Silverman's Farm — Attraction in Easton

(This review is from our visit in October 2017) This was our first time to Silverman's Farm, but it won't be the last. We were looking for something like the lovely experience we had last summer at Alstede Farm in New Jersey, but closer to our family in CT. Finding this farm in google maps, we came across a truly mixed bag of reviews, with negative ones claiming everything from this being a tourist trap to rude staff to overly expensive everything. We were pleasantly surprised to find the negatives disproven by a really lovely fall day spent outside.

Yes, you have to pay for the animal feeding part, but it was worth it for the large, well spaced, clean animal section. With bunnies, llamas, sheep, emu, goats from all around the world, and even buffalo, our daughter loved it! We were also pleased that despite the Native American section having tipis -Not the housing of northeast tribes - they included signs making clear that these are not dwellings typical of the northeast! They had cultural items from tribes across the country.

After feeding animals, our daughter played in the smallish playground area. If your child is 5yrs or older, it is probably not enough to entertain them. But our almost 4yr old liked the slides, maze, and Thomas the train. About 30yards away is also a Duck Derby where up to i think 6 or 7 kids pump water to race ducks down a pipe- we all liked that one. And with some maintenance to fix the one leaky pipe, and the one just plain broken, it would be perfect.

After the animals and kids play side, we crossed the street at the crossing guard, and our daughter jumped around in the Cereal Bowl - a large hay bale enclosure, maybe ten yards by 15yards, filled with dried corn kernels. She loved it, and it was like a giant sand box only we didn't have to brush sand out of her hair all night, just a few kernels of corn.

After the corn pit, we were all starving and forced to overpay for food, because all that was available were a few food trucks - hence the one missing star. $4.50 for a microscopic slice of pizza is insane - and we live in NYC, so we know overpriced pizza! The meatball sandwiches were a far better bang for your buck, but overall the food options left a lot to be desired.

We then went up to do some apple picking and it was all we could have hoped for And more! A lovely, bumpy tractor up to hillside orchards, encouragement to eat apples as we picked, and lots of other families, in a rainbow of diverse ethnicities and races, all wandering among the autumn trees. On our way out we picked up a pumpkin, you don't pick it from the field yourself, but that was ok.

We wish the train rides had been running for kids, but maybe next season. Over all we really enjoyed ourselves. Between the cost of the animals feeding part $16 (plus about $1.50 in corn to feed them), and the apples bag (for kids under 4, as ours is, you don't have to pay for them to pick) of $19, and the hefty cost of the so-so quality food trucks (about $15), it was NOT a cheap adventure. But considering you could spend most of the day there, bring packed food from home, and that the cost includes a crazy amount of yummy apples, we felt it...

My review is only for the animal farm and play area....We've been here probably 3 times in the last 4 years and today we took our great nephews (4 & 5) $7/per person, $5 for a bag of food to feed the animals (optional) we bought 2. They used to have the machines that you could put quarters in and get way more than handful of the feed for the animals. I wish they still had that because the only animals that wanted to be fed were the goats in the beginning, the rest of the animals throughout the petting zoo had no desire whatsoever for the food. It looks like people were just throwing it over the fences.. We had one lady give us a bag of food that they weren't going to finish and before we left, we gave away two bags. Would've been better with the machines and then you could just buy as you needed. Such a waste. In 4 years there doesn't seem to be much up-keep in the area of the farm and play area, aside from the addition of some tables and some sort of flower garden with arbors, mind you the plants growing on the arbors were dying or already dead and no maintenance or repairs done on the shelters....Nothing has changed. The boys had fun and they play area running around climbing sliding, etc. at all of Play things were the same as four years ago no fresh paint no upkeep..... Nothing has changed. The place has a lot of possibilities, the arbor garden could be absolutely beautiful.... and could use some freshening up, how about a fresh coat of paint on some of those playground structures and could you please bring back the machines...

Very disappointing experience! Brought my 5yo daughter and 2 nieces to pick our own apples Sept 19. There were literally NO apples left on the trees! We had to pay in advance, rather than by weight of apples picked as usual. There were a couple bins of apples put out, but these were terrible quality, bruised and full of worm holes. Definitely not the experience we paid for. Additionally, the grounds were unkept and dangerous. There was an obscene amount of apples smashed and rotting on the ground, which resulted in swarms of bees. Every step had to be taken with the utmost care to avoid slipping on the smashed apples and landing on a bee colony. The rows between the Apple trees were completely washed out and the overgrowth was so thick one couldn’t make it through without a machete. The children just wanted to leave. And we did . With $36 worth of apples I would not have paid $0.99 in the supermarket. It’s a good thing we didn’t intend to do the petting zoo because the line wrapped around the parking lot. We’ve been to the zoo a few times in past years. It’s fun but nothing special. I would not go on a weekend. And I will never do pick-your-own here again. As we left, Silvermans continued to drive up with wagon (hayride) after wagon full of people who had paid for pick-your-own when clearly there had been no apples left to pick for some days. Not only was this completely disappointing and a waste of money, but it was totally unethical of Silvermans to continue selling an experience they could not deliver. I will not...