Farms Near Fort Collins, CO

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

No single Colorado business named exactly "The Food Co-op" could be confirmed. Several member-owned grocery co-ops operate under similar names statewide, including Fort Collins' Mountain Avenue Market and Boulder's Cooperative Food, and this listing likely refers to one of them — worth confirming the specific location before visiting.

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Now branded Wildcraft Farmers Market, this is Fort Collins' year-round indoor market inside Foothills Mall at 215 E. Foothills Parkway. Winter hours run 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with over 100 local farmers, food producers, and makers selling hardy greens, mushrooms, farm eggs, milk, and ethically raised meat. It's closing in on two decades in Fort Collins and accepts SNAP, doubling produce dollars through Double Up Food Bucks.

Not a physical market stall but an online ordering system connecting Northern Colorado producers directly to buyers. Place orders by 5 p.m. Friday, pay online, then get doorstep delivery Saturday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., or pick up downtown in Fort Collins for a $3 fee. It started in March 2020 as a pandemic workaround and stayed permanent.

Started in 1976, the Larimer County Farmers' Market is the oldest in Northern Colorado and is run by CSU Extension Master Gardeners rather than a private operator. About 130 vendors, over 90% from Larimer or Weld County, set up Saturdays 9am-1pm at the Larimer County Courthouse parking lot from May through October, with vendor sales topping $2 million in 2025.

This is Fort Collins' winter farmers market, now operating under the name Wildcraft Farmers Market after a rebrand. It runs indoors at Foothills Mall, 215 E. Foothills Parkway, Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., November through April, with produce, meat, dairy, bread and crafts from more than 200 regional vendors. SNAP purchases are matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20 through Double Up Food Bucks.

Friendly Nick's Butcher is a Fort Collins meat shop and grocery started by Nick Chase in 2017, built around beef, pork, and chicken sourced from local farms using sustainable, humane practices. The shop makes its own sausages, jerky, and whiskey-barrel-brined turkeys, and once gave away roughly $10,000 in free meat over two days to help food-insecure neighbors during a government shutdown.

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Garden Sweet has grown gourmet vegetables, berries, and flowers in Fort Collins since 2002, and is now known mainly as a pick-your-own flower farm with more than 50 varieties in the field. Visitors can also pick strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. The farm sells to restaurants and farmers markets in Fort Collins, Loveland, Estes Park, and Laramie, open daily except Mondays.

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Lukens Farms is an on-farm market on State Highway 14 outside Fort Collins selling pork, beef, and goat meat alongside live poultry -- chicks, hens, turkeys, geese, and goslings. It's one of the few local spots stocking both meat and live animals direct from the producer.

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Self Service everyday. They provide plant starters, local produce, and eggs and bread.

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

Rekaivery Food Hub is listed as a food hub in Fort Collins, but no independent website, social profile, or local news coverage turned up to confirm its offerings, hours, or current operating status. Northern Colorado's food hub network typically moves produce from small Front Range farms into wholesale and community distribution channels — treat this listing as unconfirmed until verified directly with the operator.

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Despite the name, Laughing Buck Farm isn't a produce stand, it's an educational, all-abilities farm about six miles north of Old Town Fort Collins offering riding lessons, a farm school, therapeutic riding, and seasonal camps. The nonprofit arm, Friends of Laughing Buck Farm, runs scholarship programs so cost doesn't keep kids out of the barn. It's built around hands-on learning: horsemanship, gardening, and farm chores.

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Bartels Land and Livestock runs a u-pick operation on East County Road 54 outside Fort Collins, growing beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and gourds. A petting zoo and corn maze round out the July-through-October season.

Fort Collins

Fort Collins

The Fort Collins Farmers' Market runs Sundays (May through November) and Wednesdays (June through September) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1001 E. Harmony Road, in the Ace Hardware parking lot at Harmony and Lemay. Every vendor grows, raises, or makes what they sell, no resellers, with a rotating lineup of Colorado produce, meat, honey, flowers, and coffee.

Ryan Ericson farms four acres in northwest Fort Collins at Well Fed Farmstead, growing produce without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, though the farm is not certified organic. The self-serve stand at 2229 W Vine Dr stocks up to 30 seasonal items plus local eggs, bread, and honey, and a pick-your-own flower field charges $20 per bouquet.

