Farms Near Shelton, CT

Shelton

Shelton

The Beardsley family has farmed this Shelton land since 1849 and has pressed cider commercially here since 1999. Pick-your-own apples run weekends in September and October, backed by pre-picked apples, peaches, plums, and nectarines, plus cider donuts, pies, and jams from the farm store, open daily 10 to 5:30 from August through Christmas. Weekend visitors after 11 a.m. can also buy unpasteurized cider by the jug for home fermenting.

Shelton

Laurel Glen Farm is a twenty-acre vegetable farm in the Huntington section of Shelton, Connecticut, growing over 85 types of produce. The harvest is sold through the on-site farm store and a vegetable subscription program, with pick-your-own fruit and flowers rounding out the season.

Shelton

Valley Farm is one of Jones Family Farms' pick-your-own fields, moving through flowers in May, strawberries in June, blueberries in July, pumpkins in September and October, and Christmas trees in December. Hours run noon to 6 p.m. most days, noon to 7:30 p.m. Fridays, though picking times shift with the weather and the crop.

Shelton

Jones Family Farms Winery sits on land the Jones family has worked for over 150 years across six generations, in the White Hills of Shelton. The tasting room, converted from a former dairy barn, pours seven estate-made wines from grapes and berries grown on the property, and visitors can cut their own bouquets in the flower fields between tastings. Open mid-March through December.

Shelton

Jones Family Farms in Shelton runs a full seasonal calendar across several properties: harvest-your-own flowers in May, strawberries in June, blueberries in July, pumpkins at Pumpkinseed Hill in fall, and harvest-your-own Christmas trees in December. The farm also hosts school tours and preschool programs built around its planting-to-harvest cycle.

Shelton

Shelton

Wells Hollow is a fifth-generation family farm in Shelton that opened its ice cream creamery in 2007, run by Daniel and Jamie Wells. The shop turns over more than 50 homemade flavors alongside smoothies, soft serve, Italian ice, and ice cream cakes, with dairy sourced from farms across Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, and Michigan. A 3,000-square-foot open-air patio hosts birthday parties and farm-animal visits alongside the ice cream counter.

Monroe

Monroe Farmers' Market has run on the Monroe Town Green since 2008, Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m., mid-June through mid-October, at the corner of Fan Hill Road and Route 111. Vendors sell CT Grown produce, ethically raised meat, eggs, and shellfish alongside prepared foods, and the market hosts local musicians and children's programs through the season.

Trumbull

Plasko's Farm on Daniels Farm Road is the last commercial operating farm in Trumbull. The family creamery and cafe makes ice cream and Italian ice fresh daily on site, alongside a bakery known for apple cider donuts and specialty coffee. Indoor seating includes a fireplace room, with outdoor tables near the working fields. Delivery runs through DoorDash and Uber Eats.

Monroe

Hannah's Honey keeps bees on Wheeler Road and sells raw honey, honey candy, honey sticks, beeswax candles, honey soap, and beeswax lip balm, along with custom gift baskets. Orders come through the website, local farmers markets, or by phone, with shipping or local pickup available.

Trumbull

Trumbull's Thursday market runs at Twin Brooks Park on Brock Street, 4 to 7 p.m. from June through late September, then 4 to 6 p.m. into mid-October. Vendors cover produce farmers, bakeries, prepared foods, specialty beverages, honey, mushrooms, and pet treats, with most attending on a regular weekly basis.

Milford

Glendale Farms has grown annuals and vegetable starts in Milford since 1917, now in its third generation. The greenhouse turns out hanging baskets, patio plants, herbs, and combination planters alongside ground covers and seasonal ornamentals, sold daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., cash or check only. The farm also runs an indoor arena for horse boarding on the same property.

Oxford

Belinsky Family Farm grows apples, peaches, and pumpkins on Moose Hill Road in Oxford, working orchards that predate the current pick-your-own operation. Pick-your-own runs weekends, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the farm stand carries fresh produce, cut flowers, and Christmas trees in season.

Orange

Sunflower Farm is located in Orange, a shoreline suburb between New Haven and Milford.

Seymour

Seymour Farmers' Market has run since 1995, started originally to support the town's downtown revitalization effort. It sets up at the Seymour Community Center on Pine Street with an open-air lineup of fruit, vegetables, honey, eggs, beef, pork, chicken, and crafts from local vendors, spring through fall.

