Farms Near San Rafael, CA

San Rafael

The Sunday market at the Marin Civic Center, run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, has been ranked among the top ten farmers markets in the country. It runs year-round, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., off Ave. of the Flags in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium lot — a big enough footprint that AIM also uses it for food-education programs alongside the produce stands. It's the larger of AIM's two San Rafael markets.

San Rafael

Marin Convention & Visitors Bureau operates from 1 Mitchell Boulevard in San Rafael as the county's destination marketing organization, not a farm itself. It publishes a visitor's guide, lodging directory, and event calendar covering Marin County, including its farms, ranches, and agricultural tourism. Reach the office at (415) 925-2060.

San Rafael

Marinwood Community Farmers' Market operates on Marinwood Avenue in the Marinwood neighborhood of San Rafael. Marin County is home to some of the Bay Area's best-known organic and small-scale farms, and this market serves the community north of downtown San Rafael.

San Anselmo

The Agricultural Institute of Marin runs this Friday-evening market, 4 to 8pm through October, in the Elan Fitness Center parking lot at 220 Greenfield Avenue. It's one of several certified markets the nonprofit operates around Marin County, built around organic produce, grass-fed meats, and baked goods from small regional farms rather than resellers. Like most Marin markets, it closes for the winter months.

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AIM's Thursday market takes over 4th Street near B Street in downtown San Rafael, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round. It's the smaller sibling to the Institute's Sunday market at the Civic Center — same certified growers, same rule that farmers only sell what they grow, just a tighter downtown footprint suited to a lunch-hour or after-work stop rather than a full grocery haul.

San Rafael

Run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, this seasonal market sets up on Fourth Street between A and Lootens in downtown San Rafael one Friday evening a month, spring through fall, 5 to 9 p.m. AIM also runs San Rafael's larger year-round Thursday market at 10 Ave of the Flags, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

San Rafael

The Sunday Marin Farmers' Market at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center is the third-largest weekly farmers market in California, with over 150 year-round vendors every Sunday from 8 AM to 1 PM, rain or shine. Shoppers find organic produce, grass-fed meats, 32+ varieties of cheese, baked goods, and hot food from diverse cultures; the Agricultural Institute of Marin accepts CalFresh EBT, Market Match, and WIC, and the market is reachable by car, SMART train, or bike trail.

Fairfax

Fairfax

We were founded over 50 years ago with a dream of offering our community the highest quality organic food that we could find. From our early days on 123 Bolinas Road to today, we’ve remained committed to advocating for a healthier and more sustainable food system. Never content to simply accept the status quo, we have always pushed the envelope and tried to encourage food growers and manufacturers to produce food of a higher quality. We believe that food is sacred, and that organic food is a cri

Novato

Novato

Lovepatch Farms raises miniature horses on a small property in Novato, about 29 miles north of San Francisco, and runs appointment-only tours built around hands-on time with the animals. The farm advertises its tours and presentations as accessible for all ages and abilities, and draws visitors from well beyond the Bay Area. It's a niche operation — no crops, no produce stand — just the horses and a visit booked in advance.

Mill Valley Farmers Market is held on East Blithedale Avenue in downtown Mill Valley, at the base of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. The market draws on Marin and North Bay growers known for organic and small-scale farming.

Novato

The City of Novato runs this one on Tuesdays, May through October, on Sherman Avenue next to City Hall's lawn — 4 to 8pm through summer, trimming to 4 to 7pm as the season winds down in October. Local growers set up alongside prepared-food stalls, live music, and kids' activities, making the grassy setting as much a weeknight hangout as a produce run. It's seasonal, not year-round.

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Forest Knolls

People consider the increase in the cost of gasoline and the ever rising prices of produce and other groceries to be negative. The trend and demand for local goods in the heart of our magnificent Marin County has become noteworthy. The impact of this philosophy is far-reaching in nearly every sphere of life. It develops the local economy positively, fosters responsible stewardship of our beautiful land, and instills a sense of communion with the seasons and the farmers in our communities. We hav

Family-run pumpkin patch in West Marin since 1995, right next to Nicasio Valley Cheese Company on Nicasio Valley Road. They grow certified organic pumpkins and run hayrides, pony rides, and a hay maze through October, with Big Jim's barbecue and live music on weekends.

Richmond

Richmond

Urban Tilth runs North Richmond Farm, a 10-acre urban agriculture site that anchors the group's food justice work in Richmond, California. The nonprofit sells CSA shares, gives away produce at free farm stands, hands out fruit trees through its Orchard for ALL program, and grows native plants at its own nursery. It also trains and hires local residents to do the growing, treating job creation as part of the food-access mission.

Nicasio

Devil's Gulch Ranch raises rabbits, heritage chickens, quail, pigs, sheep, and goats on pasture in Nicasio, deep in Marin County's North Coast ranchland, alongside premium wine grapes and foraged ingredients. The ranch sells direct through its own online storefront and to restaurants, using sustainable and largely organic methods across the operation.

