NOT a family-friendly farm anymore.On Tuesday, 10/07/25, my family and I visited Kelder's farm. Our family is composed of elderly adults, adults, and children. This was our go-to farm for years, but I stopped going because lately, the farm's owners have changed the way they treat loyal families. The owners are the staff. Over the years, they have become incredibly rude and condescending to customers.Initially, I was skeptical about visiting again, but I gave the farm one more chance because the other farm I wanted to visit was closed. That was a big mistake.I purchased my ticket online. Upon arrival, I asked questions to the staff questions about picking apples, such as bag costs or upgrading to our existing ticket purchase. It was not busy. We were bout the only ones in the shop. The first lady who answered was extremely rude and condescending. For whatever reason, she seemed exhausted and angry.I explained to her that it had not visited the farm in a long time and thus didn't remember how it all worked. She was a smart alec, and the matter didn't get resolved.I had to speak with another woman, who, to her credit, treated us better. However, she spoke to us as if whatever pricing and promotion they had was obvious. As we tried to inquire about the pricing and/or upgrade, the first lady began to interrupt our conversation rudely in an attempt to justify her horrible treatment.Later, a third person, this time a young man, came over to what we thought was to help us with our questions. Instead, he went straight to our jugular and began to misterat us. This young man's name is John Kelder, a co-owner of the farm.I asked all of us to calm down and not overreact. I reminded John Kelder that it's ok to disagree. There had not been any yelling, cussing, or impudent behavior from our part. As I was attempting to get the answers to the question,s he told me, Don't preach to me, and later politely kicked us out. Shocked by this response, we expressed how displeased we were due to their misconduct. At this point, we already knew we couldn't reason with the owners. When I was getting my refund, my sister told me privately, Sometimes it's better to follow your gut in reference to my skepticism at first regarding visiting the farm. John Kelder got upset with what my sister was telling me and became even more defiant and angrily said to her, What did you say?.They tried to change the narrative by gaslighting us and blaming us for their misconduct. I later discovered that the people taking care of us were son, mom, and another family member.When business owners go this far to lie, mistreat families, cover each other's sins, and gaslight others for their unethical behavior, there is no way to get this resolved.Fortunately, we found another AMAZING spot about 1-2 minutes away from Kelders. The new place is called Saunderskill Farms. Saunderskill Farms is truly family-friendly, has higher ratings, better prices, and great customer service. After the bad experience we had at Kelder's Farm, visiting Saunderskill Farms was like medicine to our souls. We needed that.I you go, I hope you have a different experience. We will not return.As a believer, I bless Kelder and will not pay evil for evil. However, I will blessSaunderskill Farms even more AND put my money on them.I hope this helps.

A fantastic warm fall family day out with young children. So much for them to do, play and learn, plus a candy canon for extra fun! The adults can settle with a beer in the sunshine whilst the kids play. Wonderful.

Here’s my online review. Please read to the end. Today was my daughters first birthday! We decided to stay local (We live in Napanoch) and go to Kelder’s farm. When arriving, as I have never been there with my daughter before, we went to the counter to pay. The girl who was very nice at the counter advertised for the second option where you get fruit, flowers, or vegetables to bring home. I thought okay perfect I can get her snacks. We had such a great time on the bounce pad, slides, and feeding the animals. We had lunch there as well which was great. As two o’clock was approaching I knew my daughter would need a nap. And the meltdown began. So poor planning on my part, I will own that. When leaving I asked (Barbara) if we could have the difference in the pay as I did not realize it was “u-pick” or if I could just grab produce from the farm stand. She pointed somewhere and said we do not do refunds. When I looked where she was pointing I didn’t see anything about refunds. I explained to her it was my daughters first birthday we had a great day but we needed to go. She said I could come back later to pick our fruit. I said I cannot come back later. She then said “obviously it’s a given picking fruit takes some time” I let her know obviously it was not a given as we did not know. She was then laughing at us. She did give us apple bags to pick which she said takes less time. But we ended up just leaving. We had a great day and Barbara ruined it. I will own and accept my fault in this, but I will not accept someone being demeaning and rude to me.

Family and activity for the entire family, Picking the different fruits and vegetables, feeding the petting animals, was a very enjoyable experience.

A good place for kids to enjoy a variety of activities. We visited during the week. The feed the animals was a big hit for our Grandson. Then we went to the activity section which had a Corn Maze, basketball toss, huge chess game and other things for kids.They charged me $48.00 for my wife and I, which I thought was taking advantage of the tourists. The staff we encountered were all teenagers who looked half asleep and seemed indifferent to the customer. The prices in the farm house for produced was very high. Corn $1.00 per ear when ShopRite was 50 cents per ear. In the end my Grandson had a great time and that is the bottom line for me.