Didier Farms

Didier is a great little local farm. Their biggest season is in the fall, for Pumpkins & all associated novelties (donuts, apples, cider, pies, etc). They put on a nice little carnival type thing, with animals, shopping, hay-​rides. It’s great for a nice family day, picking out pumpkins.
They are open for most of the rest of the year though too, not just pumpkins. I think they might close in the winter. But you can come here during the summer and shop for plants/​flowers and recent harvests.
I don’t have any young kids, but i still enjoy coming here every year. And i only live like a mile away, so occasionally stop for other things. I can absolutely recommend Didier! Please stop by, and support your local farms/​merchants.

Got four pumpkins from here averaged to be $ 13 a piece. We got them on Sunday before Halloween. We carved them on Wednesday and they were rotten inside. I always buy my pumpkins from here. But no longer will I buy pumpkins from here. Over priced and garbage.

We traveled from Chicago on Monday, October 26 to Didier Farms. We were a group of 4 Kindergarten classes and so excited to get out of the big city and explore a farm, corn maze, hayride… We had 96 5 year olds and 27 adults. The check in process took almost 30 minutes as there was only one person checking in schools/​groups. We were given tickets for each child and adult to enter the hayride and corn maze. We were then given a pumpkin sticker which served as a ‘receipt’ for payment in full in order to receive a pumpkin at the end of our visit as a take home souvenir. This was a lot for 27 adults to be divided or held on to especially after waiting around for 30 minutes. A simple entrance stamp would have sufficed. We enjoyed our day, the weather was perfect and surroundings were lovely. We ended our experience with 4 stickers missing. We spent $ 1000 that day — for a Kindergarten classroom, that is a lot of money. When exiting, we were told that we could NOT get stickers for the 4 children who’s stickers went missing. I asked to speak to the supervisor. The supervisor came out and denied 4 5 year olds pumpkins and kindly told me we could PAY for 4 more, tiny pumpkins. We were told that we should have checked out 96 5 year olds and 27 adults at one time — which is nearly impossible seeing that each adult was responsible for 3 – 4 students. In todays day and age, I found the greed and inconsiderate response to our dilemma unacceptable. Our 27 adults, their families and our school will not be back. So very disappointed!

My daughter, grandson (14 mo) and I visited Didier Farm for the first time today. It couldn’t have been any more enjoyable! The variety of activities was outstanding, everything was clean and easy to navigate. I was most impressed with the staff. They were all very friendly and there was always someone accessible if you needed help. My family had always gone to Goebberts (30+ year tradition) but this year our visit there was terrible — many issues but the commercial atmosphere and insane prices drove us away for good. The prices at Didier
were fair, more reasonable than most «pumpkin farm» types of place and the quality exceedingly high. As my family grows I am confident Didier Farm will become our new Fall tradition.

Visiting the pumpkin farm each year has become a family tradition. You can spend a fortune here if you try to do everything so we don’t. While we take some pictures with the pumpkins, we already bought huge ones at costco so we just look. We always start off with a six pack of the apple cider donuts (six well spent bucks). The hayride and corn maze are a joint admission. ($ 20 for a family of 4). You can spend as much time riding on the hayride and running around the maze as you want so it is a good place to let the kiddos run. The corn maze seemed much more trampled this year but it wasn’t muddy for a change so I was happy! We also always do the animal petting zoo (again $ 20 for a family of 4 plus few bucks here and there for food for the animals) and they stamp your hand and you can keep coming back. Our favorite part is going into the bird cage where adorable little parakeets land on your Popsicle stick to eat bird seed and they land on your head and your shoulders (another $ 12 for my family). My kids always squeal with delight and we got some priceless pictures. Honestly if we just came and visited the birds, I think my kids would be happy. We actually skipped all the rides and games so we ended up spending $ 60 and then we left to have lunch elsewhere and we had a fun family Sunday. We ended up going to wildfire but there is also a big bowl very near by and a panera bread. After being around animals, I wanted to scrub our hands before lunch anyway!

Less than impressed. Corn maze was all trampled down and too low. Hayride best part.

always amazing activities for the kids. loved the camel and parakeets!