Bridgeport

Listed as an agritourism site at 10 Wickliffe Circle in Bridgeport, but no working website, social page, or business description turns up under this name. The listing appears to be a placeholder in state agritourism directories rather than an active farm stand or attraction.

Woodbridge

Woodbridge

Townline Farm sits in Woodbridge, in the rural western fringe of the New Haven metro area.

Stratford's town-run farmers market sets up at DeLuca Field on Main Street, with an annual Kids' Day event drawing families alongside the regular vendor lineup of Connecticut produce and goods.

Held Sundays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., July through October, at 120 Bridgeport Avenue (Route 1) in Milford. Alongside local produce, the market features Connecticut-made arts and crafts booths and live entertainment.

Milford

Orange

Maple View Farm dates to the 1790s and now runs as a private party venue in Orange, with its main house listed on the National Register of Historic Homes. Birthday parties book the barn for pony rides and wagon rides, and the farm will also bring ponies or a wagon to an off-site event. Everything runs by appointment only - there's no walk-in visiting.

Orange

Sandy Hook

Bridgeport Farmers Market - East End sets up at 985 Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport's East End, one of several neighborhood markets the city has supported to bring fresh produce into areas without a full grocery store nearby. Specific hours and current vendors weren't confirmed in public sources.

Bridgeport

Bridgeport Downtown Farmers' Market sets up on McLevy Green at Main and Bank Streets, run by the Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District in partnership with Green Village Initiative, the city's urban farming nonprofit. It has run Thursdays from late morning into early afternoon through the growing season. Green Village Initiative can confirm current schedule and vendor details.

Easton

Easton

Silverman's Farm on Sport Hill Road in Easton runs a country market stocked with its own apples, pears, peaches, and blueberries alongside dairy products, jams, and homemade pies. Visitors can pick their own apples and pears in season, walk through the farm's petting zoo, and stop by the pumpkin patch each fall. The market is open seven days a week.

Newtown

Real Food CT grows produce and gleans surplus from about 30 regional farms across two Newtown sites — Sticks and Stones Farm at 171 Huntingtown Road and the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary at 8 Commerce Road — then delivers it to local food pantries and hunger relief groups. The Huntingtown Road farm stand runs mornings, 9 to noon. Volunteers do most of the planting and harvesting.

Easton

Sport Hill Farm keeps a farm stand on Sport Hill Road in Easton, the same road as Silverman's Farm. Its website confirms the farm is active, but no further operating details were available for this listing.

Bridgeport South End Fresh Market sets up at 877 Park Avenue in the South End, part of the same push to put fresh-produce access closer to Bridgeport neighborhoods without a nearby grocery store. Specific hours and vendor details weren't confirmed in public sources.

Oxford

Easton

Shaggy Coos Farm & Creamery in Easton is New England's southernmost dairy, raising livestock humanely on a diet of grass, hay, and antibiotic- and hormone-free grain. The honor-system farm store on Center Road is open every day from 7 AM to 7 PM with fresh milk, beef and pork cuts, and hand-collected eggs.

Fairfield

Bee Baum Honey has hand-poured wildflower honey from hives on Papurah Road in Fairfield since the LLC was formed in 2000, run by Winthrop and Stefanie Baum. Alongside raw honey, they sell comb honey straight from the frame and beeswax candles made from their own wax. It's a husband-and-wife operation — expect small batches and seasonal availability rather than year-round stock.

Fairfield

Monkey's Pocket Apiary is a family-run beekeeping operation in Fairfield that has kept hives for more than 20 years. It sells raw wildflower, clover, buckwheat, and basswood honey with no added flavoring, plus beeswax candles and farm eggs, and also handles live bee swarm removal and relocation.

Robert Treat Farm, a family-run farm market and garden center on New Haven Avenue in Milford, hosts the Woodmont Farmers Market on its grounds every Wednesday from June through September. Vendors bring produce picked the same day, organic greens, cheeses, grass-fed beef, and fish straight off the boat, set up near the corner of New Haven and Merwin Avenues by Woodmont-on-the-Sound.

Southbury

This producer-only market sets up at Southbury Town Hall every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m., June through November. Everything on the tables is grown or made by the vendor selling it: plants, vegetables, fruit, honey, jam, maple syrup, olive oil, baked goods, and Connecticut wines. No resellers, no middlemen.

Black Rock Farmers Market runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall, on St. Ann's Field at 481 Brewster Street in Bridgeport's Black Rock neighborhood. Vendors come from Bridgeport and greater Fairfield County selling produce, meat, seafood, and handmade goods, with live music most weeks. Entry is free and the market is built to be family-friendly.

