Farms Near Wetumpka, AL

Wetumpka

Trinity Episcopal Church hosts this Saturday market on Highway 231 as a no-cost place for farmers from Autauga, Chilton, Elmore, and Montgomery counties to sell direct. Expect tomatoes, peaches, honey, and squash most weeks, plus pickles, jams, jellies, a local soap-maker, and boiled peanuts on the side. Call the church for the current schedule.

Wetumpka

Wetumpka sits atop an ancient meteor crater on the Coosa River in Elmore County. Porters Place is listed on Central Plank Road there; no further details on crops or hours are published online.

Wetumpka

Wetumpka

Windy Ridge Road outside Wetumpka is the address for J&J Blueberry Farm, in Elmore County's stretch of the Coosa River valley near Montgomery. No listing of picking season, hours, or pricing was found — call ahead before driving out.

Montgomery

Southern Growers Nursery and Greenhouse operates on Wetumpka Highway in Montgomery, on the retail nursery corridor north of downtown. No website or listing confirms current plant inventory, hours, or services — contact the nursery directly before visiting.

Wetumpka

Cartmill Apiaries keeps bees in Wetumpka, an Elmore County town on the Coosa River known for its ancient meteor crater. As an apiary, honey is the presumed product, though specific offerings and hours aren't posted publicly.

Wright's Produce runs a fresh produce stand and cafe on Federal Drive in Montgomery, stocking beans, strawberries, watermelons, and cantaloupes alongside a garden center and breakfast-and-lunch counter. Open daily from 7 a.m., it's a Montgomery neighborhood fixture rather than a seasonal pop-up.

MONTGOMERY

Montgomery State Farmers Market has operated out of its Federal Drive building since 1986, one of four markets the Alabama Farmers Market Authority runs statewide. It's open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., with indoor stalls selling Alabama produce and farm goods year-round rather than a single weekly market day. Cash and card both work here.

Montgomery

Montgomery

Millbrook

Millbrook

Barber Berry Farm in Millbrook grows blueberries and blackberries picked pesticide-free from late May through early July, then muscadines and scuppernongs from mid-August into September. The farm also sells peppers, persimmons and tomatoes, and produces its own honey from hives kept on the property. Restrooms and a picnic area let families make a half-day of the visit rather than a quick stop.

Montgomery

Now in its third decade, the Saturday market at the Shoppes at Eastchase has grown into one of the five largest in Alabama. Twenty-plus certified vendors, including Penton Farms, Dixon Family Farms, and Leatherwood Nursery, set up from 7 a.m. to noon between May and September, selling fresh eggs, honey, jellies, and boiled peanuts a few steps from the mall's H&M and Sephora.

Millbrook

Millbrook Farmers Market runs Tuesday mornings from 7 a.m. to noon, mid-May through mid-August, at Village Green Park. Growers and home producers sell fruit, vegetables, honey, farm eggs, coffee, cookies, and jams, along with locally raised meat. Market Manager Chuck Burns handles vendor questions directly by phone.

Montgomery Curb Market has run at 1004 Madison Avenue since 1927, first organized by the Junior Chamber of Commerce with the Auburn Extension Service. More than 30 vendors set up Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m., selling seasonal vegetables, fruit, baked goods, canned goods, and crafts. Admission is free.

Several Palmer-name produce operations turn up across Alabama and neighboring states, and none matched this listing closely enough to confirm which one it is. Treat it as a produce stand pending confirmation from the operator.

Deatsville

Witherspoon Fruit Farm sits on Coosa River Road in Deatsville, a small Elmore County community north of Millbrook. No website or specific crop list was found online for this farm.

EAT South is Montgomery's urban teaching farm along the Riverwalk below Wright Brothers Park, recognizable by its red caboose. The nonprofit grows about 52 varieties of fruits and vegetables a year and keeps chickens, ducks, and honeybees on-site, running school programs and a Community Harvest that has donated over a thousand pounds of produce to local food pantries.

