Farms Near New Haven, CT

Woodbridge

Organic fruits, Christmas trees, and specialty items like hot sauces and basil pesto.

Arethusa Farm Dairy has milked its own herd of more than 300 cows at 822 Bantam Road in Bantam, Connecticut, since 1999, bottling milk and making ice cream, cheese, butter, and yogurt on-site. The farm also runs Arethusa al tavolo, a dairy-to-table restaurant, and Arethusa a mano, a bakery cafe.

New Haven

New Haven Farmers Market II is listed at 224 College Street, one of several seasonal markets tracked in Connecticut farmers market directories. Beyond the address and a general description as a source of seasonal local produce, published details are thin — check directory listings for current-year hours before making the trip.

New Haven

CitySeed runs this market on the New Haven Green at Temple and Chapel Streets, in front of City Hall, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekly from June 18 through October 29. More than 50 Connecticut farms, bakers, cheesemakers, and specialty producers sell alongside prepared-food vendors. SNAP and WIC are accepted, and CitySeed matches SNAP spending up to $10 a day toward fresh produce and seedlings.

New Haven

CitySeed's Hill Market sets up Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., July through October, at the corner of Park and South Streets outside the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Vendors sell fruit, vegetables, dairy, baked goods, honey, maple syrup, and handcrafts, and WIC benefits are accepted. It sits blocks from Yale-New Haven Hospital, drawing hospital staff at lunch alongside Hill neighborhood residents.

New Haven

CitySeed, the New Haven nonprofit that runs the city's farmers markets, hosts this one at Russo Park on the corner of Chapel Street and DePalma Court in Wooster Square, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., April through November. CitySeed's stated mission is expanding access to the local food system from field to shelf.

CitySeed runs New Haven's year-round farmers markets as producer-only events — everything sold has to be grown or made by the vendor selling it, no resale. The winter market moves indoors for the cold months while sister markets at Wooster Square, Dixwell, and Edgewood Park run outdoors the rest of the year. CitySeed doubles SNAP and Connecticut Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits at all of its markets.

New Haven

A summer farmers market in New Haven's Wooster Square area, held at Conte West Middle School on Chapel Street, separate from the neighborhood's regular Saturday market at Russo Park.

New Haven

New Haven's Upper State Street market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall, at the corner of State Street and Mechanic Street with locally sourced produce and artisan goods.

New Haven

CitySeed's Edgewood Park market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through November, at the corner of Whalley and West Rock Avenues. More than 50 Connecticut farms and food producers sell produce, dairy, baked goods, and prepared food, with live music and cooking demonstrations most weeks. SNAP and WIC benefits are doubled on fruits, vegetables, and seedlings.

New Haven

CitySeed is a New Haven-based non-profit organization, working to bring fresh, and local, produce to New Haven residents.

West Haven

Hamden

Hamden

The East Haven Farmer's Market sets up on the Town Green on Main Street on Sunday mornings, running June through October. It's organized independently under a market master rather than run directly by the town, connecting residents with growers and artisans selling seasonal produce. Vendor and schedule questions go through the Mayor's Office.

Hamden

Fridays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., June through October, the Hamden Farmers' Market sets up at Town Center Park on Dixwell Avenue. Vendors sell fruit, vegetables, baked goods, and crafts, with roughly half the lineup rotating out partway through the season to bring in new offerings. Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program benefits are accepted.

East Haven

The Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven runs the oldest continuously operating suburban trolley line in the country, with more than 90 preserved transit vehicles on site. The museum adds seasonal fall programming, including its pumpkin patch trolley rides, alongside its year-round history exhibits.

Orange

Orange

Maple View Farm dates to the 1790s and now runs as a private party venue in Orange, with its main house listed on the National Register of Historic Homes. Birthday parties book the barn for pony rides and wagon rides, and the farm will also bring ponies or a wagon to an off-site event. Everything runs by appointment only - there's no walk-in visiting.

Robert Treat Farm, a family-run farm market and garden center on New Haven Avenue in Milford, hosts the Woodmont Farmers Market on its grounds every Wednesday from June through September. Vendors bring produce picked the same day, organic greens, cheeses, grass-fed beef, and fish straight off the boat, set up near the corner of New Haven and Merwin Avenues by Woodmont-on-the-Sound.

