Farms Near San Leandro, CA

San Leandro

The Bayfair market has run every Saturday since 1994, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the mall's parking lot at 15555 E. 14th St. The California Farmers' Markets Association runs it, pulling in more than 45 growers and food producers — Brentwood corn, Delta asparagus, Watsonville berries. It draws shoppers from San Leandro, Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, and Hayward, and takes EBT. Its exact spot in the lot shifts through the season.

San Leandro

San Leandro's downtown market closes off Parrott Street between E. 14th and Washington Wednesdays from April through October, 3 to 7 p.m. It's a smaller, after-work market than the city's Saturday Bayfair market — produce, cut flowers, and baked goods packed into a few downtown blocks instead of a mall parking lot. Exact start and end dates shift year to year, so it's worth checking before the first spring visit.

San Leandro

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this certified market on the Kaiser Permanente San Leandro campus at 2500 Merced Street. Local growers bring fresh, seasonal produce and goods to hospital staff, patients, and San Leandro residents as part of PCFMA's Bay Area network of more than 30 certified markets.

Johann and Wendy started Hidden Star Orchards in 2002, growing CCOF-certified organic apples, blueberries, cherries, and pomegranates in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The fruit becomes cider, applesauce, preserves, and dried fruit at their San Leandro warehouse, sold through Bay Area farmers markets including Ferry Plaza and Heart of the City. A separate taproom and bakery in Camino pours 24 ciders on tap.

San Leandro

Dig Deep Farms & Produce is a CSA and produce operation based in the Ashland area of unincorporated San Leandro, in Alameda County. Its website is under construction, so crop details, share pricing, and pickup locations are not confirmed online at this time; contact the farm directly for current offerings.

San Leandro

A farm listing in San Leandro, California. The operation's website was still in pre-launch status during research, with crops, hours, and products not yet published.

Planting Justice runs what it calls North America's most biodiverse urban nursery, stocking more than 1,500 plant varieties from its East Oakland and El Sobrante, California locations. The organization hires and trains formerly incarcerated people as nursery staff, pairing plant sales with reentry jobs, youth programs, and food-access work across the Bay Area.

San Leandro

Schmitz Ranch has raised livestock for the Bay Area since 1944, now in its third generation of the Schmitz family running the operation. It's registered as a wholesale meat business rather than a pick-your-own farm, so hours and product availability are best confirmed by phone before a visit. The ranch operates out of 410 Hester Street in San Leandro.

Saturday market at Hayward City Hall Plaza, 777 B St., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round, rain or shine. Run by Agricultural Institute of Marin organizers, it has grown past 35 regular vendors — nearly 60 during summer — over more than two decades, and sits one block from BART.

Castro Valley

Castro Valley Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round at the Castro Valley BART station, rain or shine. Urban Village Farmers' Markets operates it and matches EBT spending dollar for dollar up to $15 on fruits and vegetables, a real discount, not a marketing line. The market also takes WIC and Veggie Rx vouchers.

Alameda

This Alameda address is Niman Ranch's corporate office rather than a working farm open to visitors. Niman Ranch is a natural, sustainably raised meat brand supplied by a network of more than 600 independent family farms and ranches nationwide, raised without antibiotics or added hormones under Certified Humane standards. Farm visits happen at individual member ranches, not at this office.

Alameda

Tuesday and Saturday market at 1451 Harbor Bay Pkwy. in Alameda, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall. It's part of the PCFMA (Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association) network, which runs certified markets across the Bay Area sourced directly from grower-vendors.

Oakland

Set inside the Fruitvale Transit Village at 3411 E. 12th St., steps from BART, this market is run by the Unity Council as part of a larger community hub. Vendors sell fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables alongside Latin American food stalls and crafts. Call the Unity Council at 510-535-7178 to confirm the current market day — listings disagree on whether it runs Thursdays or Sundays.

Union City

This certified market runs every Tuesday, 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine, at Kaiser Permanente's medical offices on Whipple Road in Union City. Growers sell fresh California produce, and many — though not all — of the fruits and vegetables are grown without chemical treatment. It's a weekly stop for hospital staff, patients, and neighborhood shoppers looking for fresh food close to home.

Every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., more than 40 California farmers and food purveyors set up at Moraga Way and Moraga Road, drawing shoppers from Moraga, Lafayette, and Orinda. Produce is typically picked hours before the market opens. The market is run by the California Farmers' Markets Association and adds seasonal events like a Halloween costume parade and an Easter egg hunt.

