Farm Stands near Colchester, CT

Colchester

Colchester

Colchester

East Haddam

A farm stand near Lake Hayward in East Haddam, Connecticut.

East Hampton

Paul's and Sandy's Too has operated as a garden center in East Hampton since 1971, selling perennials, annuals, vegetables, herbs, trees, and shrubs on East High Street. The property turns into a pumpkin destination each fall and adds a Christmas shop with fresh trees each winter, alongside a summer produce stand and hardware store.

Lebanon

TR Waterman Farm is a farm stand on Waterman Road in Lebanon, a large rural Windham County town with a long dairy and produce farming history. No additional details were found online for this listing.

Columbia

Olivia's Garden on Route 66 in Columbia runs a farm market alongside a bed and breakfast, selling local produce and agricultural products from the same property that houses its inn.

Lebanon

Now in its third generation, Bluebird Hill Farm grows apples, sweet corn, peaches, pumpkins, and cut flowers on Trumbull Highway. The farm store and stand sell direct from the fields, with the orchard drawing regulars through apple season and the summer corn crop drawing them back again in July. Seasonal events round out the calendar at this family-run spot.

Lebanon

West Green Farm sits on West Town Street in Lebanon, near the town's historic green, one of the largest in New England. No additional details were found online for this listing.

Andover

Hurst Farm is a 36-acre family farm in Andover now in its third generation, running a country store stocked with its own honey, maple syrup, jams, and jellies. A maple sugarhouse taps trees each March, and the farm keeps fresh eggs, CSA memberships, and fall hayrides through pumpkins and farm animals, open Wednesday-Sunday.

Bozrah

Six Paca Farm is a small farm stand on Bozrah Street in Bozrah, in the New London County farmland near the Yantic River. No additional details were found online for this listing.

Old Lyme

Four Mile River Farm in Old Lyme, Connecticut raises beef, pork, and chicken with a simple goal: one family producing high-quality meat for yours. The farm stand on Four Mile River Road is open daily 9 to 5, with bulk bundles, weekly shipping across New England and the New York area, and free shipping on orders over $200.

East Lyme

Coventry

Riverview Farm runs a farm stand on Flanders River Road in Coventry, near the Skungamaug River in eastern Connecticut's Tolland County farmland. No additional details were found online for this listing.

Franklin

Arrowhead Acres combines a working farm with a vineyard and winery on Pond Road, plus a farm store and bakery on site. The market sells pumpkins, honey, maple syrup, jams, dairy products, plants, and seasonal fruits and vegetables grown on the property. Started in 2015, it has grown into one of the few farm-and-winery combinations in eastern Connecticut.

Coventry

Popple's Farm operates a stand on Flanders Road in Coventry, part of the Tolland County farm corridor that also includes the Nathan Hale Homestead. No additional details were found online for this listing.

Bozrah

Old Saybrook

Portland

Q-P Farm Market is a roadside market on Route 66 in Portland, across the Connecticut River from Middletown. No additional details were found online for this listing.

South Glastonbury

Dondero Orchards has been in the same family for generations, growing strawberries, raspberries, peaches, apples, blackberries, blueberries, and pears on Woodland Street. Visitors pick their own fruit in season or cut their own flowers, then stop by the farm store for cider donuts from the bakery. Open Wednesday through Monday, 8am to 5pm, May through October.

Bolton

South Glastonbury

South Glastonbury

Rose's Berry Farm on Matson Hill Road in South Glastonbury grows blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, apples, peaches, and pumpkins for pick-your-own picking as each crop comes into season. The Gondek family took over in 2022 and now farms the property pesticide-free. Locals also know the farm for its Breakfast-With-A-View mornings, served overlooking the Connecticut River valley.

Portland

Gotta's Farm & Cider Mill is a fifth-generation farm in Portland, established in 1898, with a stand on Glastonbury Turnpike selling farm-fresh tomatoes, corn, and a bakery counter known for pies, breads, and cookies. The farm also presses its own apple cider and runs a CSA program alongside seasonal plant sales.

South Glastonbury

Bolton

This Mike's Fruit Stand sits on Hop River Road in Bolton, part of a 75-acre farm in the rolling hills of eastern Connecticut, selling seasonal fruits and vegetables, pumpkins, jams, honey, maple syrup, and plants.

Coventry

Edmondson's Farm runs an on-farm market along Boston Turnpike (Route 44A) in Coventry, selling pumpkins and other seasonal items with agritourism visits available on site. It's a straightforward country stand, the kind travelers pass on their way toward the Willimantic area.

Coventry

Bolton

Lyndale Stand on Boston Turnpike in Bolton sells seasonal fruits and vegetables, pumpkins, jams, honey, maple syrup, and plants, along with Blue Seal feeds like hay, straw, and pine shavings. The stand changed ownership around 2018 and has past ties to the neighboring Lyndale Farms.

North Windham

Glastonbury

Rose's Berry Farm at Wickham Hill is a second location on Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury, sharing its name with the family's original pick-your-own farm on Matson Hill Road in South Glastonbury. No additional details specific to this location were found online.

South Glastonbury

Coventry

Cromwell

Phoenix Farm is a small farm stand on Nooks Hill Road in Cromwell, in the Connecticut River valley farmland between Middletown and Rocky Hill. No additional details were found online for this listing.

