Farms Near Pescadero, CA

Root Down Farm is a queer-owned, pasture-based operation on 62 acres in Pescadero raising pigs, turkeys, ducks, and slow-growth chickens on rotational pasture. They sell fresh and frozen chicken, duck, and pork at San Francisco's Ferry Plaza and Clement Street farmers markets, plus whole pigs by appointment.

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Fogline Farm raises organic-fed, pasture-raised broiler chickens on the Año Nuevo peninsula coastline north of Santa Cruz. The fully integrated organic farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains moves its chickens to fresh grass daily.

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Grounded in a values-based approach to land stewardship, Fifth Crow Farm is a dynamic and diversified organic farm in Pescadero, CA. Founded in 2008 with a shoestring budget, a supportive local community, and ambitious dreams, we strive to bring eaters the highest quality, best tasting, and most nutritious food possible. We are situated in the Cloverdale Valley, 45 miles from San Francisco and 35 miles from Santa Cruz. Primarily a market farm selling to farmers’ markets and restaurants in San Fr

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LeftCoast GrassFed comes from TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, home of the TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation, which demonstrates regenerative rangeland management on working land. The ranch practices planned grazing, rest and recovery, biodiversity stewardship, and soil building to provide healthy food while restoring water cycles and capturing carbon.

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Pescadero Grown! runs a summer farmers market at 350 Stage Road in Pescadero, across from the community church, from 3 to 7 p.m. starting in June. Vendors include Blue House Farm, Fly Girl Farm, Pie Ranch, and LeftCoast GrassFed, alongside herb, jam, and soap sellers. Run by the nonprofit Puente, the market doubles CalFresh and WIC benefits and matches low-income shoppers dollar for dollar up to $20 a visit.

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Jim Cochran and Mark Matze founded Swanton Berry Farm in 1983, and it became the first certified-organic strawberry grower in California. The farm still markets itself as organically grown by union labor, a distinction it's held for decades. U-pick strawberries and olallieberries run seasonally at the Coastways Ranch fields on Highway 1 in Pescadero, with a year-round farm stand up the coast in Davenport.

San Gregorio

Blue House Farm runs a u-pick strawberry patch and farmstand in San Gregorio, on the San Mateo County coast, open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. The farm also grows organic heirloom dry beans and flowers, sold at the stand and online. Email the farm directly to ask about picking conditions before the drive out.

Small organic farm on the Half Moon Bay coast, started in 1998 by Joanne Andreotti and her sons Richard and David Holtz. No synthetic pesticides or fertilizers here — they grow pumpkins, beans, corn, squash, and garlic, and raise grass-fed Angus cattle and goats along a stretch of coastline with real ocean views.

Davenport

Swanton Pacific Ranch sits on Swanton Road north of Davenport, on the Santa Cruz County coast, a stretch of California better known for redwood forest and dairy ranching than for row-crop farmland.

Half Moon Bay

Arata's Pumpkin Farm has grown pumpkins on Verde Road in Half Moon Bay since 1932, one of the oldest patches on the San Mateo County coast. Beyond the pumpkin fields, the farm runs a two-acre hay maze, a haunted barn, a petting zoo, and train, pony, and hay rides. It's open daily 9am–6:30pm through most of the season, with later Friday-Saturday hours in October.

Half Moon Bay

Bob's Pumpkin Farm sits on Highway 1 in Half Moon Bay and keeps its patch old-school: haystacks, farm animals, and a hunt for the season's biggest pumpkin rather than a haunted-maze setup. It's one of the original stops on the coast's fall pumpkin route.

La Honda

Skyline Chestnuts is a gather-your-own chestnut orchard on Skyline Boulevard above La Honda, open Wednesday through Sunday during the October–November harvest. Chestnuts run $10.50 a pound with a cash discount, and morning visitors need an advance parking reservation since the mountain lot is small. It's a pick-them-off-the-ground operation, not a pick-from-the-tree one.

Portola Valley

Portola Valley Farmers' Market sets up on Portola Road in this semi-rural San Mateo County hill town west of Stanford, known for horse ranches and the San Andreas Fault trace running along Alpine Road. Vendor list, market day, and hours aren't confirmed online.

Davenport

An organic strawberry farm on Highway 1 near Davenport, one of the first in California to grow strawberries without synthetic pesticides and to unionize its field workers. The honor-system farm stand sells berries, jam, and merchandise, and the u-pick fields open seasonally for anyone willing to bend over a row and fill a basket.

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Woodside

A farmers market on Woodside Road in Woodside, a horse-country town in the hills above Silicon Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Portola Valley

Webb family land in Portola Valley worked since 1922, now roughly 250 acres of horse boarding, riding lessons, and CCOF-certified organic farming minutes from Stanford. The u-pick berry fields — olallieberries, marionberries, and blackberries — open for six to eight weeks each summer starting around mid-June, and fall brings pumpkins and organic compost sales, with Christmas trees closing out the year.

