Produce Farms near New Paltz, NY

New Paltz

Highland

Kingston

Accord

Saunderskill Farms in Accord, New York has been growing since 1680 — one of the few farms in the nation to hold the USDA's rare Tricentennial Award, still worked by generations of Schoonmakers. The market and bakery serve fresh cider donuts, the farm's own strawberries, greenhouse tomatoes, and asparagus, while the greenhouse fills with annuals and hanging baskets and summer brings pick-your-own blueberries and flowers.

Accord

Sheeley's Farm Stand is an old-fashioned country farm stand on Lucas Turnpike in Accord, New York, selling unsprayed produce from July through September, 10 to 5. The greenhouse opens each May with bedding and vegetable plants, and the stand is accessible and child-friendly.

Poughkeepsie

Kerhonkson

Kelder's Farm in Kerhonkson, in New York's Hudson Valley, grows fun memories along with 50+ fruits, vegetables, and flowers for u-pick throughout the season. More than 35 farm attractions, a taproom, and festival after festival — tulips, strawberries, sunflowers, animals, pumpkins, and fall fun — make it a full-day family destination, with season passes for unlimited visits.

Wappingers Falls

Obercreek Farm is a NOFA-NY certified organic farm in Hughsonville, in Dutchess County, growing diversified vegetables, herbs, flowers, and hops on nine acres since 2012 — with five high tunnels enabling year-round harvests. A proud Real Organic Project member (crops in soil, "no funny stuff"), the farm feeds its community through a summer CSA with drop-offs from Beacon to Newburgh, a farm stand on New Hamburg Road, farmers markets, and wholesale.

New Windsor

Gray Family Farm is a direct-to-consumer family farm and CSA in New Windsor, in the Hudson Valley, offering weekly seasonal shares of local, organic, and foraged produce plus organic eggs and all-natural free-range meats — raised on Joel Salatin's regenerative methods as proud APPPA members. A self-serve eggmobile sells pasture-raised eggs sun-up to sun-down, and the farm even sells live laying hens for backyard flocks.

Campbell Hall

A pick-your-own berry farm on Shea Road in Campbell Hall, in the Orange County farmland of the mid-Hudson Valley. Strawberries and other summer berries are the typical draw here. Hours and crop timing aren't posted online.

Hopewell Junction

Cold Spring

Chester

Chester

Chester

Pine Hill Berry Patch grows pick-your-own berries on Route 94 in Chester, in Orange County's farm belt in the lower Hudson Valley. Strawberries lead off the season in June, with other berries following through summer. Check ahead for what's ready and current picking hours.

Goshen

Germantown

Claryville

Radical Practices and Outsider Agriculture Our farming practices may be radical but they have resulted in our farm being one of the highest production farms per square foot in the country. What can be more radical than removing the symbol of vegetable farming; the tractor? We practice farming by hand; replacing the tractor with hand tools. All planting, cultivation, and harvesting is done manually, though we use modern tools and techniques that keep us efficient and competitive. We find that far

Carmel Hamlet

Kent Lakes Farm Market is chef and caterer Sarah Calabro's seasonal community farm stand in Putnam County's Lake Carmel, just off I-84 — all about local, with the Hudson Valley's best natural produce, flowers, and plants in the growing season. The market adds oven-fresh fruit pies, homemade quiches, chef-made empanadas, artisan cheeses, daily-arriving old-world breads, and seasonal catering, open May through September.