Farms Near Vacaville, CA

Vacaville

Bar J Ranch is a u-pick apple orchard on Cantelow Road outside Vacaville, growing apples across the property for pick-your-own visitors during fall harvest. Listings describe it as a working produce farm rather than an event venue, though current hours and varieties are thin online — call ahead before the drive.

Vacaville

Pleasants Valley Iris Farm grows more than 400 varieties of Tall Bearded iris in its viewing garden outside Vacaville, including reblooming and scented types. Rhizomes are hand-dug and shipped directly from the farm every August. Peak bloom runs April through May, when the farm opens its gardens to visitors — the owners say to bring a picnic lunch and stay a while rather than just walk through.

Held Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon, year-round, near Main and Davis Streets in downtown Vacaville. The market mixes certified farm stands with prepared-food vendors, artisans, and local wineries and breweries. New sellers can sign on as annual, seasonal, or week-to-week vendors.

Vacaville

Soul Food Farm is a family-run operation on Pleasants Valley Road in Vacaville, growing lavender, cut flowers, and specialty vegetables and pressing olive oil, alongside a small sheep flock raised for yarn. Alexis and Eric bought the land more than two decades ago and shifted from pastured chickens toward this more diversified, regenerative mix starting in 2012. The farm stand runs Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March through November.

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Sweet Pea's Pumpkin Patch is on Alamo Drive in Vacaville, Solano County, in the flat farmland between Sacramento and the Bay Area. Vacaville's warm Central Valley summers give way to a reliable fall pumpkin season, and the town runs several seasonal patches each October.

Vacaville

Menagerie Hill Ranch is a family-run alpaca farm in Vacaville raising around 29 alpacas alongside a small number of llamas. Owners Deb Galway and Kirk Howard run appointment-only tours where visitors feed and handle the animals, and operate a farm store selling alpaca fiber products. The ranch also sells breeding stock and offers mentoring for people looking to start their own alpaca operation, drawing on more than 20 years of experience.

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Nut Tree Certified Farmers Market sets up at Nut Tree Plaza on East Monte Vista Avenue in Vacaville, the retail center built on the site of a roadside walnut stand that grew from a 1920s orchard fruit stand into a Northern California landmark before its redevelopment. Vendor list and hours aren't confirmed online.

Winters

Winters

Morgan's of California is based on Canal Lane in Winters, a Yolo County farm town known for almonds, olives, and apricots along Putah Creek. No product list or contact details were confirmed online.

Winters

Also known as Blue Ridge Pomegranates, this family-owned organic farm outside Winters grows roughly 4,000 pomegranate trees on Jaybee Lane. It keeps limited hours, open to visitors only on weekends, 8am to noon Saturday and Sunday, with fruit typically ready in fall.

Fairfield

Shooting Star Organic Farm is a 15-acre CCOF-certified operation in Suisun Valley's Gordon Valley growing produce for its own farm market, a CSA program, and local farmers markets. The farm focuses on sustainable growing practices across its Fairfield acreage. Reach them at 707-207-0548 or [email protected].

Fairfield

Il Fiorello presses extra virgin olive oil from certified organic groves that Ann and Mark Sievers planted in Green Valley and Suisun Valley, the stretch of countryside between Fairfield and Napa. Alongside the oil, the tasting room sells flavored balsamic vinegars, local honey, wine, and craft beer, and pours daily from 11am to 5pm. Guided tastings and farm tours run through the orchard and mill, where visitors can see the pressing process firsthand.

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Larry's Produce stocks a roadside stand in the Suisun Valley with fruit and vegetables grown nearby, open every day but Wednesday from June through December. Locals call it one of the valley's biggest produce stops, with hours running 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The stand reopens each spring; check the farm's Facebook page for the exact date the season starts.

Fairfield

Suisun Valley's wine and farm country sits in Solano County between San Francisco and Sacramento, where more than a dozen member wineries pour tastings alongside farm stands selling produce grown right along Suisun Valley Road. The growers' association behind the region organizes u-pick days, winemaker dinners, and live music through the season without the crowds of Napa or Sonoma.

Fairfield

Fairfield

Larry's Produce has run a Suisun Valley farm stand since owners Larry and Lisa Balestra opened it with a simple goal: sell the basics people actually need. The stand grows a range of fruit and vegetables locally and fills gaps with produce from the San Francisco terminal market, open daily except Wednesdays, mid-June through the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Call 707-864-8068.