Davenport

Seaside Pumpkin Farms sits along Highway 1 near Davenport, California, on the Santa Cruz County coast, a stretch of bluff-top farmland known for artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and fall pumpkin patches with ocean views.

Boulder Creek

Camp Joy Garden has run as a nonprofit demonstration farm and training center in the Santa Cruz Mountains since 1971, growing organic fruit, flowers, and vegetables on its Boulder Creek hillside. The farm distributes a CSA locally and runs apprenticeships, kids' classes, and adult workshops in small-scale ecological growing, plus a spring plant sale and holiday wreath sale. Volunteers are welcome on scheduled farm days.

Half Moon Bay

The marquee event of Half Moon Bay's Art and Pumpkin Festival, where growers haul in giant pumpkins — some pushing past a ton — to be weighed on Main Street in front of a crowd chasing a world record. Organized by the Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee, the weigh-off runs the Monday before the main festival weekend each October on the IDES Grounds.

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The Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival takes over Main Street every October (the 54th edition runs October 17-18, 2026) with juried art, live music, a parade, and pie-eating and costume contests. It's built around the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, held a few days earlier at the IDES Grounds, and is put on by the nonprofit Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee.

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Third-generation family farm on Coast Road two miles south of Davenport, growing Brussels sprouts, leeks, artichokes, beets, peas, beans, and strawberries across roughly 300 acres. The farm stand runs May through October with fresh produce, flowers, and local goods like honey and soap, and a u-pick pumpkin patch with a corn maze opens late September through Halloween. School field trips available by request.

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Doniga Markegard runs a regenerative cattle operation along Highway 1 south of Half Moon Bay, moving herds of cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens across pasture the way wild grazing animals once did. The ranch sells grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and lamb through weekend farmers markets and pickup points in Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, and La Honda. No feedlots, no grain finishing — everything eats grass and moves.

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Cozzolino's traces back to the floral farm Alex and Sharon Cozzolino started in Half Moon Bay in 1970, and the family now runs several seasonal stands along the Highway 92 corridor selling colored pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, and cut Christmas trees. The San Mateo Road location is one of a few Cozzolino family stands in town.

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4-C's Pumpkin Patch sits on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, part of a corridor growers have farmed since the 1930s after two brothers first sold pumpkins to passing motorists. The town now calls itself the pumpkin capital of the coast, and 4-C's is one of several family-run patches along that stretch each October.

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Half Moon Bay

G. Berta's Pumpkin Patch farms a stretch of Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, the same coastal corridor where Bay Area families have picked pumpkins each October since local growers began selling roadside in the 1930s.

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Pastorino Farms is a longtime farm stand on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, part of the coastal produce corridor between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo known for pumpkins, artichokes, and Brussels sprouts.

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Half Moon Bay Lavender has grown lavender on San Mateo Road in Half Moon Bay, California, since 1995, one of the longest-running lavender farms on the coast. The family grows English, French, Spanish, and hybrid varieties, harvests fields each July, and sells dried lavender year-round alongside handmade bath and body products. Hours run daily, with weekends opening earlier and closing later than weekdays.

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Repetto's Pumpkins is a family pumpkin patch on San Mateo Road in Half Moon Bay, part of the Highway 92 farm corridor that turns into one of the Bay Area's busiest pumpkin stretches every October.

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Family-owned working farm on Highway 92 above Half Moon Bay, in operation since 1942. October turns it into a full fall outing with pony rides, a train, a petting zoo, hayrides, and even goat yoga, alongside the pumpkin patch itself.

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Andreotti Family Farms has grown artichokes, beans, broccoli and strawberries on the same Half Moon Bay ground since Dino Andreotti and Julia Benedetti started the operation in 1926. The fourth-generation farm was an early vendor at San Francisco's Alemany farmers market back in 1943, and today runs a fall u-pick sunflower field, corn maze and pumpkin patch along Highway 1. Call 650-867-1565 for seasonal hours.

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A pumpkin farm on the Half Moon Bay coast, part of San Mateo County's well-known pumpkin-growing belt along Highway 1, where fog-cooled soil produces some of the giant pumpkins the region is famous for each October. No independent website turned up in research beyond the listing itself.

Held Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the grounds of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System at 3801 Miranda Avenue. The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs the stalls, giving veterans, hospital staff, and Santa Clara County neighbors a direct line to local growers without leaving the medical campus.

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Markegard Family Grass-Fed raises certified grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb plus pasture-raised chicken and pork across ranchland in San Mateo, Sonoma, and Marin Counties, based in Half Moon Bay. Using holistic planned grazing that mimics the elk herds that once roamed California's grasslands, the pesticide-free ranch was the first in California to earn Audubon's Bird Friendly land certification, and delivers regenerative meats around the Bay Area and at farmers markets.

