Farms Near Farmington, ME

Farmington

Sandy River Farms in Farmington operates as a market for more than 15 area farms rather than one grower alone, stocking fresh produce, farm milk and cream, yogurt, custard ice cream, pies, pastries, dry beans, and cheese under one roof. It stays open year-round and adds hayrides on weekends for families making a day of it.

Rustic Roots Farm shows up in Maine farm directories with no city or website attached, and searches turned up nothing specific to this operation beyond the name. "Rustic Roots" is a common name among small diversified farms raising vegetables, herbs, or livestock for local sale. Location, products, and hours are unconfirmed; check locally before visiting.

Farmington

Justa Alpaca Farm is on Farmington Falls Road in Farmington, the Franklin County seat in the western Maine foothills. The name indicates an alpaca operation, likely raising the animals for fiber or breeding stock, though herd size and farm-store hours aren't published online.

Farmington

Morrison Hill Orchard sits on Morrison Hill Road in Farmington, seat of Franklin County in Maine's western foothills. The name points to an apple operation, though no current website or hours are listed publicly.

Depot Street Meats runs a farm-to-counter butcher shop in Jay, built on 100% grass-fed and grass-finished Belted Galloway and Normande beef along with Katahdin lamb and pasture-raised heritage poultry. As a licensed dairy, the farm also makes raw cow and goat milk cheeses, yogurt, and kefir. Find them at the Farmington farmers market Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., or reach the farm at [email protected].

Wilton

This blueberry patch has grown highbush berries in Wilton since the mid-1940s, roughly 3,000 bushes across nine varieties, ripening early, mid, and late season with no pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides. New owners took over in 2020 and now run it as Thistle Moon Farmstead, adding cut flowers, herbs, vegetables, pumpkins, and gourds alongside the pick-your-own blueberries.

New Sharon

Firth's Fruit Farm operates on Intervale Road in New Sharon, a Franklin County town along the Sandy River. The name points to fruit as the focus, likely apples or berries common to the area, though no variety list or hours are published online.

Farmington

Farmington

Varney Family Farm grows Maine's native wild blueberries in the Chesterville-Farmington area, with picking open roughly late July into early August. Hours run Monday through Friday 8 to 5 and weekends 10 to 5, cash only. The farm takes part in the state's Wild Blueberry Weekend promotion each summer.

Pine Tree Poultry raises chicken, turkey, and beef on pasture in New Sharon, without growth hormones or antibiotics and on an all-vegetarian grain diet. Birds are raised from day-old chicks on the farm and processed at a state-licensed facility or USDA-approved plant. Beyond whole birds and cuts, they make pot pies, empanadas, sausage, and ground products. Order through [email protected] or call 207-778-2889.

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Livermore Falls

Berry Fruit Farm Market and Bakery runs a storefront on Main Street in Livermore Falls, sharing its name with a Berry Fruit Farm listed a few miles away on Crash Road in neighboring Livermore. No hours, product list, or contact details were confirmed online for this location.

Jay

A Jay farm selling wildflower, comb, raw and strained honey plus maple syrup, and running a dawn-to-dusk, honor-system highbush blueberry field priced at $4 a quart with the box included.

Mount Vernon

Strong

Day Mountain Maple Products is on Farmington Road in Strong, a Franklin County town in the foothills of the western Maine mountains. The name indicates a maple syrup operation, though production details and sale hours aren't published online.

Livermore

Berry Fruit Farm grows fruit on Crash Road in Livermore, sharing its name with the Berry Fruit Farm Market and Bakery a few miles away on Main Street in neighboring Livermore Falls. No hours, crop list, or contact details were confirmed online for this Crash Road location.

Strong

Fayette

Beaten Path Farm is at 188 Gile Road in Fayette, a rural Kennebec County town near Androscoggin Lake. No crop list, hours, or contact details are published online.

Strong

Smith Ridge Maine is an agritourism listing on Taylor Hill Road in Strong, a small Franklin County town in the foothills of the western mountains. No details on activities, hours, or contact info were confirmed online.

Fayette

Steep Hill Farm sits on Clyde Wells Road in Fayette, a small farming town in the Belgrade Lakes region of Kennebec County. No public listing spells out what's grown or sold here, or when it's open, so calling ahead before the drive is the safest bet.

Wayne

Wayne

Stevenson's Farm started on one acre in 1974 and has grown to roughly 130 acres of pick-your-own strawberries, with pumpkins added later in the season. Berry picking typically runs late June through mid-July, daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., weather and ripeness depending. The farm is handicap accessible and takes credit cards.

Livermore

Shackley Hill Orchard is on Shackley Hill Road in Livermore, a Franklin County hill town also home to the Norlands Living History Center. No fruit list or hours are published online.