Dixon

SustainaBee, a division of Dixon Bee Company, keeps hives along Silveyville Road and additional apiaries in Sebastopol and Healdsburg. The operation focuses on honeybee health, hive hosting, and educational visits, alongside seasonal raw honey harvested, bottled, and labeled on-site. It's a working apiary business more than a public attraction, though visits can be arranged.

Dixon

Family-owned since 1979, Silveyville Road runs two seasons back to back: a fall pumpkin patch with over 20 varieties, a corn maze, and hayrides, then a choose-and-cut Christmas tree lot with over 10,000 trees including Oregon Noble and Nordmann fir. A one-acre duck pond and farm animals stay on-site year to year, and the farm is dog-friendly.

Fairfield

Erickson's Ranch is on Cordelia Road in Fairfield, California, part of the rolling grassland corridor between the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley where several seasonal pumpkin patches and corn mazes operate each fall.

Dixon

Dixon

Araceli Farms is on Pitt School Road outside Dixon, California, in the flat farmland of Solano County between Sacramento and the Bay Area, a region built on row crops and the annual Dixon May Fair.

Dixon

Silveyville has grown Christmas trees and pumpkins on Silveyville Road in Dixon since 1979, with 20 acres now given over to more than 20 pumpkin varieties come fall and cut-your-own or pre-cut trees in December. The farm runs a corn maze, hayrides, a one-acre duck pond, and a petting area, plus free popcorn and hot cider by the fire pit.

Bondolio presses Sicilian-variety olives into extra virgin olive oil at its own mill in Winters, California, moving hand-harvested fruit from tree to press in under 90 minutes to limit oxidation. The estate grows three Sicilian olive cultivars and blends them into one signature oil rather than selling single-varietal bottles.

Fairfield

Main produce is strawberries. In season, we have more berries and veggies such as onion, garlic, broccoli, and tomatoes.

Dixon

Lambtown is an annual festival built around sheep, lamb, and wool, held the first full weekend in October at the Dixon May Fairgrounds. The two-day event runs about 100 craft booths and 20 food vendors alongside shearing, spinning, weaving, and dyeing demonstrations, plus judged competitions for wool and livestock. It's organized by a local committee and sits roughly halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco off Interstate 80.

Dixon

Cool Patch Pumpkins holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest corn maze, hand-redesigned with a new theme every year on this family-run farm between Sacramento and San Francisco. Beyond the maze, visitors pick their own pumpkins and gourds, ride the hay wagon, and grab tri-tip sandwiches from the food stand. Open daily 9am to 8pm during fall season.

Davis

Three Palms operated as Yolo County's only wholesale production nursery out of Davis for 30 years before closing permanently on March 31, 2019. Older directory listings still reference the County Road 95A address, but the business is no longer active.

Winters

Henry's Bullfrog Bees & Pure Honey is based in Winters, in Yolo County's almond and stone-fruit belt west of Sacramento — an area with some of the heaviest managed-hive traffic in the state during almond bloom.

Suisun City

The Western Railway Museum, a nonprofit rail-history museum in Suisun City since 1946, runs a vintage train out to Gum Grove Farm each fall for its Pumpkin Patch Festival. The ride includes pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, a zipline, tractor rides, and a hay fort, plus live music on weekends in October. Call ahead for the current year's dates and hours before visiting.

Napa

Downtown Napa's certified farmers market runs Saturdays year-round, 8 a.m. to noon, with an added Tuesday market during the growing season (April through December). Regional growers sell produce and flowers alongside vendors offering specialty foods and artisan goods. It operates in a city lot in downtown Napa, in wine country, but produce and flowers are the actual draw.

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Napa

Napa

Urban Homestead sits on Laurel Street in Napa. Beyond the name and address, no independent website or listing turned up confirming current products or hours, so treat this as a lead worth calling ahead on.

Esparto

Esparto

Manas Ranch grew peaches and other fruit across 60 acres near Esparto and ran Angus-Hereford cattle through the Napa and Yolo county foothills for over 40 years before the produce operation closed in 2022. A namesake meat market tied to the ranch may still process and sell beef locally; call ahead to confirm current status before visiting.

Woodland

Capay Mills stone-mills heirloom grains grown by Northern California family farms into flour for bakers and chefs, operating out of the Capay Valley since 2015.

