Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Micanopy, FL

Micanopy

A Micanopy farm that's stayed in the same family for five generations, known for its fall corn maze, hayrides, playground, and pumpkin patch. Some recent listings show it operating field trips under a new name, Red House Ranch, so confirm the current program before booking a group visit.

Micanopy

Alachua County Organic Farms is listed in Micanopy, the antiques-district town south of Gainesville that borders Paynes Prairie Preserve. The county-wide name suggests a network tied to the area's organic growing scene rather than a single roadside farm stand, though no independent confirmation of that structure was found.

McIntosh

Century Oak Grove and Nursery is in McIntosh, a Marion County town whose historic district sits under the same live oak canopy the business takes its name from. The town borders Orange Lake, in citrus and produce country going back generations. No plant inventory or hours were verified.

Micanopy

Century Oaks Nursery & Grove operates on NW 219th Street Road in Micanopy, a small Alachua County town known for its live oak canopy and antique shops south of Gainesville. As a nursery-and-grove listing, expect trees and plants rather than a farm stand. We couldn't verify current stock or hours, so call ahead.

Micanopy

Wacahoota Farms grows u-pick blueberries on SW 136th Place outside Micanopy, in the rolling farm country south of Gainesville. No independent website was found online; call ahead to confirm the picking window, which for North Central Florida blueberries usually runs April into May.

Hawthorne

South Moon Farms is a pick-your-own blueberry operation on South County Road 325 in Hawthorne. It's a small, seasonal stop — call ahead before driving out, since availability depends entirely on that week's harvest.

GAINESVILLE

A church-run pumpkin patch at Southwest United Methodist Church on SW Williston Road in Gainesville. Congregations across Florida use these fall patches as both a community gathering spot and a fundraiser, with pumpkins trucked in from western growers and sold through October.

Misty Oaks

Grandma's Vineyard is a u-pick grape operation on SW Williston Road in Micanopy, south of Gainesville — not in "Misty Oaks" as this listing's city field suggests. Florida vineyards typically pick from summer into early fall. Reach the vineyard directly at (352) 375-0344 to confirm what's currently ready.

Archer

Small family-run farm operating since 2006, raising free-range chickens and geese without medicated feed, antibiotics, or commercial pesticides. They sell pastured eggs alongside chemical-free herbs and seasonal vegetables grown using heirloom methods; visits are by appointment.

Citra

Wet Hammock Farm sits on Highway 318 in Citra, a small Marion County farm community between Gainesville and Ocala. No independent website was found online; call ahead to confirm what's currently growing and open to visitors.

Citra

Frank Douglass started this farm in 1918 growing citrus and running cattle, and it's stayed in family hands through Florida's orange-boom decades and beyond — more than a century now. Today it operates as Wet Hammock Nursery, u-pick blueberries and blackberries alongside peaches, cut flowers, and hydroponic crops grown on the same North Central Florida ground. Check wethammockfarm.com or their Facebook page, @WetHammock, for what's in season before visiting.

Gainesville

The Family Garden Organic and Fair Farm is an organic agritourism property in southeast Gainesville, near SE 23rd Place. No independent website or listing was found online; confirm hours and offerings directly before visiting.

Island Grove

Aunt Zelma's Blueberries is on Southeast 219th Avenue in Island Grove, a rural crossroads on the Alachua-Marion county line near Orange Lake. Florida blueberries typically ripen from April into June. This farm appears to have a website, but its certificate had expired during research — call ahead before visiting.

Drew's Grove sits in the 32640 zip code around Hawthorne, on the Alachua-Putnam county line where citrus and watermelon growing go back generations along the Orange Lake and Lochloosa basin. No specific fruit, hours, or sales details were verified for this property.

Citra

Citra

Florida Peach Farms and Nurseries operates out of Citra, in Marion County — one of the few pockets of Florida where low-chill peach varieties bred for the state's mild winters actually bear fruit. Citra's sandy ridge soil has drawn peach and nursery-stock growers for generations.

Gainesville

A small family winery east of Gainesville that grows its own blueberries and muscadine grapes and ferments both into wine on site. No pesticides go on the vines. Bluefield keeps weekend hours seasonally, so calling ahead before a drive out on NE County Road 234 is worth it.

Gainesville

This Windsor-area grove east of Gainesville is a second growing site for Straughn Farms, the family-owned commercial blueberry operation that breeds and grows patented Southern Highbush varieties like Patrecia, Optimus, and Sentinel for the Naturipe Farms/MBG brand.

Gainesville

Parrish Family Farm raises beef cattle on State Road 121 outside Gainesville, selling home-grown beef directly to families rather than through a grocery supply chain. It shows up on regional agritourism listings as a u-pick stop as well, though the farm's own social pages focus mainly on the cattle operation and beef sales. Contact them on Facebook or Instagram for current pricing and availability.

