Ardenwood Farms Harvest Festival

Been taking my kids and nephews and their friends here for years. I love the history behind this farm and how kids get engaged with old farm life activities and animals.The favorites here are the train ride , the corn maze and the pumpkin patch! I personally love the tour of the Ardenwood house. Takes you back in time!The parking is easy and the volunteers and staff had always been so nice, helpful and informative with the history!I highly recommend this Fremont historical treasure called the Ardenwood Harvest Festival!

So pretty I cant believe this gem was there this whole time! So much history and animals! Was very cool to take the train to the farm area where the goats, pigs, lambs, etc are. There's also a house you can tour (free, comes with the passage into the farm. We were talking about how cool a wedding would be if it took place here and someone was getting married! XDDefinitely coming back for that tour

Day was totally ruined by a very rude old woman running the line for the face painting. She was totally heartless and wouldn't let us in line despite it being 3:15 with only 7 kids in line. They finished face painting earlier than 4pm. Their sign says face painting 11-4. Will not come here again if this is how staff treated children. My daughter left in tears totally heartbroken.

I attended the 30th Annual Harvest Festival (HF) at Ardenwood Farms with my 5-year-old on the opening Saturday. This HF is put on annually by East Bay Regional Parks District, but this was my first time attending. This is a really popular event with the locals, as the line to get into here never seemed to let up. Unlike other HF I've attended this one actually had a lot of Farm-related activities and had a more country feel to it. Unfortunately, we didn't get to do everything because the "Boss" wanted to ride the train incessantly... I heard from another parent that the list of activities change from year-to-year, but here's a list of the this years:2015 ticket pricing: Adults $10, Seniors (62+) $8, Children (4-17) $6 and Kids (under 4) Free. They do sell the tickets online (https://apm.activecommunities.com/ebparks/Activity_Search) two months before the HF; I highly recommend buying your tickets ahead of time next year, so you can avoid the ridiculously long lines to get in. -Perry Farms Organic Pumpkin Patch (http://www.yelp.com/biz/j-e-perry-farms-fremont) located right outside Ardenwood. They're open earlier (9 a.m.) than the HF (10 a.m.), so if you come early --like I did-- you have something to fill the void.-Cider Pressing-Grain Milling demonstration where you can buy large sacks of the freshly milled Organic Cornmeal or Organic Corn Flour for $5/ea. I bought a sack of the Cornmeal, and can't wait to make some Polenta and Cornbread with it!-Patterson House Tours-Magic Shows-Ardenwood's usual menagerie of farm animals is there for viewing and the kid's enjoyment.-A Train that was shuttling between the Arden and Deer Park Stations. This was my son's favorite part (of course).-Various Arts and Crafts: Cornhusk Doll making, Cooking demos and Ice Cream making.-What's a HF without some harvesting? They have a ±5-acre field of Organic Indian Corn and Organic Popcorn planted and they ask us to help out doing the dirty work of harvesting and shucking the corn. Your reward for all that hard work is you get to keep three out of every four ears you harvest--not a bad deal!Unlike the Martial Cottle HF, I didn't feel like this one had as much stuff for the younger kids to do, but my son did enjoy riding the train back-and-forth several times and he really digs harvesting veggies from the garden. So, for those two activities alone they deserve a big thumbs up. We'll definitely be back next year. Now to go make some Polenta...

We had a ball!! It was baby girl's 1st festival and she loved it!! We loved it. One thing that really stood out to me were the bathrooms. To be out on a farm and festival the bathrooms were immaculate! I could not believe it!! But getting back to the festival... it was wonderful and we can't wait to go back next year for the tractor ride.

I love taking my daughter here. She loves the animals and the walk. The place very close to our place. So much greenery in middle of construction and development. Fee is affordable .

this year is my 2nd year pumpkin patch.last year's and this year's are pretty much the same.small maze, $1 entrance fee, a lot of pumpkins, some boards to take pictures with, the "pumpkin" house, the large stair hay and of course the other pumpkins and treats to buy.Its pretty basic. got a lot of pumpkin to choose from.pumpkin prices are pretty good.maybe they should have a good truck or more pumpkin food or drink to sell to make it different?

We go here all the time. From the Harvest festival, to the pumpkin patch... something is always happening. This is also a great place for family pictures.

Paid $10 to get in. All the workers were friendly! Large farm, but not much to do. I thought they'd have a playground here like Emma Prusch Farm Park in San Jose, but I was wrong! This farm is more suitable for pumpkin patches, Halloween corn mazes, etc.

We came for the pumpkin patch with a large group. There's not much to do and they charge to get in. I won't be coming back.