A cash-only farm that will do the cutting, moving, baling, and tying for you if you don't want to, with leashed pets explicitly welcome - but bring actual cash, since the farm states plainly there's no card option.
Cash only. This farm doesn't take cards, based on what we found — bring cash or confirm ahead if that's changed.
Picea Acres draws a clear line on one thing: cash only. The farm’s own site states it plainly - “Cash Only Please!” - with nothing about card payment anywhere in what was fetched. That’s a hard planning detail rather than a soft inference, and it means an ATM stop before you arrive isn’t optional if you’re not carrying enough cash for whatever a tree ends up costing.
What’s notable here is the flexibility built into the visit itself. The farm’s own description says it will help with cutting, moving, baling, and tying if you don’t want to do the work yourself - meaning this isn’t strictly a bring-your-own-saw, do-it-yourself operation, even though saws are provided for those who want the traditional experience. If you’re bringing kids or don’t want to wrestle a tree into a car alone, that assistance is a real, stated feature rather than something you’d have to hope for on arrival.
Leashed pets are called out directly as welcome, which the record notes isn’t a given at every tree farm in this research. If bringing the family dog along is part of your plan, this is one of the farms where that’s confirmed rather than assumed.
The farm’s site states it opens “every year the day after Thanksgiving,” which is a clear, recurring pattern that resolves cleanly to November 27, 2026. That’s a reasonably confident opening date, even though it comes from a general recurring statement rather than a freshly dated 2026 posting. What’s missing is a closing date - the site was showing as closed for the prior season at the time this research was done, meaning it hadn’t yet been updated with 2026-specific end-of-season information. A separate aggregator mentioned a prior-year closing around Dec 14, but since that wasn’t confirmed as 2026-specific, it isn’t used here.
No species list and no pricing were found on the farm’s site. Given the cash-only policy and the personalized cutting-and-tying assistance, this reads like a smaller, more hands-on operation than a large commercial farm - which can be a genuine plus if you want a more personal visit, but it does mean you’re going in without a species menu or a price point to compare against other farms. A quick call before visiting would close both gaps, and since you’ll need cash regardless, it’s worth asking at the same time roughly what a typical tree runs so you can bring enough, plus whether the closing date has been finalized yet for this season.
The farm says it opens 'every year the day after Thanksgiving,' resolved here to November 27, 2026. No 2026 closing date has been posted, since the site was showing as closed for the prior season at the time of this research.
A standard cut-your-own visit, potentially shorter than usual if you let staff handle the cutting, baling, and tying for you.
Not documented. No basis for an estimate.
Not documented.
Not documented. Assume an unpaved field.
Skip if you don't have cash on hand and can't get to an ATM first, since the farm's own site explicitly states 'Cash Only Please!' with no card option mentioned.
None documented in this record.
Yes. The farm's own website states 'Cash Only Please!' explicitly, with no card payment option mentioned anywhere.
The farm says it opens 'every year the day after Thanksgiving,' which resolves to November 27, 2026. No closing date has been posted.
Not necessarily. The farm says it will help with cutting, moving, baling, and tying if you'd rather not do it yourself, so it functions as both a true cut-your-own and an assisted experience.
Yes, pets on a leash are explicitly welcomed, which isn't universal among tree farms in this research.
Opens November 27, 2026 (closing date not published).
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, and a saw is provided.
50 South New Prospect Road, Jackson Township, NJ 08527, in Ocean County. It is one of 9 farms we track in Central NJ.
We track 9 farms in Central NJ, 7 of which let you cut your own tree. The farm has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
What sets it apart locally: it has free netting/baling, which most Central NJ farms on our list do not.
piceaacres.com · siparent.com
Checked September 2026.