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Folks Farm & Seed grows regionally adapted vegetables, flowers, and plants on 2.5 acres in Fort Collins using regenerative, beyond-organic practices focused on living soil, nutrient density, and seed saving. Find the farm at the Larimer County Farmers Market (summer) and Fort Collins Winter Farmers Market, join the CSA farm shares, or visit the self-service farm stand at the big red barn on South Taft Hill Road, open nearly year-round.

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On 2.5 acres marked by a big red barn on South Taft Hill Road, Folks Farm & Seed practices regenerative agriculture that builds living soil while growing vegetables, flowers, and regionally adapted plants for Fort Collins. The farm sells through CSA farm shares and farm box subscriptions, the Larimer County and Fort Collins Winter farmers markets, and a self-service farm stand open Tuesday through Sunday most of the year.

On roughly four acres at 3611 Richmond Dr in Fort Collins, On the Vine at Richmond Farms sells organic vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, eggs, and raw milk alongside cut flowers priced by the ounce. The farm's pick-your-own strawberry patch runs $4 a pint. The stand is open 10am-5pm, Wednesday through Saturday.

Clyde and Frank Bartels started farming this stretch of northern Fort Collins in 1905, growing corn, hay, wheat, and barley for over a century before the family added a pumpkin patch. Today it's u-pick pumpkins priced by size, a $5 corn maze, $2 hayrides, and a garden of peppers, tomatoes, green beans, and zucchini, plus baked goods at the concession stand. Admission and parking are free; the season runs late September through Halloween.

Native Hill Farm runs a four-season, certified organic vegetable operation in north Fort Collins, using passive season extension and cover cropping to grow year-round. The farm stand at 2100 CR 54G is open weekdays 10am-4pm, supplying a CSA, biweekly farmers markets, and the Fort Collins Food Cooperative, with a planned expansion to 40 acres within the Montava development.

Folks Farm & Seed grows vegetables, flowers, herbs, and its own regionally adapted seed on 2.5 acres in southwest Fort Collins. Owner Alex Zeidner runs a self-serve farm stand at 2917 S Taft Hill Rd, open Tuesday through Sunday, May through February, alongside a CSA and two weekly farmers markets. Free seeds are also stocked at the Fort Collins and Denver public libraries.

Jodar Farms has raised true free-range chickens, pigs, and laying hens in Northern Colorado since the Rice family settled the property in 1992, with Aaron Rice starting the meat and egg business after graduating Colorado State in 2009. The farm sells chicken, pork, and eggs through a meat-and-egg CSA, a Saturday farm store, and Front Range pickup sites.

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Colorado's first CSA, Happy Heart Farm has fed the Fort Collins area biodynamic vegetables for more than 30 years from its base at 2820 W Elizabeth St. Beyond weekly vegetable shares, members can add fruit, mushroom, egg, and milk shares sourced from other local producers, turning the farm into a small weekly market alongside its yoga classes and community dinners.

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Known locally as Jack Lantern's, this 15-acre corn maze on South County Road 5 has been running fall weekends in Fort Collins for over a decade. Daytime hours bring pumpkin picking and a family-friendly maze; after dark, the same field turns into a haunted corn maze. Open Fridays through Sundays, October 4 through 31, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with group rates available on request.

Located on South College Avenue in Fort Collins, this market runs Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., spring through fall. Vendors include area ranchers, bakers and coffee roasters alongside produce growers, all set up under one roof rather than the usual outdoor tent rows.

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This seasonal market runs out of 4138 Main Street in Timnath, a fast-growing town northeast of Fort Collins. Vendors bring produce, baked goods, flowers, and artisan goods through the spring and fall growing season. Hours shift year to year with vendor availability, so it's worth checking ahead before making the trip.

Mountain View Meats traces its ranching roots to 1903 and now runs a family feed yard, packing plant, and farm store in Fort Collins, selling dry-aged, grain-finished beef and pork bundles direct from the ranch. The farm store is Colorado Proud certified, accepts SNAP/EBT, and is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons.

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The Bee family homestead outside Fort Collins was established in 1894, earned Colorado's Centennial Farm designation, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Its collection of farm equipment, wagons, and vehicles documents Larimer County's agricultural history; check current visiting status before planning a trip, as the museum has posted closure notices in recent years.

