Terhune Orchards is set to welcome autumn with two days of fun for the whole family at the Apple Festival.
The 38th annual festival is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 13 and 14. Fall festival weekends continue for seven more weekends until early November.
Visitors can pick fresh apples from the farm’s dwarf trees, take a tractor-drawn wagon ride, enjoy live music Saturday and Sunday from the Daisy Jug Band, visit the adventure barn, walk the farm trail and taste farm fresh snacks and homemade lunch.
Activities for kids include face painting, pumpkin painting, pony rides and a popular cornstalk maze. This year’s theme for the adventure barn is the Four Seasons at Terhune Orchards.
Pam’s food tent will be roasting a pig for pork sandwiches. The menu also features barbecued chicken, hot dogs, coleslaw, homemade salads and soup.
The food tent also includes apple dishes like apple pies, apple muffins, apple bread, cider doughnuts and applesauce and apple cider.
Adults 21 and over can stop in at the vineyard and winery tasting room in Terhune’s 150-year-old barn and sample our award-winning wines, including apple wine.
Fall festivals continue Saturdays and Sundays beginning the weekend of Sept. 20 and ending Nov. 2. Festivals feature live music, pumpkin picking, pony rides, face painting, wagon rides, the corn stalk maze, adventure barn and festival foods to eat.
The full music line-up for the fall festival season follows:
Sept. 13 and 14: Daisy Jug Band
Sept. 20: Larry Tritel Trio
Sept. 21: Kevin Prater Band
Sept. 27: Barncats
Sept. 28: Tom & Jerry Band
Oct.4: Borderline
Oct. 5: Riverside
Oct. 11: Jersey Corn Pickers
Oct. 12: Thomas Wesley Stern
Oct. 13: Jay Smarr
Oct. 18: Heavy Traffic Blues Grass Band
Oct. 19: Mark Miklos Raritan Valley Ramblers
Oct. 25: Magnolia Street String Band
Oct. 26: Jimmy Lee Ramblers
Nov. 1: Ed Wilson
Nov. 2: Mountain Heritage
There is no admission to the farm store, winery tasting room and Van Kirk pick-your-own orchard. Admission to the festival area is $5. Children under three receive free admission.
There is no admission to the farm on weekdays.
Terhune Orchards is located at 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence.
More information is online at terhuneorchards.com.