Union City

Runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Old Alvarado Park, one of more than 30 certified markets across the Bay Area operated by the nonprofit Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association. Alameda County growers set up stalls along the historic Alvarado townsite in Union City to sell direct to shoppers.

Oakland

Oakland

Saturday market at Splash Pad Park, Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue in Oakland, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., year-round. Run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, it has operated near Lake Merritt since the late 1990s and grew substantially after the park's 2003 redesign by Oakland architect Walter Hood. Expect organic produce, flowers, coffee, and prepared foods like dim sum, with grassy space to eat under the palm trees.

Moraga

Captain Vineyards is a Bay Area winery in Moraga founded in 2005, farming more than 3,000 dry-farmed vines by hand. The estate makes unfiltered wines aged five to ten years in French oak, including Petite Sirah and Cabernet-driven blends, and has picked up the CoolCal and California Green Business awards for sustainable practices. Tastings run by reservation.

Alameda

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association operates a certified market in Alameda's West End near Haight Avenue and Webster Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Alameda is an island city in the East Bay, and the market draws growers from Central Valley and coastal farms who sell direct rather than through wholesale.

Oakland

A food hub listing in Oakland, California. No verified details on growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

Castro Valley

Part of the Moore family's pumpkin and Christmas tree operation, running in the East Bay since 1984, though current listings point to San Ramon and Livermore locations rather than Castro Valley specifically. Worth confirming this address is still active before visiting.

Oakland

Clove & Hoof is an Oakland restaurant on Broadway serving a butcher-driven menu of classics — the burger and the cheesesteak lead the list — alongside a rotating slate of kitchen specials and Sunday brunch. Open daily from 11 AM to 8 PM with online ordering for pickup and delivery.

Oakland

Oakland

This Oakland lot on Piedmont Avenue has sold pumpkins to the neighborhood for over two decades, open daily 9am-8pm through the first week of November. Hay bales and a small kids' area sit alongside the pumpkin selection, which reviewers note runs smaller and pricier than a farm-based patch. Located at 4414 Piedmont Avenue.

Oakland

Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center hosts a certified farmers market on its Broadway campus, running seasonally in spring through fall. Local growers bring fresh produce to the hospital grounds for patients, staff, and the surrounding Pill Hill neighborhood. Confirm this season's exact day and hours before visiting, since Kaiser's hospital-campus markets shift with staffing and season.

Oakland

Over the last one hundred years the majority of food production, processing and distribution became consolidated into a handful of large corporations. So began the fast decline of our country’s small farms and farmers. The process of building resiliency in our local food system starts with diversifying supply back into the hands of many small farms and ensuring their continued operations and growth. Understanding this, in 1999 David Evans founded Marin Sun Farms as an extension of his upbringing

Alameda

Speer Family Farm sets up on Ferry Point in Alameda, on the shoreline flats near the old naval air station rather than open farmland — this stretch of the island city hosts seasonal tree lots and pop-up patches more often than year-round growing operations. No verified details on current offerings or hours turned up online this session.

Pleasanton

Classic Pumpkin Patch & Trees sells pumpkins each fall and Christmas trees each winter from Rowell Ranch on Dublin Canyon Road between Pleasanton and Castro Valley. The lot runs Wednesday through Sunday afternoons and evenings, closed Mondays, with staff on hand to help load up a tree or a truck bed of pumpkins.

Oakland

Bee Healthy Honey Shop is a family business with beekeeping roots that trace back four generations to Yemen, now selling raw local honey, pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and candles out of a small storefront on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. Staff will transfer pollen into glass jars on request. It's a walk-in retail shop rather than a working apiary — a place to buy honey, not to visit hives.

Fremont

Ardenwood Historic Farm is a working 19th-century farm at 34600 Newark Boulevard in Fremont, California, centered on the restored 1857 Patterson House. Run by the East Bay Regional Park District, it operates a narrow-gauge railroad, blacksmith shop, and cultivated fields, and hosts seasonal events including pumpkin patches. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Oakland

The Freedom Farmers' Market serves as a gathering place that is creating harmony while offering a variety of produce, fruits, and healthy foods grown by Black farmers and other underserved farmers. People come to the Market not only to shop, but to socialize and to reconnect with a history that ties food to land, culture and community building.