I really feel bad saying this, but this pumpkin farm is a joke. 4 tickets per person age 1 and up to play at a sectioned off kids area where theres nothing more than a pipe, bean bag throw and hay is a Joke. A carnival for preschoolers where each ride takes 3 — 5 tickets where one ticket costs $ 1 dollar is a Joke. $ 2.75 for a chocolate lolly pop is a Joke. Rude staff yelling at us to hurry up because they are closed as we are making our way towards the exit is a Joke. $ 5 per person 1yrs. and up to go see the animals where there is almost nothing to see is a Joke.
Don’t get me wrong the kids still had fun, but us parents want to enjoy the farm right along with them and not be negatively shocked at this place.

A good time with a range of activities, but be prepared that you’ll easily spend $ 50-​$ 100 for two kids over the course of 90 minutes. Pretty expensive in my opinion. For example, the slide is $ 3 per person per side. So for my kids to go down twice was $ 12 for about 3 minutes of fun.
I was planking to come back once or twice more this season but at $ 50-​$ 100 a visit I doubt I will.

We decided to check out their pumpkin selection on a Sunday afternoon…
Never having been here before, we had no idea that the place would be so packed. I don’t even know how to describe the amount of people that were here. Swarms and swarms of families.
Hubs parked the car and I began walking around. Lots of pumpkins to choose from, food spots, gift shop, amusement rides and a petting zoo. We spent $ 20 on tickets to get into the petting zoo to see and feed the animals. The goats were my favorite. I strongly dislike seeing animals caged up like this for human entertainment; especially the exotic ones like baby Red Kangaroos, camels and a water buffalo. I was happy to feed them, though.
I grew up in Iowa and Indiana, so farm animals aren’t shocking to me. For the ‘city’ kids who’ve never left Chicago, I realize this petting zoo must seem like a pretty big deal. It appeared the animals were well cared for, even the pigs that were participating in the ‘pig races.’ I was hesitant to watch this event, but the pigs really did look like they were having a good time.
We waited in line for food for 20 minutes. We waited in line to purchase our pumpkins another 15 minutes. If convenience is what you’re looking for, this is not the place. Get your pumpkins at Home Depot. If the experience is what you want, time is not an issue (and you have an entire day to kill), come here.
The corn maze and hay ride would have been fun, but we were too exhausted after the petting zoo, all the walking, carrying our pumpkins and waiting in long lines. They also had camel and pony rides for the kids (not something I advocate), but available nonetheless.
We didn’t get to thoroughly browse the main building where check-​out is because of the long lines from the front of the building to the back. I did notice a lot of home décor, homemade baked goodies, as well as produce.
We spent under $ 50 on tickets, food and pumpkins. Pumpkins were $.49/​lb. All around a pretty good value. *$ 50 on 2 adults. That would likely double or triple if you’re a family of 4 with school-​aged children.*
I would go back, but definitely on a weekday when there’s likely to be less people. It would have been nice to have more time to browse and not feel rushed.
³⁄₅ because the atmosphere was a lot like a county fair. You don’t get to physically hand pick your own pumpkin (s) from vines either. More wagons for pumpkin transport would be really helpful (and customers would spend more!) We carried 5 pumpkins for the last 30 minutes of our visit.

Robert k said it best, wristband would be best, each ticket is a dollar, each ride minimum 3 tickets. .had to tell my 3 year old only one time. Went on a Wednesday last week and one other lady with her daughter was there. I went through 20 tickets (20 $) in about 20 minutes. Staff for didier less than friendly, staff for carnival were much friendlier. This place used to be much busier but I think they have lost sight of some things.

Awful customer service. It’s too bad because I want to support local family businesses.
Left empty handed.

Maybe it’s because I’ve always been very easy to please but I’m having a great time here on my first trip to Didier Farms. I’m here with my husband and our three kids. The older two are 9 and 11 so they and my husband are riding the rides and seeing the exhibits. Our youngest turned 5 months old yesterday. She didn’t like the loud noises that the rides made so I am walking around with her in the quieter part of the farm. I can’t find anything to complain about. There was plenty of parking in the field. There are lots of people but it’s not crowded. There are trash cans everywhere. From where I’m standing I can count 16 trash cans and I’m sure there are more that are blocked by some of the exhibits. I haven’t bought anything yet but all of the prices are clearly posted and nothing looks any more expensive then it would at any other novelty place like this. I’m looking forward to trying the fudge and the Apple cider donuts and maybe the fried Oreos. And hopefully if I get to try those I will go back and edit this review. I know the big kids want to buy some pumpkins. I’m sure we will visit again before Halloween.