Norridgewock

Berry Basket Farm is on Valley Road in Norridgewock, a Somerset County town on the Kennebec River. It's listed under agritourism and produce, consistent with its name, though specific berry varieties and season dates aren't published online.

Livermore

Boothby's grows strawberries, blueberries and pick-your-own apples alongside grass-fed Hereford beef, fresh-baked breads and local cheeses, with apple wine, sweet corn, mums and jams rounding out the farm market. The market runs Thursday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm, seasonally from August into October, and the property also hosts Sunday wagon rides and weddings.

Livermore

Century Elm Farms, Inc. is registered at 366 Boothby Road in Livermore, a Franklin County hill town in western Maine. Incorporated rather than run as a sole proprietorship, it carries an agritourism listing with no published crop list or hours.

Readfield

Norridgewock

Fenton's Orchard traces back to 1852 and has stayed in the Fenton family for most of that time, aside from a 30-year fallow stretch before Francis W. Fenton revived it in 1972 after retiring from the Navy. More than 40 apple varieties grow here, pick-your-own or pre-bagged, with the farm open 9 to 5, seven days a week.

Phillips

Masterman Farm grows organic highbush blueberries on River Road in Avon, just south of the Phillips bridge, and opens for pick-your-own at $4 a quart during the first two weeks of August. The sales barn on the property dates to around 1860 and is the oldest known free-standing barn in Avon, still standing after the original farmhouse burned in 1967. Berries also show up at the Phillips Farmers Market and area grocery stores.

Levesque's Organic Farm in Leeds has sold MOFGA-certified organic produce since 1993, when Paul and Suzanne Levesque started the operation. The farm grows vegetables, fruit, and log-grown mushrooms, raises free-range poultry, and boils its own maple syrup, selling through a CSA, senior farm shares, SNAP-eligible purchases, and an on-site stand. Wholesale accounts carry the surplus to other local stores.

Readfield

A roughly 2.5-acre pick-your-own operation in Readfield growing blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, with quick breads, jams, beeswax hand creams and honey products sold alongside the fruit.

Mount Vernon

Jeff and Sandi Wiles run Mt Nebo Orchards' pick-your-own operation for apples, peaches, plums, pears, cherries, and pumpkins. Their broader Pine Bluff Farms also raises pork, chicken, beef, and turkey, sold at an on-farm market at 183 Pond Road. A second location operates in Rome, Maine, on Augusta Road.

Belgrade

Winterberry Farm is a certified organic, 40-acre property in the Belgrade Lakes region with a farm store built into a Victorian farmhouse. The stand has sold pies and preserves like dilly beans made from ingredients grown or foraged on-site, and the farm has offered winter sleigh rides for visitors. Ownership has changed hands in recent years, so current offerings are worth confirming directly.

Madison

Madison Farmers' Market sets up in Main Street Park, across from Skowhegan Savings Bank, in this Somerset County mill town on the Kennebec River. No independently verifiable schedule or vendor details turned up online beyond the address on file.

Readfield

Kents Hill Orchard is on Main Street in Readfield, in the Kents Hill village that also gives the private school there its name. The orchard designation suggests apples, but no current hours or contact details turn up online.

North New Portland

Trinity Farm Bed & Breakfast is listed as an agritourism lodging stop in North New Portland, a Somerset County farm town in the foothills west of Kingfield. No rates, rooms, or booking details appear online beyond the listing itself.

Readfield

The Berry Road u-pick fields of this small Readfield operation, where customers pick their own blueberries, raspberries and blackberries by the pound. The farm also sells its own jams and beeswax hand creams at the stand.

Norridgewock

Smith's Blueberries is a u-pick blueberry farm on Ward Hill Road in Norridgewock, a Somerset County town on the Kennebec River. Beyond the pick-your-own blueberries the name promises, no current hours or contact information are listed publicly.

Winthrop

Whit's Apples is on Case Road in Winthrop, a Kennebec County town in Maine's lakes region. The name indicates an orchard operation, though a variety list and picking-season hours aren't published online.

Nezinscot Farm in Turner runs 250 acres of organic pasture and fields, then turns the harvest into more businesses than most farms attempt at once: a CSA program, a gourmet food shop, a café, a bakery, a cheese-making operation, and a fiber studio spinning wool from its own animals. The James Beard Foundation has taken notice of the farm-to-table work happening here.

Manchester

Lakeside Orchards grows McIntosh, Cortland, Macoun, and Honeycrisp apples on Readfield Road in Manchester, with a farm market, bakery counter, pick-your-own hours, and gift boxes built around the harvest. The market opens daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fall is the busy season, but the bakery and market side keep the doors open well beyond apple picking.

