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Hi there! My Name is Erin and I'm so glad you're here. You can learn more about our family's journey with the farm here!


Sunflower Field 2023!

The Sunflower Field at Jersey Acres is open for U-Pick and the Sunflower Festival is Coming Soon on 9.23.23! We are excited to welcome the community to the Sunflower Field at Jersey Acres Farm! If you are looking to bring home something beautiful, something fun for your family or a beautiful way to spend a…

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11 Types of Sunflowers Planted at Jersey Acres

We planted 11 different types of sunflowers this summer at the farm! The first 8 types we planted are from Eden Brothers. We hope this wide variety will create a beautiful field for the community to experience and bring home their own blooms to enjoy. The days to maturity for these 8 sunflowers ranges from…

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Planting Over 400,000 Sunflower Seeds

Putting this many seeds in the ground was a project for us, and one of the most hopeful things my husband and I have ever done together. Sunflower Seeds We bought our seeds from two companies. We purchased around 30,000 seeds from Harris Seeds. We purchased three different pro-cut types that are one stem per…

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Raising Baby Chickens

Our second round of chickens hatched just a few weeks ago and they are growing by the day! This round we incubated 16 eggs, 10 hatched and 2 chicks unfortunately died of unclear reasons. So we currently have a young flock of 8 chicks; 3 Rhode Island red, 3 Barred Rock and 2 Blue Orpington…

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The Honeybees of 2023

Honeybees This spring a family friend who is a beekeeper agreed to work with our family and keep bees at Jersey Acres. This past week, 4 bee boxes arrived at the farm. These four yellow bee boxes are tucked in the back field near a water source and left to make honey this summer in…

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Trash to treasure, the new driveway at the farm!

Millings, millings and more millings. It’s funny being married to someone who is the opposite of myself, Mark will talk about things or come up with ideas I would have never thought of. The entire main road in front of the farm was being torn up a few weeks ago and re-paved. What do they…

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About Me

Hi, I’m Erin, wife to Mark and mom to daughter Riley and son Luke. We have two dogs, Hunter and Oliver and just bought a farm in South Jersey. I started writing here to chronicle the changes at the farm!

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