Farms Near Amherst, MA

Amherst

Atkins Farms has grown apples on the same Amherst orchard for over 100 years and now runs a full country market alongside it: fresh produce, cider, a bakery, deli, seafood counter, and pizza shop under one roof. The market opens daily at 7am, with a bakery drive-thru starting at 5am.

Amherst

Delta Organic Farm is a certified-organic operation on 40 protected acres in Amherst, growing vegetables, herbs, small fruit, and maple syrup that supply local Whole Foods and Stop & Shop stores. The property doubles as a bed and breakfast and conference venue, pairing the working farm with overnight stays in the Pioneer Valley.

Old Friends Farm grows on 28 certified-organic acres in Amherst, Massachusetts, not Connecticut, despite this listing's state field. The farm is known regionally as one of the few Northeast growers of ginger and turmeric, alongside organic salad greens, vegetables, and flowers. Its ginger harvest becomes syrups, infused honeys, and spice blends sold beyond the farm stand itself.

Amherst

Amherst

Amherst

Amherst's agricultural roots run through UMass's Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and Formerly Small Ones Farm on Bay Road carries a name that suggests a rebrand from an earlier, smaller operation. Current details on what's grown or sold there aren't public.

Amherst

Bill Gillen has grown vegetables, herbs, flowers, and chestnuts on Brigham Lane since 1985, selling from a self-serve roadside stand open daily during daylight hours. Sunset Farm also sets up at the Amherst Farmers Market every Saturday. Gillen posts hand-written signs at the stand listing whatever's ready that week, with prices well below supermarket produce.

South Amherst

Amherst

Once upon a time, there was a couple named Clare and David Fortier. They lived in the house at the corner of Hulst and Bay Roads, and in 1976 bought the land where our Farm Shop now stands. With the help of their son Tom, they built a barn, plowed the first fields, and started Fortier Farms, Inc. In 1982, Clare and David hired experienced farmers to help them realize their dream of creating a biodynamic farm. Ian and Nicki Robb came from England and developed 4 acres of biodynamic gardens. They

Hadley

Kielbasa Orchards grows apples along Bay Road in Hadley, with a second production orchard across the town line in Amherst. The farm runs pick-your-own picking plus a roadside stand and sells wholesale fruit to area markets.

Granby

Pinetum Farm sits on Harris Street in Granby, listed among the area's small agritourism operations. No website, hours, or crop details turned up in a search — call ahead to confirm what's currently available.

Joe Czajkowski Farm in Hadley, Massachusetts, grows organic and conventional fruits and vegetables on land his grandfather John Czajkowski first farmed for tobacco, potatoes, and cucumbers. The operation has since diversified into a full produce farm supplying schools, universities, and grocers across the Pioneer Valley.

Hadley

Many Graces grows its own flowers without synthetic pesticides from April through October, then brings in blooms from other regional growers to cover the winter months. The farm, established in 2018, sells ready-made bouquets and custom arrangements for weddings, and takes online orders for local delivery or pickup. Fields in the Hadley area supply the cut flowers, with a design studio and shop that's closed Sundays.

Hadley

Run by Joe Czajkowski Farm since 1916 on 440 acres in Hadley, this stand is known for eight varieties of strawberries plus squash and carrots, with picking rotating across several fields along River Drive. Fresh jams and jellies made from the farm's own fruit are sold alongside the pick-your-own rows, roughly early June through early July.

Granby

Dickinson Farm & Greenhouse runs two locations — the Granby greenhouse and a Chicopee garden center — with a farm stand that shifts by season: bedding plants and hanging baskets in spring, corn, tomatoes, peaches, and berries by summer, pumpkins and cornstalks in fall, then poinsettias and cut Christmas trees in winter. Pick-your-own strawberries, blueberries, and apples run at separate Granby locations on Ludlow Road and South Street.

Granby

Sapowsky Farms on Route 202 in Granby ran as a family farm stand for nearly 80 years before Stephen and Tammy Sapowsky retired and handed the business to McKinstry Farms, a Chicopee growing operation dating to 1908. The new owners kept the Sapowsky name on the sign out of respect for the previous run, and Tammy still bakes and manages the Granby stand. Expect sweet corn, tomatoes, squash, and baked goods through the growing season.

