Farms Near Auburn, CA

Auburn

The Mountain Mandarin Festival celebrates Placer County's foothill-grown Owari Satsuma mandarins each year at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, the weekend before Thanksgiving. More than 30,000 visitors come through over the three days for grower booths selling 10-pound bags straight off the trees, food and artisan vendors, chef demos, and a kids zone. The Mountain Mandarin Growers Association has run the event for more than 30 years.

Auburn

A food hub listing in Auburn, California, in the Sierra foothills' Gold Country farming region. No verified details on this specific hub's growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

Auburn

AnneBelle Farms sits on Grass Valley Highway in Auburn, California, in the Sierra foothills of Placer County - gold country terrain that gradually gave way to orchards, vineyards, and small farms after the mining era.

Auburn

BriarPatch Food Co-op's Auburn store brings the community-owned grocer's formula — local, organic, and sustainable goods — to Placer County. Collectively owned by its shoppers since 1976, the co-op partners with local farmers on crop planning to support their financial stability, and offers owner discounts, patronage dividends, and free fruit for kids while they shop.

Newcastle

Miller Honey Farms opened its Newcastle operation in 1974 and still sells jars locally at Echo Valley Ranch and Ace Hardware in nearby Auburn, alongside its own honey and mandarins. The Geraldson Road location is part of a larger multi-state beekeeping business, not a single-family roadside operation. Retail hours vary by season — check with local retailers carrying the honey before making a special trip.

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Amber Oaks Raspberries is a family-owned u-pick farm on Shanley Road outside Auburn, open Saturdays from 9am to 2pm and closed the rest of the week. Beyond the raspberries in its name, the farm grows blackberries, peaches, mandarins, squash, and tomatoes, offering both pick-your-own and pre-picked orders depending on what's ripe that week.

Pilot Hill

Located at 3185 Auburn-Folsom Rd. in Newcastle, a Sierra foothill town in the fruit belt between Auburn and Folsom. Vendors sell local produce and crafts. No current hours are listed publicly — worth a call before visiting.

Loomis

Loomis Alpacas has raised alpacas on its Holly Hill Lane property since 2005, growing from a founding herd of three animals to about a dozen today. The farm offers by-appointment tours where visitors can meet the herd, and sells hand-spun yarn and US-made garments crafted from their fiber. Reach them at 916-768-0735 to book a visit.

Loomis

The Flower Farm in Loomis combines a plant nursery, coffee house, and six acres of citrus, Malbec grapes, and cutting flowers with a separate bed and breakfast inn and event center down the road. The cafe serves breakfast burritos, seasonal sandwiches, and craft mimosas, and a small tasting bar pours Casque Wine on-site. The nursery and cafe have operated in their current form since 2006, with the inn and event space run from a second location on Auburn-Folsom Road.

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Roobeez, is making it easier than ever to access fresh, locally sourced produce and support sustainable farming practices through online workshops and in-person Farm Expo events. At Roobeez, we are committed to promoting sustainable agriculture practices that benefit both farmers and our planet. By connecting consumers with local farms practicing organic farming methods or employing environmentally friendly techniques, we encourage responsible consumption while reducing carbon footprints. Our mission is to grow our local farmers, and grow the love for supporting our local farmers.

Loomis

Flower Farm sits on Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis, in the Placer County foothill belt known for citrus and nursery stock at the edge of the Sacramento Valley. The name and agritourism listing point to a working nursery operation. No further confirmed details on plant selection, hours, or additional offerings.

An Instagram account under @twinpeaksorchards exists, but its bio and posts weren't accessible in this search, so location and the fruit grown couldn't be confirmed. The 'orchard' listing type is the only verified detail beyond the name.

