Farms in Valley Center, CA

Valley Center · Farm Stand

Bates Nut Farm is a family nut farm and store in Valley Center, California, on the 100-acre ranch Gilbert and Beatrice Bates bought in 1921. Nuts are roasted and packaged on site, and the store also sells homemade fudge, candy, chocolate and dried fruit, with online orders through its shop. The free Farm Zoo, with alpacas, goats, sheep and a mini-donkey, is open daily 9am to 5pm. The pumpkin patch, running since 1963, opens each September through October 31 with tractor hayrides, a straw maze and pony rides.

Valley Center · Organic Farm, Orchard

Nopalito Farm & Hopyard is a regenerative farm on 15 acres of chaparral foothills in Valley Center, on historic land of the Luiseño Payómkawichum people, stewarded by the Brownwood family since 2015. The certified organic orchards, flower fields, and botanicals share the land with wildlife habitat and cabins bookable through Hipcamp for overnight farm stays.

Valley Center

Years before the Stehly Family began farming in Valley Center, the roots of Stehly Farms stretch back to the agriculture days of Orange County, CA. Nicholas J Stehly founded the original farm in the 1920′s, and was later acquired by Jerome Stehly Sr. where he continued farming. As the population in Orange County grew, farm land got thinner and the Stehly Family felt the pressure and knew it was time to get back to open land. In 1964, Jerome Sr. moved the farm to where it sits now in Valley Cente

Valley Center · Agritourism Farm, Orchard

Valley Center · Agritourism Farm, Flower Farm

Pauma Valley · Farm Stand

Pauma Valley · Farm Stand, Organic Farm

Pauma Valley · Organic Farm, Orchard

Fairfield Farms, established in 2003 by Carol and Bill Steed, grows organic blueberries and avocados in Pauma Valley's one-of-a-kind microclimate north of San Diego. The family-run farm runs on-site solar power, its own reservoir, and on-site packing, with blueberries available April through June and avocados February through August in retail stores.

PAUMA VALLEY · Farm Stand

Escondido · Agritourism Farm

Escondido · CSA Farm, Organic Farm

Escondido · CSA Farm, Organic Farm

Escondido · Egg Farm, Poultry Farm

Fluegge Egg Ranch has produced eggs in North San Diego County for 70 years, founded in 1956 by Walter and Lucy Fluegge and now spanning four generations of the family. The ranch supplies Southern California stores and restaurants and runs a farm stand at the corner of its Valley Center property on North Lake Wohlford Road, open Tuesday through Sunday with cartons, flats, and checks straight from the farm.

Escondido · Organic Farm, Produce Farm

J.R. Organics is a fourth-generation family farm in Escondido, certified organic since 1986 — four decades of growing some of San Diego County's freshest produce. The farm delivers weekly and bi-weekly certified organic CSA farm boxes across the county, sells at more than a dozen farmers markets from Carlsbad to Temecula, and offers online pre-orders, with farm tours by appointment.

Escondido · Farmers Market

Welk Certified Farmers' Market is a weekly certified farmers market at the Welk Resort in Escondido, California. It runs Mondays from 3 to 7 p.m. Local farms sell certified organic produce alongside food vendors and handcrafted goods, with items such as guacamole, chocolate Italian ice and sweet potato pies. The market holds a weekly scavenger hunt and raffle.

Escondido · Farmers Market

Escondido · Agritourism Farm, Farm Stand