Montgomery

Handey's Farm & Nursery grows what it sells on-site in east Montgomery — broccoli, okra, and collards alongside a nursery stocked with bedding plants. Spring brings a u-pick strawberry patch; summer produce starts arriving in late May; fall garden vegetables run from October on. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 to 5, with homemade boiled peanuts sold at the stand. Handey's is a member of Sweet Grown Alabama, the state's local-food certification program.

Montgomery

This is Montgomery's State Farmer's Market at Fairview, open long hours most days of the week in a covered facility on Fairview Avenue. Alongside the usual produce and baked goods, shoppers can find canned goods and organic items, a broader mix than most seasonal roadside markets carry.

Montgomery

A family farm committed to honoring God’s good creation by taking dominion with gratitude, faithfully working with the land to produce good food for our community, to a thousand generations.

Equality

Oakachoy Blueberry Farm sits on Coosa County Road 98 near Equality, a rural stretch of central Alabama along the Coosa River. No working website or listing confirms picking season or hours.

Equality

Equality

Equality

Jack's Blueberry Hill grows blueberries near Equality, an unincorporated Coosa County community. The listing shows only a rural route box number; no further crop or visiting details are published online.

Blue Ribbon Dairy is the only Grade A dairy in its tri-county area bottling batch-pasteurized, cream-line milk — pasteurized but not homogenized — from its own herd at 5290 Chana Creek Road in Tallassee. Fourth-generation farmer Michaela Sanders runs the on-farm store Thursdays and Fridays 2-6 and Saturdays 9-2, and the milk also reaches area grocery stores.

SweetCreek Farm Market is a farm-to-table market and scratch kitchen on Meriwether Road in Pike Road, grown out of its own blueberry orchard and seasonal vegetable fields — squash, zucchini, corn, watermelon, cucumber. The kitchen bakes bread, cookies, and pies daily and churns its own ice cream, and the shelves carry local honey, cane syrup, sorghum, and jams.

Equality

Mama's Produce, Plants & More sells locally grown produce, honey, eggs, and plants at 1154 S Memorial Drive in Prattville. It's a small neighborhood stand rather than a working farm — call ahead for what's in season.

Tallassee

Tallassee Farmers' Market opens at 8 a.m. every Saturday on Barnett Boulevard, running through late summer. The market has indoor space and takes both cash and card, which isn't a given at a small-town Alabama market this size.

Deatsville

N.T. Christian Farm operates as a u-pick destination in Deatsville, listed on regional agritourism directories under tours, tastings, and pick-your-own visits. Specifics on what's currently growing aren't posted publicly, so the best way to plan a trip is a call or email ahead. The farm sits on County Road 68 East, a short drive from Prattville and the wider Elmore County farm belt.

Pounds Meat Wagon sells grass-fed, grain-finished beef and pork by the eighth, quarter, half, and whole share from a family farm in Mathews, run by Matt and Whitney Pounds. Matt studied Animal Science at Auburn before returning to a cattle operation his family has worked for five generations; the farm also sells individual cuts and beef boxes from its freezer.

Southern Sweet Bee harvests honey once a year every July from hives across Alabama's Black Belt, a practice the family traces back to a small 1982 beekeeping project once called Queen Royal Honey. Based in Hope Hull, the operation also makes beeswax candles from its own honeycomb and offers swarm relocation service across central Alabama.

Prattville

Autauga Hill Farms is a small U-pick operation off County Road 27 in Prattville, best known locally for its peaches. Beyond the address and crop, little about the farm is posted online, which is typical of a family operation that relies on regulars and word of mouth rather than a website or social media page.

Hope Hull

Trinity Farms is a family-owned cattle and pig farm that began in 1989 as a 4-H project and has grown into a full Angus cattle operation with farms in north and central Alabama. The farm raises all-natural, hormone-free beef and pork — including 100% grass-fed beef — with home delivery available across Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and north Florida.

