Farms Near Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara

Why We Farm John La Puma, the farm’s designer and farmer, believes in enhancing food security, building resilience and creating beauty wherever he can. He also believes that home grown produce tastes better, is more nutrient-rich and is better and more delicious ``culinary medicine`` than any other produce. He’s fortunate to have contributed to that body of medical knowledge (see below). Lastly, he believes that regenerative farms which build drought-resistant healthy soil can slow global warmin

Santa Barbara

Centrally located in Downtown Santa Barbara, this is the largest weekly Certified Farmers' Market in Santa Barbara County. Ample public parking lots surround the site making it very accessible. Fresh produce, flowers, seafood, meats, hummus, bread, honey, eggs, nut butters, and much more!

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara's Saturday certified farmers' market fills the 900-1000 blocks of State Street and the adjoining blocks of Carrillo Street in downtown Santa Barbara, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round. It's run by the Santa Barbara Certified Farmers Markets Association, reachable by phone for vendor and shopper questions.

Santa Barbara

The Terrace Foundation runs a CSA-style garden program based at Pilgrim Terrace, a longtime resident-owned housing cooperative in Santa Barbara. Program specifics, share pricing, and pickup details aren't published online; contact the foundation directly for current availability.

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara

Big Wave Dave's runs a seasonal pumpkin patch at La Cumbre Plaza in Santa Barbara, open daily from late September through Halloween. Pumpkins range from minis to giants, alongside straw bales, corn stalks, and gourds for fall décor. The same family business runs Christmas tree lots up and down the coast come December.

Santa Barbara

Lane Farms has run its Santa Barbara produce stand on Walnut Lane since 1939, selling homegrown fruit and vegetables the same family has farmed since 1868. It's open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a seasonal shift each fall into pumpkin patch mode — corn maze, hayrides, and farm animals included. Call (805) 964-3773 to check what's in season.

Sweet Wheel Farm and Flowers runs a roadside cart in Summerland stocked with organic produce sourced from small farms around Summerland, Carpinteria, Goleta, and Santa Maria. The business started as its own working farm on school district land in Montecito before a 2019 community campaign helped it find a new home. It still serves Santa Barbara, Summerland, Carpinteria, and Montecito with produce, scones, and sourdough bread.

Something Good Organics runs a small CSA out of Goleta, picking produce within 24 hours of it reaching a customer's box. The farm is enrolled in the USDA's NRCS conservation program and grows using regenerative methods rather than conventional inputs. A second farm stand operates in Buellton on Santa Rosa Road for walk-up shoppers who don't want a weekly subscription.

A craft-and-produce market at 5690 Calle Real in Goleta, mixing local farm vendors with handmade goods from artisans along the Santa Barbara County coast.

Fairview Gardens has farmed the same patch of Goleta for more than 125 years, longer than the suburbs that grew up around it. It now operates as a nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture under the mission "Feed, Teach, Connect," running educational programs on food and farming. The farm has been closed to regular visitors since fall 2022 during a redesign toward regenerative agriculture — call ahead before planning a trip.

John Givens Farms is a California grower with no crop or location details on file yet.

Goleta

Wanderment Farms cultivates 14 of its 56 certified-organic acres above the Santa Barbara coastline, growing vegetables, cut flowers, wine grapes, and specialty coffee. The farm also keeps heritage Valais Blacknose sheep and pasture-raised laying hens. Weekly farm boxes go out to Santa Barbara addresses, and the farm runs guided walking tours through its vineyards, olive groves, and pastures.

Santa Barbara Hives keeps roughly 600 hives across Santa Barbara County and pairs its own honey with a working bakery and café — sourdough, pizza, croissants, and organic coffee. The Carpinteria location also runs swarm rescue services. Café branch sits on State Street in Santa Barbara.

Farm Cart Organics delivers boxes of certified organic produce and artisan groceries around Carpinteria and Santa Barbara County, with a subscription you can cancel anytime. The company also runs a food-hub side of the business, delivering to schools and food banks at scale. Its roots trace back to a farm stand the co-founder's parents ran in the late 1990s.

Good Land Organics has grown rare and exotic fruit in the hills above Goleta since 1992, when founder Jay Ruskey planted the first cherimoya and avocado trees on Farren Road. The CCOF-certified organic farm is known for its Calimoya-brand cherimoyas alongside Hass avocados, dragon fruit, passion fruit, and coffee beans, grown as part of one of the earliest commercial coffee plantings in the continental US.

Alex Frecker started Frecker Farms in 2013 and has grown it into a 45-acre certified organic operation in Carpinteria, wedged between the mountains and the Pacific. The farm runs a CSA for Santa Barbara County members and sells at 14 farmers markets a week across Southern California and the Central Coast.

Casitas Valley Farm takes its name from the agricultural valley between Ojai and Lake Casitas in Ventura County, a stretch long planted in citrus and avocados. No verified details on this farm's crops, hours, or contact are available online yet.

Gaia Farm is a nonprofit on the Gaviota Coast in Goleta, raising Nigerian Dwarf goats and turning their milk into handmade soap, lotion, and laundry products. The farm teaches sustainable land stewardship and homesteading skills, and visits are by appointment only. A small campground on the property, listed through Hipcamp, lets people stay overnight among the pastures.

