Farms Near Ventura, CA

Ventura

Big Wave Dave's second pumpkin patch sets up at Pacific View Mall in Ventura, next to Target, running the same late-September-through-Halloween season as the Santa Barbara lot. Both locations sell pumpkins from mini to giant along with corn stalks, gourds, and straw bales for fall displays. The company switches over to fresh-cut Christmas trees at the same lots once pumpkin season ends.

Midtown Ventura's certified farmers' market sets up every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pacific View Mall on North Main Street. California growers bring vine- and tree-ripened fruit, vegetables, herbs, honey, eggs, cut flowers, and potted plants. It runs year-round, rain or shine, as one of four markets under the Ventura County Certified Farmers' Markets association.

No verified business record turned up for a honey producer under this name in California. Listing likely represents a small-scale or hobbyist beekeeping operation not yet indexed online.

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McGrath Street Pumpkin Patch sits on McGrath Street in Ventura, California, in the farmland between Highway 101 and the coast, flat, sandy-loam ground that has supported truck farms and seasonal pumpkin patches for generations.

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McGrath Brothers Great Pacific Pumpkins farms land off Olivas Park Drive in Ventura, in Santa Clara River bottomland that has grown strawberries, lima beans, and row crops for generations. The seasonal pumpkin patch runs each fall on ground within Ventura's coastal farm belt.

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East Ventura's farmers market sets up on South Kimball Road near Kimball Park, in Ventura County — one of California's top strawberry- and citrus-growing regions.

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The Ventura Meat Company operates on East Main Street in downtown Ventura, California, within blocks of the city's Mission-era commercial core and the Pacific coastline.

Oxnard

Food Share of Ventura County runs its warehouse and headquarters at 4156 Southbank Road in Oxnard, coordinating food for 335 distribution sites and roughly 200 pantry partners across the county. It's not a walk-up market — the warehouse is the hub behind gleaning drives, senior food programs, and a kids' farmers' market program that reaches over 250,000 residents a year. Find the nearest pantry through their site's food-finder map.

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Saticoy Food Hub connects roughly two dozen small Ventura County farms to buyers who want local produce, from schools and hospitals to neighborhood businesses. Since launching, the hub has routed close to $900,000 directly to those farmers and gotten fresh food to about 5,000 families. It also runs Saticoy Sowers workshops and is building a wholesale ordering platform so institutions can buy from multiple local farms through one channel.

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Love House Farm is an agritourism property on Santa Ana Road outside Ventura, in the coastal farm country between the Santa Clara River and the Santa Monica Mountains foothills. Details on what's grown or open to visitors aren't published online yet — check with the farm directly for current offerings.

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Channel Islands Harbor Farmers' Market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, at the Marine Emporium Landing shopping center on South Harbor Boulevard. More than 30 farmers set up for fruit, vegetables, and flowers, with fish vendors, arts and crafts booths, and live music filling out the harbor-side lot.

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The California Strawberry Festival takes over the Ventura County Fairgrounds for two days each May, timed to a region that grows 36 million trays of strawberries a year. The 2026 event marks its 40th anniversary, with strawberry shortcake, chocolate-dipped berries, live music, and vendor booths built around the county's signature crop. It started at Channel Islands Harbor before moving to its current fairgrounds site in 1991.

McGrath Family Farm has grown organic produce on the Ventura County coast for five generations. Its roadside stand is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a rotating mix of vegetables and fruit, and the farm also runs a CSA box program and delivers to Southern California restaurants. Call (805) 983-0333 to check what's picked that day.

Camarillo

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A market listing in Camarillo, California. The business's website domain was listed for sale during research, and no current details on products, hours, or vendors could be verified.

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Ojai

Ojai Olive Oil Co. is an award-winning family olive farm in Ojai, California, known for its estate extra virgin olive oils, flavor-infused oils, balsamic vinegars, and olive oil cosmetics. Visitors can tour the farm and taste the oils on-site, or join the club for regular shipments.

No verified business record turned up for a honey company under this name in California. Listing likely represents a small-scale or hobbyist beekeeping operation not yet indexed online.

Boccali Vineyard belongs to the Boccali family, better known around Ojai for the pizza-and-pasta restaurant on East Ojai Avenue that's run buffets and takeout since the 1980s. Father-and-son winemakers DeWayne and Joe Boccali grow and bottle their own wine on the Ojai Santa Paula Road property, and the Tomato Festival pairs the harvest with tastings each year.

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Ojai Certified Farmers' Market has supplied the valley with locally grown produce, flowers, and gourmet food for more than 18 years. Vendors sell fruit and vegetables harvested that morning alongside honey, jams, fresh-caught seafood, free-range eggs, olive oil, dried fruit, cut flowers, and handmade soap. Market manager Cynthia Korman can be reached by phone or email.

