Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Berkeley, CA

Berkeley

Bay Area Green Tours operated agricultural and sustainability-focused tours out of Berkeley, on Allston Way near downtown.

Oakland

Bee Healthy Honey Shop is a family business with beekeeping roots that trace back four generations to Yemen, now selling raw local honey, pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and candles out of a small storefront on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. Staff will transfer pollen into glass jars on request. It's a walk-in retail shop rather than a working apiary — a place to buy honey, not to visit hives.

Oakland

This Oakland lot on Piedmont Avenue has sold pumpkins to the neighborhood for over two decades, open daily 9am-8pm through the first week of November. Hay bales and a small kids' area sit alongside the pumpkin selection, which reviewers note runs smaller and pricier than a farm-based patch. Located at 4414 Piedmont Avenue.

Alameda

Speer Family Farm sets up on Ferry Point in Alameda, on the shoreline flats near the old naval air station rather than open farmland — this stretch of the island city hosts seasonal tree lots and pop-up patches more often than year-round growing operations. No verified details on current offerings or hours turned up online this session.

Alameda

This Alameda address is Niman Ranch's corporate office rather than a working farm open to visitors. Niman Ranch is a natural, sustainably raised meat brand supplied by a network of more than 600 independent family farms and ranches nationwide, raised without antibiotics or added hormones under Certified Humane standards. Farm visits happen at individual member ranches, not at this office.

San Leandro

Schmitz Ranch has raised livestock for the Bay Area since 1944, now in its third generation of the Schmitz family running the operation. It's registered as a wholesale meat business rather than a pick-your-own farm, so hours and product availability are best confirmed by phone before a visit. The ranch operates out of 410 Hester Street in San Leandro.

Moraga

Captain Vineyards is a Bay Area winery in Moraga founded in 2005, farming more than 3,000 dry-farmed vines by hand. The estate makes unfiltered wines aged five to ten years in French oak, including Petite Sirah and Cabernet-driven blends, and has picked up the CoolCal and California Green Business awards for sustainable practices. Tastings run by reservation.

San Rafael

Marin Convention & Visitors Bureau operates from 1 Mitchell Boulevard in San Rafael as the county's destination marketing organization, not a farm itself. It publishes a visitor's guide, lodging directory, and event calendar covering Marin County, including its farms, ranches, and agricultural tourism. Reach the office at (415) 925-2060.

American Canyon

ABC Tree Farms runs this pumpkin patch and inflatable park on Broadway in American Canyon, built for kids ages 2 to 12 in the more urban stretch of the Bay Area. Fall brings pumpkin selection alongside giant inflatables and water slides; the same lot turns into a Christmas tree lot in December. Admission and parking are free.

San Mateo

ABC Tree Farms' San Mateo lot near Fashion Island Boulevard, part of the family company's roughly 15 seasonal sites across the Bay Area since 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and sold through Halloween; the company also runs a Summer Fun Zone with inflatables at a separate San Mateo address.

San Mateo

The Honeyverse is a honey shop in San Mateo, on the Peninsula between San Francisco and the South Bay.

Belmont

Honey by the Bay keeps hives and sells honey out of Belmont, on the San Francisco Peninsula, closer to a small urban apiary operation than a traditional farm. No working website confirms current products, harvest season, or where to buy.

Castro Valley

Part of the Moore family's pumpkin and Christmas tree operation, running in the East Bay since 1984, though current listings point to San Ramon and Livermore locations rather than Castro Valley specifically. Worth confirming this address is still active before visiting.

Novato

Lovepatch Farms raises miniature horses on a small property in Novato, about 29 miles north of San Francisco, and runs appointment-only tours built around hands-on time with the animals. The farm advertises its tours and presentations as accessible for all ages and abilities, and draws visitors from well beyond the Bay Area. It's a niche operation — no crops, no produce stand — just the horses and a visit booked in advance.

Pleasanton

Classic Pumpkin Patch & Trees sells pumpkins each fall and Christmas trees each winter from Rowell Ranch on Dublin Canyon Road between Pleasanton and Castro Valley. The lot runs Wednesday through Sunday afternoons and evenings, closed Mondays, with staff on hand to help load up a tree or a truck bed of pumpkins.

San Carlos

ABC Tree Farms' San Carlos lot along El Camino Real at Arroyo Street, part of a family-run network of roughly 15 seasonal pumpkin and Christmas tree sites across the Bay Area dating to 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and sold through October, with a gift shop on-site.

Fremont

Ardenwood Historic Farm is a working 19th-century farm at 34600 Newark Boulevard in Fremont, California, centered on the restored 1857 Patterson House. Run by the East Bay Regional Park District, it operates a narrow-gauge railroad, blacksmith shop, and cultivated fields, and hosts seasonal events including pumpkin patches. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Half Moon Bay

Family-owned working farm on Highway 92 above Half Moon Bay, in operation since 1942. October turns it into a full fall outing with pony rides, a train, a petting zoo, hayrides, and even goat yoga, alongside the pumpkin patch itself.

Half Moon Bay

4-C's Pumpkin Patch sits on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, part of a corridor growers have farmed since the 1930s after two brothers first sold pumpkins to passing motorists. The town now calls itself the pumpkin capital of the coast, and 4-C's is one of several family-run patches along that stretch each October.

