Farms Near Boone, NC

Boone

The Watauga County Farmers' Market runs Saturdays from April through November at Daniel Boone Park on Horn in the West Drive in Boone, opening 8am (9am in November) to noon. Vendors sell produce, berries, honey, jams, eggs, cheeses, meats, mushrooms, herbs, cut flowers, and mountain crafts like pottery and woodwork. Boone sits high in the Blue Ridge of northwestern North Carolina.

Boone

Pick-your-own blueberry patch on Junaluska Road in Boone, high in the Watauga County mountains. At this elevation highland blueberries usually ripen through July into August, later than in the Piedmont. Public details are limited, so call ahead to confirm picking days, hours, and ripeness before driving up.

Boone

Boone

The Boone Winter Farmers' Market offers a wide range of local products such as fresh produce, meats, bouquets, pottery, prepared foods and preserves, honey, homemade body products, herbal remedies, chocolate, coffee, and so much more!

Boone

​The King Street Farmers' Market, powered by Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture is returning for the 2022 season! The market has been operating since 2017! The King Street Market is a spacious, outdoor market that operates every Tuesday from May through October. The King Street Market is designed with working families in mind to give them the perfect opportunity to shop local during the week! We have a variety of vendors including produce, meat, eggs, dairy, bread, baked goods, crafts, soap and more!

Boone

C and J Christmas Trees grows Fraser fir on Brookshire Road in Boone, at the center of North Carolina's High Country tree country. Watauga County's cool, high elevation produces the firs that ship nationwide each December. Choose-and-cut farms here open after Thanksgiving, weather permitting.

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Bill Moretz grows more than 90 apple varieties on this Watauga County orchard, alongside peaches, nectarines, pears, plums, blueberries, and bramble fruit. The family started the operation in 1993 and sells through the Watauga County Farmers Market and the High Country Food Hub. Fruit comes in from roughly June through October, with dried apples, potatoes, pumpkins, and winter squash later in the season. The high elevation near Boone keeps the apples crisp.

Vilas

Shady Grove Gardens and Nursery is a High Country nursery in Vilas, in Watauga County near Boone. Mountain nurseries here sell perennials, daylilies, and cut flowers suited to cool Blue Ridge summers. Elevation makes the growing calendar later than the lowlands. Check plant availability and open dates before visiting, since a P.O. box is the only address listed publicly.

Blowing Rock

Held at 132 Park Avenue in downtown Blowing Rock, a Blue Ridge Parkway resort town in the North Carolina high country near Boone. The market runs through the warm months, bringing mountain-grown produce, flowers, and local food to a busy summer-and-fall tourist stretch. Exact days and contact details aren't confirmed here.

Boone

A Greene Family Farm sits on Junaluska Road outside Boone, in Watauga County's High Country. The mountain setting is prime Fraser fir and cool-season produce ground, but the farm's own offerings and visiting hours aren't posted online. Contact them directly before heading up the mountain.

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Deep Gap

New River Corn Maze operates in Deep Gap, in Watauga County's High Country just east of Boone. The maze takes its name from the nearby New River, one of the oldest rivers in North America. Mountain corn mazes run through the fall harvest season.

Todd

The Farm at Mollies Branch raises free-range hens for multicolored eggs and grows shiitake mushrooms, nettles, herbs, and vegetables near Todd in the High Country. It calls itself a no-kill farm focused on non-GMO food and keeps llamas, chickens, and ducks. Tours run by appointment, with admission of two cans of food per person or a donation. The farm posts updates on a Substack newsletter.

Swinging Bridge Farm sits on Old Glade Road in Deep Gap, in the Watauga County High Country east of Boone. Farms at this elevation lean toward pasture, hay, Christmas trees, and cool-season produce. The Deep Gap area rises along the Blue Ridge near the Parkway.

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Creston

A pick-your-own blueberry farm on Sutherland Road in Creston, up in Ashe County near the Virginia line. High-country berries here ripen later than the piedmont, generally mid-to-late summer. Bring buckets during the July harvest window.