Somis

Underwood Family Farms' Somis location is a working farm center on East Los Angeles Avenue in Ventura County, selling fresh produce and gift baskets year-round alongside an animal center set among citrus trees. Pick-your-own fields rotate through tangerines from January to May, strawberries into mid-June, then raspberries and blackberries through mid-November. The farm has supplied Southern California farmers markets for more than 45 years.

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Casitas Valley Farm takes its name from the agricultural valley between Ojai and Lake Casitas in Ventura County, a stretch long planted in citrus and avocados. No verified details on this farm's crops, hours, or contact are available online yet.

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The Painted Pony Farm is in Santa Paula, in Ventura County's citrus and avocado valley along Highway 126.

The Camarillo Farmers Market sets up in Old Town Camarillo every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon, with all vendors approved by the county Agricultural Commissioner. Proceeds from the market fund grief and bereavement programs run by Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice. Parking is free, and the lineup covers produce, eggs, meat, seafood, flowers, and baked goods.

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Friend's Ranches has grown citrus in the Ojai Valley for more than 140 years, now cultivating over 50 varieties with a focus on Ojai Pixie tangerines. The family sells at farmers markets in Santa Barbara on Saturdays, Santa Monica on Wednesdays, and Hollywood and Ojai on Sundays, plus a farm stand open Tuesday and Friday mornings from 7am to noon. The stand also carries fresh-squeezed juice and local honey alongside the citrus.

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Camarillo

Peace Lutheran's Pumpkin Patch & Fest runs seasonally on Loma Drive in Camarillo as a fundraiser tied to the church, a common model for pumpkin patches across Ventura County congregations each fall. No public listing confirms this year's dates or activities.

Prancer's Farm in Santa Paula pairs a working farm with a petting zoo of goats, llamas, and horses across 40 acres. Visitors u-pick strawberries, pumpkins, and other seasonal crops depending on the month. The family-owned operation runs a second location in Palmdale and partners with Sunburst Railbikes, which stops at the farm during guided tours through the valley.

Camarillo

A school food hub listing at an industrial-park address in Camarillo, California, in Ventura County's produce-growing region. No verified details on this specific hub's operations or partner schools turned up in current research.

Brucker Farms has grown seasonal fruits and vegetables in Camarillo since 1977, working the same Pancho Road ground for over four decades. The family operation employs about 20 people and moves produce through local and wholesale channels rather than a retail farm stand. Call ahead at (805) 482-7610 for current availability.

Alex Frecker started Frecker Farms in 2013 and has grown it into a 45-acre certified organic operation in Carpinteria, wedged between the mountains and the Pacific. The farm runs a CSA for Santa Barbara County members and sells at 14 farmers markets a week across Southern California and the Central Coast.

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Christ the King Lutheran Church runs this pumpkin patch as a fundraiser on West Kimber Drive in Newbury Park, selling pumpkins from around October 11 through the 31st. The season wraps with a one-day, free-admission Pumpkin Fest for families, with proceeds going back to support the church and its preschool. Call the church office to confirm exact dates each year.

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Farm Cart Organics delivers boxes of certified organic produce and artisan groceries around Carpinteria and Santa Barbara County, with a subscription you can cancel anytime. The company also runs a food-hub side of the business, delivering to schools and food banks at scale. Its roots trace back to a farm stand the co-founder's parents ran in the late 1990s.

Santa Barbara Hives keeps roughly 600 hives across Santa Barbara County and pairs its own honey with a working bakery and café — sourdough, pizza, croissants, and organic coffee. The Carpinteria location also runs swarm rescue services. Café branch sits on State Street in Santa Barbara.

Moorpark

Ellie's Persimmons grows persimmons in Moorpark, part of the Ventura County farm belt long associated with Fuyu persimmon orchards alongside avocados and citrus. Harvest typically runs fall through early winter. No further confirmed details on hours, sales format, or additional crops.

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On-farm market on Old Telegraph Road in Fillmore selling pumpkins, strawberries, peaches, and honey from hives kept on the property. Look for the strawberry painted on top of the barn. There's a concessions stand, picnic tables, and school tours by arrangement.

Roan Mills grows heritage grain, stone-mills its own flour, and bakes sourdough and pasta on Central Avenue in Fillmore, calling itself California's first land-to-loaf bakery. Bread and flour sell at the bakery and at farmers markets Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The CABRA Farmhouse runs goat yoga classes in Newbury Park, where a small herd mingles with participants mid-pose. Owner Alexia Serrano left a 22-year corporate career at Amgen to start the operation, which also sells handmade goat milk soaps and skincare. Sessions are outdoors and often sell out on weekends. It's less a working farm than a hands-on animal encounter, but the products on offer are genuinely farm-made.

