Produce Farms near Ruskin, FL

Wimauma

Berry Bay Farms is in Wimauma, part of South Hillsborough County's produce corridor known for strawberries, tomatoes, and blueberries. No hours, crop list, or contact details specific to this operation are published online.

Parrish

Brown's Grove Citrus & Produce grows and sells citrus in Parrish, along the Manatee River in a part of Manatee County still dotted with working groves. Current varieties, harvest season, and stand hours weren't confirmed online.

Palmetto

Tampa

Meacham Urban Farm is a bio-intensive farm at 1108 E. Scott Street in downtown Tampa, providing the bay area with local, organic, affordable produce, pasture-raised meats, raw dairy, bread, and eggs. The farm store is open five days a week year-round, and visitors can stroll the farm, meet the chickens, and join educational workshops and school field trips in peak season.

Tampa

Sitting at 1108 E. Scott Street in the heart of Tampa, Meacham Urban Farm grows bio-intensively on-site and partners with other local organic farms to stock its farm store with vegetables, pasture-raised meats, raw dairy, eggs, bread, and honey. Think of it as a weekly farmers market open five days a week, all year — with chickens to visit, workshops to join, and school field trips in peak season.

Lyna Berry Farms runs u-pick berry fields on Neal Road in Lithia, southeast of Tampa, and also sells pre-picked orders for anyone who'd rather skip the fields. The farm sends out email alerts when the rows are ripe for picking, and posts updates on Instagram and Facebook.

Lithia

Strawberries, You Pick sits on South County Road 39 in Lithia, inside Hillsborough County's strawberry belt that runs toward Plant City. Florida's u-pick strawberry season typically falls between December and March, though this farm has no published hours or contact information.

Lithia

Bonnie Blueberries is a small, family-run u-pick blueberry patch in Lithia, closer to a backyard planting than a commercial farm. Call ahead before driving out — visitors report the bushes can be picked clean fast during peak season, and availability changes day to day. Bring your own containers. It's the kind of informal, small-scale u-pick that dots the Hillsborough County blueberry belt each spring.

BellaBlue Berry Farm sits along Bradenton-Arcadia Road in inland Manatee County — cattle ranching country east of Bradenton where a handful of berry growers have carved out fields among the pastures.

Tampa

Sweetwater Organic Community Farm is Florida's oldest organic community farm, growing in Tampa since 1995 with a mission of building community from the ground up. The farm runs a CSA with weekly harvest shares, a Sunday farmers market and café open 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (SNAP/EBT welcome), school field trips, volunteer days, and a farmer apprenticeship program.

Tampa

Sweetwater Farm in Tampa is a community-powered organic farm — Florida's oldest — offering CSA harvest shares, educational field trips, and volunteer opportunities. Its Sunday market and café run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., where shoppers pick up weekly veggie shares, browse local organic goods, and can join morning yoga on the farmhouse porch.

Tampa

Billed as Florida's oldest organic community farm, Sweetwater has been growing in Tampa since the 1990s with CSA harvest shares, farmer training, and a busy calendar of school field trips and volunteer days. Every Sunday the farm opens its market and café from 10 to 4 — SNAP and EBT accepted — where members collect weekly veggie shares straight from the fields.

Seffner

Seffner

Laila's Blueberries is a small u-pick blueberry operation on E. Sligh Avenue in Seffner, part of Hillsborough County's blueberry belt east of Tampa. Florida's blueberry season typically runs late March into May. We couldn't verify current hours or pricing, so call ahead before you go.

Seffner

D&K U-Pick grows eleven blueberry varieties on US-92 outside Seffner without pesticides, herbicides, or ripening agents, and sells honey — blueberry, wildflower, Brazilian pepper, and swamp — alongside the fruit. U-pick runs $6 a pound, staff-picked $8, cash only. Reach the farm at (813) 802-0406 to check the season's status before visiting.

Seffner

Sarasota

Jessica's Organic Farm in Sarasota grows certified organic produce and runs an on-farm organic market, selling its harvest directly to the community alongside other organic goods.

Lithia

Yancey's Blueberry is a family-run u-pick operation near Lithia, charging $5/lb to pick your own berries or $6/lb for pre-picked. The farm markets itself as a family-friendly outing during Florida's spring blueberry season, which typically wraps by early May. Call ahead before driving out, since picking windows are short and weather-dependent.

Plant City

Glover's Blueberries grows in Plant City, in Hillsborough County's berry belt where mild winters let growers pick weeks ahead of Georgia's crop. Strawberries built the region's reputation, but blueberry acreage across Central Florida has grown fast since southern highbush varieties suited to warm winters became available.

Plant City

Thonotosassa

Strawberry Passion Organic Farms is on Tom Folsom Road in Thonotosassa, part of Hillsborough County's strawberry belt just outside Plant City. Florida's organic strawberry season typically runs winter into early spring. No hours or contact details specific to this farm are published online.

Sulcata Grove is a registered plant nursery and apiary in Sarasota, Florida specializing in tropical fruits and local raw honey — mangos, avocados, bananas, passion fruit, and ice cream bean from a beyond-organic permaculture homestead with backyard chickens and honeybees. Fresh and freeze-dried fruit, trees, cuttings, honey, tours, tastings, and Florida fruit-growing consultations round out the grove.

Thonotosassa

Thonotosassa

Thonotosassa

Thonotosassa

A family owned and operated produce market with a variety of fresh fruits, farm fresh eggs, honeys, jams, veggies, and more. Here at Branchton Farms Produce we provide healthy options at a great price. Our products are locally sourced.

Plant City

A working nursery and u-pick blueberry farm on Highway 60 west of Plant City. Visitors pick blueberries in season, and the nursery side sells potted plants year-round.

Plant City

All About The Blueberry Farm is a produce operation on Heathcoe Road in Plant City, within the heart of Florida's blueberry country. It's registered as a verified trade business with Blue Book Services, though public details on hours or u-pick access aren't listed online. Plant City's blueberry season generally runs late winter into spring.

Plant City

Blue Gold Blueberries grows on Sydney Road in Plant City, Hillsborough County soil that ripens berries earlier than almost anywhere else in the country. Florida's blueberry season runs roughly February through April, ahead of Georgia and the Carolinas, which is why small u-pick operations cluster in this stretch of strawberry country. No hours or pricing were verified.

Plant City

A family-run u-pick blueberry farm off Holloway Road in Plant City. The owners post picking updates and hours on Facebook each season rather than keeping a formal website, so that's the best way to check before visiting.

Myakka Head

Odessa

Blueyouth Berries grows berries in Odessa, a Pasco County community northwest of Tampa where several small blueberry farms open for u-pick each spring. Pick dates, hours, and pricing weren't confirmed online — call ahead before visiting.