Williston

This Swanson Vineyards is in Williston, in Levy County, and is a separate operation from the Napa Valley winery of the same name. No working website, phone, or social page turned up in a search, so current wines and tasting hours are unconfirmed.

Gainesville

Loftus Family Farm runs a u-pick muscadine grape vineyard in Gainesville, with fruit ready to harvest once the grapes darken all the way to the stem. Check the farm's own website before driving out, since no current phone number or season dates were posted there at last check.

Hawthorne

Hilltop Vineyard is listed in Hawthorne, a small Alachua County town in the rolling hill country east of Gainesville. The name points to a small winery or grape-growing operation, though current wines, tasting hours, and sales details weren't confirmed online.

Taylor Gardens Nursery is a plant nursery on NE 7th Avenue in Citra, listed with the state's Fresh From Florida agritourism program. Call ahead to check current stock and hours, since detailed listings for the property are limited online.

Windsor Farm operates in the rural county-road grid northeast of Gainesville. Public listings for the operation are thin — call ahead to confirm what's currently growing before making the drive out.

Williston

Grande Liberté Farm in Williston is home to Sylvia Zerbini, an internationally known liberty horse trainer who performs with her horses at the farm on weekends, November through April, at 1pm. "Liberty" work means the horses perform without reins, saddle, or tack, guided entirely by voice and body cues. It's a working horse farm built around a single, specific act rather than a general agritourism stop.

Sparr

Grass-fed, organically managed farm run by Al and Erin Rosas in Marion County horse country, less than 45 minutes from Orlando. They raise grass-fed beef, lamb, and venison, keep chickens for eggs, produce honey and artisan cheese, and sell wild-caught seafood with statewide delivery or farm pickup.

Archer

Straughn Farms is a family-owned commercial blueberry operation in north central Florida growing patented Southern Highbush cultivars, including Colossus, Farthing, and Keecrisp, distributed in part through the Naturipe Farms/MBG brand. The Archer grove is one of the company's growing sites in the Gainesville-area blueberry belt.

Citra

Indigo Farm is located in Citra, a Marion County crossroads community long associated with Florida citrus groves along US-301.

Ocala

Papa Bear's Plantation sits in Marion County horse country outside Ocala, where rolling pasture supports as many family agritourism operations — corn mazes, pumpkin patches, seasonal pick-your-own — as it does thoroughbred farms. No specific activities, crops, or hours were verified for this listing.

Anthony

Blueberry Downs sits in Anthony, in Marion County's blueberry belt just north of Ocala, where sandy soil and mild winters suit southern highbush varieties well. No working website, phone, or social page turned up in a search, so current season dates and pricing are unconfirmed. Call ahead before making the drive.

Anthony

A u-pick operation in Anthony where visitors can pick both blackberries and blueberries in the same visit, a combination that's harder to find than a single-crop farm.

Mark Dunmore is listed as an agritourism operator on Sid Martin Highway near Hawthorne, in the Alachua County hill country east of Gainesville. Crops, products, and public hours weren't found online for this listing.

Hawthorne

A family-owned farm outside Hawthorne, also known locally as Brown's Farm Orange Heights, where visitors have picked strawberries with their kids year after year. Their Facebook page is the most active source for current picking updates.

Archer

Top Flora is a wholesale foliage and plant nursery in Archer, supplying greenery and shrubs to the trade rather than selling direct to walk-in visitors. The business has operated in Alachua County's nursery belt for close to three decades. Reach the office at (352) 495-7340.

Citra

Gibbs Christmas Tree Farm grows on Highway 318 in Citra, land once prized as part of a citrus 'frost-free belt' before hard freezes reshaped Florida's growing map. Choose-and-cut tree operations like this one now share that ground with the produce farms that replaced the old groves. No hours or tree varieties were verified.

Earleton

Family-owned butterfly farm raising more than 45 native Florida species, open daily for tours through habitat enclosures. Beyond visits, the farm supplies live butterflies for weddings, memorials, and exhibits across North America.

Plantland Nursery & Orchards is a five-generation family farm near Anthony, established in the 1940s and still run without insecticides or herbicides. David Paredes grows Fuyu, Saijo, and Tanenashi persimmons, bronze and black muscadine grapes, peaches, and pears, plus seasonal mustard greens, collards, turnips, and snap peas. The stand opens Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 8 AM to noon. Text your name to join the farm's yearly membership list, or call (352) 497-6271.

Southland Berry Plantation is a family-owned blueberry farm and nursery in Earleton, offering both U-pick and already-picked options for buyers in a hurry. Call ahead of a visit — hours and ripe rows shift through the Alachua County blueberry season.

Ocala

AAA Plant Depot is listed as a nursery-type business in Ocala, the Marion County hub for Florida's horse farms and ornamental plant growers. Current inventory, hours, and pricing weren't confirmed online.

Gainesville

Case Farms operates from a rural address on NW 102nd Place outside Gainesville, in Alachua County's row-crop and horse country. Nothing about hours, products, or contact details turns up online.