Pilot Hill

Enchanted April Inn sits on a hillside in the Sierra Foothills between El Dorado Hills and Pilot Hill, with gardens planted around the property and views over the surrounding hills. Rooms come with fireplaces, daily housekeeping, and a full breakfast included in the stay. It's a small operation — TripAdvisor lists it as the only bed and breakfast in Pilot Hill — and reviewers consistently mention the quiet and the grounds over anything flashy.

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Horton Iris Garden has grown irises on King Road in Loomis since 1999 and now carries around 1,200 to 1,500 varieties. Bloom season runs April and May, when the garden opens Friday through Monday, 10am-5pm, for viewing and ordering bare-root and potted iris plants; a cut-your-own pumpkin patch runs in fall.

Loomis

The Loomis Eggplant Festival is a community event held in Loomis, a small Placer County town with a farming history tied to fruit orchards and produce stands. It is organized around a single crop rather than a single farm. Current dates, vendors, and admission details were not verifiable online this search.

Auburn

Open Saturday mornings, 8 a.m. to noon, spring through fall, at 11665 Lakeshore North inside the Lake of the Pines community near Auburn. Neighbors gather to buy locally grown produce from vendors serving this Nevada County foothill development.

Grass Valley

Dry Creek Herb Farm has grown organic herbs and edible plants in the Sierra gold country since 2006. Beyond the retail gardens, where visitors can walk through and buy plants directly from the source, the farm runs as a working learning center offering herbalism classes and apprenticeships. Owner Mary Evans Peterson built the operation around hands-on plant education rather than just sales, and the gardens stay open for browsing through the growing season.

Auburn

This Saturday market runs mornings, 8am to noon, spring through fall, at 10056 Combie Road in Auburn. Vendors bring seasonal produce, handcrafted goods, and other locally made items to the Combie Road corridor near Lake of the Pines, serving Auburn and Nevada County shoppers looking for a smaller, community-run alternative to the bigger valley markets.

El Dorado Hills

Once in a Blue Moon Berries is a small berry operation on Arroyo Vista Way in El Dorado Hills, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento, with an active Instagram account under the same name. Specific varieties, u-pick hours, or a public phone line weren't confirmed online.

Lincoln

Nastase Honey Farm keeps hives on Sego Lane outside Lincoln and bottles what they produce as raw, unfiltered honey, mostly orange blossom and wildflower varietals shaped by the almond and citrus orchards nearby. It's a small, family-run operation — no storefront, no farmers market circuit listed, just honey sold directly from the farm.

Granite Bay

Rickey Ranch grows its own pumpkins on Cavitt Stallman Road in Granite Bay and opens the fields every October 1st through the 31st, 10 a.m. to dusk. The family runs hayrides and horse rides alongside pens of pigs, goats, chickens, and sheep, and props skeletons on old farm equipment scattered through the property. Regulars say it's smaller and quieter than the county's bigger patches — plus there's a vineyard on the same ground.

Granite Bay

Sunday market in the parking lot of Quarry Ponds Town Center, 5550 Douglas Blvd. in Granite Bay, running May through October. It's part of the PlacerGROWN network, with regular vendors including Pierce's Family Farm, Rice River Ranch, Farm Charm Flowers, Bravo's Produce, Calolea Olive Oil, and Father & Son Farm.

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It all started with the idea to give our family dog, Sonny, what every dog deserves: the wind in his ears, rich soil beneath his paws, and nature’s nourishing energy. Built from a love for community, healthy food, and creating abundance together, Sonny’s Farm strives to liberate nature’s power to heal the land, its animals, and our bodies. Life thrives when you let nature lead the way. Sustainability and renewal are important values to our team. We have long felt that traditional commercial farm

Bushnell Gardens Nursery operates in Granite Bay, in the oak-studded foothill country northeast of Sacramento. The business sells plants, trees, and home decor, drawing gardeners from the Placer County suburbs and the wider Sacramento region.

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Coloma

American River Conservancy is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in the historic Kane House at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma. Since 1989 it has protected more than 30,000 acres and built 35-plus miles of trail across the upper American and Cosumnes River watersheds. Its working farm, Wakamatsu Farm, hosts public tours and partners with local growers.

