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A CSA share at Ort Farms is a reserved piece of the harvest — not a mystery grocery box from somewhere else. You pay for the season. The farm plants and picks. On Thursday you come to Long Valley and take home vegetables (and some fruit) that were harvested that day. Ort Farms started the CSA in fall 2011 so neighbors could know the source of their food. The farm has been in Long Valley for generations and grows dozens of vegetable varieties for the market and for members. Ho

Some of the best hours on a working farm are not on a ticket. Kids run. Someone buys ice cream. A goat gets more attention than the grocery list. That is what the Community Area at Ort Farms is for. It is the free gathering place next to the market in Long Valley: wooden play structures, swings, farm animals, picnic tables, and enough grass to invent a game. You can come only for this, or you can land here after pick-your-own, a market run, or a Summer Saturday. During regula

The market is the everyday heart of Ort Farms. You can come for sweet corn and leave with a pie. You can come for milk and stay for a cone. A lot of Morris County weeks start or end at this counter. The building on Bartley Road is a year-round farm store — produce from the fields, bakery trays baked on site, local dairy and pantry goods, and ice cream made here. It works as a grocery stop. It also works as the last twenty minutes of a pick-your-own day. What is in season (and

Summer evenings have a particular kind of magic. The heat of the day softens. The light turns golden. And people start looking for places where they can gather, relax, and enjoy the season before it slips away. At Ort Farms, Summer Saturdays were created for exactly those evenings. What started as a simple idea has grown into a beloved weekly tradition for families, couples, groups of friends, and neighbors. People come for the live music, the food trucks, the homemade ice cr

There’s a particular feeling that arrives with the first cool mornings of fall. The air turns crisp. The light softens. And suddenly everyone starts talking about apples. At Ort Farms, apple season is one of the most anticipated times of the year — not just because of the fruit, but because of everything that comes with it. For many families, picking apples here has become a yearly tradition that spans generations. Grandparents who once brought their children now watch their

There’s a special kind of magic that happens when you step into a field of flowers with the sun on your face and a pair of clippers in your hand. The air smells sweet. Bees hum softly around you. And for a little while, the rest of the world fades away. That’s the feeling we want every visitor to experience when our U-Cut Wildflower Field opens at Ort Farms. We plant these fields every spring with more than just flowers in mind. We plant them so families can slow down, wander