Alstede Farms to Host Jersey Fresh Food Festival Aug. 22-23

It will be a weekend to not only pick your own fresh vegetables and fruits but a time to enjoy freshly prepared food samples made with local and homegrown Jersey Fresh Produce as Alstede Farms hosts the Jersey Fresh Food Festival on Saturday and Sunday, August 22-23.

Samples will be served between 12 noon and 4 pm in the Alstede Farms Festival Tent. We will be serving Jersey Fresh culinary samples made with local homegrown fruits and vegetables. The recipes will give you new ideas how to use local homegrown fruits and vegetables in making fabulous summer dishes. The festival will also feature The Black Forest Inn Restaurant. a local authentic German restaurant as their chefs will present dishes made with our own homegrown zucchini, corn, tomatoes and peppers. Before or after enjoying these food samples, you can pick your own crops from the Alstede Farms fields or purchase the same in Alstede’s farm store to recreate these recipes at home.

Crops available right now for pick your own include: blackberries; raspberries; peaches (yellow Freestone); sweet corn; peppers (Jalapeno, Long Hot, Habanero, Cherry Bomb, Sweet: Bell; green white & purple, Cheese, Poblano, Italian Roasting); eggplant; and tomatoes. In addition, pick your own apples is now open with late summer varieties such as Redfree, Zestar, and Gingergold. The Alstede Farms sunflower maze will be closing this week being replaced by the opening and early sneak preview of our corn maze featuring dinosaurs!

“There is nothing like Jersey Fresh produce and we look forward to giving visitors to our farm a full experience of New Jersey by not only having them pick their own in our fields but by sampling delicious dishes made with them ,” said Kurt Alstede, owner of Alstede Farms.

Alstede Farms opens at 9 am seven days a week. Visitors can shop the Alstede Farms Farm Store which features a wide variety of seasonal local fresh produce grown on the farm, over 250 homemade products including fudge, ice cream, syrups, honey and salsas and the Tomasello Winery retail wine store.

Call (908) 879-7189 prior to visiting for up to date availability and pricing.