Southbury

Daffodil Hill Growers is a third-generation family farm in Southbury, growing vegetables through a CSA program with summer and fall/winter share options. The farm follows organic growing methods paired with integrated pest management, and sells at farmers markets in Southbury, Bethel, and Newtown in addition to farm pickup. The current owners' grandfather moved the family operation, originally a chicken farm, to this Horse Fence Hill Road property in 1949.

New Haven

CitySeed is a New Haven-based non-profit organization, working to bring fresh, and local, produce to New Haven residents.

New Haven

CitySeed's Edgewood Park market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through November, at the corner of Whalley and West Rock Avenues. More than 50 Connecticut farms and food producers sell produce, dairy, baked goods, and prepared food, with live music and cooking demonstrations most weeks. SNAP and WIC benefits are doubled on fruits, vegetables, and seedlings.

Bethany

The Demander family has farmed this land in Bethany since 1765, nine generations running. The market stays open year-round with sweet corn, heirloom tomatoes, and pumpkins in season, plus farm-raised beef, dairy, and holiday greenery when the fields go quiet. Pick-your-own strawberries run late May through June, and the farm fills gaps in its own harvest with other local and regional growers.

Newtown

Castle Hill Farm on Sugar Lane has been run by the Paproski family for four generations, going back to when it was one of the larger dairy suppliers in Fairfield County. It's now a fall agritourism stop with a corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkin patch, hayrides, and cut-your-own Christmas trees in December. The barns and pastures also double as an event venue for weddings, showers, and birthday parties.

A winter, indoor farmers market held at the Greenfield Hill Grange Hall on Hillside Road in Fairfield, distinct from the town's outdoor Greenfield Hill Farmers Market that runs Saturdays outdoors from May through October.

Naugatuck

Naugatuck Farmers' Market gathers on the Green off Church Street every Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October. It's a straightforward open-air market of local produce and goods on the town green, with updates posted through the market's Facebook page rather than a standalone website.

Brickwalk Farmers' Market sets up behind the TREK bike shop at 1189 Post Road in Fairfield. It's a small market along the Post Road retail corridor; specific vendor lineup and season weren't confirmed beyond that location.

Behind the TREK bike shop on the Post Road, the Fairfield Brickwalk Farmers Market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., through the growing season. Vendors sell produce, organic items where available, artisan bread, local honey, goat milk soap, and gluten-free baked goods — a compact market suited to a quick stop along the Post Road shopping strip.

Bethany

West Haven

Fairfield

This is the summer-season market on Hillside Road in Fairfield's Greenfield Hill section, running Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through late October. Vendors sell Connecticut produce, baked goods, salsas, and fresh herbs at 75 Hillside Road, between Hillside and Bronson Roads — the same address that hosts the town's other Hillside Road market listings.

This Saturday market occupies the Greenfield Hill Commons at 75 Hillside Road in Fairfield, roughly 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through October. Connecticut farms supply the produce, and local bakers and herb growers round out the stalls. The neighboring Greenfield Liquor Shop has sponsored the market for years, and it runs rain or shine.

Fairfield

Billed as the longest-running farmers market in Fairfield, this Saturday market sets up at 75 Hillside Road, between Hillside and Bronson Roads, from May through late October, 10 a.m. to about 1 p.m. Vendors bring Connecticut produce, baked goods, salsas, and herbs to the Greenfield Hill Commons shopping area. It's also known locally as the Greenfield Hill Farmers Market.

New Haven

CitySeed's Hill Market sets up Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., July through October, at the corner of Park and South Streets outside the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Vendors sell fruit, vegetables, dairy, baked goods, honey, maple syrup, and handcrafts, and WIC benefits are accepted. It sits blocks from Yale-New Haven Hospital, drawing hospital staff at lunch alongside Hill neighborhood residents.

Hamden

New Haven

Hamden

New Haven Farmers Market II is listed at 224 College Street, one of several seasonal markets tracked in Connecticut farmers market directories. Beyond the address and a general description as a source of seasonal local produce, published details are thin — check directory listings for current-year hours before making the trip.

Arethusa Farm Dairy has milked its own herd of more than 300 cows at 822 Bantam Road in Bantam, Connecticut, since 1999, bottling milk and making ice cream, cheese, butter, and yogurt on-site. The farm also runs Arethusa al tavolo, a dairy-to-table restaurant, and Arethusa a mano, a bakery cafe.