Granby

Belchertown

Knight's Blue Maple Farm is on Eskett Road in Belchertown, in Pioneer Valley farmland east of the Quabbin Reservoir. No current website or listing confirms what the farm grows or sells.

South Hadley

Hatfield

Tee-Zee Farm sits in Hatfield, part of the Connecticut River floodplain that's grown tobacco, asparagus, and vegetable crops for generations. No confirmed details on current hours or what's sold at this listing turned up online — check ahead before visiting.

Whately

Whately

Nourse Farms is a wholesale and retail berry plant nursery in Whately, propagating strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, and blueberry varieties along with asparagus and vegetable roots for growers nationwide. Phone and mail orders run year-round even when the online store closes for the season each summer.

Northampton

Whately

South Hadley

Set up at Buttery Brook Park, 123 Willimansett Street, near College Street and Route 116, this market runs Wednesdays, 2 to 6 p.m., June through early October. It's a volunteer-organized market that has grown steadily and is still recruiting new vendors most seasons.

Hatfield

Myers Produce is on North Hatfield Road, in a town whose river-bottom fields have grown vegetables and tobacco for generations. No current website or contact details were found online to confirm hours or what's sold.

Sunderland

Warner Farm has been worked by the same family since 1718 — ten generations, currently run by brothers Mike and David Wissemann across 150 acres in Sunderland. June brings pick-your-own strawberries; fall brings Mike's Maze, an eight-acre corn maze cut fresh into the fields every September through early November. The farm also sells wholesale across Massachusetts and shows up at the Greenfield Farmers' Market on Saturdays.

Granby

Red Fire Farm in Granby is USDA certified organic, growing everything from strawberries and blueberries to peppers, tomatillos, and cut-your-own sunflowers across the pick-your-own fields. CSA members get free access to the PYO rows as part of their share, and the farm accepts SNAP and HIP benefits at the stand. It's one of the larger organic operations in the Pioneer Valley, selling wholesale and in bulk alongside the retail side.

Northampton

Not a farm — this is Skeleton Crew Theater, a hand-built, part-scavenger-hunt, part-theatrical Halloween attraction staged at the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center in Northampton each October, running roughly 7 to 10pm on show nights.

Northampton

Founded in 2008 by Oona Coy and Ben James of Town Farm, this market became a Grow Food Northampton program in 2016. It sets up behind Thornes Marketplace on Kirkland Avenue Tuesdays from 1 to 6 p.m., April through November, and matches SNAP/EBT purchases with a $10 credit at every market.

Northampton

A small, Certified Naturally Grown apiary in Northampton producing raw honey and handmade bee products without synthetic herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers. The bees work a mixed landscape of community gardens, farmland, and conservation land near the hives.

Northampton

Market manager Rick Tracy runs this Saturday market at 8 Gothic Street, next to the courthouse, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., April through November. It's one of two Northampton markets — Tuesday's runs separately on Kirkland Avenue — and has anchored the downtown Saturday routine for locals shopping for produce and prepared foods.

Sunderland

Mike's Maze cuts an 8-acre puzzle into the corn each fall on Warner Farm, at the foot of Mount Sugarloaf in Sunderland. Beyond the maze itself, the farm runs horse-drawn wagon rides, a potato cannon, pumpkin picking, pedal cart racing, and a camera obscura that lets visitors view the maze pattern from above. The Corn Cafe serves food on-site, and the farm also hosts adults-only beer-tasting maze nights.

Sunderland

Red Barn Honey Co is listed in Connecticut as a honey producer. No website, market schedule, or contact page turned up online to confirm the apiary's location or the scale of its operation.

South Hadley

McCray's Farm has run as a family entertainment farm on Alvord Street for over 40 years, mixing pick-your-own apples and pumpkins with a petting zoo, hayrides, mini golf, and homemade ice cream made from the farm's own milk. Fall brings a haunted attraction called Fear on the Farm, and winter adds a holiday light stroll.

Hatfield/Whately

Teddy Smiarowski Farm sits at the Route 5 and 10 split between Hatfield and Whately, in a stretch of the Pioneer Valley long farmed for tobacco and produce. No current website or contact details were found online.

