Farms Near Ault, CO

Ault

Ault

Will and Mike grow apples, plums, and pears on this Weld County orchard and run the country store beside the fields, stocked with jams, cider, jellies, and salsa made from the harvest. The u-pick apple season runs 11 to 12 weeks each fall, with hayrides and orchard walks included. Weekend mornings draw a crowd; pre-picked apples fill in when the u-pick rows run thin.

Ault

Masonville Orchards grows apples on Weld County Road 43 outside Ault, the same rural stretch as Adams Apple Country Store down the road. The name references the foothills community of Masonville near Loveland, though this orchard sits well east of there. No verified phone, email, or website turned up clean enough to trust — one directory listing surfaced only a placeholder address.

Ault

Anderson's Patchwork Pumpkins is a family-run pumpkin patch on Highway 14 in Ault that's become a fall fixture for Northern Colorado families. Rodney Anderson runs the operation, which the local paper Daily Wise has profiled for its storybook-autumn feel.

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Eaton

Fagerberg Produce runs this pumpkin patch a mile and a half west of Highway 85 on County Road 70, open weekends only — Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., from the first weekend of October through the 28th. It's a straightforward field operation outside Eaton: no corn maze or festival extras, just pumpkins by the row. Call ahead or email for group visits before making the drive.

Greeley

Founded in 1935, Tigges Farm in Weld County runs a produce stand, roasted Colorado green chile, a gift shop, and a barn quilt gallery alongside its u-pick pumpkin patch. The farm is open Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., from mid-August through October 31st.

Greeley

Greeley

Greeley's cold-weather market runs November through April on the first and third Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. to noon, now held at Zoe's Cafe and Event Center on 10th Street. Vendors sell hardy greens, mushrooms, farm eggs, milk, ethically raised meat, and preserved foods, a smaller indoor counterpart to the city's summer market.

Greeley

Fern Hill Farm has grown Christmas trees on Fern Avenue in Greeley since 2000, selling choose-and-cut trees each holiday season. It's a small operation, about two people running it, built around one thing done well rather than a long list of seasonal attractions.

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Platte River Fort sits along the South Platte River outside Greeley, running as an RV park and event venue rather than a working farm. Grounds include grassy meadows and wildflower stretches with mountain views, and guests come for hiking, biking, kayaking, and fishing along the river as much as for weddings and group bookings.

Burlap & Lace Soap Co. hand-crafts goat milk soap in the Greeley/Barnesville area using milk from owner Christine Bauer's own Nigerian Dwarf goats, fed local alfalfa, minerals, and whole grains. Known for hand-piped flowers and swirled designs, the company sold out its first batch on social media within 11 days of launching in July 2018.

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Grass Run Farms is a 100% grass-fed beef brand headquartered in Greeley, sourcing cattle from a network of family ranches raised without antibiotics or added hormones. Founded in 2008 and acquired by JBS USA in 2015, the company sells steaks, roasts, and ground beef in USDA Prime, Choice, and Select-equivalent grades to grocery and foodservice buyers nationwide.

Memphis Ranch is a veteran-owned bison operation in Carr, north of Fort Collins, raising 100% grass-fed and grass-finished bison for steaks, roasts, ground meat, and jerky shipped nationwide. The ranch ties its regenerative grazing practices to rebuilding native shortgrass prairie. Its retail site now operates under the name Primal Bison.

Kersey

The Monroe family homesteaded in Weld County in 1936 and has grown chemical-free produce there ever since, seeing themselves as caretakers of land they know like family. Monroe Family Farms (formerly Monroe Organic Farms) runs a Colorado CSA with summer, fall/winter, and working shares, constantly trialing new and heirloom varieties in pursuit of the best-tasting vegetables the farm can produce.

Kersey

Monroe Family Farms, established in 1936 in Weld County southeast of Greeley, is one of Colorado's longest-running CSA farms, growing chemical-free produce with a philosophy that puts taste and nutrient density ahead of size and appearance. The farm offers summer and fall/winter CSA shares, working shares, and add-ons, delivered to distribution centers plus farmers markets and restaurant partners across the Front Range.