Marin Sun Farms runs whole-animal butcher shops selling grass-fed, pasture-raised beef, lamb, goat and pork, plus poultry and eggs, all raised without antibiotics or hormones. The company sources from a network of Northern California ranches and operates what it describes as the last remaining slaughterhouse in the Bay Area. Its retail butcher shop sits inside Rockridge Market Hall in Oakland; the company's offices are in Petaluma.

Fremont

Oakland

Oakland

This Oakland listing sits on Market Street under the name Raising the Hope Freedom, but no working website, phone number, or social page could be verified for it. Treat the address and hours as unconfirmed until the operator updates the listing directly.

Oakland

Oakland

Listed in West Oakland near the Mandela Marketplace corridor, part of a cluster of worker- and community-owned food businesses built to bring fresh produce distribution into a neighborhood long underserved by grocery retail. Specific details on this listing's current operations were not independently verified.

Orinda

Walnut Creek

This one comes with a catch most markets don't have: it's open only to Rossmoor residents and their families, run out of the Gateway parking lot near Golden Rain Road and Tice Valley Road every Friday, May through October, 9:30am to 1pm. Fifteen-plus local farmers sell produce and flowers alongside prepackaged and hot food. Non-residents get pointed to the Saturday Diablo Valley Farmers' Market in Walnut Creek instead.

Fremont

Richards Regenerative — five generations of California ranchers with roots outside Sacramento since 1941 — raises American Grassfed Certified beef that also carries the Savory Institute's Land-to-Market Ecological Outcome Verification. Launched as Richards Ranch Meats in 2014 to sell directly to customers, the ranch now ships ground beef bundles, ribeyes, New York steaks, and country blends nationwide.

San Ramón

Alamo

Alamo is an unincorporated, affluent Contra Costa County community along Interstate 680. This certified market sets up in the Bank of America parking lot on Alamo Plaza, a small local stop for growers from the surrounding East Bay farmland rather than a large regional market.

Danville

Danville's certified market runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., organized by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association, which operates more than a dozen certified markets across the East Bay. Every vendor is required to sell only what they personally grow or raise.

Dow Village

Royal Food Hub appears in local food directories as a small organic provider based in Dow Village. Beyond that listing, no website, hours, or product details could be verified — worth a call before visiting if you're in the area.

Berkeley

A farmers market on Foster City Boulevard in Foster City, a San Mateo County community built on filled bay marshland starting in the 1960s.

Emeryville

This market's address places it at the Bay Street shopping center at 5616 Bay Street in Emeryville, though a check of Bay Street's own site turned up no active farmers market listing — Emeryville's Saturday market now runs instead at the Public Market on Shellmound Street. Confirm before visiting; the listing may be outdated or the market may have relocated.

Fremont

Saturday morning market along Bonde Way in Fremont's Centerville district, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., organized by the Fremont Farmers Market Association. Stalls run a full city block with produce growers, cut flowers, baked goods, and prepared food. The vendor mix leans into the area's large Asian community — look for bok choy, Thai basil, and produce you won't find at a typical suburban stand.

Berkeley

Bay Area Green Tours operated agricultural and sustainability-focused tours out of Berkeley, on Allston Way near downtown.

Walnut Creek

Set up outside the cafeteria at Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek Medical Center on South Main Street, this certified market runs every Tuesday, 10am to 2pm, year-round. Local growers bring fresh produce, organic items, and crafts to the campus grounds, drawing hospital staff and East Bay shoppers to a weekly stop between Main Street and the medical center.

Berkeley

Berkeley

Alex Market is listed as a market in California. We haven't found a working website or verifiable listing for this business, so location and product details aren't confirmed.

Fremont

The Local Butcher Shop sources whole animals from local farms and butchers them in-house at 1600 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, turning out sausages, pates and roasts alongside stocks and rendered fat from a zero-waste approach. The shop also teaches in-person and online butchery classes and runs a rotating Butcher Basket subscription.

Fremont

Forty-plus growers set up every Saturday, 9am to 1pm, in Niles Town Plaza on Niles Blvd — rain or shine, straight through holidays most markets close for. Alongside produce you'll find local honey, dairy, meats, coffee roasters, bakeries, and fresh-pressed juices, plus live music most weeks. The market takes SNAP/CalFresh and Veggie Rx vouchers, which plenty of certified California markets still don't. It's been a fixture of Fremont's historic Niles district for years.