Farms Near Fairfield, CA

Fairfield

Il Fiorello presses extra virgin olive oil from certified organic groves that Ann and Mark Sievers planted in Green Valley and Suisun Valley, the stretch of countryside between Fairfield and Napa. Alongside the oil, the tasting room sells flavored balsamic vinegars, local honey, wine, and craft beer, and pours daily from 11am to 5pm. Guided tastings and farm tours run through the orchard and mill, where visitors can see the pressing process firsthand.

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Larry's Produce has run a Suisun Valley farm stand since owners Larry and Lisa Balestra opened it with a simple goal: sell the basics people actually need. The stand grows a range of fruit and vegetables locally and fills gaps with produce from the San Francisco terminal market, open daily except Wednesdays, mid-June through the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Call 707-864-8068.

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Shooting Star Organic Farm is a 15-acre CCOF-certified operation in Suisun Valley's Gordon Valley growing produce for its own farm market, a CSA program, and local farmers markets. The farm focuses on sustainable growing practices across its Fairfield acreage. Reach them at 707-207-0548 or [email protected].

Fairfield

Larry's Produce stocks a roadside stand in the Suisun Valley with fruit and vegetables grown nearby, open every day but Wednesday from June through December. Locals call it one of the valley's biggest produce stops, with hours running 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The stand reopens each spring; check the farm's Facebook page for the exact date the season starts.

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Suisun Valley's wine and farm country sits in Solano County between San Francisco and Sacramento, where more than a dozen member wineries pour tastings alongside farm stands selling produce grown right along Suisun Valley Road. The growers' association behind the region organizes u-pick days, winemaker dinners, and live music through the season without the crowds of Napa or Sonoma.

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Main produce is strawberries. In season, we have more berries and veggies such as onion, garlic, broccoli, and tomatoes.

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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.

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Vacaville

Soul Food Farm is a family-run operation on Pleasants Valley Road in Vacaville, growing lavender, cut flowers, and specialty vegetables and pressing olive oil, alongside a small sheep flock raised for yarn. Alexis and Eric bought the land more than two decades ago and shifted from pastured chickens toward this more diversified, regenerative mix starting in 2012. The farm stand runs Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March through November.

Vacaville

Sweet Pea's Pumpkin Patch is on Alamo Drive in Vacaville, Solano County, in the flat farmland between Sacramento and the Bay Area. Vacaville's warm Central Valley summers give way to a reliable fall pumpkin season, and the town runs several seasonal patches each October.

Held Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon, year-round, near Main and Davis Streets in downtown Vacaville. The market mixes certified farm stands with prepared-food vendors, artisans, and local wineries and breweries. New sellers can sign on as annual, seasonal, or week-to-week vendors.

Vacaville

Pleasants Valley Iris Farm grows more than 400 varieties of Tall Bearded iris in its viewing garden outside Vacaville, including reblooming and scented types. Rhizomes are hand-dug and shipped directly from the farm every August. Peak bloom runs April through May, when the farm opens its gardens to visitors — the owners say to bring a picnic lunch and stay a while rather than just walk through.

VACAVILLE

Nut Tree Certified Farmers Market sets up at Nut Tree Plaza on East Monte Vista Avenue in Vacaville, the retail center built on the site of a roadside walnut stand that grew from a 1920s orchard fruit stand into a Northern California landmark before its redevelopment. Vendor list and hours aren't confirmed online.

Vacaville

Bar J Ranch is a u-pick apple orchard on Cantelow Road outside Vacaville, growing apples across the property for pick-your-own visitors during fall harvest. Listings describe it as a working produce farm rather than an event venue, though current hours and varieties are thin online — call ahead before the drive.

Napa

Beekeeper Spencer Marshall has harvested raw, unfiltered honey in American Canyon since 1989, building Marshall's Farm Honey into a Bay Area staple over more than three decades. The honey is never heated or cooked, and the shop also carries bee pollen, honeycomb, and kosher-certified varieties. It started as a side business selling to Bay Area restaurants and grew from there.

Downtown Napa's certified farmers market runs Saturdays year-round, 8 a.m. to noon, with an added Tuesday market during the growing season (April through December). Regional growers sell produce and flowers alongside vendors offering specialty foods and artisan goods. It operates in a city lot in downtown Napa, in wine country, but produce and flowers are the actual draw.

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Urban Homestead sits on Laurel Street in Napa. Beyond the name and address, no independent website or listing turned up confirming current products or hours, so treat this as a lead worth calling ahead on.

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.