Craig Angus Ranch has raised registered Black Angus cattle in Fort Collins since 1978, when Dennis and Carla Craig started the operation. The family sells natural, grass-fed and grain-finished beef by the whole, half, and quarter, plus registered Angus bulls, wintering cattle in Fort Collins and summering them on pasture in Tie Siding, Wyoming.

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Run by four generations of the Dory family, Something From the Farm grows organic pumpkins on South Timberline Road in Fort Collins and opens for October only. The patch has a pumpkin trebuchet, a corn cannon, hayrides, and a separate corn maze a few blocks over at Greenstone Trail.

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Wellington

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Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., spring through fall, this market formed to bring fresh food and horticultural products to Wellington and the surrounding area north of Fort Collins. It also supports the Wellington Middle School Eagles After Hours program and belongs to the Colorado Farmers Market Association. Vendors sell vegetables, locally raised meat, and handcrafted goods.

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A fifth-generation dairy in Pleasant Valley near Bellvue, Morning Fresh has milked cows on the same land since 1894. The farm bottles its own Holstein milk in reusable glass and delivers it, along with flavored milk, cream, and Colorado cheese curds, to homes, restaurants, and grocers along the northern Front Range, with no delivery fee.

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Harvest Farm is a 100-acre working farm in Wellington operated by Denver Rescue Mission's Fort Collins Rescue Mission as a residential recovery program combining farm work with addiction treatment. It is not a retail or agritourism stop; the mission has announced it is winding down the rehabilitation program, with full closure expected in 2027.

This market sets up Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 3133 N. Garfield Street in Loveland, with jams, soap, baked goods, honey, fruit, plants, flowers, and vegetables from local vendors. SNAP and EBT are accepted, a straightforward neighborhood market without much beyond the produce itself.

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Loveland

Historically held outside the Loveland East location of Jax Farm & Ranch on Eisenhower Boulevard, Fridays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in season. Loveland also runs a west-side version at the Jax on West Eisenhower Boulevard on Tuesdays, worth checking which location is currently active before making the trip.

Listed only as "Grass Fed Beef" with no city, address, or owner name attached, this entry could not be matched to a specific Colorado producer online. Colorado has dozens of small grass-fed beef operations selling direct to consumers; shoppers likely encountered this seller at a farmers market or roadside stand rather than a searchable business.

Loveland

A farmers market held inside the Rainbow Plaza Event Center on West Eisenhower Boulevard in Loveland. Independent of the larger City of Loveland Farmers Market across town at Fairgrounds Park, this one has little presence online — current vendors and hours weren't confirmed. Call the venue before making a special trip.

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Zippity Zoo Barnyard in Loveland runs scheduled agritourism field trips for preschoolers through school-age kids, ages 2 to 12, with chickens, goats, and other barnyard animals to meet. It also books birthday parties and family picnics and holds a seasonal farmers market boutique of local artisan goods on fall and winter weekends.

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Loveland

Family owned since 2010, River Ranch Farms runs its pumpkin patch along the Big Thompson River in Loveland with free parking and no admission fee. The season runs Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Osborn Farm sells pumpkins by the pound, 55 cents each, every fall in Loveland, alongside gourds, corn stalks, straw bales, heirloom corn, mums, and honey. Weekends bring hayrides, a barrel train, and a petting zoo for a small fee. Admission and parking are free, leashed dogs are welcome, and the farm takes cash or card seven days a week through the season.

Black Mountain Bison sells premium bison meat out of Johnstown, sourced from animals raised at the historic Terry Bison Ranch, a 27,500-acre spread seven miles south of Cheyenne with roughly 2,500 head. Cuts include steaks, roasts, ground bison, and jerky, sold by the piece or as whole and half sides, shipped frozen nationwide.

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Hankins Farms works land on Weld County Road 17 outside Johnstown, in the irrigated farm country between Fort Collins and Greeley. No website, social presence, or press coverage surfaced in research beyond the address on file — call ahead before visiting.

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Grant Family Farms put Wellington on Colorado's organic map: founded in 1953 by CSU professor Lewis Grant, it became the state's first certified organic farm and grew into one of the country's largest CSA operations, serving about 4,500 members and 150 vegetable varieties at its peak. Hail, drought, and mounting debt forced a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2012, with a later attempt at the CSA closing for good in 2017.