Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Murrieta, CA

Temecula

Sunmist Fruit is on Via Escalo in Temecula, in southwest Riverside County's wine and citrus corridor near the Temecula Valley AVA. Small fruit operations in this area typically grow citrus alongside the vineyards that dominate the region's agritourism reputation.

Murrieta

Meljess Bees keeps hives around Murrieta, in southwest Riverside County, where citrus groves and wildflower hillsides still border the area's newer subdivisions.

Murrieta

Temecula

Pumpkinland has run as Temecula's pumpkin patch out of the Promenade Mall parking lot, with free admission and parking, and pumpkins sold individually rather than bundled into an entry fee. The lot adds bounce houses, a petting zoo with goats and baby pigs, carnival games, and a separate haunted attraction called Mansion of Lost Souls, open annually from late September through Halloween.

Temecula

Murrieta

Seasonal Adventures operates on Murrieta Hot Springs Road in Murrieta, in southwest Riverside County's Temecula Valley corridor — an area known for seasonal farm attractions such as corn mazes, pumpkin patches, and holiday tree lots timed to the fall and winter calendar.

Temecula

Temecula Valley Honey Company has packed and bottled raw honey since 2005, sourcing from local Temecula Valley beekeepers rather than running its own hives. It wholesales hand-packed honey, creamed honey, infused varieties, bee pollen, and comb to farmers markets, restaurants, and grocers across the region, with a Ynez Road shop that restocks as new batches come off the line.

Menifee

The Wickerd Farm is listed as an agritourism site on Scott Road in Menifee, in Riverside County's fast-growing Inland Empire farm belt. No details on crops, animals, or visiting hours are published online — the listing exists, but the farm hasn't built out a public web presence yet.

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

Gourd & Pumpkin Fest runs each fall on De Luz Road inside Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Access typically requires base clearance or a sponsor, which sets it apart from the region's other patches.

Temecula

Temecula Berry Co grows pick-your-own blueberries on Cantrell Road in Temecula, alongside olive trees, roses, and a small menagerie of goats and chickens visitors can feed. Farmer Mike runs educational tours on blueberry cultivation and sustainable growing each June, and the farm hosts a Friday Night Movie series in summer. Blueberry season typically wraps by mid-summer, with a holiday pop-up shop in December.

Fallbrook

A Fallbrook operation on East Mission Road combining lavender growing with a fall pumpkin patch, in keeping with North San Diego County's mix of flower farms and agritourism along that corridor. A current website couldn't be confirmed separate from a same-named lavender farm in Michigan, so hours and offerings are unverified.

Fallbrook

Kenny's Strawberry Farm runs a seasonal u-pick strawberry operation on Rainbow Valley Boulevard near Fallbrook, open roughly February through July, plus a farm stand selling pre-picked berries and a small farm shop that runs classes and events through the season. The family has grown strawberries there for more than a decade, picking each variety at peak ripeness rather than shipping green.

Fallbrook

Temecula Valley Strawberry Farms grows its berries hydroponically on 5th Street in Fallbrook, a family-owned operation built around a growing system that skips soil beds for raised, irrigated troughs. The approach lets the farm extend its picking season beyond what dirt-grown strawberries in the area typically manage. Contact details are limited online — check local farm-trail directories for current hours before visiting.

Temecula

Mount Palomar Winery has poured wine in Temecula since 1969, one of the valley's founding estates. Tastings happen in the underground Cava di Vino, with red, white, sparkling, and dessert wines on the list, and Bistro 1969 serves a full menu with happy hour Monday through Friday from 3 to 6pm. The tasting room runs shorter hours Monday through Thursday and stays open later on weekends. Wine club membership carries no enrollment fee.

Temecula

Fifth-generation Peltzer family operation running its pumpkin farm on Calle Contento in Temecula since 1996, after starting out in Orange County. Fall brings pumpkins, pig races, pony and train rides, gem mining, and a petting farm, with wine and beer from the family's own Peltzer Winery served on-site.

