Farms Near Ballston Spa, NY

Ballston Spa

Ballston Spa

Malta

Malta Ridge Orchard and Garden works land on Van Aernem Road in Malta, Saratoga County, between Saratoga Springs and the Capital Region. The name pairs an apple orchard with garden produce, suggesting fall apples plus summer vegetables and small fruit sold direct. This is a seasonal farm rather than a year-round market. Check with the orchard for picking dates and stand hours.

Ballston Spa

Spa Alpacas is an alpaca farm on Paisley Road in Ballston Spa, a Saratoga County village near Saratoga Springs. No active website or listing was found, so herd details, farm visits, and any fiber products couldn't be confirmed online.

The retail store of a 134-acre, fifth-generation family farm at 343 Hop City Road in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County. The farm raises beef, veal, pork, and dairy cows using regenerative, chemical-free methods, and the store sells its raw milk, flavored Greek yogurts, cheeses, and cheese curds. Shelves also carry goods from more than 65 small local businesses. Hours run midweek through Saturday afternoons, with pumpkins, cornstalks, and hay in the fall.

Ballston Spa

Clark Greenhouses grows and sells plants on Hop City Road in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County. Greenhouse operations here run heaviest in spring, with bedding plants, hanging baskets, and vegetable starts. Specific hours aren't posted online.

Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Springs

Ballston Spa

Ellms Christmas Trees is the cut-your-own tree side of the Ellms family operation, at 468 Charlton Road in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County. Come the holidays, families tag and cut their own trees on the property. Next door, the same family runs the Ellms Family Farm fall festival, which draws bigger crowds with pick-your-own pumpkins, corn mazes, ziplines, and cider donuts.

Ballston Lake

Ballston Lake Apiaries keeps bees and produces local honey in Ballston Lake, Saratoga County. Small apiaries like this typically sell raw honey and beeswax products direct. Retail details aren't posted online.

This market sets up at Prestwick Chase, a retirement community on Saratoga Boulevard in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County. On-site markets like this deliver produce, baked goods, and local products straight to residents and neighbors. Saratoga Springs sits in a farm-rich belt north of Albany, long known for its spa waters and thoroughbred racing.

A Saratoga County community market on Lake Hill Road in Burnt Hills, in the Town of Ballston northwest of Schenectady. Local growers bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, eggs, baked goods, and farm products during the summer months. It serves the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake area close to home.

Fo-Castle Farm Country Store sits on Kingsley Road in the Ballston Lake area of Saratoga County, north of Albany. Country stores like this one carry farm produce, seasonal plants, and local goods. No working website or contact details came up online, so confirm hours locally before stopping in.

Saratoga Springs

Greenfield Center

Blue Moon Acres is listed on Wilton Road in Greenfield Center, a Saratoga County hamlet north of Saratoga Springs. This is small-farm country on the sandy Wilton plains at the edge of the Adirondack foothills. Seasonal hours vary.

Charlton

A fruit farm on Jockey Street in Charlton, a rural town in Saratoga County northwest of Schenectady. This part of eastern New York grows apples, peaches, and berries, and small orchards here usually sell at the farm and open for pick-your-own from late summer into fall. Specific crops, hours, and pick-your-own dates aren't confirmed online, so call ahead before driving out during harvest season.

Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Maple produces pure New York maple syrup near Saratoga Springs, along with a full line of maple products: bourbon-barrel-aged syrup, maple cream, maple candy, maple sugar, pancake mix, and maple-flavored coffee. The family sugarhouse packs gift baskets and sells direct, with syrup made fresh each spring during sugaring season.

Clifton Park

A Capital Region market in Clifton Park, a fast-growing Saratoga County suburb between Albany and Saratoga Springs. Along Route 146, vendors sell upstate produce, dairy, and prepared foods through the growing season. The market gives a sprawling, car-oriented town a weekly gathering point.

The Clifton Park edition of the Saratoga Farmers' Market runs Mondays from 2 to 5 p.m., June through October, at Shenendehowa United Church on Route 146. It's a producer-only market, so everything sold is grown or made by the vendor, from local produce and plants to prepared food and art, often with live music. The wider Saratoga Farmers' Market organization runs several locations across the region.

Greenfield Center

Loon Meadow Farm has offered horse-drawn carriage and sleigh rides near Saratoga since 1980, running roughly 40-minute private trips by reservation around Greenfield Center and Saratoga Spa State Park. The property also works as a small bed-and-breakfast with themed rooms and boards horses for travelers passing through. Rides run year-round. Call (518) 893-6116.