I went here yesterday for the second time (once last year during pumpkin fest). I didn’t end up buying a pumpkin because I felt it would definitely rot before Halloween. I went to the petting zoo ($ 5 — 5 tickets) to get in (3 tickets for a decent size cup of carrot sticks, 1 ticket for a ice cream cone of feed). They had pig races throughout the day in various intervals. The price of admission vs the amount /​variety of animals was worth it in my mind. They had emus, a kangaroo, various cows/​bulls from all over the world, an exotic deer, katomundis, various goats, camels, a zebra, tortoises, a tropical bird, donkeys. They also had a parakeet encounter (which I believe was an additional 3 tickets per person. I will definitely be back next year. Note to others — especially those with kids– avoid the emus… When you try to feed them anything especially carrots they peck fast, split the carrot, and usually drop without eating it… I would not recommend feeding they anything by hand. Same with the ostrich last year. It bit my fiancé and created a blood blister. Aside from the big birds most other animals are gentle and friendly :)

The place is fun — basic kids rides, pumpkins, petting zoo, etc. The problem is that you need a ticket for everything. It used to be that you simply paid a flat fee, got a wristband, and it was all available. No more. It’s lousy having to tell your kid «no» or «you can only go one time» for rides. It was way more fun if you can just pay a set fee and it’s all turned on for the kids.

Overpriced for the average family it is all about making money. There are
Less expensive places to take your kids.

We absolutely love coming to Didier Farms every fall. We have done this every year since my boys were little. Some of my favorite pics of all time are those kiddos sitting among the hundreds of pumpkins, trying to pick one out.
There’s a mini animal petting zoo and rides. This place can be absolute madness in busy weekends.
While we love Didier, be prepared to pay! Everything really adds up. It hasn’t stopped is from coming but if you’re really watching your pennies, plan accordingly.

It’s the pumpkin feast and the leaves are already falling. Little windy and cold some times. You can feel thanks giving is knocking on the door and Halloween is around the corner. Scary symbols every where. Yep, it is the season .FALL and the best place to experience these nice events is to pay a visit to the Didier farm. There is a lot to do from watching their nice little zoo to laugh at the pig race. They have the best fudge in America (the one has the caramel and nuts is my favorite). A lot of fun activities. I took my son quite few times this year and last year. We did the hayride which was fun. And my son loves the kids rides because there was a lot of cars. There was also a funny show called bear a dice where you see a monkey and two bears dance and sing country music. Yes it was so nice and fun to go to. I will be back next year when they open again.

I had a pretty good (and quick) visit to Didier Farms. I’ve been to another farm in the area before that was totally overrun with people and stressful to navigate. This wasn’t so for Didier Farms.
I have to state that I a) went right when it opened and b) was in and out and didn’t visit the pumpkin patch area.
However, I did score some:
— indian corn
— pumpkins
— apples
— cider
The décor items worked well and the apples were amazing in the pie I made. The only miss was the cider. It didn’t taste like what I want a real, fall apple cider to taste… it was bland (my dad drank some and said it was weird). I thought it was ok, but not like the stuff you get at the farmer’s markets around town.
All in all, an ok trip and I’d definitely return for some apples (good prices and excellent selection of unique apples).

Fall has arrived, which means all the little munchkins are headed to Didier farms. With lots of little kid rides & games, an impressive pumpkin patch and sweets my almost 4 year old was in heaven. My almost 2 year old was a bit young for it all, but he’s happy to be involved in any of his sisters activities.
You can expect to go thru a lot of dough here. We blew thru $ 40 of tickets ($ 1 per ticket) in about an hour and it was mostly for one kid.
The carnival type of food didn’t look too appetizing (think corn dogs) so we stopped for lunch at once upon a grill on the way home, but we did share a few pumpkin and apple glazed donuts. I’m a fan of anything pumpkin (and think it should be on most menus year round), but in this case favored the apple glazed donuts.
If you have little ones it’s definitely a must to pay didier farms a visit once during the fall season, although if it was up to my daughter we would go every weekend.