A 70-plus-year Burlington County family farm that's plain about it: no apple picking this year due to spring frost, with sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins offered instead.
Johnson’s Corner Farm has operated in Medford, in Burlington County, for more than 70 years, and it normally rotates through 13 apple varieties alongside a corn maze and hayrides. This year, its own website states the situation plainly: “Due to Spring frost, we will not have apple picking this year. Sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins will be ready for picking during our Fall harvest!” That’s a direct, first-party statement from the farm itself — not a third-party report or an inference — and it means anyone planning a trip here specifically to pick apples in 2026 should adjust their plans.
A directory that only lists orchards with fruit to pick this minute would miss something readers actually need to know: that a real, long-established, normally-reliable U-pick apple destination has nothing to offer for that particular crop this fall. Johnson’s Corner Farm is a genuine orchard in a typical year, and this record treats the 2026 closure as exactly what it is — a season-specific gap caused by spring frost, not evidence the farm has stopped doing pick-your-own apples for good.
The same page that announces the 2026 closure also describes, in more general language, a 13-variety rotation that includes Early Fuji, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, and Pink Lady, along with pricing around $2.79 per pound. It’s important to be precise about what that information represents: it’s the farm’s own description of what’s available “when available,” meaning in a normal season — not a claim about what’s growing on the trees this particular year. Treat those specifics as useful context for understanding what a future visit might look like, not as this year’s reality.
Instead of apples, the farm’s own site points visitors toward sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins for the 2026 fall harvest. The corn maze and hayrides are confirmed as ongoing activities regardless of the apple situation, and cider donuts remain on the confirmed activity list as well — so a fall visit to Johnson’s Corner Farm isn’t pointless, it’s just not going to include picking apples off a tree.
This is now the third orchard in this same New Jersey research batch — alongside Donaldson Farms in Hackettstown and Battleview Orchards in Freehold — to report no apple picking in 2026 specifically because of spring frost damage. That pattern lines up with a documented statewide agricultural emergency following an April cold snap, and it’s a meaningful signal for anyone planning a New Jersey apple-picking trip this fall: calling ahead to any orchard, even a long-established one, is a genuinely useful precaution this particular season.
Johnson’s Corner Farm is at 133 Church Rd in Medford, in Burlington County’s South Jersey region. The coordinates on file are Medford town-center estimates rather than a geocode of the Church Road address.
Johnson’s Corner Farm is upfront on its own site that 2026 is not an apple-picking year here because of spring frost, offering sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins instead alongside its usual corn maze and hayrides. It’s a real, established orchard worth revisiting for 2027, but this fall it belongs on the list of New Jersey farms sitting out apple season rather than the list of places to plan an apple trip around.
Not applicable for apple picking in 2026. The farm's own site redirects fall visitors to sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins instead.
You're specifically after apple picking in 2026 — the farm's own site states plainly this isn't happening this year because of spring frost.
No. The farm's own site states: 'Due to Spring frost, we will not have apple picking this year. Sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins will be ready for picking during our Fall harvest!'
Early Fuji, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, and Pink Lady are named in the record, described on the farm's own site as what's typically available 'when available' in a normal year — not this year's actual crop.
The farm's site describes $2.79/lb as typical pricing, again framed as a normal-year figure rather than something applicable in 2026.
The farm's own site points visitors toward sweet potatoes, popcorn, and pumpkins for the 2026 fall harvest, alongside confirmed activities including a corn maze and hayrides.
Yes, cider donuts are confirmed in the record, independent of the apple-picking situation.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
The orchard hadn't stated this clearly when we last checked — confirm before driving out.
Early Fuji, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Pink Lady — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
133 Church Rd, Medford, NJ 08055, in Burlington County. It is one of 3 orchards we track in South Jersey.
We track 3 orchards in South Jersey, 2 of which let you pick your own apples. The orchard has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 1 of the 3 orchards we track in South Jersey had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There is 1 other orchard we track in Burlington County. All South Jersey orchards →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
johnsonsfarm.com
Checked September 2026.