Farms Near Columbus, IN

Known today as the Columbus Farmers Market, this Saturday market runs 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., May through September, in the parking lot behind City Hall at 123 Washington Street. It's a rain-or-shine, dog-friendly market with produce, baked goods, and crafts from area growers, plus a city bus stop one block over at 2nd and Lafayette for anyone arriving without a car.

Columbus Farmers Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., May 9 through September 19, at 123 Washington St., just south of City Hall in downtown Columbus. Leashed dogs are welcome, and the market sits one block from the ColumBUS transit stop at 2nd and Lafayette. Call (812) 376-2680 for vendor details.

Columbus

Seven Acre Farms runs a CSA out of Columbus, offering goat milk and cheese shares alongside pastured chicken, turkey, rabbit, and free-range eggs. The animals are raised without antibiotics or hormones, fed on pasture and supplemented with locally grown produce and hay. Shares are available through the farm directly or at the Columbus farmers market on Saturdays.

Columbus

Sand Creek Berry Farm is a u-pick berry operation in Columbus, listed on regional pick-your-own directories rather than running its own website. Details on exact berry varieties and hours are thin online, so calling ahead before a visit is the safer bet for anyone driving out.

Columbus

Columbus City Farmers' Market is organized through the NexusPark office at 2252 25th St. in Columbus, the same office that runs the city's Saturday market season from May through September. The market itself sets up behind City Hall rather than at this administrative address. Call (812) 376-2680 for vendor and schedule details.

Columbus

Columbus

Bartholomew Pumpkin Company runs a pumpkin patch outside Columbus, named for the county it sits in rather than a family. Details beyond the address and phone number are thin online, so the seasonal specifics — hours, pricing, what's actually on offer — are worth confirming with a call before driving out.

Wischmeier Nursery has operated in the Columbus area since 1986, growing from a single trailer into a full garden center with working greenhouses. The business focuses on plants, trees, and general gardening stock for home growers, open Monday through Friday 9 to 5 and Saturday 9 to 4. It's a straightforward local nursery, not a big-box garden chain.

Columbus

Elsbury's Greenhouses is a nursery operation on State Road 9 in the Brown County area. It doesn't turn up in business directories or on social media under that name, so details beyond location and type are thin — worth a call to confirm current hours and what's in stock.

Hope

Hope's farmers market sets up on the Town Square at Harrison and Washington Streets, a small seasonal market organizer Jessica Jacobs runs to bring growers and makers together in this Bartholomew County town. Recent seasons ran Wednesday afternoons; for 2026 the plan is one or two markets a month pending Town Council approval, so check Facebook before making the trip.

Walnut St. & St. Louis Ave. Seymour

Downtown Seymour runs two markets in one: a full Saturday market from 8 a.m. to noon and a smaller Wednesday "MarketLite" from 4 to 6 p.m., both May through September at Walnut Street and St. Louis Avenue. Vendors sell home-grown produce, eggs, and meats alongside artisan breads and handicrafts made by area residents. An indoor version continues once a month through the winter.

Seymour

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Clark's Berry Farm in North Vernon has stayed in the same family for more than 100 years, growing strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries for u-pick or pre-picked sale. Pumpkins join the lineup in fall. It's a straightforward roadside operation off West 350 South in Jennings County.

North Vernon

North vernon

Trafalgar

Hickoryworks operates as a food hub on Peoga Road outside Trafalgar — a pickup point where local producers' meat, produce, and pantry goods reach customers who order online rather than a farm stand you drive to browse. It runs through the Butter & Sage Market network, which lets small Johnson County farms sell without staffing their own storefront every week.

Trafalgar

The Apple Works in Trafalgar has long run as a family apple orchard and pumpkin patch, with a bakery open spring through fall alongside seasonal vegetables and fall festival activities. Recent listings mark the property as temporarily closed or for sale, so confirm status before planning a visit.

Westport

Harper Valley Farms, doing business as Grandma Pearcy's Hilltop Home, works an 8-acre pumpkin patch in Westport alongside a working farm that raises hogs and cattle and grows corn and soybeans. Fall brings pick-your-own pumpkins, a sunflower field, a petting zoo, and more than 1,900 mums planted by hand, plus frozen pork, honey, and feed sold from the farm store.