Ventura

Love House Farm is an agritourism property on Santa Ana Road outside Ventura, in the coastal farm country between the Santa Clara River and the Santa Monica Mountains foothills. Details on what's grown or open to visitors aren't published online yet — check with the farm directly for current offerings.

Ojai

Ojai

Friend's Ranches has grown citrus in the Ojai Valley for more than 140 years, now cultivating over 50 varieties with a focus on Ojai Pixie tangerines. The family sells at farmers markets in Santa Barbara on Saturdays, Santa Monica on Wednesdays, and Hollywood and Ojai on Sundays, plus a farm stand open Tuesday and Friday mornings from 7am to noon. The stand also carries fresh-squeezed juice and local honey alongside the citrus.

Ojai

Santa Ynez

Summerset Farm has grown pesticide-free berries on Baseline Avenue in Santa Ynez for 18 years, about 30 minutes north of Santa Barbara. The farm stand also carries local honey, eggs, and cut flowers, and opens u-pick berry and apple picking from May through October. Fall brings a pumpkin patch across the same acreage.

Santa Ynez

Summerset Farm & Dale's Nursery is on Baseline Avenue in Santa Ynez, in the Santa Ynez Valley wine and horse country of Santa Barbara County. Warm days and cool nights in the valley support vineyards, orchards, and nursery stock side by side across its ranch-zoned parcels.

Ventura

The Ventura Meat Company operates on East Main Street in downtown Ventura, California, within blocks of the city's Mission-era commercial core and the Pacific coastline.

Ojai

Ojai Olive Oil Co. is an award-winning family olive farm in Ojai, California, known for its estate extra virgin olive oils, flavor-infused oils, balsamic vinegars, and olive oil cosmetics. Visitors can tour the farm and taste the oils on-site, or join the club for regular shipments.

Rancho Olivos has grown, harvested, milled, and bottled artisan extra virgin olive oil at its Santa Ynez ranch since 2004. The family-owned producer offers complimentary tastings at the ranch itself and runs a second retail shop on Morro Bay's Embarcadero, plus an olive oil club with Duet and Trio membership options for regular customers.

Solvang

Ballard Apple Farm grows a wide range of apple varieties on Baseline Avenue outside Solvang, adding new plantings most years, alongside apricots and fresh eggs. The farm uses natural growing practices rather than heavy spraying, and visitors can pick their own apples or take a pony ride past the miniature donkeys the farm is named for.

Santa Ynez

Quacken Farms sits in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County's stretch of ranchland and vineyards between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the San Rafael range.

No verified business record turned up for a honey company under this name in California. Listing likely represents a small-scale or hobbyist beekeeping operation not yet indexed online.

Ojai

Ojai Certified Farmers' Market has supplied the valley with locally grown produce, flowers, and gourmet food for more than 18 years. Vendors sell fruit and vegetables harvested that morning alongside honey, jams, fresh-caught seafood, free-range eggs, olive oil, dried fruit, cut flowers, and handmade soap. Market manager Cynthia Korman can be reached by phone or email.

Los Olivos

Clairmont Farm Lavender Co. has grown organic lavender and produce on Roblar Avenue in Los Olivos, California, since 1998. The Santa Ynez Valley farm sells lavender products alongside organic produce and livestock, and opens for visits Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with appointments available outside those hours by request.

Midtown Ventura's certified farmers' market sets up every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pacific View Mall on North Main Street. California growers bring vine- and tree-ripened fruit, vegetables, herbs, honey, eggs, cut flowers, and potted plants. It runs year-round, rain or shine, as one of four markets under the Ventura County Certified Farmers' Markets association.

Ventura

Big Wave Dave's second pumpkin patch sets up at Pacific View Mall in Ventura, next to Target, running the same late-September-through-Halloween season as the Santa Barbara lot. Both locations sell pumpkins from mini to giant along with corn stalks, gourds, and straw bales for fall displays. The company switches over to fresh-cut Christmas trees at the same lots once pumpkin season ends.

Restoration Oaks Ranch covers roughly 955 acres of oak woodland and cattle grazing land in the Santa Ynez Valley, a few miles south of Buellton. The property is home to Santa Barbara Blueberries, a U-pick berry farm that opens seasonally from May through September, and to the Wild Farmlands Foundation, the nonprofit that runs education and restoration programs on the land. A small cattle herd rounds out the operation.

No verified business record turned up for a honey producer under this name in California. Listing likely represents a small-scale or hobbyist beekeeping operation not yet indexed online.

Gaviota

Boccali Vineyard belongs to the Boccali family, better known around Ojai for the pizza-and-pasta restaurant on East Ojai Avenue that's run buffets and takeout since the 1980s. Father-and-son winemakers DeWayne and Joe Boccali grow and bottle their own wine on the Ojai Santa Paula Road property, and the Tomato Festival pairs the harvest with tastings each year.

Ventura

McGrath Street Pumpkin Patch sits on McGrath Street in Ventura, California, in the farmland between Highway 101 and the coast, flat, sandy-loam ground that has supported truck farms and seasonal pumpkin patches for generations.