El Dorado Hills

A farmers market on Harvard Way in El Dorado Hills, a Sierra foothill community in El Dorado County — Gold Rush country east of Sacramento.

Lincoln

Our farm is nestled on 20 acres and boasts over 1700 fruit trees, including a variety of different plums, peaches, nectarines, cherries, apricots, almonds, pluots, french prunes, apples, pears, pomegranates, and blackberries. Stay tuned, as we plan to expand into produce as well!

Lincoln

5 Stone Family Farm operates out of Lincoln in Placer County. Limited public information is available beyond the farm's name and address; check their local listings for current offerings.

Lincoln

Another Lincoln, California listing for 5 Stone Family Farm in Placer County. Public details are thin online; the address places it in the residential Valley View Circle area outside downtown Lincoln.

Coloma

American Whitewater Expeditions ran river trips from a New River Road address in Coloma, on the South Fork American River where California's commercial whitewater rafting industry got its start. No current website was located under this name, so operating status is unconfirmed.

Lincoln

Lincoln's downtown market sets up on F Street in Placer County, in a town built on Gladding, McBean & Co., the terra cotta and pipe works that's operated here since the early 1870s. It's a small Sacramento Valley community market, not a large regional draw.

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Colfax

Charleston Lavender Farm sits at the corner of Yankee Jims and Pine Hollow roads in Colfax, where visitors can walk the rows during Lavender U-Pick Days on Fridays and Sundays each June and July. Open house weekends bring in other local vendors selling handcrafted goods alongside the farm's lavender products.

Shingle Springs

El Dorado Honey bottles raw, unfiltered honey sourced from bee yards across El Dorado County, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. Rather than selling from a single farm stand, the honey moves through more than a dozen regional retailers, including Boa Vista Orchards and Nugget Market. No heat-processing or additives, a standard several small foothill apiaries use to set themselves apart from imported honey blends.

Lincoln

Faisan Valley Ranch sits in the Placer County countryside outside Lincoln, in the Sierra foothill belt that's grown into one of Northern California's newer wine and ranch corridors. No crops, animals, or visiting details are published online yet.

Lincoln

Stirling Oak Cellars is a winery listed on Lone Pine Lane outside Lincoln, in the granite-soil oak country of western Placer County. The domain that once hosted its website is now parked and inactive. No details on varietals or tasting hours are available online.

Garden Valley

A small mountain-town market at Garden Valley Park, at the corner of Marshall Grade and Garden Valley roads in the El Dorado foothills. Online details are thin beyond the address and phone number, which fits a market this size and this local — call ahead if you're coming from out of the area.

Grass Valley

The Haunted Pumpkin Patch in Grass Valley runs a pumpkin patch by day and a haunted house by night through November, with separate mild (ages 5+) and scarier evening experiences. Daytime admission is $15; nighttime tickets run $15-$20 depending on age. They take cash, credit, and Venmo.

Grass Valley

Here at Back to Basics, we are a family farm located in Idaho in the small town of New Plymouth. We moved to New Plymouth but could never give up our love of farming. We continued with our same first goal of raising poultry for our family and our neighborhood. As the months have passed our farm has had the opportunity to expand and become a local business with the idea of community in mind. Back to Basics farm is unique in the way that we raise everything we sell to ensure we are putting out the

Grass Valley

After working internationally in Architecture and Real-Estate Development for many years, Philip Zeiter longed to remove himself and his wife from the fast pace of big business in order to homestead a parcel of land and begin a simpler family lifestyle. The young couple desired to raise their children in a peaceful, healthy environment while developing the land into a spiritual retreat site where other families could visit in order to enjoy special family time together within the peaceful realm

Grass Valley

On Polaris Drive in Grass Valley, Starbright Acres Family Farm grows certified organic food for its local community and sells through the Collaborative CSA and area outlets. The farm also raises vegetable starts, offers farm credit through its online store, and supports school agricultural programs across Nevada County.