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American Canyon

American Canyon's Sunday farmers market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 100 Benton Way, next to the community center and Donaldson Way Elementary. The American Canyon Parks Foundation helped bring the market to the city, working with PCFMA to book local growers selling seasonal fruit, vegetables, and artisan cheese. Call for vendor or sponsorship questions.

Vallejo

This certified market runs every Friday, 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine, on the Kaiser Permanente campus at 975 Sereno Drive in Vallejo. Local growers bring fresh, California-grown produce to hospital patients, staff, and the surrounding neighborhood every week, with no seasonal closures.

Vacaville

Menagerie Hill Ranch is a family-run alpaca farm in Vacaville raising around 29 alpacas alongside a small number of llamas. Owners Deb Galway and Kirk Howard run appointment-only tours where visitors feed and handle the animals, and operate a farm store selling alpaca fiber products. The ranch also sells breeding stock and offers mentoring for people looking to start their own alpaca operation, drawing on more than 20 years of experience.

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Vallejo

Runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Georgia and Marin Streets in downtown Vallejo, one of the Bay Area markets operated by the nonprofit Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association. Solano County growers sell produce a few blocks from the waterfront along the Carquinez Strait.

Benicia

Suisun City

The Western Railway Museum, a nonprofit rail-history museum in Suisun City since 1946, runs a vintage train out to Gum Grove Farm each fall for its Pumpkin Patch Festival. The ride includes pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, a zipline, tractor rides, and a hay fort, plus live music on weekends in October. Call ahead for the current year's dates and hours before visiting.

A certified farmers market serving the Solano and Napa County area, where Central Valley and North Bay growers sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers.

Benicia's Thursday market has run along the Historic Waterfront since 1993, making it the largest independent certified farmers market in Solano County. Peak-season hours run 4 to 8 p.m. through late August, then shift to 4 to 7 p.m. through October as daylight shortens. Beyond produce, tables cover specialty foods, artisan goods, and live music most weeks. Benicia Main Street runs it.

Winters

Winters

Morgan's of California is based on Canal Lane in Winters, a Yolo County farm town known for almonds, olives, and apricots along Putah Creek. No product list or contact details were confirmed online.

Crockett

Crockett is a small Carquinez Strait town built around the C&H Sugar refinery, which still operates as C&H's headquarters today, though it now processes imported raw sugar rather than the Hawaiian cane it ran on for most of the 20th century. This market serves Crockett and neighboring Port Costa, two of Contra Costa County's smallest communities.

Martinez

Martinez Farmers' Market takes over Main Street Plaza at Main and Estudillo Streets in downtown Martinez, the Contra Costa County seat on the Carquinez Strait. It's a walkable downtown market serving the East Bay's northern edge.

Concord

Fresh Approach is a Concord nonprofit that runs mobile farmers markets across the Bay Area with 50% off produce for CalFresh and EBT shoppers. Its VeggieRx program pairs fresh produce with nutrition coaching, and its Community Ambassador Program trains local residents for food-system jobs. The group also tends community gardens, including one in East Palo Alto, and has worked in food access since 2008.

Martinez

The Martinez farmers' market sets up Sundays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 2500 Alhambra Avenue under the Contra Costa Certified Farmers Market program. Tables carry fresh produce, meat, and dairy from local farms alongside goods from area artisans. It draws a loyal following, the market's Facebook page has grown to nearly 4,700 followers.

Winters

Also known as Blue Ridge Pomegranates, this family-owned organic farm outside Winters grows roughly 4,000 pomegranate trees on Jaybee Lane. It keeps limited hours, open to visitors only on weekends, 8am to noon Saturday and Sunday, with fruit typically ready in fall.

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Alhambra Valley Beef and Pears is a small family ranch in the Alhambra Valley/Briones agricultural preserve near Martinez, formed from two neighboring family ranches joined by marriage in 1941. The ranch raises 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef with no grain, pastured pork on a locally milled feed, chickens, and pears, with a commitment to humane livestock handling.

Dixon

Family-owned since 1979, Silveyville Road runs two seasons back to back: a fall pumpkin patch with over 20 varieties, a corn maze, and hayrides, then a choose-and-cut Christmas tree lot with over 10,000 trees including Oregon Noble and Nordmann fir. A one-acre duck pond and farm animals stay on-site year to year, and the farm is dog-friendly.

Dixon

SustainaBee, a division of Dixon Bee Company, keeps hives along Silveyville Road and additional apiaries in Sebastopol and Healdsburg. The operation focuses on honeybee health, hive hosting, and educational visits, alongside seasonal raw honey harvested, bottled, and labeled on-site. It's a working apiary business more than a public attraction, though visits can be arranged.