Glastonbury

Littel Acres Farm Market on Griswold Street in Glastonbury grows orchard fruit and berries, from tree-ripened peaches and strawberries to plums, nectarines, apricots, pears, and apples. The stand runs May through October with a fall corn maze, plus a bakery counter and ice cream service alongside hanging baskets and bedding plants.

Tolland

Little River Natives operates out of Lemek Farms on Goose Lane in Tolland, a farm stand in Connecticut's Tolland County growing region.

Gales Ferry

Peter Bargmann runs this farm market and greenhouse on Military Highway, growing annuals and perennials alongside vegetables picked the day they're sold. The stand also carries ice cream and keeps a small petting zoo for kids, drawing regulars back for the produce prices as much as the plants. Open seasonally in Gales Ferry, near the Thames River.

Manchester

Botticello Farms has worked the same ground in Manchester since 1973 and calls itself the last operating farm left in town. The family grows what it sells, vegetables, herbs, annual and perennial flowers, across more than 50,000 square feet of greenhouse space in spring, then shifts to Christmas trees and wreaths by winter. Open Monday through Saturday 8am-7pm, Sunday 8am-6pm.

Storrs

Mike's Fruit Stand has sold fresh produce in Mansfield since 1974, running its stand on Storrs Road near the UConn campus at the town's four corners.

Gales Ferry

East Hartford

Scotland

Preston

Blueberry Intervale grows certified-organic blueberries at 23 Route 165 in Preston, open for pick-your-own or already-picked berries by the pint through the summer. The farm bakes goods daily and makes its own jam from the same fruit, sold right alongside the berries at the stand. No sprays, no shortcuts, just the fruit and whatever they've turned it into that morning.

Rocky Hill

Gilbert Farm grows its own sweet corn and strawberries on Elm Street in Rocky Hill, picking corn daily through the season and strawberries fresh each June. The stand also carries pumpkins in fall, spring bulb flowers like tulips and daffodils, and holiday wreaths in winter.

Rocky Hill

Tolland

The Tolland location of Johnny Appleseed Farm sits on Hartford Turnpike and carries the same seasonal lineup as its Ellington sister farm: pick-your-own apples and peaches, a fall pumpkin patch and corn maze, plus jams, honey, maple syrup, and dairy products at the retail stand.

Tolland

Wright's Orchard sits on South River Road in Tolland, where visitors pick apples, blueberries, raspberries, pumpkins, and flowers straight from the fields, or buy them already picked at the stand. The farm keeps shorter fall hours — Thursday through Tuesday, 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., with Sunday starting at 1 — and stays open into December for pumpkins and late-season stock.

Rocky Hill

Hayes Farm has raised livestock in Rocky Hill since 1868, selling grass-fed Angus beef, farm-raised pork, chicken, and goat meat with no antibiotics, hormones, or fillers. The Hayes Road farm store also carries eggs, dairy, and honey, open afternoons Wednesday through Tuesday and all day on weekends.

Middlefield

Lisbon

Wildowsky Dairy has processed milk in Lisbon since 1942, when Stanley and Doris Wildowsky started delivering door to door across eastern Connecticut. Three generations later, Stanley and grandson Randy still run the farm store off I-395, making ice cream from their own herd's milk and cream and churning what they call the only farmstead butter produced in the state. The stand also carries hormone- and antibiotic-free milk, beef, and pork.

Ellington

Dzen Garden Market sells seasonal fruits and vegetables, jams, honey, maple syrup, and plants from its stand on Windsorville Road in Ellington. It's a small farm-direct operation, restocked through the growing season as different crops come in.

Ellington

The Burke family raises all-natural Angus beef with no added hormones on their Wapping Wood Road farm, alongside an on-farm market selling pumpkins, honey, maple syrup, jams, plants, dairy products, and seasonal vegetables. It's a working cattle operation first, with the farm stand built around whatever else the family has on hand that season. Look for them on Facebook for real-time updates on what's currently in stock.

Durham

Deerfield Farm runs an on-farm market on Parmelee Hill Road in Durham, selling pumpkins, farm-raised meats, and other specialty products direct from the property. The farm also opens up for agritourism visits, giving people a reason to make the drive out beyond just shopping.

Ellington

J.T. Farms in Ellington raises grass- and grain-fed cattle on pasture and sells the beef by the cut, from tenderloin and ribeye to sirloin, skirt steak, burgers, and chorizo. The family-run farm on West Road also picks fresh produce daily and sells poultry alongside its beef program.

Ellington

Johnny Appleseed Farm has run pick-your-own apple and peach orchards in Ellington since 1989, with a retail stand on West Road selling sweet corn, pumpkins, and cider donuts made on site. Fall brings wagon rides and a corn maze alongside the orchard picking, which runs mid-July through December.

Broad Brook

Dzen Brothers Farm sells jams, honey, maple syrup, plants, and seasonal fruits and vegetables from its farm stand on Barber Hill Road in Broad Brook. It's a straightforward roadside market, no frills, just what's in season that week.

Guilford

Wethersfield

Bob's Farm Market sits along the Berlin Turnpike commercial strip in Wethersfield, a farm-stand-style stop for seasonal produce in a stretch of Connecticut better known for car dealerships and big-box stores.

Ashford

Ellington