Greeley

Monroe Family Farms traces back to a 1936 homestead in Weld County and is Colorado's oldest organic farm. On just under 200 acres near Kersey, about 60 are planted in vegetables while the rest support pasture-raised pork, beef, and lamb. The farm has run a CSA since 1993 and favors flavor and heirloom varieties over uniform size.

Jodar Farms has raised true free-range chickens, pigs, and laying hens in Northern Colorado since the Rice family settled the property in 1992, with Aaron Rice starting the meat and egg business after graduating Colorado State in 2009. The farm sells chicken, pork, and eggs through a meat-and-egg CSA, a Saturday farm store, and Front Range pickup sites.

Fort Collins

Known locally as Jack Lantern's, this 15-acre corn maze on South County Road 5 has been running fall weekends in Fort Collins for over a decade. Daytime hours bring pumpkin picking and a family-friendly maze; after dark, the same field turns into a haunted corn maze. Open Fridays through Sundays, October 4 through 31, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with group rates available on request.

Milliken

Pumpkin Pickin' Paradise in Milliken brings its pumpkins to a central picking area on County Road 52 rather than sending visitors into the field. Hours run 1-6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends during the season.

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This seasonal market runs out of 4138 Main Street in Timnath, a fast-growing town northeast of Fort Collins. Vendors bring produce, baked goods, flowers, and artisan goods through the spring and fall growing season. Hours shift year to year with vendor availability, so it's worth checking ahead before making the trip.

Johnstown

Hankins Farms works land on Weld County Road 17 outside Johnstown, in the irrigated farm country between Fort Collins and Greeley. No website, social presence, or press coverage surfaced in research beyond the address on file — call ahead before visiting.

Lasalle

Fritzler Farm Park in LaSalle cuts what it calls Colorado's favorite corn maze, with u-pick pumpkins sold by the pound, yard games, and a beer garden by day. After dark the same field becomes Scream Acres, a haunted maze the farm markets as Colorado's top-rated haunted attraction. The operation passed 25 years running.

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The Bee family homestead outside Fort Collins was established in 1894, earned Colorado's Centennial Farm designation, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Its collection of farm equipment, wagons, and vehicles documents Larimer County's agricultural history; check current visiting status before planning a trip, as the museum has posted closure notices in recent years.

Black Mountain Bison sells premium bison meat out of Johnstown, sourced from animals raised at the historic Terry Bison Ranch, a 27,500-acre spread seven miles south of Cheyenne with roughly 2,500 head. Cuts include steaks, roasts, ground bison, and jerky, sold by the piece or as whole and half sides, shipped frozen nationwide.

Clyde and Frank Bartels started farming this stretch of northern Fort Collins in 1905, growing corn, hay, wheat, and barley for over a century before the family added a pumpkin patch. Today it's u-pick pumpkins priced by size, a $5 corn maze, $2 hayrides, and a garden of peppers, tomatoes, green beans, and zucchini, plus baked goods at the concession stand. Admission and parking are free; the season runs late September through Halloween.

Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., spring through fall, this market formed to bring fresh food and horticultural products to Wellington and the surrounding area north of Fort Collins. It also supports the Wellington Middle School Eagles After Hours program and belongs to the Colorado Farmers Market Association. Vendors sell vegetables, locally raised meat, and handcrafted goods.

Wellington

Harvest Farm is a 100-acre working farm in Wellington operated by Denver Rescue Mission's Fort Collins Rescue Mission as a residential recovery program combining farm work with addiction treatment. It is not a retail or agritourism stop; the mission has announced it is winding down the rehabilitation program, with full closure expected in 2027.

Frank Silva raises more than 300 Scottish Highland cattle on a 70-acre ranch south of La Salle. The herd goes hormone-free and antibiotic-free, with a choice of full grass-fed or a traditional finish on alfalfa, grass hay, flax, sunflower seed, and spent brewers grains. Beef is dry-aged 21 days, then cut, vacuum-packed, and frozen. Find them at the Louisville Farmers Market Saturdays from 9am to 1pm, or order online for delivery.

Wellington

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Wellington

Listed only as "Grass Fed Beef" with no city, address, or owner name attached, this entry could not be matched to a specific Colorado producer online. Colorado has dozens of small grass-fed beef operations selling direct to consumers; shoppers likely encountered this seller at a farmers market or roadside stand rather than a searchable business.

