A nonprofit working farm that opens for fall on three Saturdays only, four hours each — twelve hours of season in total, so the date is the whole decision.
General admission is required but the specific price is not listed on the Fall Farm Fun Days page. Free for current Farm Members and Evendale residents. Sunflower cutting costs $1 per stem on top of admission.
Gorman Heritage Farm is a nonprofit educational farm that runs a fall programme rather than a fall festival, and the difference shows up immediately in the calendar. Three Saturdays — October 10, 17 and 24 — from 10am to 2pm. That is twelve hours of opening for the entire season.
Everything else about planning this visit follows from that number. There is no weekday alternative, no Sunday, and no evening. If it rains hard on your chosen Saturday, your options are the following Saturday or next year. Farms with six-week daily seasons let you be casual about the date; this one does not.
Hayrides, a crop maze, pick-your-own sunflowers, pumpkins for sale, the farm’s animals, the farm shop and the property’s hiking trails. That is a solid morning, and it is a genuinely different product from a commercial agritourism park — there is no midway, no jumping pillow and no gel blaster range. The animals are the farm’s actual livestock and the trails are the farm’s actual land.
Two things are worth reading closely. The sunflowers are cut by you at $1 a stem, charged on top of admission, which is the one open-ended cost of the day. And pumpkins are sold rather than picked, so if the image in your child’s head is walking a field and choosing one off a vine, adjust it before you arrive.
The farm says general admission is required and does not say what it is. Members and Evendale residents get in free, which tells you the pricing is structured around a local nonprofit membership base rather than a regional tourist draw. It also means two categories of visitor should check their status before paying anything.
Not publishing a figure is unusual and it is the main gap in this listing. Assume it is modest — nonprofit farm, four-hour window — but confirm it rather than budgeting on that assumption.
A 10am to 2pm Saturday puts the whole crowd through one door. Arriving at opening buys you the shortest hayride queue, the fullest sunflower rows and a farmyard that has not yet had four hours of visitors through it. Arriving at half past twelve buys you ninety minutes and the tail end of everything. On a farm with this little opening time, the arrival hour does more work than the date.
There are exactly three dates in 2026: Saturday October 10, 17 and 24, each 10am to 2pm. Arrive at 10. A four-hour window on a Saturday concentrates every visitor into the same slot, and the last hour is the one where the sunflower rows have been picked over and the hayride queue is longest. October 10 is likely the quietest of the three simply because it is furthest from Halloween.
Two to three hours, which is most of the window. Between the hayride, the crop maze, the animals, the sunflower cutting and the hiking trails there is enough to fill the morning, and the 2pm close means you cannot stretch it further even if you want to.
Twelve hours of opening across the whole autumn, in Hamilton County, four of them per week. That is as concentrated as fall farm demand gets. Expect the 10am opening to be the calmest part of each day.
Not published. Assume farm parking on grass and expect it to be tight given how few hours the site is open.
You need flexibility. Three Saturdays with no weekday or Sunday option is the least forgiving calendar on our southwest Ohio list, and a wet October 17 simply removes a third of the season. Skip it too if you want a large pumpkin field to pick from — the farm sells pumpkins rather than running a pick-your-own patch.
The farm states that general admission is required but does not publish the price on its Fall Farm Fun Days page. Entry is free for current Farm Members and for Evendale residents. Sunflower cutting is a separate $1 per stem.
Three Saturdays only — October 10, 17 and 24 — from 10am to 2pm each day.
The farm lists pumpkin sales rather than pick-your-own. The pick-it-yourself activity here is the sunflowers, charged per stem.
October 10 – October 24, 2026. Saturdays only - October 10, 17 and 24. Hours: 10am-2pm.
Admission pricing was not published when we last checked. General admission is required but the specific price is not listed on the Fall Farm Fun Days page. Free for current Farm Members and Evendale residents. Sunflower cutting costs $1 per stem on top of admission.
10052 Reading Rd., Evendale, OH 45241, in Hamilton County. It is one of 9 patches we track in Southwest Ohio.
We track 9 patches in Southwest Ohio, 2 of which are free to walk into. The farm has not published a gate price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
Its season runs about 15 days against a regional average of 38, so it is a shorter window than most of its neighbours — miss it and the nearest alternatives will still be open.
There are 4 other patches we track in Hamilton County. All Southwest Ohio patches →
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
gormanfarm.org
Checked August 2026.