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Banner Elk

Held at 155 Orchard Lane in Banner Elk, in Avery County, North Carolina high country near the Sugar Mountain and Beech Mountain resorts. Short mountain summers make for a compact season of cool-climate produce, berries, and crafts. Market days and contact details aren't confirmed in this listing.

Vilas

A farm on Mountain Dale Road in Vilas, in the High Country just west of Boone. Watauga County leads North Carolina's Fraser fir Christmas tree production, and many farms here also cut hay and graze cattle on steep mountain pasture. Whether this one sells trees or opens to visitors isn't posted online, so contact them before a trip.

The retail shop for Apple Hill Farm, at 414 Shawneehaw Avenue in Banner Elk. The Outpost sells alpaca-fiber goods like yarn and socks alongside local food and gifts, while the farm itself at 400 Apple Hill Road raises alpacas, llamas, and angora goats and runs year-round guided tours. Reach the store at (828) 898-2200.

West Jefferson

Lantern Farm sits in the Doe Meadows area near West Jefferson in Ashe County, high in the North Carolina mountains. The short, cool growing season here favors berries, greens, and other high-elevation crops, alongside Christmas trees, an Ashe County staple. Little is published about this farm, so it's best to confirm details directly.

West Jefferson

Ashe County Corn Maze operates in West Jefferson, in Ashe County's High Country near the Blue Ridge Parkway and the New River. Fall corn mazes in these mountains run through the autumn harvest season. Specific dates and pricing aren't listed online.

West Jefferson

The Honey Hole of the Blue Ridge in downtown West Jefferson, North Carolina promotes the art of beekeeping — a sweet shop featuring local honey from local artisan beekeepers alongside fine beekeeping supplies and honeybee-themed gifts. Open Tuesday through Saturday on North Third Avenue.

Mountain City

Shull's Farm sits on Roan Creek Road in Mountain City, in Johnson County at Tennessee's far northeastern corner near the North Carolina and Virginia lines. The high elevation here — some of the coolest farm ground in the state — favors apples, cabbage, Christmas trees, and hardy vegetables. The listing gives no crop details or hours online. Contact Shull's Farm directly to find out what it grows and whether it sells to visitors.

Newland

Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm grows Fraser fir on Balsam Drive in Newland, in Avery County, the heart of North Carolina's Christmas tree country. Avery's high, cool ridges produce firs that ship across the country each December. Choose-and-cut farms here open once the trees are ready after Thanksgiving.

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Valle Crucis

Harvest Farm LLC is on Highway 194 North in Valle Crucis, Watauga County, in the high mountains near Boone and the original Mast General Store. At this elevation the growing season runs short and cool, favoring summer produce and fall crops. Contact the farm for what it offers and when.

West Jefferson

Wayland's Nursery grows Fraser fir and white pine Christmas trees alongside blueberries and raspberries on Round Knob Ridge in Ashe County. During the holidays it sells trees in a range of sizes plus wreaths, roping, and stands, and offers drilling, baling, and net-bagging. The Blueberry Hill gift shop stocks homemade items and takes wreath pre-orders. Open daily 9 to 5 in peak blueberry and tree seasons.

Mountain City

This market meets Saturdays 9 to noon, May through October, at Ralph Stout Park in Mountain City, with an extended fall and winter schedule at the Welcome Center. Vendors sell local produce, farm eggs, grass-fed beef, pasture-raised pork, homemade breads, and jams. The market doubles SNAP benefits on the first $10 of purchase through a Wholesome Wave grant.

Newland

A small agricultural operation on Charlie Clark Lane in Newland, the Avery County seat and part of North Carolina's Fraser fir Christmas tree belt. Public records tie the address to Long Ridge Nursery, so nursery stock or cut trees are the likely draw. Little else about hours or products is posted online. Contact the farm directly to confirm what it sells and when.

Long's Tree Farm has grown Christmas trees since the late 1970s on NC Highway 16 South in West Jefferson, in Ashe County's High Country. The farm runs choose-and-cut on site, sells wholesale by the tractor-trailer load, and carries nursery stock, wreaths, and garland. Ashe County ranks among the country's top Fraser fir producing areas.