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Despite the name, Laughing Buck Farm isn't a produce stand, it's an educational, all-abilities farm about six miles north of Old Town Fort Collins offering riding lessons, a farm school, therapeutic riding, and seasonal camps. The nonprofit arm, Friends of Laughing Buck Farm, runs scholarship programs so cost doesn't keep kids out of the barn. It's built around hands-on learning: horsemanship, gardening, and farm chores.

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Self Service everyday. They provide plant starters, local produce, and eggs and bread.

Fort Collins

Run by four generations of the Dory family, Something From the Farm grows organic pumpkins on South Timberline Road in Fort Collins and opens for October only. The patch has a pumpkin trebuchet, a corn cannon, hayrides, and a separate corn maze a few blocks over at Greenstone Trail.

Friendly Nick's Butcher is a Fort Collins meat shop and grocery started by Nick Chase in 2017, built around beef, pork, and chicken sourced from local farms using sustainable, humane practices. The shop makes its own sausages, jerky, and whiskey-barrel-brined turkeys, and once gave away roughly $10,000 in free meat over two days to help food-insecure neighbors during a government shutdown.

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The Fort Collins Farmers' Market runs Sundays (May through November) and Wednesdays (June through September) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1001 E. Harmony Road, in the Ace Hardware parking lot at Harmony and Lemay. Every vendor grows, raises, or makes what they sell, no resellers, with a rotating lineup of Colorado produce, meat, honey, flowers, and coffee.

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Bartels Land and Livestock runs a u-pick operation on East County Road 54 outside Fort Collins, growing beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and gourds. A petting zoo and corn maze round out the July-through-October season.

No single Colorado business named exactly "The Food Co-op" could be confirmed. Several member-owned grocery co-ops operate under similar names statewide, including Fort Collins' Mountain Avenue Market and Boulder's Cooperative Food, and this listing likely refers to one of them — worth confirming the specific location before visiting.

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Now branded Wildcraft Farmers Market, this is Fort Collins' year-round indoor market inside Foothills Mall at 215 E. Foothills Parkway. Winter hours run 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with over 100 local farmers, food producers, and makers selling hardy greens, mushrooms, farm eggs, milk, and ethically raised meat. It's closing in on two decades in Fort Collins and accepts SNAP, doubling produce dollars through Double Up Food Bucks.

Not a physical market stall but an online ordering system connecting Northern Colorado producers directly to buyers. Place orders by 5 p.m. Friday, pay online, then get doorstep delivery Saturday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., or pick up downtown in Fort Collins for a $3 fee. It started in March 2020 as a pandemic workaround and stayed permanent.

Started in 1976, the Larimer County Farmers' Market is the oldest in Northern Colorado and is run by CSU Extension Master Gardeners rather than a private operator. About 130 vendors, over 90% from Larimer or Weld County, set up Saturdays 9am-1pm at the Larimer County Courthouse parking lot from May through October, with vendor sales topping $2 million in 2025.

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Lukens Farms is an on-farm market on State Highway 14 outside Fort Collins selling pork, beef, and goat meat alongside live poultry -- chicks, hens, turkeys, geese, and goslings. It's one of the few local spots stocking both meat and live animals direct from the producer.

This is Fort Collins' winter farmers market, now operating under the name Wildcraft Farmers Market after a rebrand. It runs indoors at Foothills Mall, 215 E. Foothills Parkway, Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., November through April, with produce, meat, dairy, bread and crafts from more than 200 regional vendors. SNAP purchases are matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20 through Double Up Food Bucks.

Garden Sweet has grown gourmet vegetables, berries, and flowers in Fort Collins since 2002, and is now known mainly as a pick-your-own flower farm with more than 50 varieties in the field. Visitors can also pick strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. The farm sells to restaurants and farmers markets in Fort Collins, Loveland, Estes Park, and Laramie, open daily except Mondays.

Located on South College Avenue in Fort Collins, this market runs Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., spring through fall. Vendors include area ranchers, bakers and coffee roasters alongside produce growers, all set up under one roof rather than the usual outdoor tent rows.

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