Farms Near Cookeville, TN

Cookeville

The Cookeville Green Market is a year-round, producer-only, member-run farmers market featuring organically grown produce and local artisans' goods.

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Cookeville

A producers-only, member-run market focused on all-natural, non-GMO food, the Cookeville Green Market meets Saturdays year-round, plus a night market on the third Thursday. Vendors sell seasonal vegetables, meats, honey, jams, dairy, cut flowers, and woodworking, with live music from local players. Summer hours run 8 a.m. to noon; winter starts an hour later.

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A regenerative livestock farm at 2147 Herbert Garrett Road in Cookeville, on the Highland Rim between Nashville and Knoxville. The farm sells 100% grass-fed beef alongside pasture-raised chicken, lamb, turkey, and eggs, all raised without added hormones, antibiotics, or soy. Meat is ordered online through the farm and picked up at set locations across the region.

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Roughly 150 bison graze the 120 acres at Lazy G Ranch on Dodson Branch Road outside Cookeville. The Gaw family runs it as a working ranch and agritourism stop, with a store open Thursdays and Fridays selling bison meat, shirts, and novelties. School groups take wagon rides through the herd. Every December the ranch lights up for Christmas and stages a live nativity.

Baxter

DelMonaco Winery farms more than 20 acres of vineyards in Baxter and pours 14 wines, from the Whistle Stop Red to the sweet Jammin' Blackberry. Four-wine flights come with charcuterie boards, and the on-site Bistro serves food built around the wines. The calendar runs to vineyard tours, grape-picking days, and wine-train excursions. Find it on Lance Drive in Putnam County, with weekday happy hour from 3 to 6.

Sparta

Maze of Terror is a seasonal haunted corn maze and haunted-house attraction at 905 Zion Road in Cookeville, open Friday and Saturday nights through October. A hayride carries visitors to a wooded haunted trail before they work back through the maze. Admission has run about $10 for adults and $5 for kids 10 and under, with proceeds supporting the Dodson Branch Volunteer Fire Department.

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Rickman

Scarecrows & Haybales is a haunted-barn attraction on the Rickman-Monterey Highway in Rickman, in Overton County on Tennessee's Upper Cumberland. It's a seasonal Halloween operation built around a haunted barn, running its nights in October. No public website surfaced in a search, so check local listings or a Facebook page for this year's dates and hours.

Sparta

Clark Berries and More grows berries and produce on Hutchings College Road in Sparta, the White County seat in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland region. Berry picking here runs through late spring and summer. The farm's open days, crops, and pricing aren't posted online.

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Roberts Five Farm is on Board Valley Road near Sparta, the White County seat in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland. The area sits where the Highland Rim meets the plateau, good ground for cattle, hay, and seasonal produce. This listing gives no hours or storefront details, so reach the family directly to ask what the farm grows and whether visits are welcome.

Rickman

Little 8 Acres pairs a corn maze with a pumpkin patch on the Rickman/Monterey Highway (Route 293) in Rickman, an Overton County community near Livingston in the Upper Cumberland. It runs as a fall, family-focused stop. Specific dates and admission weren't posted in public listings.

Cookeville

Hidden Springs Orchard grows apples on Spring Creek Road outside Cookeville, on the Upper Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Knoxville. Beyond fresh fruit, the orchard is known in Tennessee's craft scene for pressing its apples into hard cider. Apple season runs late summer into fall, when orchards like this open for fruit and cider sales. Hours and which varieties are ready shift week to week, so contact the orchard before driving out.

An organic food co-op, flour mill, and bakery at 971 Smithville Highway in Sparta, stocking staples from more than 100 farmers and a dozen local artisans. The mill turns out fresh flour from heritage grains like Scotch Fife and Rouge de Bordeaux, and the bakery is known for its cinnamon rolls. It sits on the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau in White County.

Rickman

Ponies R Us is on Rickman Monterey Highway in Rickman, in Overton County in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland. The name points to ponies, likely rides or a petting operation for families. No website or listing detail was available to confirm what it offers or when.

