Family fun: The Easter Bunny Hops Over to Murphy’s Farm Market

Family fun: The Easter Bunny Hops Over to Murphy’s Farm Market

April 16, 2025

The Easter Bunny is arriving a wee bit early this year. On Friday, April 18, he hops into Alliston to pay a visit to Murphy’s Farm Market and Bakery.
Easter on the Farm is a highlight of the calendar year at Murphy’s Farm, a fifth-generation farm that hosts such family events as the summertime Kid’s Day, Fall Fest and the yuletide Christmas Market.
Easter kicks off this parade of festivals. On this spring day, hundreds of children and their parents will descend on the farmyard to get in the holiday spirit.
In the pre-dawn gloom, the Easter Bunny will have run around the Fun Farm Yard, leaving colourful eggs behind for children to search out and collect. Once baskets are filled, these eggs can then be traded in for a delicious treat from the farm’s award-winning bakery. You are a lucky child if you uncover a golden egg, earning you an extra special gift.

Always gregarious, the Easter Bunny lingers long enough to say hello to every little one that visits the farm, and even poses for photos. Essa-based Maple Trail Farms, famed for their alpacas and their alpaca-based products, will also be present with their friendly, mop-headed animals. The alpacas jostle for affection from adoring children, humming happily when stroked or fed.
Railfence Books will be on hand as well. Founded by author Carolyn Morris, the company specializes in wholesome books fostering respect for rural living and farm life. Morris engages children with story time readings, and little ones thrill at the opportunity to handle the fluffy chicks and ducklings that are a hallmark of any Railfence Books events.
After collecting eggs and petting barnyard animals, children can burn off their adrenaline in the Fun Farm Yard while parents follow their noses into the Market, where shelves are filled with fresh-baked goods.
Easter on the Farm is a wonderful way to celebrate the season.
Also running at Murphy’s Farm Market for three week starting late April is Festival of Blooms, Simcoe County’s first pick-your-own-tulip event which includes photo ops in the stunning tulip field where 100,000 tulips will be in stunning display. There is also a wagon ride to the field, and activities for kids. A ticket ($19.95) allows you to pick ten stems. Consider also returning for the Mothers Day Market, on May 11, with more than 30 vendors, tulip picking, and live music.
Spring kicks off the year in fun fashion at Murphy’s Farm Market.