Half Moon Bay

Repetto's Pumpkins is a family pumpkin patch on San Mateo Road in Half Moon Bay, part of the Highway 92 farm corridor that turns into one of the Bay Area's busiest pumpkin stretches every October.

Half Moon Bay

Pastorino Farms is a longtime farm stand on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, part of the coastal produce corridor between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo known for pumpkins, artichokes, and Brussels sprouts.

Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay Lavender has grown lavender on San Mateo Road in Half Moon Bay, California, since 1995, one of the longest-running lavender farms on the coast. The family grows English, French, Spanish, and hybrid varieties, harvests fields each July, and sells dried lavender year-round alongside handmade bath and body products. Hours run daily, with weekends opening earlier and closing later than weekdays.

Half Moon Bay

G. Berta's Pumpkin Patch farms a stretch of Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, the same coastal corridor where Bay Area families have picked pumpkins each October since local growers began selling roadside in the 1930s.

Petaluma

A Sonoma County regional park on land that was farmed for decades by the Cardoza family, who grew pumpkins here before the county acquired the property for public open space. The park now protects Tolay Lake itself, wetlands, and grassland trails between Petaluma and the Sonoma Valley, with that farming history part of what the site's interpretive programs cover.

Half Moon Bay

Cozzolino's traces back to the floral farm Alex and Sharon Cozzolino started in Half Moon Bay in 1970, and the family now runs several seasonal stands along the Highway 92 corridor selling colored pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, and cut Christmas trees. The San Mateo Road location is one of a few Cozzolino family stands in town.

Half Moon Bay

A pumpkin farm on the Half Moon Bay coast, part of San Mateo County's well-known pumpkin-growing belt along Highway 1, where fog-cooled soil produces some of the giant pumpkins the region is famous for each October. No independent website turned up in research beyond the listing itself.

Half Moon Bay

Doniga Markegard runs a regenerative cattle operation along Highway 1 south of Half Moon Bay, moving herds of cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens across pasture the way wild grazing animals once did. The ranch sells grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and lamb through weekend farmers markets and pickup points in Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, and La Honda. No feedlots, no grain finishing — everything eats grass and moves.

Half Moon Bay

The Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival takes over Main Street every October (the 54th edition runs October 17-18, 2026) with juried art, live music, a parade, and pie-eating and costume contests. It's built around the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, held a few days earlier at the IDES Grounds, and is put on by the nonprofit Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee.

Half Moon Bay

The marquee event of Half Moon Bay's Art and Pumpkin Festival, where growers haul in giant pumpkins — some pushing past a ton — to be weighed on Main Street in front of a crowd chasing a world record. Organized by the Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee, the weigh-off runs the Monday before the main festival weekend each October on the IDES Grounds.

Fairfield

Erickson's Ranch is on Cordelia Road in Fairfield, California, part of the rolling grassland corridor between the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley where several seasonal pumpkin patches and corn mazes operate each fall.

Family-run pumpkin patch in West Marin since 1995, right next to Nicasio Valley Cheese Company on Nicasio Valley Road. They grow certified organic pumpkins and run hayrides, pony rides, and a hay maze through October, with Big Jim's barbecue and live music on weekends.

Newark

Fear Overload Scream Park is a seasonal Halloween haunt at Newpark Mall in Newark, part of the wave of mall-lot and parking-structure scare attractions that open across the Bay Area each October.

Nicasio

Devil's Gulch Ranch raises rabbits, heritage chickens, quail, pigs, sheep, and goats on pasture in Nicasio, deep in Marin County's North Coast ranchland, alongside premium wine grapes and foraged ingredients. The ranch sells direct through its own online storefront and to restaurants, using sustainable and largely organic methods across the operation.

Sunol

Hillcrest Ranch presses olive oil from a six-and-a-half-acre grove inside Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, including roughly 137 century-old trees standing among about 2,000 total. The Picholine, Mission, and Manzanillo trees are farmed organically without irrigation. The ranch opens to the public every other month for tastings, small-mill demonstrations, soap-making workshops, and olive-brining classes, and visitors can either hike in or catch a shuttle up to the grove.

Antioch

Jones Family Honey pairs small-batch honey sales with residential bee removal in Antioch, in eastern Contra Costa County. Outfits that combine live-hive removal with honey sales are common in this part of the Delta, where swarms move into attics and sheds every spring.

Livermore

A Livermore corn maze and pumpkin patch on East Airway Boulevard that's been a fall fixture long enough to get featured twice on the David Letterman show. Beyond the maze and pumpkin picking, the farm runs fruit-picking and other hands-on activities aimed at families with young kids.

Brentwood

McCauley Olive Groves grows olives on Balfour Road in Brentwood, part of East Contra Costa County's belt of orchards and row crops east of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Brentwood

Berry Best Family Farm grows four strawberry varieties for u-pick on Balfour Road in Brentwood, then moves into peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, plumcots, cherries, and figs as spring turns to summer. Hours run daily, roughly 9am to 5 or 6pm depending on the day of the week, with weekend closing times slightly earlier than weekdays.