Baxter

Faeryland's Farm sits on Shaw Branch Road in Baxter, a Putnam County town just west of Cookeville on the Upper Cumberland plateau. It's listed under agritourism. Public sources didn't detail its crops or what it opens to visitors.

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Granville

Granville

Bell Point Farms grows naturally raised vegetables—sweet corn, green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, and old heirloom varieties—on the Granville Highway a couple miles from the riverboat town of Granville. The season runs May through October, with sales at the farm and at the Cookeville and Jackson County farmers markets near the Cumberland River.

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Smithville

Set up behind Ace Hardware at 205 East Bryant Street in Smithville, this market carries locally grown produce, baked goods, smoked meat, eggs, honey, and crafts, and takes SNAP and EBT. It's a rural county market drawing growers from around DeKalb County. Call 615-597-8292 or follow the Facebook page for open days.

Livingston

Berry Ridge Farms grows berries off Highway 111 in Livingston, in the Upper Cumberland region of Overton County. Strawberries lead the Tennessee season in May, with blackberries and blueberries following through midsummer. The farm is listed for produce and agritourism, so its hours track the harvest. Call ahead to confirm what's ripe and whether picking is open.

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Crossville

Hard Luck Christmas Tree Farm stands on Sparta Highway (U.S. 70) between Crossville and Sparta, on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau in Cumberland County. Choose-and-cut tree farms across the plateau usually open the weekend after Thanksgiving and run through December, with varieties such as white pine, Virginia pine, and Leyland cypress common to the region. Confirm this farm's opening dates before making the drive.

Monterey

Living Springs Farm raises non-GMO grass-fed beef at 2243 Laurel Creek Road in Rock Island, on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The herd is a composite of Angus, Hereford, Gelbvieh, and Brahma, moved through fresh pasture on a rotational grazing system and raised without chemicals, antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. Beef sells by reservation direct from the farm.

Monterey

Schrock Honeyacres is on Schrock Lane in Monterey, a Cumberland Plateau town in Putnam County near a longstanding Mennonite farming community. The name points to a honey and beekeeping operation. Details on where and how they sell their honey aren't posted online.

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Whitleyville

A 229-acre farmstead at the end of Walnut Hollow Lane in Whitleyville, in Jackson County near the Clay County line. The land runs to pasture, open fields, hardwoods, year-round creeks and springs, with garden plots and a two-stall barn. It sits minutes from the Cumberland River, Cordell Hull Lake, and Dale Hollow Lake. Little else is documented online about what the farm currently sells.

Smithville

Carthage

Caney Fork Farms is a regenerative organic farm in middle Tennessee's heartland using carbon farming to grow healthy, affordable food that prioritizes people and planet. Organic vegetable farm shares, a regenerative meat CSA of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats, heritage turkeys, organic chestnuts, and prized honey reach members through Nashville-area pickups — a living laboratory measuring soil carbon along the way.

Brush Creek

Avans Farm Retreat is on Pig Branch Road in Brush Creek, a rural Smith County community in Middle Tennessee east of Lebanon. The "retreat" name points to a farm-stay or event use, though public listings didn't confirm lodging, events, or hours. No website or contact details were found.

Smithville

WeDoFarm grows pick-your-own strawberries and a rotating list of vegetables — beets, carrots, cucumbers, mustard greens, and turnips — on Bethel Road outside Smithville. The farm uses high tunnels to extend its growing season and adds a corn maze and pumpkins in the fall. Robert Ervin runs the operation, selling on-farm and online. Check the website or Facebook page before visiting to see what has been picked and what is ready.

Carthage

Bussell's Berries grows berries near Carthage, the Smith County seat set along the Cumberland River in Middle Tennessee. Depending on the season, small Tennessee berry farms like this offer strawberries in May, then blackberries and blueberries through June and July. Carthage sits about an hour east of Nashville off Interstate 40. Call ahead to check ripening and picking hours, which shift with the weather each year.

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