Farms Near Hollister, CA

Hollister

A working farm in Hollister since 1928 that supplies produce to 15 farmers markets and select Bay Area restaurants year-round, on top of running an October fall festival with a haunted corn maze called Terror in the Corn. The festival side draws over 30,000 visitors each season, and the property's barn hosts private events for up to 400 guests.

Hollister

B & R Farms works land on Fairview Road in Hollister, in San Benito County's row-crop and orchard country south of Gilroy.

Hollister

The Hollister Downtown Association runs this Wednesday market from 3 to 7pm, April through October, at 5th and San Benito Street. Vendors sell fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, honey, and flowers, with live entertainment and kids' activities most weeks. Not everything is certified organic, though several growers sell produce grown without chemicals. Pets aren't allowed under California health code for open food facilities, though service animals are welcome.

Hollister

Darden's Farm & Vineyards is based on 4th Street in Hollister, the seat of San Benito County. The county sits between the garlic and lettuce fields of the Gilroy corridor to the north and the Cienega Valley to the south, one of California's older wine-grape districts.

Hollister

Swank Farms has worked land in Hollister since 1928 and now draws close to 30,000 visitors to its fall festival alone. The sunflower field has grown to four and a half acres of varieties from Mammoth Russians to Teddy Bears, cut for two dollars a stem with proceeds going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Pumpkin patches and corn mazes round out the fall season, and the farm also sells at Bay Area farmers markets.

Hollister

Pumpkin Junction is the fall attraction at Casa de Fruta, the roadside stop on Pacheco Pass Highway that's drawn Highway 152 travelers since the 1940s with fruit stands, a bakery, the Casa de Choo Choo train, and a vintage carousel. Pumpkin season adds patch access and hayrides to the property's existing rides and Miner's Sluice.

Hollister

Suncoast Farm has run a wood-fired bakery on its 27-acre certified organic property in Hollister for more than 14 years, milling its own grain for bread and pastry. The farm also grows olives and citrus, tends a hop yard, and brews small-batch beer under the Nuthouse label. The bakery opens Saturdays from 9am to 3pm for walk-in visitors to eat on the patio.

Phil Foster Ranch farms organic vegetables in San Juan Bautista, California, and has long supplied Bay Area farmers markets and restaurants, with sweet peppers among its best-known crops.

San Juan Bautista

Coke Farm is a certified organic food hub in San Juan Bautista that has aggregated and shipped produce from more than 100 regional growers since 1981. The company distributes organic strawberries, carrots, chard, kale, herbs, and heirloom tomatoes across the U.S. and Canada, employing around 114 people.

San Juan Bautista

Morris Grassfed produces 100% pasture-raised beef, grown on the California central coast. Our beef is dry-aged and cut & wrapped by USDA-inspected artisan butchers. We look forward to filling your freezer with nutritious, delicious local beef. We deliver monthly from Monterey to Sacramento, May- November. Reserve your portion today.

Windmill Market is a California market listing with no vendor or location details on file yet.

BR Beef LLC raises grass-fed, grain-finished cattle on the fourth-generation Bianchi Ranches spanning Santa Clara and San Benito counties, selling cuts, beef shares, and jerky from its Gilroy base through farmers markets and online orders.

Gilroy

Ranch Four is one of several independently farmed u-pick orchards clustered around Gilroy and Morgan Hill, an area long known for stone fruit and berries. This site is worked by Borello Farms under the 101 Ranch name on Castro Valley Road.

Gilroy

Ranch Three is a Borello Farms u-pick orchard on Godfrey Road in Gilroy, part of the same multi-ranch stone fruit network as Ranch Four down the road.

Gilroy

A certified farmers market at 7351 Rosanna St. in Gilroy, the self-declared Garlic Capital of the World. It has historically offered organic produce, baked goods, hummus, and olive oil from Santa Clara Valley growers. Directory listings disagree on whether it's still operating — call ahead before making the trip.

Gilroy

Lazy K Ranch grows cherries in the hills around Gilroy, the South Santa Clara Valley town better known for garlic. Bay Area cherry season typically runs May into June, though this ranch's current hours and contact details aren't posted online.

Gilroy

Family farm in Gilroy, CA. Weekend farm experiences, weekday petting zoo, farmstays, event venue, & dog/cat boarding.

