Farms Near Auburn, ME

Auburn

Auburn

Lewiston

Auburn

Apple Ridge sits on Perkins Ridge Road in Auburn, next to Wallingford's Fruit House, offering u-pick apples and cranberries. The country store sells handcrafted jams, jellies, and spiced apple butter made from the orchard's own fruit.

Auburn

Harvesting Good freezes vegetables at peak ripeness and distributes them to grocery stores, schools, hospitals, and senior centers across the Northeast. It runs as a subsidiary of Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine, built to give regional farmers a processing outlet when their harvest outpaces the fresh market. The operation fills a gap most small Northeast farms hit every year: too much produce, too short a fresh-sale window.

Auburn

Wallingford's bakes apple cider donuts, pies, and apple dumplings on-site, and runs pick-your-own for raspberries, apples, and pumpkins through the season. A corn maze, pumpkin patch, and playground round it out, so it reads more like a fall destination than a plain farm stand. It sits on Perkins Ridge Road in Auburn, next door to Apple Ridge Farms.

LEWISTON

Provencher Landscape & Nursery operates a garden center and retail nursery on River Road in Lewiston, alongside a full landscaping and contracting business. The shop carries plants, gardening supplies, and gift items, while the crew handles design and installation work for area properties. It's as much a working landscaping company as a nursery you can walk through.

West Minot

Slattery's Farm and Maple Supply Company is on Woodman Hill Road in West Minot, an Androscoggin County hamlet in Maine's maple sugaring country. The name points to maple syrup and sugaring supplies, though no current hours or contact details are published online.

Bell Farms Inc grows potatoes on family land spanning Lewiston and Auburn. Molly Bell, who married into the family, documents the operation on Instagram as she learns the business from her husband's side of the family. No public storefront or website was found — this appears to be a working potato farm rather than a retail destination.

Minot

Tufts Perennial Farm sits on Verrill Road in Minot, a rural Androscoggin County town between Auburn and Mechanic Falls. The name points to a perennial-plant nursery, though no plant list or hours are published online.

Lewiston

Benoit Orchard grows apples near the corner of Ferry and Cotton Road in Lewiston, Maine's second-largest city. No hours, variety list, or contact details were confirmed online.

Lewiston

Stukas Farms sits on Ferry Road in Lewiston, Maine's second-largest city and historically the mill-town twin of Auburn across the Androscoggin River. No products or hours are published for the farm online.

Auburn

New Roots Cooperative Farm is a 30-acre producer co-op in Lewiston founded by Somali Bantu farmers building new agricultural livelihoods in Maine. They grow vegetables using organic practices, with plans toward formal certification, and sell through a CSA, area farmers markets, wholesale accounts, and their own farmstand. Hoophouses in nearby Lisbon extend the growing season. CSA pickup spots stretch from Lewiston to South Portland, Bath, Damariscotta, and Kennebunk.

Minot

An 8th-generation family farm in Minot growing more than 40 crops across roughly 60 acres and 19 greenhouses, run by Doug and Elaine Chipman and their daughters. The Goodwin Road location has a 10-acre u-pick strawberry field, typically open late June through mid-July, plus hanging baskets, bedding plants and baked goods; the farm also runs stands in Raymond, Gray and Poland Spring.

Poland

Steve and Sue Verrill grow most of what they sell at this stand on Bailey Hill Road — fruit and vegetables in season, plus beef sides when cattle are ready. The stand runs June 15 through October 31, seven days a week, 8am until dusk. Some crops are pick-your-own; call ahead to find out what's ready.

Lewiston

Sue's Blues is a small agritourism stop at College Street and Old Farm Road in Lewiston, in Androscoggin County's old mill-town farm belt. No crop list or set hours are posted online — a call ahead is the safer bet.

Turner

Greene

Greene

Gagnon Family Orchard grows apples on trees over a century old, part of the original Saunders Apple Orchard dating to the 1890s, alongside high-bush blueberries and wild raspberries. The family-run business took its current form in 1998 and now ships fruit directly to customers nationwide from its farm store in Greene.

Mechanic Falls

A 22-acre family-owned orchard operating for over 20 years with pick-your-own strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apples and plums. A farm bakery sells pies, cakes and homemade pie crusts, and a box shop sells custom engraved gift boxes and totes; the farm also hosts seasonal hayrides and live music.

Poland

Poland

Chipman Farm is in its eighth generation, growing more than 40 vegetable and fruit crops across roughly 60 acres and 19 greenhouses in Poland. Produce is hand-picked daily for the farm stand, and u-pick runs on strawberries and tulips in season. The stand typically opens once sweet corn comes in, late July through October.

