Produce Farms near South Hero, VT

Grand Isle

Island Blueberries is a pick-your-own blueberry farm on Adams School Road in Grand Isle, out among the Lake Champlain islands north of Burlington. Blueberry season on the islands runs mid-July into August, when growers open their rows to pickers. The farm's own website is still under construction, so check its listing or local sources for current picking days and ripeness before driving out.

Grand Isle

Pomykala Vegetable Farm has grown fruit, vegetables, and flowers on Grand Isle since 1977, working about 70 acres in the Lake Champlain islands. The Pomykala family sells May through November from a retail farmstand, at farmers markets, and wholesale. Grand Isle's lake-moderated climate stretches the growing season on this narrow island. Bob, Jane, and Ben Pomykala run the operation off East Shore Road North.

Winooski

Misery Loves Co. grew from food truck to restaurant to neighborhood market on the Winooski, Vermont rotary — a shop filled with local farm products, trusted suppliers' treasures, grab-n-go salads and pastries, and a sandwich deli slinging jambon-beurre and pastrami reubens. Take-home meals, local produce, gift baskets, catering, and the Winooski Wine Club round out a market built to make cooking delightful.

Keeseville

Essex

Paul Mazza's farms more than 250 acres across Essex, Jericho, Williston, and Colchester, with its main stand on River Road in Essex Junction. The stand sells the farm's own fruit and vegetables plus other local products, and runs both a CSA and pick-your-own during the season. The family has grown produce in the Champlain Valley for over four decades. Strawberries, sweet corn, and fall crops all come through the stand.

Charlotte

The Charlotte Berry Farm sits on Route 7, the Ethan Allen Highway, in Charlotte, a Lake Champlain town in Chittenden County south of Burlington. Its name and produce listing point to a pick-your-own berry operation, and this stretch of the Champlain Valley grows strawberries in June and blueberries through July and August. Roadside berry farms here often run a summer stand as well. Online contact details weren't posted at the time of writing.

Charlotte

Pelkey's Vermont Blueberries grows blueberries on Greenbush Road in Charlotte, along Lake Champlain south of Burlington. The farm opens for pick-your-own in summer, when Vermont blueberries ripen from mid-July through August. Charlotte's lakeside farmland and mild island-influenced climate suit berry growing. Check locally for daily picking conditions and ripeness before you drive out.

Williston

Boutin Berry Farm grows berries on Christmas Lane in Williston, in Chittenden County east of Burlington. Pick-your-own berry farms around Williston open through the summer as strawberries, then blueberries and raspberries, come into season. The farm sells direct to pickers rather than through stores. Check locally for open days and ripeness before making the trip.

Charlotte

Philo Ridge Farm is a nonprofit working demonstration farm in Charlotte, in Vermont's Champlain Valley, stewarding over 500 acres of pasture, forest, and diversified gardens — rotationally grazing heritage-breed livestock and cultivating certified organic fruits, vegetables, and flowers. As a living laboratory, it promotes organic regenerative agriculture through hands-on research, education, and community engagement.

Fairfax

Au Sable Forks

Blueberry Acres is a pick-your-own blueberry farm on Dry Bridge Road in Au Sable Forks, in the northeastern Adirondacks near the Ausable River. The short northern-New York season puts ripe berries on the bushes in mid-to-late summer. No website or contact details turned up online, so call ahead or check a local listing for picking dates before making the drive.

Charlotte

Adam's Berry Farm grows 21 varieties of blueberries, nine of raspberries, and roughly a dozen strawberry types on certified-organic ground at 985 Bingham Brook Road in Charlotte. Pick-your-own runs through berry season, and the farmstand sells fruit alongside farm-made popsicles and sorbet. It's a straightforward stop for organic berries south of Burlington in the Champlain Valley.

Jericho Center

Good food year round: Jericho Settlers Farm runs certified organic vegetable CSA programs through all four Vermont seasons, with pickups in Burlington, Richmond, Jericho, Williston, and Waterbury. The Jericho farmstand (open daily 8 to 6) adds 100% grassfed beef, non-GMO pastured chicken and pork, and farm-fresh eggs, with Vermont Organic and Real Organic certification behind every vegetable.

Richmond

Owl's Head Berry Farm grows blueberries on Blueberry Farm Road in Richmond, east of Burlington in the Winooski River valley. The farm opens for pick-your-own in summer, when Vermont blueberries ripen from mid-July into August. Richmond sits just off Interstate 89, making it a quick stop for pickers coming from the Burlington area. Check locally for daily picking conditions before you go.

Underhill

Covered Bridge Berry Patch grows berries on River Road in Underhill, in the foothills of Mount Mansfield northeast of Burlington. The name marks the covered bridge nearby, and pick-your-own berry farms in this Chittenden County valley usually open for blueberry and raspberry season in mid to late summer.