Petaluma

A Sonoma County regional park on land that was farmed for decades by the Cardoza family, who grew pumpkins here before the county acquired the property for public open space. The park now protects Tolay Lake itself, wetlands, and grassland trails between Petaluma and the Sonoma Valley, with that farming history part of what the site's interpretive programs cover.

Richmond

Richmond Main Street Initiative, a nonprofit working to bring foot traffic back to downtown Richmond, runs this Wednesday market, 10am to 2pm, at Nevin Plaza near Nevin Avenue and 13th Street. Fresh seasonal produce shares the plaza with live music, artisan vendors, baked goods, and kettle corn — part farmers market, part weekly gathering point for a neighborhood in the middle of a comeback.

Richmond

Richmond's certified market sets up at 24th Street and Barrett Avenue in the city's Iron Triangle neighborhood, an East Bay refinery and shipping town more associated with industry than farmland. Growers from the surrounding Bay Area counties sell direct here rather than through wholesale channels.

San Francisco

Fort Mason Center's farmers market runs Sundays in the parking lot at 2 Marina Boulevard, overlooking the bay in San Francisco's Marina district, typically from about 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It's operated by the California Farmers' Markets Association, a certified-market nonprofit whose vendors must sell only what they grow themselves, with produce, flowers, and other seasonal goods each week.

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A farmers market on the grounds of the San Francisco VA Medical Center near Clement Street and 42nd Avenue, on the Outer Richmond bluffs above Ocean Beach.

Carmel Honey Company runs a retail counter at Pier 39 in San Francisco, carrying the same raw, unfiltered honey the company harvests from hives it keeps and manages at its Monterey County home base. The lineup mirrors their coastal shops: jarred honey, honeycomb, and honey-based gift items.

Cloverfield Organic Farm is a small, USDA-certified biointensive u-pick operation tucked into the hills of El Sobrante. It's open Fridays through Sundays, with no entrance or parking fee, for picking your own organic produce alongside potted plants, dried herbs, seeds, and raw honey. Hours run seasonally — noon to 5 during daylight saving time, 11 to 4 in winter.

Cowgirl Creamery makes organic, award-winning cheese in Sonoma County, founded by Sue Conley and Peggy Smith. Their Mt Tam, Red Hawk and Wagon Wheel wheels have picked up medals at the World Cheese Awards and American Cheese Society competitions. Cheese ships nationally and sells through retail partners, with seasonal collections and cheese-club subscriptions available direct from the creamery.

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Clement Street closes to traffic every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for this Richmond District market, rain or shine, year-round. Alongside the produce stands are several Bay Area creameries — Achadinha Cheese Company, Stepladder Creamery, Nicasio Valley Cheese, and Tomales Farmstead Creamery — plus bakers and flower vendors. It's one of the few San Francisco markets that stays open straight through the holidays, including the Sundays before Christmas and New Year's.

Honoré Farm and Mill is a Marin County, California 501(c)(3) restoring the relationship between people and the land through regenerative farming, heritage grain cultivation, and experiential education. The mill stone-grinds rare heirlooms like Hourani — a durum wheat excavated from the Masada Fortress — plus Sonora, hard red, and rye, with shortbread cookies and flour bundles funding 100% of the farming and educational work.

Set on the grounds of the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center on Geary Boulevard, this market gives hospital staff, patients, and Richmond District neighbors a produce stand close to home. It's part of a network of onsite farm stands Kaiser runs at its Northern California facilities.

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Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this market outside Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco campus at Geary Boulevard and St. Joseph's Avenue, every Wednesday from 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine. Growers bring seasonal fruit, vegetables, greens, and nuts to the medical center for patients, employees, and the surrounding Richmond District.

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The Fillmore Farmers' Market sets up at O'Farrell and Fillmore in San Francisco's Fillmore/Japantown district, at the Fillmore Center Plaza.

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The Mill is the café side of a Divisadero Street shop in San Francisco, serving toast built on Josey Baker Bread's whole-grain sourdough alongside pastries and coffee from Four Barrel.

Josey Baker Bread mills local organic grain fresh and bakes whole-grain sourdough loaves in San Francisco, the bread half of a Divisadero Street shop it shares with Four Barrel Coffee. Josey does the bread; the coffee side runs separately.

Pinole

The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this Saturday market, 9am to 1pm, year-round, at Fernandez Avenue. It's one of more than 30 certified markets PCFMA operates across the Bay Area, all built around the same rule — vendors have to grow or make what they're selling, no resellers. A steady, no-frills produce market rather than a festival-style event.

The Bagel Mill in Petaluma fresh-mills its own grain for organic sourdough bagels, a small operation on Western Avenue offering pickup and delivery.

