts that will teach the campers about farm life. The children will visit Terhune Orchards’ fields to pick fruits and vegetables … [Read more...]
Farm to Table Dinner, July 19
Terhune Orchards is thrilled to once again be hosting the seventh annual Farm to Table fundraiser dinner on the farm from 5-9 p.m. on Thursday July 19. People always enjoy an evening under the stars enjoying locally grown produce showcased by talented area chefs. The dinner is a benefit for the Mercer County Sustainability Coalition. For the fifth year, Terhune Orchards is collaborating with chef’s from The Terra Momo Restaurant Group.. The well known Princeton area restaurateurs are committed to raising awareness for sustainability in the region. “At the core of our culinary philosophy is a deep appreciation for a “taste of place”. All to say, we believe that food should speak eloquently of its provenance — its soil, its climate and the people who nurture it.” “Terhune Orchards is a very sustainable farm. We have worked for many years with town governments in Mercer County and throughout New Jersey on promoting a more sustainable future for our state,” said Pam Mount. “Locally … [Read more...]
