Creamy Acres Greenhouses

I came by Creamy Acres on a Saturday afternoon to go pumpkin picking with my family and experience a nice autumnal day. Instead, for our hayride to the pumpkin patch, we took a hayride through a zombie apocalypse paintball grounds – strange and off putting for a family with young kids – before getting to the pumpkin patch which was at best rinky dink. While picking pumpkins the sound of the zombie paintball exhibit, which was not even being used at the time, blared behind us. It was an annoying mix of screams and sound effects. The antithesis of a pumpkin picking soundtrack. There were dummies hanging from nooses in the background. Ranging from bizarre to inappropriate, it made for an uncomfortable experience the whole time. Paying for pumpkins was cash only and there was no previous warning of that. To continue the downward spiral, the tractor driver – pulling a cart full of children – smoked a cigarette on our ride back.
Perhaps the most egregious crime was their being out of apple cider donuts. Peak season, peak day, peak time, and no donuts to be served. Inexcusable.
I will never go again.

Aside from Halloween there are a lot of nice things Creamy Acres has to offer. They have beautiful flowers and plants in the spring. Reasonably priced and you know you are purchasing local. They have a great swing set area for kids that does not cost anything new to use. Behind the market are farm animals the kids can visit. Additionally, the run a snack bar with ice cream and other seasonable local products like apple cider in the fall. You can rent their spaces for parties too. Check out classes and activities through the year on there website. There staff is so friendly, love coming here.

This farm hosts one of the best Halloween destinations during the month of October. Its spectacular. HUGE. Traditional ‘haunted house’ at the heart of it all (done up right and proper; filled with gore and shock) but there are 3 – 4 other excursions one can take in various parts of the landscape, too. The farm owner works all year on these projects. Must be his hobby, his obsession. There’s a haunted hayride (you climb aboard a tractor and drive through post-​apocalyptic, zombie-​filled mayhem); there’s a haunted corn-​maze (you enter on foot and try to keep yourself out of the clutches of chainsaw-​wielding rednecks); and last but not least there’s a haunted *lake* with a huge pirate ship belching flame and smoke from the middle of the water; manned by a skeleton crew! Yes, I said LAKE! Just outrageous! Certainly as good as anything in Lancaster PA (which is the mecca for haunted attractions). But this ingenious production in the fey little antique town of Mullica Hill is soooo worth it when you want to get your chills on. Its perfect when there’s that icy brisk nip in the air; everyone wearing plaid flannel sweatshirt hoodies and Timberland boots; standing around sipping hot apple cider between tours and munching on ginger-​snap cookies. Not terribly expensive; and a long, spooky, drive though the eerie moss-​covered farmlands of southern New Jersey just to get there in the first place. Telling ghost stories along the way. Classic!