A nonprofit that operates more than a dozen certified farmers markets across the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay, including Stanford, Foster City, Brisbane, Gilroy, and Carmel Valley. Locations run on different weekday and weekend schedules, connecting Northern California growers directly with shoppers, hospital campuses, and community centers.

Los Altos

Thursdays, 4 to 9 p.m., April 30 through October 15, on State Street in downtown Los Altos. Regular vendors include Apricot King Orchards and Bay Area Orchids, drawing evening foot traffic to the Peninsula town's shopping district.

Greenhearts Family Farm runs a CSA out of Half Moon Bay, delivering organic produce boxes across the Bay Area with no membership fee and no required subscription. Customers choose weekly, biweekly, one-time, or seasonal boxes, and the farm has handled the picking, packing, and delivery itself for more than 15 years.

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Yellow Wall Farm is a nearly three-acre CCOF-certified organic family farm in a secluded valley along the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, named for a wall of 8,000 sunflowers planted for a family wedding. Allen and Judy Rose Hasty tend 30-year-old heirloom apple trees plus peaches, Asian pears, persimmons, avocados, and citrus, grow summer vegetables and Slow Food Ark of Taste varieties, and sell to local restaurants, New Leaf Community Foods, and a Saturday farm stand from August through November.

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Santa Cruz Community Farmers' Markets has run for 30 years, operating a family of five markets: Downtown Santa Cruz on Wednesdays, Westside Saturdays, Live Oak/Eastside Sundays (all year-round, rain or shine), plus seasonal markets in Felton and Scotts Valley. The markets showcase regional organic produce, pasture-raised meats, eggs and dairy, sustainably harvested seafood, and artisan goods, with EBT Market Match and pop-up breakfast events.

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At el Salchichero we provide delicious, top quality local meats that connect you to your community through healthy and mindful eating. We are passionate about the local foods we source from sustainable pasture raised animals. With our beautiful hand-cut meats, you’ll always know your food is from a carefully selected farm, with the highest and most humane standards. As your community butcher we artfully carve your meats and take great pride in bringing chef-driven, seasonally inspired recipes to

This is the Palo Alto location of the Sigona's Farmers Market chain, listed separately from its sibling entry. The site returned access errors on every attempt in this search; hours, offerings, and the exact address are unverified here.

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Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards farms hillside grapes on Garrod Rd in Saratoga, in the Santa Cruz Mountains appellation above Silicon Valley. The property has grown fruit since the early 1900s and now produces estate wine from that same land.

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We are a Non-Profit Organization, formed in 1997, aimed to help build healthy communities by fostering direct economic and social ties between local producers and consumers.

Redwood City

The Kiwanis Club of Redwood City runs this certified market on Arguello Street, a civic-club-sponsored market rather than one operated by a farmers' market association. Redwood City sits on the San Francisco Peninsula, and the market draws growers from the coastal and valley farms within a short drive.

Sigona's site returned access errors on every attempt in this search, so details couldn't be confirmed directly. It reads as a year-round specialty produce market rather than an outdoor stand; current offerings, hours, and address are unverified here.

W&S Cattle Ranch sells pasture-raised California beef raised without added hormones or antibiotics, marketed directly from ranch to customer as "Farm to You California Beef." The ranch lists a contact address in Los Altos and takes orders through Instagram or by phone.

Palo Alto

The California Avenue Farmers' Market in Palo Alto runs Sundays from 9 AM to 1 PM year-round, rain or shine, on California Avenue at El Camino. Operated by the Urban Village Farmers' Market Association, the market accepts EBT and WIC with a dollar-for-dollar Market Match up to $15 for fruits and vegetables, and hosts knife sharpening every first Sunday.

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Redwood City

The Redwood City Kiwanis Farmers Market is a certified farmers market run by the local Kiwanis volunteer organization, offering produce to the community every Saturday from 8 AM until noon, April through November. Seasonal features include local honey drinks, small-batch pet treats, gluten-free baked goods, face painting, and community booths like the Peninsula Rose Society.

Located on the Kaiser Permanente Redwood City medical campus at 1150 Veterans Boulevard, this market brings produce vendors onto hospital grounds for patients, staff, and nearby residents. Bay Area Kaiser campuses have run these onsite markets for years as part of member wellness programs.

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West Coast Farmers Markets, which has run weekly certified markets across San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties since 2011, operates this market on the Kaiser Permanente Redwood City campus at 1150 Veterans Boulevard. Certified organic growers and local artisans set up for hospital staff, patients, and Redwood City residents. Free parking for the market is available in the garage at 1250 Veterans Boulevard, at Maple Street.

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San Carlos

ABC Tree Farms' San Carlos lot along El Camino Real at Arroyo Street, part of a family-run network of roughly 15 seasonal pumpkin and Christmas tree sites across the Bay Area dating to 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and sold through October, with a gift shop on-site.