Grass Valley

For 30 years, Back to Basics Farm has raised poultry in Grass Valley in the Sierra foothills, growing from feeding one family into a neighborhood business run by Katie — a Chico State agriculture business graduate and Nevada County Farm Bureau board member — and Justin. Chickens and turkeys are raised on all-natural feeds without added medications or hormones, and the farm funds scholarships for graduating FFA students at Nevada Union and Bear River each year.

Grass Valley

Starbright Acres Family Farm in Grass Valley, California produces certified organic, planet-friendly food for the local community. The farm sells through the Collaborative CSA and local outlets, offers vegetable starts, and supports the local food network by working with school agricultural programs and sharing farming knowledge with the community.

Grass Valley

Family Friendly Farms began over twenty years ago with a booth at a Grass Valley farmers market and a desire to raise naturally grown, humanely treated animals. The Northern California family farm sells 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, pasture-raised pork, and free-range chicken — never any hormones, antibiotics, corn, soy, or GMOs — at farmers-market prices online, from single cuts to whole shares, with transparent at-cost shipping, home delivery, and local pickup.

Grass Valley

Starbright Acres Family Farm grows certified organic, planet-friendly food on Polaris Drive in Grass Valley for the surrounding community. The farm participates in the Collaborative CSA, sells vegetable starts and farm credit online, and invests in the local food network through school agriculture programs and community education.

Grass Valley

Family Friendly Farms is a Northern California family farm in Grass Valley that has ranched for over twenty years, offering 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, free-range and pasture-raised chicken, and pasture-raised pork — no added hormones, antibiotics, corn, soy, or GMOs. The farm began at a local farmers market booth and still offers farmers-market prices through its online store, from individual cuts up to whole shares, plus home delivery and local pickup.

Grass Valley

Back to Basics Farm is a family farm in Grass Valley, in the Sierra foothills, that has raised poultry for its family and neighborhood for 30 years. Run by Katie, an ag-business graduate who took over the farm in 2018, it raises chickens and turkeys on all-natural feeds with no added medications or hormones, and gives back through scholarships for local FFA and 4-H students.

Roseville

This certified market sets up Tuesdays, year-round, in the parking lot at the Fountains at Roseville, in front of Peet's Coffee and Whole Foods on Galleria Boulevard. PlacerGROWN certifies the market's growers but doesn't run day-to-day operations — that falls to an independent market management team. Expect the usual mix of Placer County produce, cheese, and specialty foods, with shopping-center parking nearby.

Grass Valley

Linda Grace's Place Farm is on Friendly Valley Place outside Grass Valley, in the pine-and-oak foothill country of Nevada County, old Gold Rush terrain that today supports small orchards, pasture, and mixed homestead farms at elevation. No further confirmed details on what the farm grows or offers visitors.

Garden Valley

Also known as Rustic Dream Farmstead, Berry Heaven is a family-run u-pick operation in Garden Valley near historic Coloma, growing eleven varieties of blueberries alongside blackberries, raspberries, apples, and strawberries from May through November. A petting zoo and school tour program round out visits, with an on-farm market selling what didn't get picked.

Placerville

The American River Conservancy runs Wakamatsu Farm in Placerville, site of the 1869 Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony — the first Japanese colony in the United States. FogDog Farm now grows organic food on the land, and the Conservancy opens it for Open Farm Days on spring and fall Saturdays ($10 per vehicle) plus docent-led tours booked two weeks out.

Rocklin

Rocklin is a fast-growing Placer County suburb east of Sacramento, historically a granite-quarrying town before it became a bedroom community. This market runs at the Blue Oaks Center near RC Willey, a suburban stop for growers from the surrounding foothill farms rather than a downtown or historic market.

El Dorado Hills