Monmouth

Friends' Folly Farm is on Norris Hill Road in Monmouth, a Kennebec County town known for its lake and its summer stock theater at Cumston Hall. No crop list, products, or hours are published online for this listing.

Sidney

Bacon Farm sits at the intersection of Goodhue Road and Route 23 in Sidney, a Kennebec County farm town a few miles from the Belgrade Lakes. No crop list, hours, or contact information are on record publicly.

Madison

North Star Orchards farms 35 acres above the Kennebec River, with the Bigelow Mountains on the horizon. Pick-your-own apple season runs late August through mid-October; the farm store stays open from mid-April through Christmas Eve, selling cider, preserves, pumpkins, baked goods, and greenhouse plants. The orchard uses Integrated Crop Management rather than blanket spraying.

Ricker Hill Orchards has grown apples in Turner since 1803 and is now on its ninth generation of the same family doing it. Visitors pick their own or buy pre-picked, then work through maple donuts at the farm store, or a glass of Ricker Hill Mainiac Hard Cider from the on-site cidery. The orchard also ships apples to Hannaford and Shaw's shelves across four states.

Monmouth

Kelley Farm and Greenhouse has run a greenhouse and nursery operation in Monmouth for more than 30 years, open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's a source for bedding plants and greenhouse-grown starts rather than a pick-your-own stop, with several u-pick berry farms nearby if that's what you're after.

Skowhegan

Screamin Mimi's Perfect Pickins is on West Front Street in Skowhegan, the Somerset County seat on the Kennebec River. The name suggests a pick-your-own produce stand, though a crop list and picking season aren't published online.

Monmouth

Monmouth

Fox Farm sits on Gilman Road in Monmouth, a Kennebec County town between Winthrop and Litchfield. It's listed as agritourism; no crop, livestock, or visiting details are published online.

Greene

Wilbur's Antique Blackberry Farm, on Key Hill Road in Greene, grows heirloom blackberry varieties in this Androscoggin County town between Auburn and Winthrop. It's listed under both agritourism and produce, though current picking hours aren't published online.

Wolf Creek Farm runs a year-round store in Sidney selling USDA-certified grass-fed beef by the quarter, half, or whole cow, along with all-natural pork and chicken. The multi-generational operation also carries seasonal vegetables, Maine maple syrup, and homemade jams in blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, and peach. Baked goods and other local specialty items round out the shelves at 26 Blake Road.

Maine Grains stone-mills organic and heritage grains at 42 Court Street in Skowhegan, turning out fresh flour, whole grains, beans, oats, and pancake mixes for home bakers and wholesale accounts. The mill has run exclusively on stone-milling since 2012, sourcing from farms across the Northeast and holding USDA Organic, MOFGA, and Non-GMO certification. The building also houses The Millers Table, serving sourdough, pizza, and pasta made from their own flour.

The Milkhouse is a certified organic dairy and creamery on 280 acres in Monmouth, 150 of them in hay and pasture for its Jersey herd. Raw milk and yogurt are the mainstays, with beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and occasional cheese rounding out the farm's offerings. Caitlin Frame and Andy Smith founded the operation in 2015. Reach them at [email protected] or 207-933-8184.

Hebron

Troika Drafts breeds, trains, and sells draft horses on a 100-plus-acre farm in Hebron, with a focus on Shires and the standing stallion New England Bomber. Owner Vicki Schmidt runs it as New England's only full-service draft horse facility, with an on-site harness shop, carriage shop, and farrier services. The farm has since added vegetable and flower gardens sold locally.

Fairfield

Steven and Marilyn Meyerhans have run this Fairfield orchard since 1973, on land that passed from the Coffin family to the Wentworths, who planted the first trees. McIntosh apples are the specialty, with picking open September into October and the retail store running mid-August through November. A pumpkin patch rounds out the fall lineup.

Buckfield

Maple Crest Farm is on Paris Hill Road in Buckfield, an Oxford County town in Maine's western foothills. The name suggests a maple syrup operation, though sugarhouse hours and product details aren't published online.

Turner

Rupert Berry Farm grows berries on Wilson Hill Road in Turner, an Androscoggin County town with more working dairy and produce farms per capita than almost anywhere else in Maine. Specific varieties, hours, and contact information for this farm aren't published online.

Hallowell

The Maine Accent is an agritourism listing on Shady Lane in Hallowell, a small Kennebec River city just south of Augusta. No details on what it offers, hours, or contact info were confirmed online.

The Farmers' Market at Mill Park runs May through October along the Kennebec River in Augusta, afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m. Augusta also runs a separate winter market at an indoor location once the Mill Park season ends in the fall.