Farms Near Orland, CA

Orland

Country Pumpkins sits on Highway 32 outside Orland, in the rice and almond country of the Sacramento Valley's Glenn County. The name and pumpkin-patch listing point to a fall-season destination. No further confirmed details on corn mazes, hayrides, or hours beyond the pumpkin sales.

Orland

Walnut Avenue Ranch is listed at 4646 Road N in Orland, a Glenn County town in the Sacramento Valley where walnut and almond orchards dominate the landscape. No working website or social listing turned up in research, so the ranch's specific operation could not be confirmed beyond its name and location.

Orland

The Parkway RV Resort & Campground is on 4th Street in Orland, a Glenn County farm town off Interstate 5 near Black Butte Lake. The Sacramento Valley around Orland grows walnuts, almonds, and rice, and the campground serves travelers passing through that stretch of agricultural country.

Orland

Saturday market at Library Park, 4th and Mill Streets in Orland, roughly June through September, 9 a.m. to noon. Glenn County growers bring fruit, vegetables, nuts, and rice — a combination distinctive to this stretch of the Sacramento Valley — along with baked goods and crafts. A sister market runs Wednesdays in nearby Willows.

Seale Navel Oranges grows in Glenn County near Orland, on the west side of the Sacramento Valley. Navel oranges have been grown commercially in this stretch of the valley for generations, with a harvest window that typically runs from winter into early spring.

Corning

S & B Blueberries is a u-pick blueberry farm on County Road 99W outside Corning, in the Sacramento Valley farm belt best known for olives and rice. Picking is seasonal and weather-dependent, as it is with most small blueberry operations in the region.

LL Pistachios operates out of the Corning area of Tehama County, on the west side of California's Sacramento Valley. Corning has long been known as an olive-growing center, and pistachios and almonds have spread across the same valley ground in recent decades as growers diversify their orchards.

Whiteley Ranch Inc. has farmed along Pennsylvania Avenue outside Corning since incorporating in 1981. It's a small, family-run operation, about three employees, registered for crop harvesting rather than direct-to-public sales, so this is a working farm rather than a u-pick destination.

Orland

Boysen Berry Farm, run under the name Rudy's Original, is kept by Jeanette 'Nettie' Boysen Fitzgerald and her husband Tom, who are reviving her family's namesake fruit on County Road 23 outside Orland. The u-pick boysenberries move fast during the short harvest window, open Friday through Monday, 7am to 7pm.

Corning

Hansen's Blueberry Farm grows roughly 4,000 Duke blueberry bushes on four USDA-certified organic acres outside Corning, a highbush variety suited to the Sacramento Valley climate. The family-run farm opens rows to u-pick visitors from mid-May into June and recommends arriving early with sun protection and water, since the open fields offer little shade during harvest season.

Corning

Sierra Nevada Cheese Company makes dairy products at 6530 County Road 39 in Willows, including butter, cultured cow and goat cheese, and yogurt sold under several house labels — Graziers, Bella Capra, Gina Marie, and Kendall Farms. The creamery works from traditional cheesemaking methods and sources milk from pasture-raised herds, a practice most large-scale dairies skip.

Corning

Lucero Olive Oil, now operating as American Olive Farmer, presses single-variety extra virgin olive oils and makes balsamic vinegars from orchards around Corning, the Tehama County town known as California's self-declared Olive City. Owner Liz also sells raw curing olives and olive trees, and handles customer orders herself by phone, text, or email.

Corning

Corning

Haynes Family Peaches grows peaches on Solano Street outside Corning, in the Sacramento Valley fruit belt that also produces the region's well-known olives and walnuts. No website, hours, or stand details are published online yet.

Corning

Corning calls itself "The Olive City," home to Bell-Carter Foods and its Lindsay Olives brand, the largest table-olive processor in the country. This market sets up at Northside Park in a Sacramento Valley farm town surrounded by olive groves, walnut orchards, and prune orchards.

Corning

Wolf Orchard sits along Road 99W, the old fruit-growing corridor through California's Sacramento Valley that's still lined with family orchards.

