The admission fee is to play in the playground (swings, slide) climb on the haystack, have lunch outdoors at picnic tables(instead of inside the store where there are tables since they have a sandwich counter), all that was free before and is free at virtually every other playground and farm in Massachusetts. What they added was a bouncy house and the fee includes the tractor hayride ("when available", so there is no guarantee). So, during the summer months, people are not given a choice whether or not they want to pay to go on a hayride (which is $3 per person) and the joy of your kids getting hurt in a big ugly moonbounce is inevitable since all kids want to do that. If admission is free when you spend $6 on blueberry picking, then why can't it be free if you spend $6 inside the farm store that sells sandwiches, smoothies, produce and groceries, or if you buy plants? Avoid the place if you have kids, it's way too pricey.