Turner

Rupert Berry Farm grows berries on Wilson Hill Road in Turner, an Androscoggin County town with more working dairy and produce farms per capita than almost anywhere else in Maine. Specific varieties, hours, and contact information for this farm aren't published online.

New Gloucester

Thompson's Orchard is on Gloucester Hill Road in New Gloucester, a Cumberland County town also home to the Shaker Village and Pineland Farms. The name points to an apple orchard, though no working website or contact details for the farm could be verified.

Chirp Creek Farm works the historic Packard-Littlefield Farm property in Lisbon using two draft horses instead of tractors for tillage. Ben Daley grows vegetables, berries, and seedlings and raises chickens and pigs, all MOFGA and USDA certified organic. The farm sells through a CSA and its own stand, plus the Lewiston, Cumberland, and Falmouth farmers markets. As the farm puts it, the horses do the fieldwork and the humans handle the rest.

Poland Farmers Market sets up on Maine Street in this Androscoggin County town, best known as the home of Poland Spring water. No independently verifiable schedule or vendor details turned up online beyond the address on file.

New Gloucester

Acker's Acres Angoras is on Gloucester Hill Road in New Gloucester, a Cumberland County town also home to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community. The name points to Angora fiber animals as the focus, though no farm store hours or products are confirmed online.

Sabattus

Jillson's has run a working sugarhouse on Jordan Bridge Road in Sabattus since 1988, open for tours alongside maple syrup, maple cream, and maple candy shaped like lobsters and leaves. They also sell fresh vegetables, flowers, pumpkins, Christmas trees, and wreaths, and host seasonal events like spring sugar parties and a fall hayride.

New Gloucester

The United Society of Shakers at Sabbathday Lake is the last active Shaker community in the world, founded in the 1780s on Route 26 in New Gloucester. Members still sell herbs, baskets, woodenware, and handwoven goods much as their predecessors did, and the museum holds roughly 13,000 artifacts across fourteen historic buildings. The 1794 meetinghouse still hosts public Sunday worship, and around 10,000 visitors tour the village each year.

Mechanic Falls

Started 18 years ago as a small operation raising range-fed beef and poultry for family and friends, this Mechanic Falls farm on Route 26 has grown into a working farm with a Country Farm Market and Farm House Pizza, plus a fall corn maze.

Mechanic Falls

Harvest Hill Farms' Pumpkin Land operated for years on Route 26 in Mechanic Falls, drawing families for pumpkin picking and fall hayrides. The farm has since closed that Route 26 location and moved operations to Route 11 in Poland, Maine. The address on file here is the old Mechanic Falls site, worth confirming before a visit.

Old Crow Ranch is a 70-acre, family-owned livestock farm in Durham, about 15 minutes from Freeport and 30 from Portland. They raise 100% grass-fed beef and pastured, GMO-free pork and chicken, and stock the on-farm store with eggs, cheese, seasonal vegetables, and goods from more than 40 other Maine makers. The store is open year-round, four days a week, with online ordering for pickup. A tiny house on the property rents through Hipcamp for overnight stays.

New Gloucester

Pineland Farms Produce Division, formerly known as Gillespie Farm, grows vegetables on Mayall Road in New Gloucester as part of the larger Pineland Farms working farm and campus. The produce supplies Pineland's on-site Market & Cafe, and the division runs pick-your-own seasonal berries and flowers as well.

Hebron

Troika Drafts breeds, trains, and sells draft horses on a 100-plus-acre farm in Hebron, with a focus on Shires and the standing stallion New England Bomber. Owner Vicki Schmidt runs it as New England's only full-service draft horse facility, with an on-site harness shop, carriage shop, and farrier services. The farm has since added vegetable and flower gardens sold locally.

Sabattus

Ricker Hill Orchards has grown apples in Turner since 1803 and is now on its ninth generation of the same family doing it. Visitors pick their own or buy pre-picked, then work through maple donuts at the farm store, or a glass of Ricker Hill Mainiac Hard Cider from the on-site cidery. The orchard also ships apples to Hannaford and Shaw's shelves across four states.

Nezinscot Farm in Turner runs 250 acres of organic pasture and fields, then turns the harvest into more businesses than most farms attempt at once: a CSA program, a gourmet food shop, a café, a bakery, a cheese-making operation, and a fiber studio spinning wool from its own animals. The James Beard Foundation has taken notice of the farm-to-table work happening here.