Gilroy

Gilroy Upick is a no-spray pick-your-own orchard on Korn Lane in Gilroy, California, known for pluerries, plums, and pluots sold by the pound alongside seasonal cherries, berries, and vegetables. Weekend picking runs in two blocks, late morning and mid-afternoon; weekdays are by appointment only. There's no on-site restroom, and overflow parking sits across the street on Korn Lane.

Gilroy

Gilroy U-Pick operates off Korn Lane in the Santa Clara Valley farmland south of town — country better known nationally for garlic but also thick with berry and stone-fruit growers who open fields to pickers in summer. No confirmed current crop list or hours turned up online this session; call ahead for what's ripe.

Gilroy

Tru2Earth Farm is a USDA-certified organic u-pick operation in Gilroy where visitors harvest strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, tomatoes, and cucumbers from April through October, no reservation needed. The farm also grows cut flowers like dahlias and zinnias, keeps a small chicken coop for kids, and sells honey and pre-packed vegetables at the farmstand. There's no entry fee.

San Martin

Rockin A Alpacas keeps its herd on Perino Lane in San Martin, between Morgan Hill and Gilroy, and opens the property for alpaca visits by appointment only. There's no walk-up access or regular open hours — check their Facebook page or website first to schedule a time to meet the animals.

Salinas

San Martin

San Martin

Salinas

Gilroy

Berry Island Farms grows certified organic berries and vegetables on Watsonville Road outside Gilroy, selling farm-fresh on a first-come, first-served basis with no reservations needed. It's a small family operation, not a commercial outfit, so what's available shifts week to week — call or text ahead to check what's ripe before making the drive.

Everyone's Harvest, a Monterey County nonprofit running six certified markets across the county, operates this Tuesday market at 632 E. Alisal Street, with summer hours running 11am to 4pm. It's one stop in a six-day rotation across Salinas, Seaside, Marina, Pacific Grove, and Natividad, all built to get Salinas Valley produce directly to shoppers — free parking is available next to the adjacent WIC nutrition center.

Salinas

Everyone's Harvest, a Salinas nonprofit, runs the Alisal Certified Farmers' Market at 632 East Alisal Street on Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., staying open year-round except for two weeks around the holidays. The market takes EBT, WIC, and Senior FMNP, and its Market Match program matches every EBT dollar spent on produce, up to $30 a visit. Free parking sits next to the market, and Salinas Transit routes 41 and 42 stop nearby.

JSM Organic Farms grows organic strawberries, Brussels sprouts, green beans, sweet corn, and cut flowers on roughly 200 acres in Royal Oaks, California, near Watsonville. The farm has built its name on specialty strawberry varieties alongside its vegetable crops, selling through Bay Area farmers markets.

Dirty Girl Produce farms 40 certified-organic acres in Watsonville, in Santa Cruz County, known regionally for its tomatoes and strawberries alongside more than 20 other fruit and vegetable varieties. Owner Joe Schirmer and a crew of 25 sell at ten Bay Area farmers' markets — Santa Cruz, Berkeley, San Francisco — plus a CSA and wholesale accounts with restaurants across the region.

San Martin

Uesugi Farms Pumpkin Park runs each fall in San Martin, in the garlic and row-crop country of South Santa Clara County. Visitors ride a small train and hayrides through the patch, and the attraction ranks among the higher-rated fall activities in the area on travel review sites. Hours and pricing change by season; check current listings before visiting.

Salinas

Gizdich Ranch in Watsonville grows apples and berries across the Pajaro Valley, with u-pick apple picking each fall and berry picking earlier in the season. The pie shop bakes more than nine varieties, plus apple dumplings, puff pastries, and fresh-pressed apple juice, and the grounds stay open daily for picnicking. Located at 55 Peckham Road, it closes only for major holidays.

Salinas

This certified organic market takes over the 300 block of Main Street at Gabilan Street every Saturday, 9am to 2pm, rain or shine. The Oldtown Salinas Foundation runs it as a showcase for Salinas Valley farms — arguably the most agriculturally dense stretch of California — alongside flower vendors, food stalls, live music, and a free kids' craft area. It's a bigger production than a typical neighborhood market.

Salinas

Salinas

The Farm sits along the Salinas Valley, land growers call the Salad Bowl of the World for its lettuce, strawberry, and row-crop production. It is listed as an agritourism stop under a Salinas PO box address. Current hours, products, and ownership were not verifiable online at this time.

Corral de Tierra Cattle Co grass-finishes Black Angus on native pasture in the Santa Lucia range above the Salinas Valley, selling boxed beef out of Salinas.

