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FARMS IN THE U.S.

Visit a farm with your family this Fall (or any other time of year) and enjoy a great experience! Take a look at our guide to the best farms in the country.

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Missouri

Sunshine Valley Farm, Rogersville, (417) 753-2698

This farm is known for berries, peaches, and 20 kinds of apples. Best time to go: June through August.

Weston Red Barn Farm, Weston, (816) 386-5437

This farm is known for apple and peach orchards, a pumpkin patch, horses, foals and baby chicks, bonfire nights, and hayrides in lush countryside. Best time to go: April to November.

Montana

Ferry Creek Ranch, Livingston, (406) 222-4835

This farm is known for learning about cattle raising at a 560-acre, family-run organic ranch on the Yellowstone River; visiting the ranch's historic buildings. Best time to go: Year-round. Accomodations: The Granary, a two-bedroom cottage, sleeps six for $75 to $125 a night, with a three-night minimum.

Home Acres Orchard, Stevensville, (406) 777-2831

This farm is known for 18 types of apples, 9 types of pears, and ripe stone fruit. Best time to go: Early summer through late fall.

Nebraska

Branched Oak Farm, Raymond, (402) 783-2124

This farm is known for camembert, mozzarella, cheese curds, and quark (a European yogurt cheese). Best time to go: Year-round.

Wenninghoff's Farm, Omaha, (402) 571-2057

This farm is known for sweet corn and tomatoes, plus hayrides on the 1928 farm. Best time to go: July through October.

Nevada

Gilcrease Orchard, Las Vegas, (702) 409-0655

This farm is known for more than 6,000 apple, pear, and peach trees, plus fresh apple cider. Best time to go: Summer through fall.

Lattin Farms, Fallon, (866) 638-6293

This farm is known for cantaloupes, feeding farm animals, and hayrides. Best time to go: August through October.

New Hampshire

Brookford Farm, Rollinsford, (603) 742-4084

This farm is known for organic dairy products, poultry, and root vegetables. Best time to go: Year-round.

Rockhouse Mountain Farm Inn, Eaton Center, (603) 447-2880

This farm is known for collecting breakfast in the chicken house, milking cows. Best time to go: Year-round. Accomodations: Simple rooms in a historic farmhouse from $104 to $120 a night.

New Jersey

Bobolink Dairy, Vernon, (973) 764-4888

This farm is known for artisanal cheese and bread, sheep, and pigs. Best time to go: Year-round.

Kimball's Farm, Belvidere, (908) 475-4473

This farm is known for herbs, vegetables, and petting goats. Best time to go: June through October.

Terhune Orchards, Princeton, NJ (609) 924-2310

Check out the free Family Fun Weekends, through October 24, 2010. Families can enjoy a corn maze, go on wagon and pony rides, meet farm animals, and visit the Adventure Barn. And, of course, pick plenty of apples and pumpkins.

New Mexico

Los Poblanos Inn & Cultural Center, Albuquerque, (505) 681-4060

This farm is known for lavender fields, vegetables, peacocks, and chickens. Best time to go: Year-round. Accomodations: From $135 a night for a room to $250 for a guest house.

Sutherland Farms, Aztec, (505) 334-3578

This farm is known for sweet corn, new potatoes, okra, and "calabacitas" (baby squash). Best time to go: July through October.

New York

Albert H. Schmitt Family Farms, Dix Hills, NY (631) 549-1159

Albert H. Schmitt Family Farms has been a family farm for many decades. For the Fall, and in time for Halloween, they offer a pumpkin patch, a free hayride, an indoor haunted maze, apple cider and candy apples.

Colonial Springs Farm, Dix Hills, NY (631) 643-4829

Family owned and operated since 1985, Colonial Springs Farm is a 34 acre farm that offers a playland area, pony rides, a big corn maze, hay rides, and a great pumpkin patch for the family to enjoy. For added fun, they have Radio Flyer wagons for visitors to roll throughout the farm.

Country Fair Entertainment Park, Medford, NY (631) 732-0579

This park offers a pumpkin patch, tractor-pulled hay rides, a haunted trail, snacks and refreshment stand, restrooms, picnic area, face painting, and a bouncy castle. Great for birthday parties.

Decker Farm, Staten Island, NY (718) 351-1611 extension 281

Decker Farm opens every Saturday and Sunday in October from 11 am to 4 pm. This is New York�s oldest continually farmed site. It offers a self-guided tour, hay-rides, refreshments, children�s crafts and pumpkins available for purchase.

Finks Country Farm, Wading River, NY (631)886-2272

At the Finks Country Farm (one of the most family-friendly farms), you can pick-your-own pumpkins, go on hayrides, run through a 7-acre corn maze, and enjoy kiddy train rides.

Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent, (518) 672-7500

This farm is known for discovering how an organic and biodynamic farm and dairy works; visiting the pigs, cows, chickens, goats, and market garden. Farm tours available, plus an apprentice program for kids 8 and up. Best time to go: Year-round, by appointment.

Hurds Family Farm, Modena, NY (845) 883-7825

The Hurds Family Farm offers a Kids Corral area, where kids can ride tykes, meet and feed farm animals, and enjoy a giant slide. In addition to the amazing corn maze, this farm offers an apple launcher, a cornstalk teepee, a cow-train ride and an amazing pumking patch.

Masker Orchards, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1058

This 200-acre homestead, which in 1971 was the first in New York to switch to an all pick-your-own farm, is the largest farm in Orange Country. Throughout the Fall, families can drive up to the apple tree of their choice, buy pumpkins brought in from other local patches, enjoy barnyard zoo and pony rides

Queens County Farm Museum, Floral Park, (718) 347-3276

This farm has a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and on certain dates offers hayrides, a haunted house, and trick-or-treating.

White Post Farms, Melville, (613) 351-9373.

Enjoy a full day of activities for the whole family: Pick your own pumpkin in a field of thousands; enjoy a hayride, pony ride or train ride; hand feed farm animals, and enjoy lunch in the family picnic areas. Kids will especially enjoy the extensive playground.

Wickham's Fruit Farm, Cutchogue, (631) 734-6441

This farm is known for golden plums, green grapes, berries, and homemade fruit pies. Best time to go: May through December.

North Carolina

Asheville Farm, Leicester, (828) 515-0177

This farm is known for Icelandic sheep, goats, guinea fowl, and an orchard of apples and stone fruit. Best time to go: Year-round.

Celebrity Dairy, Siler City, (877) 742-5176

This farm is known for Award-winning goat cheese. Watch goats (from a herd of 100) being milked, and see how cheese is made on a working dairy farm. Best time to go: Year-round. Accomodations: Rooms, including breakfast, from $70 to $130 a night. Sunday dinners attract locals.

North Dakota

Gardendwellers Farm, Churchs Ferry, (701) 351-2520

This farm is known for basil, cilantro, and oregano at North Dakota?s largest herb farm. Best time to go: July through September.

Patrie's Raspberries on the Prairie, Bowdon, (701) 962-3355

This farm is known for raspberries. Best time to go: Mid-July to September.

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