Pineland Farms occupies 5,000 acres in New Gloucester, built partly on the grounds of the former Pineland Hospital and Training Center. The nonprofit runs a working farm alongside public trails for biking and nordic skiing, pick-your-own strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries, and a fall corn maze and pumpkin patch. Its produce division farms more than 300 acres, and there's a natural meats operation on top of that. Self-guided tours and farmyard animal encounters run through the season.

Wales

Baker Brook Farm started in 1998 when Diane and Steve O'Brien's son joined a 4-H dairy club and brought home heifers to raise. It grew into a working dairy and grass-fed Angus beef operation spanning Windham and Gray, selling whole milk, half-and-half, heavy cream, and chocolate milk with no antibiotics or added growth hormones. Their pasteurized dairy has picked up milk quality awards. Call 207-572-4184 or check bakerbrookbeef.com.

Poland

Goss Farm on Megquier Hill Road in Poland runs a pick-your-own apple orchard each fall. It's a separate operation from the similarly named Goss Berry Farm in nearby Mechanic Falls, so don't mix up the two when planning a picking trip.

Greene

Wilbur's Antique Blackberry Farm, on Key Hill Road in Greene, grows heirloom blackberry varieties in this Androscoggin County town between Auburn and Winthrop. It's listed under both agritourism and produce, though current picking hours aren't published online.

Oxford

WinterBrook Farm & Fiber Mill shears its own Romney sheep and llamas each spring, then runs the fiber through its mill to produce roving for spinners and felters, with a typical two-week turnaround on custom processing. The farm also breeds and sells fiber sheep lambs, including Finn, Romney, and BFL crosses, along with a few meat lambs each season.

Gray

Ten Apple Farm in Gray runs goat hikes, both public group outings and private bookings, plus a virtual option they call Goat-Grams for people who can't make it in person. The farm also hosts workshops, a retreat called the Woods House, and has published its own books. It's less a working farm than an experience built around its goats — reserve ahead, since sessions fill by group size.

Lisbon Falls

North Yarmouth

Hansel's Orchard picks apples off trees that are roughly 80 years old, big and wide enough that the farm says stories get written about them. McIntosh comes in first in September, followed by Cortland and Macoun through October. Open 10 to 5 during harvest, with pre-picked bags left at the entrance stand after hours for latecomers.

Bumpus Farm LLC is registered as a farm business somewhere in Maine, but no website, Facebook page, or local listing surfaced in research to pin down its location or products. The LLC structure points to a working farm rather than a hobby operation. Confirm crops, livestock, and hours directly with the business before visiting.

Wales

Earley Farm sells two different things under one roof: bulk landscape material — mulch, compost, loam, crushed stone — and a pick-your-own patch with blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. The nursery side stocks balled-and-burlapped shade, fruit, and flowering trees. The farm stand opens Mother's Day weekend; the bulk yard runs Friday and Saturday, 9 to 4.

Wales

Raymond

Meadow Brook Farm sits on Route 85 in Raymond, in Cumberland County's Sebago Lake region. It's listed here as an agritourism property, but no hours, products, or contact details are published online, so call ahead before visiting.

Scatter Good Farm in Brunswick is home to Growing to Give, a nonprofit that grows and donates organic vegetables from three of the farm's 40 acres. The Carton-Newlin family also keeps seven Nigerian Dwarf goats and organic chickens, mills custom lumber from the property's 30 acres of forest, and rents out space through Airbnb. They amend their soil with biochar to sequester carbon rather than relying only on compost. It's a half hour from Portland, Bath, or Lewiston-Auburn.

Cumberland

Terison has run as a u-pick orchard since 1946, now in its fourth generation, and the family calls it the first pick-your-own orchard in Maine. The picking list stays short and deliberate — McIntosh and Cortland only, grown low-spray. Dogs are welcome on leash. Find it on Whitney Road, about two miles north of the Cumberland Fairgrounds.

Buckfield

Maple Crest Farm is on Paris Hill Road in Buckfield, an Oxford County town in Maine's western foothills. The name suggests a maple syrup operation, though sugarhouse hours and product details aren't published online.

Cumberland

Bowdoin

Monmouth

Monmouth

Fox Farm sits on Gilman Road in Monmouth, a Kennebec County town between Winthrop and Litchfield. It's listed as agritourism; no crop, livestock, or visiting details are published online.

Monmouth

Kelley Farm and Greenhouse has run a greenhouse and nursery operation in Monmouth for more than 30 years, open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's a source for bedding plants and greenhouse-grown starts rather than a pick-your-own stop, with several u-pick berry farms nearby if that's what you're after.

Monmouth

Friends' Folly Farm is on Norris Hill Road in Monmouth, a Kennebec County town known for its lake and its summer stock theater at Cumston Hall. No crop list, products, or hours are published online for this listing.