Healthy Living is a natural-foods market on Dorset Street in South Burlington, with a second store in Williston. Beyond groceries, it runs a prepared-foods deli and cafe, catering, and a bakery that makes custom cakes. The market leans hard on Vermont and organic products and functions as a neighborhood gathering spot as much as a grocery store.

Galway

Star Farm grows blueberries in Galway, in the rolling farm country of northern Saratoga County. The bushes ripen from mid-July into August, the short upstate window for fresh berries. This is a seasonal operation, so picking and availability follow the summer crop rather than fixed year-round hours.

East Glenville

Buhrmaster Family Farm grows produce on Saratoga Road (Route 50) in East Glenville, north of Schenectady. Farms in this Mohawk Valley corridor are known for sweet corn, tomatoes, and fall crops sold at roadside stands. The farm's specific hours and product list aren't posted online.

Clifton Park

Devoe's Rainbow Orchards keeps a farm market on U.S. Route 9 in Clifton Park, in Saratoga County north of Albany. Apples anchor the orchards across this stretch of the upper Hudson Valley, with fresh fruit, cider, and fall produce for sale in season. Contact the market for pick-your-own availability and what's ripe before you drive over.

Rexford

Lindsey's Idyllwood Orchard grows tree fruit on Sugar Hill Road in Rexford, Saratoga County, north of the Mohawk River. The listing points to apples, with picking and farm sales through the fall. The Capital Region's climate favors hardy varieties like McIntosh, Cortland, and Macoun. Confirm pick-your-own days and hours before visiting, as the apple season runs only a few weeks.

Galway

Blueberry Hill Solar is a solar-powered organic farm on Alexander Road in Galway, in rural western Saratoga County. The name points to organically grown blueberries and off-grid solar power. Its full crop list and picking hours aren't posted online.

West Charlton

Rexford

Apples are what Riverview Orchards grows, on Riverview Road in Rexford within the town of Clifton Park. The farm store and pick-your-own run September through December, seven days a week, and the kitchen turns out pies. It sits along the Mohawk River northwest of Schenectady.

Gansevoort

Rexford

Clifton Park

Rexford

Bowman Orchards farms roughly 98 acres in Rexford, growing more than 60 apple varieties plus strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cherries, peaches, and plums. Pick-your-own runs June through October on select days, and the farm store sells produce alongside a petting area, horseback riding, an apple cannon, and an ice cream window. A second stand, The Farmers Wagon, operates on Grooms Road in Clifton Park.

Rexford

Apples are the centerpiece here, with more than 65 acres and over 60 dwarf varieties grown off Sugar Hill Road in Rexford, near Clifton Park. The farm also raises strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, peaches, cherries, and plums, with u-pick open select days June through October. There's a farm store and a seasonal ice cream window, plus an off-site Farmers Wagon stand on Grooms Road in Clifton Park.

Halfmoon

Hayner Farm has stayed in the same family for six generations at 148 Route 236 in Halfmoon, best known for freshly picked sweet corn in summer and pumpkins in fall, plus melons and other seasonal produce. The farm stand and country store opened in 1998, and the connected Hayner's Ice Cream shop scoops more than 40 flavors, including gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free options. Call (518) 953-7752.

Stillwater

Halfmoon

Town of Glenville

Arnold's Farm Fresh Produce is a seasonal farm stand on Sacandaga Road in Glenville, north of Schenectady in the Mohawk Valley. It sells locally grown fruits and vegetables through the growing season, the kind of stand where summer sweet corn and tomatoes give way to pumpkins and squash in fall.

Wilton

Stillwater

Schenectady

The Schenectady Greenmarket fills Jay Street, a downtown pedestrian plaza, with a producer-only lineup of Capital Region farmers and food makers. Shoppers find vegetables, fruit, meat, cheese, bread, and prepared foods, and the market keeps going year-round, moving indoors for the cold months. Its downtown setting near Proctors theater makes it a reliable weekly stop.

A seasonal market on the grounds of Ellis Medicine's McClellan Street health center in Schenectady. Hospital-hosted markets like this one make fresh fruit and vegetables easy to reach for patients, staff, and nearby residents in the Bellevue neighborhood. Expect Capital Region produce during summer and early fall.