Willows

A food hub listing in Willows, California, seat of Glenn County in the Sacramento Valley's rice and orchard country. No verified details on this specific hub's growers or products turned up in current research.

Ste. C Willows

Willows' certified farmers market meets Wednesdays, 4 to 7 p.m. starting in June, at Memorial Park on Sycamore Street and Murdock Avenue. It runs as the Wednesday counterpart to the Saturday market in nearby Orland, both part of Glenn County's certified market program, offering Sacramento Valley produce and handcrafted goods.

Willows

Willows

Willows

Chico

L and T Farms is based in Chico, in the almond and rice country of the northern Sacramento Valley. No crop list, hours, or contact information for the farm turned up online.

Chico

Los Molinos

Chico

Chico Certified Farmers' Market runs year-round, rain or shine, from 7:30 a.m. to noon at the North Valley Plaza lot on Pillsbury Road, next to Trader Joe's. The nonprofit behind it actually operates five separate markets across Butte County under the county Agricultural Commissioner's certification. Vendors sell locally grown produce, USDA Certified Organic goods, and handmade items; EBT, WIC, and Market Match are accepted.

Chico

Chico

Chico

Chico Certified Farmers' Market runs Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round and rain or shine, in the downtown municipal parking lot at 2nd and Wall streets. The same nonprofit also runs a Wednesday market at North Valley Plaza Mall on Pillsbury Road. Cash, EBT, and WIC are accepted at both.

Chico

This Chico vineyard operation is listed at Hegan Lane in the Sacramento Valley's Butte County wine country, an area better known for olives and almonds than grapes.

Chico

Chico

Chico State's College of Agriculture runs a working University Farm on the edge of campus, including a dairy unit, a meat lab, and the student-run Organic Vegetable Project, which sells produce through a farm stand and seasonal CSA boxes. It operates primarily as a teaching farm for ag students, with some sales open to the public.

Los Molinos

Kitchel Family Organics has grown organic fruit, nuts, and vegetables on 8-10 acres near Los Molinos since 2003, with walnuts as a specialty among more than 60 crops they raise, including heirloom varieties. The farm is CDFA-certified organic (#52-003206) and sells through a seasonal CSA running late June through December, plus farm sales by appointment and wholesale accounts with Redding and Chico organic distributors.

Los Molinos

Chico

Fred Selby started this apiary in Chico in 1974, and the family business now keeps hives across three states: California, Wyoming, and Utah. Selby Family Honey's bestseller is a Wyoming clover and alfalfa blend, alongside a newer California orange blossom variety, all harvested raw with no processing or additives. The honey is stocked at Raley's, Nob Hill, and Bel Air stores across Northern California.

A Sunday farmers' market operating in Chico, in Butte County's Sacramento Valley farm region — separate from the city's established Saturday and Wednesday certified markets. Specific location, hours, and vendors weren't confirmed for this listing.

Durham

Patrick Ranch Museum preserves 28 acres of working ranch history between Chico and Durham, anchored by the 1877 Glenwood Farmhouse and several original barns. The Far West Heritage Association opened it to the public in 2010 after Hester and William Patrick left the property to the group. Fall brings the museum's Autumn Fest and pumpkin patch alongside its regular exhibits and volunteer programs.

C&R Ranch raises sustainably grown, grass-fed, all-natural California beef with holistic ranching at its core — humane treatment, healthy soil, and thriving plant life produce quality beef for family and friends.

Los Molinos

Durham

Multi-generational farm on Highway 99 outside Durham raising grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and pastured poultry. The family runs educational farm tours and school field trips year-round, with a pumpkin patch added each October and farm products sold on-site.

Paradise

Paradise

Noble's Orchards grows stone fruit on Pentz Road in Paradise, including apples, peaches, nectarines and cherries, and propagates its own nursery stock on site. The farm sells direct from the property Sunday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and shows up at the Chico farmers market on Saturdays and Paradise's on Mondays. Call 530-877-4784 for what's ripe.