Westport

Westport

Harper Valley Farms runs 400-plus acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat alongside hogs and cattle, with an 8-acre u-pick pumpkin patch carved out each fall. The family's been farming this land since the 1940s, when Albert's grandfather grew tomatoes for local canneries; today they also sell frozen pork and beef, honey, and around 1,900 mums a season. Cash or check only, no cards, which tells you how long this operation has been running the same way.

Brown County Homegrown & Homemade Village Market sets up on Main Street in Nashville, the artisan-heavy tourist village at the center of Brown County. In keeping with the town's craft-and-studio economy, the market pairs local produce with handmade goods; current vendor lineup and hours were not independently confirmed online.

Franklin

Dougherty Farm Fresh Beef is a family operation in Johnson County, 15 miles south of Indianapolis, raising a small Angus herd for flavorful, tender grain-fed beef without growth hormones, implants, or antibiotic injections. The cattle have year-round access to pasture and barns, and visitors are welcome with a call ahead.

SHELBYVILLE

Shelbyville

Saturdays, 8am-noon, roughly May through September, right on Public Square at the corner of West Washington and Harrison in downtown Shelbyville. Running since 2007 and sponsored by Duke Energy, it mixes locally raised produce and flowers with live music as part of downtown's ongoing revitalization push.

Shelbyville

The Blue River Valley Pioneer Fair turns the Shelby County Fairgrounds into a living-history village set between 1822 and 1865, with costumed demonstrators showing the trades that got early settlers through an Indiana winter. The Shelby County Historical Society and the Grover Museum run it every September, with hands-on games for kids alongside the pioneer crafts.

Morgantown

Franklin

Randy and Linda Stout keep Melody Acres running the way it has since 1918, though the farm shifted from row crops back toward produce that shows up on Franklin-area restaurant menus and farmers market tables. Fall squash, carving pumpkins, and tomatoes are the mainstays. The farm also opens its fields for community gleaning days — volunteers once hauled off 500 pounds of tomatoes for local food pantries in a single afternoon.

Morgantown

Zink Berry Farm grows blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries on 95 acres without pesticides or herbicides, and lets customers pick their own or buy berries already off the bush. The same land supports a herd of Kiko and Kiko-Boer goats, which kid every February and go up for sale in May. It's open daylight to dark, seven days a week, during the growing season. Call ahead in the off months, since picking days depend entirely on what's ripe.

Whiteland

Fairland

Autumn Hill breeds llamas on a small farm in Fairland, focused on straight conformation and fine suri-type fiber rather than volume. The herd has picked up recognition from the American Llama & Alpaca Association, and the farm keeps a waiting list for crias because demand for its bloodlines outpaces what a small operation can produce. Farm visits are welcome by arrangement.

Whiteland

Kelsay Farms has stayed in the same family since 1837, seven generations now, and the fall season centers on a seven-acre corn maze with a built-in scavenger hunt. The "Moo Choo" tractor train hauls visitors past calves, goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, and miniature horses, and kids tend to gravitate toward the Hay Bale Mountain and bounce pillow before anything else. The 2026 fall season opens September 25, running weekends through the season.

Vallonia

Waldron

The Freed Farm raises pasture-raised chicken and rich-yolked brown eggs in small flocks on non-GMO feed in Greensburg, Indiana. Thursday home delivery reaches greater Indianapolis, Columbus, and Greensburg, and the family sells full-time at Indianapolis farmers markets including Garfield Park, Monument Circle's Original Farmers' Market, and Fort Ben.

Deputy

Mark and Becky Eberts grow more than 300 varieties of daylilies on an 1838 farm in southern Jennings County, breeding new hybrids alongside the registered varieties they sell. Visitors can walk the fields during bloom season, and the farm sells both mature registered daylilies and seedlings for home gardens.

Martinsville

Beasley Creek Farms is a u-pick operation on St. John Road in Martinsville, growing corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, pumpkins, and cut flowers for visitors to harvest themselves. The farm keeps hours seasonally as crops come ready, so a call ahead is worth it before driving out.

Bloomington

Woods Edge Farm is listed in Indiana's farm directory. Its former web domain is no longer active and no products or contact details could be confirmed online. Contact the farm directly to verify current offerings.

BLOOMINGTON

BLOOMINGTON

Bloomington