Produce Farms near Valparaiso, IN

Valparaiso

Valparaiso

Batshit Crazy Farms manages The Edge of Liberty, a small organic farm just north of Valparaiso, Indiana, hosting Sunday farm stands of fresh-picked organic produce, community garden space, biweekly craft fairs, and regenerative agriculture tours. The farm also sells dried herbs, nursery plants, chemical-free beeswax products, and farm-fresh eggs — local pickup only, because they want to know their customers face to face.

Valparaiso

Living Earth Farms in Valparaiso, Indiana grows organically raised fresh produce on a simple principle: feed the soil, and let the soil feed your plants. The farm treats soil as a living organism — billions of microbes per tablespoon — using natural fertilizers, organic matter, and minimal tillage instead of artificial inputs.

Chesterton

Wanatah

Westville

Coulter's has run a roadside stand in Westville selling sweet corn, tomatoes, melons, and garden plants through the growing season, then shifts into fall mode with a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and hayrides come September. It's a smaller, family-run operation rather than a big event destination; cider and a play area for kids round out the autumn visit. Jean Coulter has handled the farm's day-to-day for years.

Blue Sky Berry Farm grows u-pick and ready-pick berries in Wanatah, in LaPorte County, Indiana, with a short season running roughly from the Fourth of July into early August. The farm operates as a call-ahead business — no online ordering, no voicemail orders — so customers call first and show up during the active picking window.

This Northwest Indiana u-pick blueberry patch has changed hands and now operates as The Berry Patch at Mitzner Farms, though longtime visitors still know it by its old name. The new owners kept the u-pick and pre-picked blueberry setup that built the place's following in the first place.

Hobart

Johnson's has grown fruits and vegetables in Northwest Indiana since the 1940s, with u-pick strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and vegetables running June through October. The adjoining Johnson's Fun Farm adds more than 30 family activities, and the calendar fills out with strawberry, blueberry, pumpkin, and sunflower festivals through the season.

Wanatah

Native Roots Farm has provided northwest Indiana with fresh, high-quality organic vegetables since 2013, grown in Wanatah. Customers order online through the farm's Eat From Farms store — the baby butter lettuce is the #1 seller — and collect at pick-up and delivery locations around the region.

Wheatfield

Luedtke runs a straightforward u-pick blueberry operation in Wheatfield, open daily 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the summer harvest. Corinne Luedtke oversees the farm, which also sells baked muffins alongside the fresh berries. Call ahead before driving out, since picking hours shift with the weather and how heavy the bushes are running that week.

Michigan City

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Michigan City

Wheatfield

The Van Kley family has grown blueberries on State Road 10 since 1943, now farming more than 40 acres across eight varieties. Summer hours run Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., with fresh berries during the season and frozen ones once picking ends. They sell their own honey at the stand too.

Gary

North Judson

Demotte

Four generations of the Eenigburg family have grown blueberries on this DeMotte farm since 1948, working 13 varieties in ground that's never seen GMO seed. U-pick runs Monday through Saturday for roughly a month starting around July 1, and the farm bottles what doesn't get picked fresh into jam, syrup, and barbecue sauce. It sits just off Route 10, minutes from I-65.

North Judson

The Goin family has grown blueberries on this 80-acre North Judson property for more than 40 years, about an hour from Chicago. U-pick season runs mid-June through early August, with ready-picked berries available for anyone who'd rather skip the field; picnic tables and lawn games make it easy to turn the trip into an afternoon. Indiana's State Fair has named it a Featured Farm.

North Judson

Bonnell's Blueberries in North Judson sells both u-pick and ready-picked berries, but ready-pick orders have to come in by phone — the farm doesn't take email orders. It's a straightforward, no-frills operation off S 750 W, worth a call before the drive to confirm what's ready.

Demotte

Now in its third and fourth generation, Fritts has grown blueberries in DeMotte since 1949 — over 60 years under the same family. Visitors can pick their own or buy berries already picked by staff, and the farm sits along State Road 10 not far from Eenigburg's, making this stretch of DeMotte one of the state's denser blueberry-picking corridors.

Union Mills

This small, family-run u-pick farm on US Highway 6 grows red raspberries and blueberries, with raspberries typically ready by late June and blueberries following around July 1. It runs daily 8 to 6 through the June-to-September season and keeps a following for how clean and well-kept the rows stay all summer.

De Motte

We are open July 4th to usually August 1st. 13 varieties non GMO and over 15 acres of blueberry bushes that are over 75 years old. You can call to order or come pick your own!

DeMotte

Zylstra's Blueberries grows on W 1200 North outside DeMotte, in Jasper County. Beyond the address, no verified hours, website, or picking details for the farm turned up online. The Zylstra surname fits DeMotte's documented Dutch-American heritage — the town's First Christian Reformed Church dates to the 1940s and DeMotte still holds an annual Touch of Dutch festival each August.

De Motte

Fritts Berry Farm has grown blueberries in De Motte since 1949, now run by the fourth generation of the Fritts family. Visitors choose u-pick or already-picked berries during the summer season, with the farm open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Sundays.

Michigan City

Stateline Blueberries has picked berries a few miles from the Lake Michigan shoreline for decades, across 30 to 35 acres kept walkable with grass mowed between the rows. U-pick runs late June through mid-August, and the sales shed sells ready-picked berries alongside local honey, jam, and blueberry-based condiments like a barbecue sauce. Call ahead for picking conditions before making the drive.

Highland

St. John

LaPorte

Blueberries of Indiana has grown organic blueberries in LaPorte since 1948 and holds USDA Certified Organic status. U-pick runs alongside ready-picked orders, and the farm stand adds local honey, juice, preserves, and baked goods. Weekend hours run Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., through the season.

New Buffalo

Mike's Blueberries is a cash-only, U-pick blueberry farm on Farina Road in New Buffalo, running from July through early August. Visitors describe the picking as a quiet, unhurried break despite the nearby highway, with several pounds of fruit typical for an afternoon in the rows.