Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Farmington, ME

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fairfield

A family-owned, pesticide-free u-pick highbush blueberry operation on Bickford Drive in Fairfield. It's a straightforward pick-your-own stop with no frills, listed among Somerset County's agritourism farms.

Waterville

Waterville Harvest Fest is a fall community event held around Elm Street in Waterville. Public information on it is thin and easily confused with the town's much larger film festival, so specifics on organizers and exact dates are best confirmed locally before planning a visit.

Fairfield

Sunset Greenhouses and Flowerland grows its own stock across 21 seasonal greenhouses and a half-acre nursery in Fairfield, then sells it through a 10,000-square-foot showroom open seven days a week. The family-owned operation carries house plants, holiday plants, and cut flowers, working as both greenhouse grower and retail florist.

Vassalboro

A retail and mail-order perennial nursery on a 250-acre farm in Vassalboro, growing over 1,000 varieties of trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals since 1984. The collection runs deep on astilbe, hosta, peony, daylily, iris and native plants, suited to everything from shade beds to dry rock gardens.

Rumford

No View Farm & Bakery is listed on South Rumford Road in Rumford, a former mill town in the western Maine foothills. No hours, product list, or contact details were confirmed online — the same-named domain online belongs to an unrelated farm in New Hampshire.

Rumford

The Perennial Inn and Farm combines lodging with a working farm on Martin Road in Rumford, per its name. No details on rooms, farm operations, hours, or contact info were confirmed online.

North Vassalboro

Started in 1964 and bought by Richard and Debbie Lemieux in 1998, this Vassalboro orchard has grown to over 8,000 trees producing McIntosh, Cortland, Red and Golden Delicious, Northern Spy, Spartan and Honeycrisp apples. Visitors pick their own apples, pumpkins and sunflowers, or buy pre-picked apples and cider pressed on site, daily 8am to 6pm in season.

Canaan

Reitze's grows organic lowbush blueberries on Earthways Road in Canaan, with u-pick season running mid-July through early September and August as the heaviest stretch. Bring your own containers — this is a small operation, not a commercial berry farm with a store attached. Picking hours shift with the weather and how fast the bushes empty out, so call ahead before driving out.