The indoor winter version of the Schenectady Greenmarket, held on State Street in downtown Schenectady once the outdoor Jay Street season ends. Root vegetables, storage apples, winter greens, meat, eggs, cheese, and baked goods keep Capital Region farmers selling through the cold months. It's the same producer-only market, moved under a roof for winter.

Galway

Stanislowsky's Eagle's View Farm sits on Route 29 near Galway, in the rolling farmland of western Saratoga County. Neighboring farms run to produce, hay, and livestock with seasonal roadside stands. Details for this one aren't confirmed online, so contact it directly to learn what it grows and whether it's open to visitors.

Schaghticoke

Liberty Ridge spreads across 100 acres in Schaghticoke, just outside Albany and Saratoga, and runs one of the Capital Region's bigger agritourism operations. The calendar moves from a Red, White & Blueberry festival and U-pick blueberries in summer to a sunflower festival and a fall festival with a corn maze and more than 50 activities. There's food on the farm, a market barn, and cabin stays. Birthday parties, field trips, and company outings book by reservation.

Hagaman

A cut-your-own Christmas tree farm, nursery, and garden center in the Galway hills, family-run since 1942 across four generations and roughly 275 acres. Choose-and-cut options include Fraser, Balsam, Canaan, and Korean fir. The nursery side, which grew out of customers wanting to plant trees, sells evergreens, shrubs, and flowers alongside the seasonal tree business.

Schenectady

Schaghticoke

Lake Luzerne

River Bend Christmas Tree Farm sits on East River Drive in Lake Luzerne, along the Hudson in the southern Adirondacks of Warren County. It's a cut-your-own tree farm, the sort that opens the weekend after Thanksgiving with balsam and Fraser fir and saws provided. Cold-hardy firs grow well in these foothills. Opening dates change each year, since tree farms run only a few weeks in late fall.

Honey is the centerpiece here, raw and infused, from hives set among flowers planted specifically for the bees. Mother and daughter Violet Robbins and Tracy Robbins-Garrison run the 18-acre farm at 334 Robb Road in Amsterdam, where a farm store and gift shop sell the honey plus flowers, pasture-raised meats, and eggs. Bring back a glass jar for a dollar off. They also vend Saturdays at the Gloversville Farmers Market.

This market runs on the grounds of the First New York Federal Credit Union at 2 Wall Street in the Albany-Colonie corridor. Credit-union- and employer-hosted markets like this give Capital Region shoppers a convenient weekday stop for local produce. Specific vendors and dates aren't posted publicly, so check directly with the credit union.

Schuylerville

King Brothers Dairy in Schuylerville, New York delivers farm-fresh milk, eggs, meat, and more to doorsteps across the Capital District each week — just as the King brothers' grandfather did for Saratoga Springs decades ago. Pure local, pure taste, pure tradition, with a farm store where the ice cream is always in season.

Schuylerville

Schuyler Farms is a fruit and produce grower on Route 29 in Schuylerville, a Saratoga County village near the Hudson River. The area is known for apples and diversified vegetable crops. No active public website was found, so retail hours and any pick-your-own details couldn't be confirmed online.

Schuylerville

Winney Farm sits on Winney Road off Route 32 in Schuylerville, in the farm country of southern Saratoga County near the Hudson River. Small farms in this area lean toward produce and pick-your-own berries through the summer. This operation keeps little of a footprint online, so call ahead for what's in season, picking hours, and directions before driving out.

Schuylerville

A market at the Waterford Harbor Visitor Center on Tugboat Alley, where the Erie Canal meets the Hudson River in Waterford, Saratoga County. Boaters and locals shop Capital Region produce, baked goods, and farm products, with the canal's Waterford Flight of locks nearby.

Ghent

Schuylerville

Saratoga Apple runs an apple orchard and farm market on Route 29 in Schuylerville, just east of Saratoga Springs. Apples and fresh cider anchor the market, set in the rolling farmland along the Battenkill and Hudson corridor of eastern New York.

Broadalbin

Eagle Mills Cider Mill & Family Fun Park sits on Eagle Mills Road in Broadalbin, Fulton County, near the southern end of Great Sacandaga Lake. It pairs a working cider mill with a family fun park that runs seasonal attractions, drawing its biggest crowds during the fall harvest stretch. The website was unreachable when checked, so confirm current hours and attractions directly.

Broadalbin

Meadowlark Farms is on Stevers Mill Road in Broadalbin, in Fulton County at the southern edge of the Adirondack foothills. No website specific to this farm was found online, so its products and visiting details are best confirmed directly.

Colonie