Morgan Hill

Morgan Hill Farmers' Market operates at 3rd and Depot Streets in downtown Morgan Hill, a South Santa Clara Valley city surrounded by orchards, vineyards, and family farms. It's a weekly stop for growers from the valley's remaining agricultural land.

The Farm in Salinas is a working farm off Highway 68 at the Spreckels Boulevard exit, open for flower u-pick Monday through Saturday and a fall pumpkin patch with a hay maze and slides. Weekends bring food trucks and rows of sunflowers and zinnias ready for cutting. It's one of Monterey County's longer-running agritourism stops, not a staged event ground.

Watsonville

Watsonville

Crystal Bay Farm became certified Organic in 1997.

Watsonville

Watsonville

Clearview Orchards grows CCOF-certified organic apples on terraced hillsides overlooking the Watsonville valley, three miles from the ocean. Families come in fall for u-pick apples — Fuji, EverCrisp, and Mutsu among them — or shop the Apple Barn for organic fruit, fresh apple juice, apple turnovers, organic squash, pumpkins, dried lavender, and honey, weekends during the season.

Royal Oaks

Garden Variety Cheese is a small farmstead sheep dairy on 40-acre Monkeyflower Ranch in northern Monterey County, milking and making cheese since 2009. Its 80 ewes — each named after a garden flower — graze fresh pasture supplemented with alfalfa and organic grain, with no chemical wormers or antibiotics, producing rich sheep's milk cheeses and yogurt year-round through staggered breeding.

Watsonville

Join us on the farm for one of our seasonal U-Picks and visit our organic produce Farm Stand. We have a wide selection of fruits, vegetables and preserves available for sale! We are open on Saturdays and Sundays only through the month of October.

Andy's Orchard grows premium stone fruit — peaches, apricots, plums, and cherries — on family orchard ground in Morgan Hill. Beyond fresh fruit, they sell artisanal jams, dried fruit, and chocolate-covered apricots, and run orchard tours and tastings where visitors learn how the fruit is grown before they taste it. The retail store runs seasonally, May 15 through December 31.

Morgan Hill

Mariani Orchards runs a harvest-season u-pick fruit experience on Half Road in Morgan Hill, with guided visits, photo stops, and picking guidance for the fruit it grows. The orchard closes for the off-season and typically reopens around mid-May. The farm keeps an active presence on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube even during the off-season, posting updates ahead of each spring reopening.

Watsonville

Morgan Hill

Pezzini Farms has grown Green Globe artichokes in Castroville, California, the self-proclaimed Artichoke Capital of the World, since 1926. The family farm sells heirloom artichoke varieties fresh alongside a line of artichoke dips, oils, vinegars, and pasta made from its own harvest.

Lonely Mountain Farm is a California grower with no crop or location details on file yet.

Watsonville

Esperanza Community Farms runs a subsidized CSA out of Watsonville, delivering biweekly boxes of pesticide-free vegetables and fruit to families in the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys. The nonprofit also operates the Esperanza Food Hub, linking small local growers with schools and community organizations, and has run a Farm to Cafeteria program bringing organic salads into area schools. Its focus stays on food security in a farmworker region that grows much of the country's produce.

Morgan Hill

Ranch One sits on Monterey Road in Morgan Hill and is farmed by Borugi Farms, one of the family orchards that make up the area's u-pick network in the Santa Clara Valley's old stone fruit belt.

Live Earth Farm has grown organic produce in Watsonville, California for more than 30 years, running a CSA program that now serves over 800 households alongside a weekend farm stand and stalls at Santa Cruz-area farmers markets. The farm sits at 1275 Green Valley Road in the Pajaro Valley's coastal growing region.

Watsonville

High Ground Organics is on Harkins Slough Road outside Watsonville, in the Pajaro Valley, one of the Central Coast's most concentrated organic vegetable and strawberry growing areas. No further confirmed details on current crops, CSA availability, or hours.

Watsonville

Watsonville

Moss Landing

Monterey Bay Equestrian Center has led horseback rides along the dunes between Moss Landing and Monterey since 1981. Guides take riders out Monterey Dunes Way with views that stretch to Santa Cruz on a clear day, and the outfit also runs horse-drawn carriages for weddings and pony parties for kids. Riders must be at least 10 years old and 54 inches tall. Call ahead to book a ride.