Duke Farms is a 2,700-acre center for nature restoration, wildlife conservation, and clean energy innovation in Hillsborough, New Jersey, where visitors can experience thriving landscapes and sustainability in action.
Once the private home of Doris Duke, the campus now serves as a public gathering place and living laboratory—showcasing regenerative habitats, conservation methods, and renewable energy systems that model real-world solutions.
As part of the Doris Duke Foundation, Duke Farms carries forward a shared mission: to build a more creative, equitable, and sustainable future—where people and nature thrive together.
Today, more than 80 years after the arrival of Hermann S. Alstede, Sr. to the United States from Germany, the Alstede Family maintains Hermann’s legacy of “rugged individualism” through hard work, honesty, integrity, community service and reverence towards God.
Every Alstede Farms’ staff member is absolutely dedicated to providing each and every with the very best in fresh fruits, vegetables, and flowers in combination with unsurpassed customer service allowing them to realize a fresh discovery with ever visit.
We wish to make your every visit to Alstede Farms time well spent. Whether you stop in for a fresh, juicy peach, visit our friendly farm animals with your grandchildren, or simply seek quiet solace and escape from the rat race by visiting our farm; we are dedicated to running a business that contributes to your quality of life.
Stop in and experience the warmth that our family brings to Alstede Farms.
At Alstede Farms, it's more than business, it’s a way of life.