An animal experience with pumpkins attached rather than a pumpkin patch — reservation-only, cash at the gate, and $18 for everyone over two, which is a lot for three hours unless the Highland cows are the actual draw.
$18 per person cash only at the gate for the Fall Festival at the Farm; children under 2 free, all ages 2+ need a ticket. Reservations required through eastsideacres.com. Face painting, food trucks and artisan vendors cost extra; parking is free.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $72.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
The most useful thing to understand about Eastside Acres is that it is not really competing with the big October farms. It is a small working ranch that runs a limited number of reservation-only visits, and the headline attraction is the animals — Highland cows, more than fifty farm animals, a feed experience, and cow and goat cuddles. The pumpkin patch and the fall photo setups are the seasonal wrapper around that.
Priced accordingly, it reads differently. Eighteen dollars per person for a three-hour slot is steep for a pumpkin patch and reasonable for a guided animal encounter with a capped group size. Which of those you are buying determines whether it is worth it.
There is no child pricing beyond the under-two exemption. Everyone from a two-year-old to a grandparent pays the same $18. That makes this one of the more expensive options on the Treasure Coast for a family of four — $72 at the gate for two adults and two school-age children, in cash, before face painting or a food truck.
The counterweight is that parking is free and the format is short and contained. You are not being asked to fill six hours or to buy wristbands. You show up at 10:30, you do the thing, you leave at 1:30.
The 2025 Fall Festival was rescheduled from October 11 to November 8 because of flooding. That is worth knowing not as gossip but as a planning fact: a small ranch on low Florida ground has far less capacity to absorb a wet week than a large farm with a gravel apron and a covered barn. If there has been serious rain in the days before your reservation, check before you drive.
No 2026 fall dates had been published when we last looked in August 2026. Everything above — the $18 rate, the cash-only gate, the 10:30am start — comes from the 2025 season and should be treated as a guide rather than a guarantee. The reservation-only format means you will be interacting with the ranch’s booking page anyway, which is the place those details will be corrected first.
One statewide note that applies here as everywhere: Florida cannot grow a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so the pumpkins at any Florida patch were trucked in. At a ranch whose real product is the livestock, that matters less than most.
Whenever you can get a reservation, because that is the binding constraint here. The format is a small number of pre-booked dates rather than a season you can drop into, and the 2025 festival ran 10:30am to 1:30pm. Book as soon as dates are announced rather than waiting for a free Saturday.
Three hours, and that is the whole event — the 2025 Fall Festival window was 10:30am to 1:30pm, with regular farm visits running a shorter 10:30am to noon. There is no lingering past close.
Reservation-only, which is the single biggest quality-of-life difference between this and a big ticketed farm. You are trading spontaneity for a capped, manageable crowd. That is a good trade with a nervous three-year-old and a bad one if your plans firm up on Friday night.
Free, per the ranch's own listing — worth noting because several larger Florida farms now charge $5 to $10 a car on top of admission.
You want a fall festival. There is no corn maze, no zip line and no midway here, and at $18 a head for a three-hour slot the per-hour cost is high compared with a free-entry farm. Skip it too if you cannot commit in advance — walk-ups are not the model.
Not as of our August 2026 check. Everything published relates to the 2025 season. If you are planning a 2026 visit, watch the ranch's own booking page — dates are released rather than standing.
Yes. The ranch operates on select dates by reservation only, booked through its own site. This is not a drop-in patch.
In 2025 it was $18 per person, cash only at the gate, with children under two free and everyone two and over needing a ticket. Treat that as prior-season pricing until 2026 figures appear.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Select dates each month, by reservation only. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission starts at $18 per person. $18 per person cash only at the gate for the Fall Festival at the Farm; children under 2 free, all ages 2+ need a ticket. Reservations required through eastsideacres.com. Face painting, food trucks and artisan vendors cost extra; parking is free.
6740 Ideal Holding Rd, Port St. Lucie, FL 34987, in St. Lucie County. It is one of 5 patches we track in Treasure Coast.
We track 5 patches in Treasure Coast, 3 of which are free to walk into. At $18 a head this one sits right on the regional median of $18.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 3 of the 5 patches we track in Treasure Coast had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There is 1 other patch we track in St. Lucie County. All Treasure Coast patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
eastsideacres.com
Checked August 2026.