Davis

Wednesday and Saturday (Wednesday is mostly the local farm to fork restaurants and Saturday is the actual farmers market)

Woodland

Beekeeper Spencer Marshall has harvested raw, unfiltered honey in American Canyon since 1989, building Marshall's Farm Honey into a Bay Area staple over more than three decades. The honey is never heated or cooked, and the shop also carries bee pollen, honeycomb, and kosher-certified varieties. It started as a side business selling to Bay Area restaurants and grew from there.

Davis

Great Bear Vineyards is a woman-led, CCOF-certified organic estate outside Davis, founded in 2014 by Jenny and Marcus. The family farms with wild yeast fermentation and deficit irrigation, keeping output to a few thousand cases a year, and has won Double Gold for its Cabernet Sauvignon and Best in Class for Tempranillo. The property also keeps a lavender field and presses its own olive oil. Tasting room open Thursday through Saturday.

Davis

Spork Food Hub is a farmer-owned produce distributor in Davis that buys from California family farms and delivers wholesale to schools, hospitals, and institutions including UC Davis and Meals on Wheels. It handles pre-cut, ready-to-serve vegetables alongside whole produce and promises 2-3 day turnaround with full farm-to-table traceability. Its salad bar takeover program swaps in peak-season vegetables for institutional kitchens.

Woodland

American Canyon

ABC Tree Farms runs this pumpkin patch and inflatable park on Broadway in American Canyon, built for kids ages 2 to 12 in the more urban stretch of the Bay Area. Fall brings pumpkin selection alongside giant inflatables and water slides; the same lot turns into a Christmas tree lot in December. Admission and parking are free.

Woodland

Pacific Star Gardens sells farm-fresh fruits and vegetables from a roadside stand on County Road 99 outside Woodland, with u-pick strawberries running through spring and blackberries through summer. The farm also stocks garden transplants, tomatoes, peppers, and flowers, typically available through April and early May while supplies last.

Woodland

American Canyon

American Canyon's Sunday farmers market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 100 Benton Way, next to the community center and Donaldson Way Elementary. The American Canyon Parks Foundation helped bring the market to the city, working with PCFMA to book local growers selling seasonal fruit, vegetables, and artisan cheese. Call for vendor or sponsorship questions.

Capay

Capay Valley Lavender grows lavender on County Road 79 in the Capay Valley, a narrow Yolo County farming valley known for its small organic operations and agritourism trail. No details on U-pick access, products, or season are published online yet.

A certified farmers market serving the Solano and Napa County area, where Central Valley and North Bay growers sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers.

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Vallejo

This certified market runs every Friday, 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine, on the Kaiser Permanente campus at 975 Sereno Drive in Vallejo. Local growers bring fresh, California-grown produce to hospital patients, staff, and the surrounding neighborhood every week, with no seasonal closures.

Woodland

We have our hands and hearts in every stage of raising grass fed beef. From the first blade of grass to your dinner plate, you can feel good about the origin and quality of what we’re serving up. Our cattle are 100% grass fed and 100% grass finished, always treated with the highest level of care and dignity. Some say we like to spoil our cattle with all the sunshine and grazing they crave…and we wouldn’t have it any other way. And because we utilize progressive rotational grazing and regenerativ

Woodland

Yolo Wool Mill is listed in Woodland, a Yolo County farm town in the Sacramento Valley with a small but active fiber-animal community of sheep and alpaca growers. No working website turned up in research, so the mill's current processing services and hours could not be confirmed.

Woodland

Gibson House is a Victorian mansion built in 1857 on what was once William Byas Gibson's working farm and ranch outside Woodland. The Yolo County Historical Museum now runs out of the house, showing roughly 11,000 artifacts from 1830 to 1930 alongside the original farmhouse outbuildings that trace the county's early agricultural history. The museum is free to enter and open Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 4pm, plus one Saturday a month.

Woodland

Yolo Land & Cattle Co. has raised 100% grass-fed Angus beef outside Woodland since 1976, with no hormones, antibiotics, or grain in the mix. The Stone family runs the ranch, sells beef jerky and beef sticks under a separate label, and rents the property out for film shoots. The operation has won an Environmental Stewardship Award.

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Concord

Fresh Approach is a Concord nonprofit that runs mobile farmers markets across the Bay Area with 50% off produce for CalFresh and EBT shoppers. Its VeggieRx program pairs fresh produce with nutrition coaching, and its Community Ambassador Program trains local residents for food-system jobs. The group also tends community gardens, including one in East Palo Alto, and has worked in food access since 2008.