San Francisco

Gus’s Market has been a local neighborhood staple for more than 40 years. In all that time, we’ve worked out how to serve best: you like to find the highest quality version of what you’re looking for, at great prices. Our family still heads out on the floor to make sure you’ve got everything you need, because we don’t just call ourselves mom n’ pop – we strive to make you part of our family.

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This certified market sets up in a parking lot between 8th and 9th Avenue off Irving Street every Sunday, 9am to 1pm, year-round. It's smaller than the big Bay Area markets, but the mix runs deep: organic produce, pastured eggs and chickens, fresh fish, cheese, honey, pickles, and jam. The lot is reserved for the market during those hours, and organizers welcome neighbors who want to help with setup or cleanup.

Petaluma

Adobe Pumpkin Farm sits along East Washington Street east of Petaluma, not far from the Petaluma Adobe, General Vallejo's 1830s rancho and now a state historic park. The corridor remains one of the last working agricultural stretches on Petaluma's edge, known locally for its fall pumpkin patches.

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Windrush Farm is a working sheep farm in Petaluma's Chileno Valley, founded in 1995 by Mimi Luebbermann around the idea of farming fiber rather than food. Reservation-only tours introduce visitors to sheep, lambs, chickens, llamas, and alpacas, and the farm teaches spinning and dyeing classes alongside a spring Lamb Days event.

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A Certified B Corp grocer beloved in San Francisco, Bi-Rite pairs neighborhood markets with its famous creamery and a catering arm, buying direct from 25+ local farm partners and its own farm. Shoppers come for peak-season fruit, sustainably raised meats and seafood, housemade meals, and monthly wine club bottles — and stay for the company's sustainability and community work.

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A weekly farm stand market on UC San Francisco's Parnassus Heights medical campus. Vendors set up to serve students, hospital staff, and Inner Sunset neighbors a short walk from Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco

The Crocker Galleria farmers market sets up under the glass dome at 50 Post St in San Francisco's Financial District every Thursday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It's a lunch-hour market built for downtown office workers — organic produce next to ready-to-eat bolani, tamales, smoked seafood, and chocolate. Shoppers note prices run a notch below the Ferry Building market a few blocks away, which is part of why the line moves fast at noon.

The Ferry Building Marketplace counter is Carmel Honey Company's San Francisco stall, selling the same raw, unfiltered honey the company harvests from its own hives at its Monterey County locations. Look for jarred honey, honeycomb, and honey-based bath and beauty items alongside the company's gift boxes.

Petaluma

McClelland's Dairy Farm is a dairy operation on Bodega Avenue in Petaluma, in Sonoma County's dairy country west of town. Herd size, products, and public tour details weren't confirmed online this pass.

San Francisco

San Francisco's only independent, farmer-run nonprofit market, operating since 1981. It spent decades at UN Plaza before relocating to Fulton Plaza in 2024, and still draws roughly 55 farmers on Wednesdays and Sundays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., year-round — one of the few markets in the city open every week, including holidays.

Petaluma

Lavender Bee Farm pairs beekeeping with lavender growing in Petaluma, part of Sonoma County's cluster of small flower and herb farms that supply local farm stands and farmers markets.

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El Cerrito

A weekly farmers market at El Cerrito Plaza, a Contra Costa County shopping center next to the El Cerrito Plaza BART station.

San Francisco

Located at 1745 Folsom St, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative has been in San Francisco’s Mission District since 1975. For nearly 50 years we have provided affordable vegetarian food products which have minimal negative impact both ecologically and socially; buying goods from local organic farmers and vendors whenever possible.

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San Francisco

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At Guerra’s, quality products and personal service have been the foundation of our business since Mark and Battista Guerra opened their butcher shop on Taraval at 22nd Avenue in 1954. Over the years, we added the deli, greatly expanded our selection, introduced full-service catering, and more. We’re proud that some of our original customers and their families are still shopping with us. Today, we’re continuing the family tradition with Robert Guerra, Mark’s son, and cousin John Guerra, Battista’

Petaluma

The Happy Dahlia Farm grew more than 100 varieties of dahlias on East Washington Street in Petaluma, selling cut stems, plants, and tubers and taking wedding orders through its Wednesday-to-Sunday season. The farm announced in January 2024 that it had closed, after being unable to find a new location to keep growing. Listings that still show it as currently open are out of date.

Berkeley

The Natural Grocery Company is an independently owned organic grocer with stores in El Cerrito and Berkeley, plus a Prepared Food Annex serving housemade meals, wine, and beer. The stores are known for organic produce, florists offering fresh local cut and dried bouquets, weekly sales flyers, and the Annex Sessions live music series.

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Organic Dairy Farming always Organic Bill Straus started the family dairy farm in 1941, with a commitment to being responsible stewards of the land. When Albert converted the dairy to organic in 1994, it was the first certified organic dairy farm west of the Mississippi River. At the same time, he founded the Creamery — the first 100% certified organic creamery in the United States. Learn About the Organic Model Premium Quality Products Taste the Straus Difference For more than 30 years, the Str