Woodbridge

Townline Farm sits in Woodbridge, in the rural western fringe of the New Haven metro area.

Bethany

Woodbridge

Orange

Sunflower Farm is located in Orange, a shoreline suburb between New Haven and Milford.

Bethany

The Demander family has farmed this land in Bethany since 1765, nine generations running. The market stays open year-round with sweet corn, heirloom tomatoes, and pumpkins in season, plus farm-raised beef, dairy, and holiday greenery when the fields go quiet. Pick-your-own strawberries run late May through June, and the farm fills gaps in its own harvest with other local and regional growers.

Wallingford

Milford

Glendale Farms has grown annuals and vegetable starts in Milford since 1917, now in its third generation. The greenhouse turns out hanging baskets, patio plants, herbs, and combination planters alongside ground covers and seasonal ornamentals, sold daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., cash or check only. The farm also runs an indoor arena for horse boarding on the same property.

Milford

North Branford

North Branford

Rose Orchards picks strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries through summer before moving into peaches, apples, and pears each fall. The North Branford farm runs pick-your-own May through October and bakes its own cider donuts, alongside ice cream and a farm store on site.

Seymour

Seymour Farmers' Market has run since 1995, started originally to support the town's downtown revitalization effort. It sets up at the Seymour Community Center on Pine Street with an open-air lineup of fruit, vegetables, honey, eggs, beef, pork, chicken, and crafts from local vendors, spring through fall.

Northford

Since 1907 DeFrancesco family has been growing over a hundred and twenty acres of fields and now 10 acres of greenhouses. We are coming up on 5th generation farming. We use Integrated pest management and biological insect control. Sustainable farming with rotational crop and ground cover for erosion prevention and plastic and drip irrigation to conserve water. We opened our retail Farm Stand in 1995 to service the public. Making you a part of our family and cultivating families.

Northford

Cecarelli's Harrison Hill Farm has grown vegetables in Northford since 1912, now in its third generation under farmer William DellaCamera. The fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, summer squash, and berries, sold from the farm stand through the growing season. It's a straightforward produce operation — no gimmicks, just what's in season that week.

Cheshire

Zentek Farms has grown annuals and vegetable plants wholesale in Cheshire since 1914, running five acres of enclosed greenhouses plus three acres of outdoor growing space. The family operation also sells retail from its own farm stand, with seasonal lineups from spring annuals through fall mums.

Wallingford

Wallingford's market sets up on the Railroad Station Green at the junction of Routes 5 and 150, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, July through September.

Cheshire

Drazen Orchards ran as a pick-your-own apple, blueberry, peach, and nectarine farm on Wallingford Road for close to 75 years, started by David and Ida Drazen in 1951 on land tracing back to an early-1800s farm and wood mill. The family closed the orchard for good in 2026, citing rising costs and the physical toll of the work.

Shelton

Wells Hollow is a fifth-generation family farm in Shelton that opened its ice cream creamery in 2007, run by Daniel and Jamie Wells. The shop turns over more than 50 homemade flavors alongside smoothies, soft serve, Italian ice, and ice cream cakes, with dairy sourced from farms across Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, and Michigan. A 3,000-square-foot open-air patio hosts birthday parties and farm-animal visits alongside the ice cream counter.

Shelton

Cheshire

Norton Brothers Fruit Farm operated on Academy Road for more than 200 years, dating to the mid-1700s, before closing after the 2024 season. Local reporting in 2025 pointed to a possible sale or new agreement to keep part of the farm going, though its current status is unconfirmed.

Shelton

Laurel Glen Farm is a twenty-acre vegetable farm in the Huntington section of Shelton, Connecticut, growing over 85 types of produce. The harvest is sold through the on-site farm store and a vegetable subscription program, with pick-your-own fruit and flowers rounding out the season.

Cheshire

Hickory Hill Orchards has grown apples, pears, nectarines, and peaches on 33 acres since 1977, offering pick-your-own for more than twenty apple varieties plus pumpkins. The South Meriden Road orchard closed for several years before reopening under new ownership, a Milford family who gave the country store, hayrides, and pie garden new life.