Peltzer Farms is the working homestead behind Peltzer Family Cellars, a fifth-generation farming operation on Calle Contento in Temecula wine country. The property carries 25 acres of vineyard alongside free-range chickens and a century-old tractor collection the family still maintains. Each fall the farm opens for pumpkin season — pony rides, a petting zoo, mini John Deere carts, and gem panning alongside the pumpkin picking.

Temecula

Big Horse Feed & Mercantile, the Temecula Valley's equine and livestock supply store, turns 11-plus acres behind the shop into Southern California's largest corn maze every fall. The Harvest Festival runs through October with evening hours on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Visitors who show up for tack and feed year-round come back in autumn for the maze, hayrides, and pumpkin patch.

Temecula

Doughty Apiaries keeps hives in Temecula, within Southern California's Temecula Valley wine country. The mix of vineyards, citrus groves, and wild sage scrub in the surrounding hills is well known among regional beekeepers for producing sage and citrus-blossom honey.

San Juan Capistrano

South Coast Farms has grown strawberries and seasonal vegetables without pesticides or GMOs since 1996, run by farmers George and Rebecca. The u-pick strawberry, pumpkin, and heirloom tomato operation relocated to the Tree of Life Nursery site on Ortega Highway in 2024, and the farm still runs a CSA program with weekly pickup baskets around Orange County.

Winchester

Drake Family Farms runs a Certified Humane goat dairy in Winchester, making small-batch farmstead cheeses — chevre, feta, a soft mold-ripened style, and an aged semi-hard — entirely from milk produced on-site. The herd is raised on alfalfa, Bermuda grass, and tree browse rather than corn or soy, with no routine antibiotics, and every batch is lab-tested for residues.

Hemet

Blue Barn Lavender Farm is on De Portola Road in Hemet, California, in the San Jacinto Valley of Riverside County, inland valley terrain with the heat and elevation swing that lavender growers favor.

Escondido

Archi's Acres grows certified organic, hydroponic produce on Lilac Road in Escondido and supplies it to San Diego County businesses year-round. Since 2006 the farm has also trained military veterans in sustainable agriculture through its VSAT program, now run under the Archi Institute, and hosts guests on-site.

Ridgedale Orchard & Vineyard is off Ridgedale Drive in Riverside County, in the 92570 zip shared by Perris and Winchester near the edge of Temecula Valley wine country. Small orchard-vineyard operations in this stretch typically pair fruit trees with a few acres of wine grapes.

Corona Pumpkin Farm at CJ's Ranch sits on Gavilan Road in the Perris area of Riverside County, despite the Corona name. No hours, activities, or pricing are published online for this seasonal pumpkin patch; call ahead before visiting.

Valley Center

The Lavender Fields sits on Keys Creek Road in Valley Center, part of the North San Diego County backcountry known for small flower and lavender growers. The business's old web domain is now parked for sale, so current operating status, hours, and offerings could not be confirmed.

Hemet

Valley View Christmas Trees is a choose-and-cut tree lot in Hemet, in the San Jacinto Valley foothills below Idyllwild — a stretch of Riverside County with several seasonal Christmas tree farms drawing on the cooler mountain-adjacent climate.

Oceanside

Son Rise Ranch raises grass-fed and grass-finished beef, pasture-raised pork, and free-range chicken using regenerative grazing methods, selling direct from its Oceanside location. The farm favors humane, organic practices over commodity feedlot production, with meat sold in shares and cuts to local families.

Valley Center

Eric's Valencia Orchard grows Valencia oranges at the corner of Cole Grade and Tyler roads in Valley Center, part of San Diego County's inland citrus and avocado belt. Valencias are a late-season variety, typically picked from spring into summer after the navel crop finishes. No contact info is listed online.

Oceanside

ABC Tree Farms' Oceanside lot on Vista Way, part of a family-run chain that has worked pumpkin and Christmas tree seasons across California since 1983. Pumpkins come pre-picked, with a gift shop and snacks on-site through October.