South Deerfield

Pioneer Valley Growers Association is listed as a farmers market in South Deerfield, within the Connecticut River Valley section of Franklin County. The Pioneer Valley's river-bottom soil has long supported vegetable, orchard, and dairy farming. As a growers' association, the listing represents a group of area producers rather than one single farm. Confirm current market days and vendor lineup directly before visiting.

Hatfield

Chestnut Mountain Tree Farm sits on Mountain Road in Hatfield. The name and location suggest a Christmas tree operation, but no current website or listing confirms hours, species grown, or whether cutting is still open to the public.

South Deerfield

Sobieski's River Valley Farm sits along River Road in the Deerfield/Whately farm belt, an area thick with pick-your-own operations along the Connecticut River floodplain. Online listings are sparse beyond the basics, so calling ahead is the most reliable way to check what's currently open for picking.

Deerfield

Whately

South Deerfield

Dan Conlon's Warm Colors Apiary sits on eighty acres of South Deerfield woodland and wetland where nectar plants bloom from early spring to late fall — ideal ground for producing western Massachusetts honey and breeding bees hardy enough for New England winters. Certified by the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association since 2016, the apiary sells Russian queens, spring nucs, honey, and beeswax candles by appointment, and pollinates local orchards and farms.

South Deerfield

Warm Colors Apiary, founded in 2000 on eighty acres of woodland, fields, and wetlands in South Deerfield, produces regional western Massachusetts honey, pure beeswax candles, and pollination services for local orchards. It is the Northeast's only apiary certified by the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association, selectively breeding mite-tolerant Russian queens and spring nucs while teaching beekeeping workshops in its bee yards.

South Deerfield

Deerfield Farm is a seasonal farmstand at the junction of Routes 5 and 10, selling strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins, and cut-your-own flowers through the growing season. An annual pumpkin festival runs the Sunday after Columbus Day.

Ground Up Coffee roasts and pours organic specialty coffee at 2784 Whitney Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut, alongside bagels from Shefs and other local baked goods. The shop opened in 2023.

Florence

Florence Farmers' Market is a producer-only market — everything sold is grown or made by the vendor selling it, no resellers. It runs Wednesdays, 2 to 6, May through October in the Florence Civic Center parking lot, and takes credit, SNAP, HIP, and both senior and WIC farmers' market coupons.

Easthampton

Listed as a CSA on East Street in Easthampton. No verified website, contact, or current crop details could be confirmed online for this specific farm — worth a direct call to confirm it's still running a share program.

Belchertown

Phoenix Fruit Farm grows peaches without pesticides or sprays of any kind, on an orchard overlooking the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown. Picking happens on scheduled Sunday mornings in August rather than daily hours, and it runs on a pay-what-you-can system — $20 suggested per half-peck bag, cash or Venmo, two-bag limit per customer. There's no bathroom on site, so plan the drive accordingly.

Holyoke Farmers' Market has run since 1979, splitting its week between two stops: Tuesdays at the Senior Center on Pine Street, Wednesdays at Holyoke Medical Center on Beech Street. Vendors sell produce, local meat and eggs, baked goods, and crafts, and the market accepts SNAP, HIP, and WIC benefits. Manager Lisa Totz runs it through the Greater Holyoke Chamber.

Ludlow

Ludlow

Easthampton

Easthampton

Easthampton

CSA is a model of agriculture that addresses the problems inherent in our modern industrialized food system by fostering a direct relationship between the farmer and the community. Members of the community purchase a ‘share’ of the farm’s annual harvest in advance of the growing season. Shareholders then visit the farm weekly from June until the end of October to pick up their share of the farm’s weekly harvest of the freshest, highest quality produce. This unique arrangement provides the farmer

Belchertown

Founded in 1889 and now run by fourth- and fifth-generation Austins, this 130-acre beef farm sells grass-fed cattle by the cut or side out of a USDA-inspected operation. Fall brings a pumpkin patch and corn maze, and the farm stand also carries pork and hay.

Easthampton

Holyoke

Holyoke

This address is not a farm. DementedFX is an indoor haunted-house attraction occupying a 20,000-square-foot warehouse on Main Street in Holyoke, built around a horror storyline with animatronics and interactive sets. It relocated here from East Hampton after opening in 2014.

Holyoke

Through the generosity of a religious order long committed to Holyoke, everyone can now experience a unique floodplain forest and a riverside working farm with strong ties to urban residents.