Shorter

Al Hooks Produce runs out of Shorter, a Macon County community east of Montgomery. The name points to a produce stand, but no current website, hours, or crop list could be confirmed online.

Verbena

Verbena

This is the picking side of the Penton family's farm on County Road 59 — the same operation listed nearby under Penton Farms. Rows open for hand-picked strawberries each spring, with blackberries ready in June and July. The family also runs a fall pumpkin patch on the property and sells produce at farmers markets across central Alabama, including Pepper Place in Birmingham and stops in Wetumpka and Millbrook.

Verbena

Penton Farms is a fourth-generation family operation growing strawberries, blackberries, and pumpkins on County Road 59 outside Verbena. Its Sugar Hill U-Pick opens each spring for hand-picked strawberries, with blackberries following in June and July. Beyond the farm gate, the Pentons sell produce at farmers markets statewide — Pepper Place in Birmingham, Eastchase in Montgomery, plus stops in Tuscaloosa, Millbrook, Vestavia Hills, Monroeville, and Wetumpka. Picking windows shift with the weather, so call before driving out.

Eddie's Bees bottles raw honey out of Ramer, sold by the pound with a squeeze lid or as chunk honeycomb in wide-mouth jars. The operation also sells nucs and queens to other beekeepers and takes special honey orders by phone.

Lowndesboro

Frederick Douglass Road near Lowndesboro is home to Woodruff Lake Farm, in Lowndes County's stretch of Alabama's Black Belt. No public details on what the farm grows or offers are available — reach out directly before visiting.

Jones Farm is a three-generation family operation in Autauga County, Alabama providing locally grown beef and pork to surrounding areas. The farm's mission is reconnecting consumers with their local producers through Sweet Grown Alabama food.

Sweetgum Ridge Apiaries manages more than 35 hives on a 70-acre farm along the Alabama River in Lowndesboro, run by Kate and Ralph. Beyond raw honey and beeswax, they sell nucleus hives and queens each spring and raise free-range chickens for eggs.

Tuskegee

Shady Grove Road Blueberry Patch grows blueberries without pesticides or herbicides on 46 acres in Tuskegee, alongside turmeric and moringa. U-pick and we-pick options run from late May into July. The land carries a documented history tied to Dr. Booker T. Whatley, the Tuskegee horticulturist who pioneered the small-farm pick-your-own model decades ago. More than 1,200 people follow the farm's Facebook page for weekly picking updates.

Camp Hill

Blueberry Havens grows blueberries in Camp Hill, a small Tallapoosa County town between Auburn and Alexander City. No working website or social page surfaced in research, which is common for small u-pick blueberry operations that rely on repeat local customers rather than an online presence.

Verbena

Cleckler Farm is on County Road 490 in Verbena, a small central Alabama community near the Chilton County peach belt. No specific crops or hours are listed publicly for this farm.

Clanton

Wise Farms is in Clanton, the Chilton County seat and center of Alabama's peach industry, home to the state's best-known Peach Festival each June. No working website or listing confirms current crops, hours, or contact details.

Durbin Farms Market has sold Chilton County peaches from 2130 7th Street South in Clanton since 1961, shipping baskets across the Southeast once the crop comes in each summer. Alongside peaches, the market makes its own ice cream, cobbler, fried pies, and jams, and stocks a boutique gift shop.

Clanton

Doster Farm is on County Road 16 outside Clanton, in Chilton County's peach belt, where roadside stands and orchards line the back roads each summer. Specific crops and hours for this farm aren't listed publicly.

Autaugaville

Southern Pumpkin Company, LLC has run a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and hayride operation in Autaugaville since forming in October 2020. It's a newer entry in Alabama's fall agritourism circuit compared to farms that have operated for generations, but it's built a real following, with more than 400 people tracking the farm's Instagram for opening dates and event details each season.