Melrose

Meadowmere Farm is in Melrose, in the same Putnam County lake country that grows a number of small blueberry and produce operations. A website exists under the farm's name but would not load at last check, and no phone or social page was confirmed either.

Jonesville

Ken's Orchard sits on Northwest 170th Street in Jonesville, the rolling farmland west of Gainesville where pasture and small orchard operations are more common than Florida's citrus belt farther south and east. No fruit variety, harvest season, or hours were verified.

Gainesville

Monteocha Gardens operates on NW 156th Avenue in Gainesville, in Alachua County near the small community of Monteocha in the northern part of the county. We couldn't verify what's grown or sold here beyond its agritourism listing — call ahead before visiting.

Waldo

Williston

Red, White & Blues Farm grew blueberries across 100 acres in Williston and has since rebranded as Amber Brooke Farms, running eight blueberry varieties alongside strawberries, peaches, sunflowers, and zinnias. A packing facility added in 2015 ships berries as far as New York, Boston, and Chicago, while the on-site café sells blueberry lemonade, slushies, and milkshakes to visitors picking their own. U-pick season typically runs April into May; call 352-529-0594 to confirm current hours under the new name.

Newberry

Hoffman Farms is located in Newberry, an Alachua County farm town just west of Gainesville known for cattle, hay, and small produce operations rather than large row crops.

B & G Blueberries is a Florida blueberry operation, one of the small growers that plant low-chill southern highbush varieties to catch the state's early spring harvest window before the rest of the country's crop comes in.

Gainesville

Now operating as Crossroads Farm & Apiary, this Gainesville strawberry farm has grown fruit since 1960. U-pick strawberries open each February, and the fields expand into broad beans, corn, cucumbers, melons, onions, and tomatoes through the season. The farm keeps its own honeybees for pollination and sells raw honey and bees on-site. A fall festival and school field trips round out the calendar.

Waldo

Stratton's Blueberries grows u-pick blueberries off County Road 1471 in Waldo, in Bradford County's stretch of north-central Florida farmland between Gainesville and Starke. Florida blueberries typically ripen from late March through May. We couldn't confirm current hours or pricing — call ahead before driving out.

Newberry

Newberry's Cornfield Maze is on West Newberry Road outside Gainesville, in Alachua County farm country. Corn mazes in the area typically run through the fall harvest season. No hours or contact details for this maze are published online.

Listed simply as "Organic Blueberries," this is a u-pick stop on County Road 315 in rural Marion County, in the same corridor as several other area blueberry farms. No specific hours, pricing, or grower name for this address turned up in public search — call ahead before visiting.

Ocala

Wagon Blueberry and Chestnut Farm grows on SW 16th Place in Ocala, pairing two crops rarely found on the same property in Central Florida. No independent website was found online; call ahead to confirm what's in season and open for picking.

Ocala

Fish Hawk Spirits is a working farm distillery in Ocala, licensed in 2012 as the fifth distillery in Florida. The farm grows its own corn for whiskey, draws well water on-site, and harvests fruit from its own groves for brandy and rum. The lineup runs 27 spirits across five lines -- Sui Generis whiskey, Resurgence rum, Island Grove vodka, Absinthia absinthe, and Colonial brandy -- with tours by appointment.

Melrose

Melrose Organic Blueberries grows in the sandhill lake country around Melrose in Putnam County, an area with a number of small blueberry operations. No working website, phone, or social page turned up in a search, so organic certification and u-pick availability are unconfirmed.

Gainesville

Santa Fe River Berry Farm takes its name from the river that runs through Alachua and Suwannee counties, part of north-central Florida's commercial blueberry country. The farm sits on County Road 225 east of Gainesville. No published hours or website turned up — call ahead to confirm picking season.

Graham

Blueberry Woman Dead Creek Ranch operates out of Graham, a rural pocket of Bradford County in north Florida's blueberry-growing corridor. No working website, phone, or social page turned up in a search, so current season dates and pricing are unconfirmed.

La Crosse

Tom Burton's listing places this operation along State Road 235 in La Crosse, a small rural community in Alachua County where cattle and hay ground outnumber row crops. No specific products, hours, or public access were verified beyond the agritourism listing itself.

Alachua

This listing is registered to Ken Webb on NW 140th Street outside Alachua, in a stretch of Alachua County known for small u-pick strawberry and blueberry operations. No specific crops, hours, or sales details for this address turned up in public search — call ahead to confirm before visiting.

Alachua

A 22-acre spring-fed property in Alachua built around organic u-pick blueberries and, later in the year, u-pick pomegranates from more than ten heirloom varieties across 260 trees. Pomegranate season runs August through September. The farm also hosts ecology and community events on the property.

Alachua

Forest Grove Tree Farm operates in Alachua, north of Gainesville in Alachua County's mix of farmland and pine flatwoods. Tree farms in this part of North Florida typically grow Christmas trees, ornamentals, or timber stock for regional nurseries.