San Clemente

A fall community event at San Clemente's civic center on Calle Seville, built around Halloween activities rather than a working farm or patch. Likely city- or community-run given the location — check with the city for current dates.

Carlsbad

Witch Creek Winery poured wine near the Carlsbad waterfront on Carlsbad Blvd, part of San Diego County's small-producer urban winery scene. No active website was found under the winery's name, so current operating status is unconfirmed.

Mission Viejo

Henry's Land & Cattle Co. operates out of a property on Holly Oak Lane in Mission Viejo, listed in business directories as a small-scale land and livestock operation active for close to a decade. No public listing describes visiting hours, sales, or what livestock is kept on-site.

Aguanga

Farmy Farms is listed on Boulder Vista Drive in Aguanga, a rural stretch of southern Riverside County near Anza. The farm has a live website but it doesn't yet detail what's grown or sold, and no visiting hours are published online.

Carlsbad

Carlsbad Strawberry Company is a fourth-generation family farm on Cannon Road in Carlsbad, California, known for u-pick strawberries each spring and a fall pumpkin patch with a corn maze and tractor rides. Fresh berries are also sold from roadside stands around North County San Diego during the spring harvest window, and the farm anchors much of the region's strawberry season.

San Juan Capistrano

The fall pumpkin event at what's now River Street Ranch, a working petting zoo on Los Rios Street with roughly 80 animals — horses, goats, sheep, llamas, alpacas, even an emu. Regular offerings include pony and tractor rides, a mini train, and mining and digging activities, with pumpkins added to the mix each October. Billed as the only petting zoo in South Orange County.

San Juan Capistrano

Mountain Pines Christmas Tree Farm, run under the Farmakis Farms name, sells cut trees each holiday season in San Juan Capistrano, one of several seasonal lots that open across south Orange County between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.

San Juan Capistrano

The Ecology Center is a nonprofit regenerative farm in San Juan Capistrano running a working farm stand, a farm-to-table Campesino Cafe (open 9am-2pm), and a Harvest Box CSA. It also hosts a summer camp for ages 7-12 that pairs farming instruction with cooking and nature-based art, plus wellness programs at its on-site Peace Dome.

Carlsbad

Fifty-five acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus bloom each spring at The Flower Fields, a working farm a half-mile from the Carlsbad coast. The rows open to the public for roughly eight to ten weeks, from around March 1 through early May, drawing more than 200,000 visitors a season. The operation has grown ranunculus commercially here for over 60 years, selling bulbs alongside the flower show.

Riverside

Cali-Dragon Farm and Orchard is on De Anza Avenue in Riverside, a city built on the citrus industry that once made this part of Southern California famous. The name points toward dragon fruit, a crop small Inland Empire growers have taken up in recent years, though the farm's current offerings aren't listed online.

Aguanga

Buck and Belinda grow French and English lavender on their family farm outside Aguanga, distilling it into syrup, honey, and body-care products sold from an on-site shop open seven days a week. Visitors used to wander the rows freely; now the farm limits access to ticketed workshops — wreath-making, candle pouring, tea blending — held on weekends through the growing season. The lavender still ships nationwide from the online store.

Aguanga

Genesis Farms grew beets, carrots, peppers, herbs, and flowers on Dove Drive in Aguanga using natural growing practices, with farm animals on-site. Directory listings mark the operation as permanently closed as of 2025.

Laguna Hills

Pumpkin City has run Orange County pumpkin lots since 1978, and the Laguna Hills location at 24203 Avenida de la Carlota anchors both its fall pumpkin patch and its winter Christmas tree lot. October brings pumpkins of every size along with rides, games, and a beer garden; the same site sells fresh strawberries February through June.

Irvine

This is UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' South Coast Research and Extension Center, a roughly 200-acre research farm in Irvine established in 1956. One of nine UC ANR field stations statewide, it runs agricultural and horticultural research trials, demonstration gardens, and Orange County's UC Cooperative Extension programs for growers and the public.