Dixon

Araceli Farms is on Pitt School Road outside Dixon, California, in the flat farmland of Solano County between Sacramento and the Bay Area, a region built on row crops and the annual Dixon May Fair.

Concord

Concord runs two farmers markets a week under the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Thursdays 4 to 8 p.m., both in Todos Santos Plaza downtown. PCFMA is a longtime certified-market operator across the Bay Area, meaning every stall is required to sell only what the vendor actually grows or raises — no resellers.

Dixon

Dixon

Silveyville has grown Christmas trees and pumpkins on Silveyville Road in Dixon since 1979, with 20 acres now given over to more than 20 pumpkin varieties come fall and cut-your-own or pre-cut trees in December. The farm runs a corn maze, hayrides, a one-acre duck pond, and a petting area, plus free popcorn and hot cider by the fire pit.

Pittsburg

Old Town Pittsburg's certified market sets up on Railroad Avenue at East 6th Street, Saturdays from roughly 9am to 1pm, May through October. Shoppers find the usual seasonal produce mix plus cheese, honey, and eggs from Northern California growers, in a stretch of downtown that's walkable from the historic depot area. It's seasonal — it doesn't run through winter.

Pleasant Hill

Pleasant Hill Farmers' Market sets up on Trelany Road in this Contra Costa County suburb east of Walnut Creek. Vendor list, market day, and hours aren't confirmed online.

Pinole

The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this Saturday market, 9am to 1pm, year-round, at Fernandez Avenue. It's one of more than 30 certified markets PCFMA operates across the Bay Area, all built around the same rule — vendors have to grow or make what they're selling, no resellers. A steady, no-frills produce market rather than a festival-style event.

Dixon

Lambtown is an annual festival built around sheep, lamb, and wool, held the first full weekend in October at the Dixon May Fairgrounds. The two-day event runs about 100 craft booths and 20 food vendors alongside shearing, spinning, weaving, and dyeing demonstrations, plus judged competitions for wool and livestock. It's organized by a local committee and sits roughly halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco off Interstate 80.

Bondolio presses Sicilian-variety olives into extra virgin olive oil at its own mill in Winters, California, moving hand-harvested fruit from tree to press in under 90 minutes to limit oxidation. The estate grows three Sicilian olive cultivars and blends them into one signature oil rather than selling single-varietal bottles.

Walnut Creek

Diablo Valley's certified market operates in the Shadelands area of Walnut Creek, run by the California Farmers' Markets Association — the nonprofit behind 15 certified markets across the Bay Area, all restricted to vendors selling what they personally grow or raise.

Dixon

Cool Patch Pumpkins holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest corn maze, hand-redesigned with a new theme every year on this family-run farm between Sacramento and San Francisco. Beyond the maze, visitors pick their own pumpkins and gourds, ride the hay wagon, and grab tri-tip sandwiches from the food stand. Open daily 9am to 8pm during fall season.

Sonoma

Sonoma Broadway Farms is on Broadway in the city of Sonoma, in the middle of Sonoma Valley's wine and produce country. Broadway runs south from the historic plaza toward Highway 121, past a mix of tasting rooms and small agricultural parcels.

Cloverfield Organic Farm is a small, USDA-certified biointensive u-pick operation tucked into the hills of El Sobrante. It's open Fridays through Sundays, with no entrance or parking fee, for picking your own organic produce alongside potted plants, dried herbs, seeds, and raw honey. Hours run seasonally — noon to 5 during daylight saving time, 11 to 4 in winter.

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Davis

Three Palms operated as Yolo County's only wholesale production nursery out of Davis for 30 years before closing permanently on March 31, 2019. Older directory listings still reference the County Road 95A address, but the business is no longer active.

Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek

Set up outside the cafeteria at Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek Medical Center on South Main Street, this certified market runs every Tuesday, 10am to 2pm, year-round. Local growers bring fresh produce, organic items, and crafts to the campus grounds, drawing hospital staff and East Bay shoppers to a weekly stop between Main Street and the medical center.

Winters

Henry's Bullfrog Bees & Pure Honey is based in Winters, in Yolo County's almond and stone-fruit belt west of Sacramento — an area with some of the heaviest managed-hive traffic in the state during almond bloom.

Richards Regenerative — five generations of California ranchers with roots outside Sacramento since 1941 — raises American Grassfed Certified beef that also carries the Savory Institute's Land-to-Market Ecological Outcome Verification. Launched as Richards Ranch Meats in 2014 to sell directly to customers, the ranch now ships ground beef bundles, ribeyes, New York steaks, and country blends nationwide.