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This standard-gauge line was built in 1887 through the Santa Clara River Valley and later ran the Heritage Valley's scenic and murder-mystery passenger trains for decades. Public passenger excursions ended, and the operation now works primarily as a film and television train-equipment rental outfit. Reach the office in Santa Paula weekdays, 10am-6pm.

Wanderment Farms cultivates 14 of its 56 certified-organic acres above the Santa Barbara coastline, growing vegetables, cut flowers, wine grapes, and specialty coffee. The farm also keeps heritage Valais Blacknose sheep and pasture-raised laying hens. Weekly farm boxes go out to Santa Barbara addresses, and the farm runs guided walking tours through its vineyards, olive groves, and pastures.

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The Pumpkinliner and Christmas Tree Train were seasonal excursions on the Fillmore & Western Railway, the heritage line running through the Santa Clara River Valley that's also worked as a movie train for film and TV productions. Passenger excursion offerings have shifted over the years — confirm current seasonal train schedules directly before planning a visit.

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Apricot Lane Farms is also the home of the award-winning, critically acclaimed feature documentary The Biggest Little Farm. Directed by filmmaker and farmer John Chester, the film is a testament to the complexity of nature, following John, his wife Molly and their dog Todd on an epic odyssey to attempt to farm within a reawakening ecosystem. The film was released theatrically in North America by NEON in 2019, and has since screened in over 275 theaters across the US, and has been released in mor

Ventura County Certified Farmers' Markets has run since 1986 and now operates four weekly markets — Midtown Ventura on Wednesdays, Downtown Ventura on Saturdays, Thousand Oaks on Thursdays, and Santa Clarita on Sundays. Every vendor is a California family farmer approved by the county Agricultural Commissioner. Markets accept SNAP/EBT, WIC, and Market Match for eligible shoppers.

The Abundant Table farmed in Ventura County, California from 2004 to 2022, pairing food production with a food-justice mission and running an on-farm CSA program before winding down at the end of 2022. Its nonprofit structure now continues as Farm Church.

Thousand Oaks

Running since 1991, this is one of the two largest farmers markets in Ventura County — Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., year-round, rain or shine, in the east parking lot at The Oaks Shopping Center. The Ventura County Certified Farmers' Market Association runs it alongside a dozen other county markets, with meat, herbs, honey, nuts, and juice vendors filling in around the produce stands.

Underwood Family Farms works roughly 200 acres across two Ventura County locations, Moorpark and Somis, with u-pick produce fields, a dedicated farm animal area, and agricultural roots in the region going back more than 150 years. Birthday parties and school field trips run alongside the regular pick-your-own season each year, drawing families from across Ventura County and the greater Los Angeles area.

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Underwood Family Farms in Moorpark runs a working u-pick operation with a rotating seasonal lineup that includes strawberries and roma tomatoes, plus an Animal Center with weekend animal shows and tractor-drawn wagon rides included with admission. Admission runs $8 weekdays and $12 weekends, with a $2 discount for seniors and military and free entry under age 2. Open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. starting November 1), closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

Alik Shulman grows dozens of dragon fruit varieties on his Moorpark orchard, an hour outside Los Angeles. Visitors can taste different types on-site and buy fruit, cuttings, and rooted plants to start their own. What began as a personal collection has grown into a working orchard that draws rare-fruit growers from around Southern California.

Sweet Wheel Farm and Flowers runs a roadside cart in Summerland stocked with organic produce sourced from small farms around Summerland, Carpinteria, Goleta, and Santa Maria. The business started as its own working farm on school district land in Montecito before a 2019 community campaign helped it find a new home. It still serves Santa Barbara, Summerland, Carpinteria, and Montecito with produce, scones, and sourdough bread.

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The Westlake Village Farmers Market runs Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2797 Agoura Road, mixing local produce stalls with prepared food and artisan crafts. It's operated by California Certified Farmers Markets, which has run Southern California markets since 2000. The market is open year-round rather than seasonally.

Bennett's Honey Farm sits on Honey Lane off Highway 126 in Fillmore, where a wall of jars holds varietal honeys — avocado, blackberry, sage, wildflower — pulled from Ventura County's Heritage Valley. The facility runs on solar power, and the shop also carries cinnamon honey, honey barbecue sauce, candles, and soap. It's a family-owned roadside stop, not a tasting room with a script.

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Simi Valley

Novy Ranches is listed on East Los Angeles Avenue in Simi Valley, in Ventura County. No verified details on livestock, crops, or visiting hours turned up online.

California Family Farms has a listing in Westlake Village, California. We haven't found a working website or details on what they grow or sell yet — information will be added once confirmed.

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