Produce Farms near Auburn, CA

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.

Auburn

Auburn

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

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

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

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.

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.

Garden Valley

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.

Grass Valley

BriarPatch Food Co-op in Grass Valley has been a collectively owned, neighborly grocery since 1976, sourcing local, organic, and sustainable goods and working directly with area farmers to plan crops and stabilize their income. Owners get discounts, voting rights, and dividends — and kids under 12 get a free apple, banana, or carrot to munch while shopping.

Citrus Heights

The Citrus Heights farmers market at Sunrise Mall is part of the I Love My Farmers Market network run by Living Smart, which operates weekly year-round markets rain or shine across the Sacramento region. The markets pair certified farmers and specialty food vendors with cooking demos, canning lessons, gardening tips, and live local music, in support of farmers, small businesses, and youth programs.

Placerville

24 Carrot Farm is an organic farm stand on Jacquier Road in Placerville, California, offering fresh, seasonal produce and u-pick opportunities with fun for the whole family. Shoppers buy local, directly from where their food is grown, with a weekly newsletter announcing what's ready.

Nevada City

At 2,500 feet outside Nevada City, First Rain Farm grows CCOF-certified organic produce on 3.5 no-till acres, generating 90% of its fertility on-farm with animals and compost since its 2012 founding. Its herd of 160 Nubian and Kiko goats doubles as a land stewardship service for vegetation management, forest thinning, and prescribed burn support, and the farm's 26 crop varieties sell at local farmers markets.

Nevada City

OLaLa Farms is a family-owned farm in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, California, devoted to the art of self-healing through the cultivation and wildcrafting of organically grown flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, barks, and roots. The farm grows organic apples, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, plums, and watercress.

Nevada City

Mountain Bounty Farm is the oldest and largest CSA farm in the Sierras, an 18-acre organic farm on the San Juan Ridge near Nevada City founded by John Tecklin in 1997. Its year-round CSA delivers boxes of organic vegetables and fruit — plus seasonal fruit, flower, and mushroom shares from farm partners — to pickup locations in Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn, the Lake Tahoe basin, Truckee, and Reno, and the farm's land is held in perpetuity through a partnership with the Bear Yuba Land Trust.

Nevada City

OLaLa Farms, a family farm in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, cultivates and wildcrafts organically grown flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, barks, and roots in service of everyday natural wellness. Orchard crops include apples, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, and plums, alongside watercress and herbs.

Nevada City

Founded by John Tecklin in 1997 on the San Juan Ridge near Nevada City, Mountain Bounty Farm is the oldest and largest CSA farm in the Sierras — an 18-acre organic farm whose land is protected in perpetuity with the Bear Yuba Land Trust. The year-round CSA delivers organic vegetable and fruit boxes, plus partner shares of flowers and mushrooms, to pickups from Grass Valley to Truckee, Tahoe, and Reno, and the farm's strawberries headline the Saturday Nevada City Farmers Market each summer.

Nevada City

First Rain Farm, established in 2012 at 2,500 feet in the Sierra Nevada foothills outside Nevada City, grows certified organic produce (CCOF) across 3.5 cultivated acres and 26 crop varieties using no-till practices since 2017, producing 90% of its fertility needs on-farm through animals and compost. The farm also runs a herd of 160 Nubian and Kiko goats offering land stewardship services — goat vegetation management, forest thinning, and prescribed burning — and sells at local farmers markets.

Fair Oaks

Foresthill

Snowy Peaks Christmas Tree & Berry Farm is on Foresthill Road in Placer County's Sierra foothill country above Auburn. The pairing of Christmas trees and berries fits the elevation — cool enough for conifers, warm enough lower down for summer berry crops.

Camino

Rockney Farms is a family farm in Camino, California, in El Dorado County's Apple Hill country, selling fresh produce, cut flowers, and eggs directly to the community.