Wallingford

Gouveia Vineyards farms more than 32 acres of vines across a 140-acre property in Wallingford, pouring around 11 wines with a Portuguese accent from its stone-and-timber tasting room. The Gouveia family converted a vacant farm into the vineyard starting in the late 1990s. Visitors get panoramic hilltop views over the vines, picnic space, and sunset hours that draw a steady weekend crowd.

Held Sundays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., July through October, at 120 Bridgeport Avenue (Route 1) in Milford. Alongside local produce, the market features Connecticut-made arts and crafts booths and live entertainment.

Cheshire

Old Bishop Farm runs a scratch bakery, handmade ice cream counter, and general store on South Meriden Road in Cheshire, open Tuesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mondays. Pick-your-own produce rotates through the season, and the farm also books birthday parties and private events on site.

Northford

Bishop's Orchards' Northford fields, on Middletown Avenue, are where the pick-your-own happens — strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, pears, apples, and pumpkins across the season. Apple picking runs weekends, plus Columbus Day, from mid-September through late October, and pickers pay for their bag before heading into the rows. Varieties like Honeycrisp and Granny Smith are sold at the market instead, not offered for picking.

Oxford

Belinsky Family Farm grows apples, peaches, and pumpkins on Moose Hill Road in Oxford, working orchards that predate the current pick-your-own operation. Pick-your-own runs weekends, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the farm stand carries fresh produce, cut flowers, and Christmas trees in season.

Oxford

Naugatuck

Naugatuck Farmers' Market gathers on the Green off Church Street every Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October. It's a straightforward open-air market of local produce and goods on the town green, with updates posted through the market's Facebook page rather than a standalone website.

Set on the grounds of the Dudley Farm Museum, a working farm preserved as it looked in 1900, this is the second-oldest continuously run farmers market in Connecticut. Saturday mornings bring local meat, honey, maple syrup, jam, baked goods, and handcrafts, with vendors set up among the museum's farm animals and outbuildings. A smaller winter market runs on alternating Saturdays from February through April.

Guilford

Bishop's Orchards cuts a 4-acre corn maze each fall on New England Road in Guilford, part of a sixth-generation family farm's fall festival lineup that also runs hayrides, pumpkin picking, and scarecrow-making. The on-site Cider Hut pours wine and hard cider alongside the maze, open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in season. Maze themes change annually with the harvest calendar.

Shelton

Shelton

The Beardsley family has farmed this Shelton land since 1849 and has pressed cider commercially here since 1999. Pick-your-own apples run weekends in September and October, backed by pre-picked apples, peaches, plums, and nectarines, plus cider donuts, pies, and jams from the farm store, open daily 10 to 5:30 from August through Christmas. Weekend visitors after 11 a.m. can also buy unpasteurized cider by the jug for home fermenting.

Shelton

Jones Family Farms Winery sits on land the Jones family has worked for over 150 years across six generations, in the White Hills of Shelton. The tasting room, converted from a former dairy barn, pours seven estate-made wines from grapes and berries grown on the property, and visitors can cut their own bouquets in the flower fields between tastings. Open mid-March through December.

Wallingford

Stratford's town-run farmers market sets up at DeLuca Field on Main Street, with an annual Kids' Day event drawing families alongside the regular vendor lineup of Connecticut produce and goods.

Cheshire

Ives Farm is a 164-acre property in Cheshire owned by the Cheshire Land Trust and farmed by River Ridge Farm & Market using regenerative, low- and no-till methods. Their 20-week CSA runs mid-June through October for $300, with Friday pickup at the farmstand, which also sells bedding plants and fresh vegetables seven days a week. Betty Ives left the land to the trust in 2006; the surrounding 80 acres of woodland and riverfront trails stay open to the public.

Shelton

Valley Farm is one of Jones Family Farms' pick-your-own fields, moving through flowers in May, strawberries in June, blueberries in July, pumpkins in September and October, and Christmas trees in December. Hours run noon to 6 p.m. most days, noon to 7:30 p.m. Fridays, though picking times shift with the weather and the crop.

Guilford

Bishop's Orchards has farmed the same land on Boston Post Road in Guilford for generations, and the retail market now sells its own cider, wine, baked pies, and pick-your-own fruit alongside a working creamery and winery tasting room. Pick-your-own runs from strawberries in June through pumpkins in October, and the farm also operates a CSA-style Farm Share program. Call the farm store at 203-453-2338 or the pick-your-own line at 203-458-PICK.