Lansing

Old Orchard Creek grows blueberries for pick-your-own at $10 a gallon from late June through early August, high in the Blue Ridge near Lansing in Ashe County. The farm also rents cottages year-round, hosts weddings, and opens its trails for hiking and star-gazing. An old apple orchard shares the property, and pre-picked berries can be reserved in advance.

Butler

Villa Nove Vineyards pours Tuscan-style wines above Watauga Lake in the Appalachian high country near Butler. Tastings run $20 and feature bottles like Vigoroso, Merlot, Tuscanee, and Bonita, made from California estate and locally grown grapes. The kitchen turns out brick-oven pizza and cicchetti, the Italian take on tapas. Live music plays every weekend, with wide mountain views from the tasting room. Open Thursday through Sunday.

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Mountain City

A downtown market in Lenoir, the seat of Caldwell County in the western North Carolina foothills, not to be confused with Lenoir County out east. Long a furniture-manufacturing town, Lenoir sits below the Blue Ridge Escarpment, and its market draws produce from the surrounding foothill and mountain farms. Harper Avenue runs through the historic center.

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Grassy Creek

Landmark Farm Alpacas raises alpacas on Landmark Church Road in Grassy Creek, in Ashe County's High Country near the North Carolina-Virginia line. Alpaca farms in these mountains typically offer animal visits and fiber goods. Current visitor hours aren't posted online.

Thunder Moon Farms sits on Thunder Road in Grassy Creek, in Ashe County in North Carolina's far northwestern mountains near the Virginia line. This High Country valley is known for Christmas trees, small livestock farms, and mountain produce. Details about the farm's crops and hours aren't posted online, so contact them directly to learn what they raise and whether they welcome visitors.

Crumpler

Joe Vannoy Farm sits on East Healing Springs Road in Crumpler, Ashe County, in the high mountains of far northwestern North Carolina. Ashe County produces more Fraser fir Christmas trees than anywhere else in the state. Contact the farm to confirm what it grows or offers.

Jefferson

A farm on Little Peak Creek Road outside Jefferson, in Ashe County's northwestern high country. This is Christmas-tree and mountain-produce ground, with cool summers and long winters shaping what grows. Public details are limited, so contact the farm directly about crops, livestock, or visits.

Shady Valley

Morley Farm and Orchard grows pick-your-own blueberries in the high valley of Shady Valley, up in Johnson County near the Virginia line. The bushes are grown without pesticides, and picking runs from early July into fall, roughly seven to seven Monday through Saturday. Picnic tables and a porta-potty on site make it easy to linger. Check their Facebook page for daily picking updates, since ripening shifts with the mountain weather.

Plumtree

A farm in Plumtree, tucked in the North Carolina high country of Avery County along the Toe River. Mountain farms at this elevation lean toward Christmas trees, cabbage, and cool-season produce. Little is documented online for this listing.

Roan Mountain

Turkey Knob Tree Farm sits on Teaberry Road in Roan Mountain, high in Carter County near the North Carolina line. The elevation here suits Christmas-tree growing, which the name points to. No public website turned up in a search, so contact the farm directly for the cut-your-own season, which in this region typically runs late November into December.

Roan Mountain

Roan Highlands Farm grows more than 38 varieties of organic heirloom apples at the foot of Roan Mountain near the North Carolina line. The orchard picks its varieties for flavor rather than looks, favoring older apples you won't find in a grocery store. A farm cottage rental gives visitors a base near Roan Mountain State Park.

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Grassy Creek

Grouse Ridge Christmas Tree Farm grows Christmas trees on Old Highway 16 in Grassy Creek, in Ashe County — North Carolina's Fraser fir country and one of the top tree-producing regions in the United States. Choose-and-cut and pre-cut Fraser firs are the standard offering here each November and December. No website was found online.

Hudson

Townsend Farms is a small farm on Freemason Road in Hudson, in Caldwell County's foothills near Lenoir. It sells directly to local customers but keeps little detail online, and it shouldn't be confused with the large national frozen-berry company of the same name. Contact the farm locally to learn what it grows and when.

Laurel Springs

Lil' Grandfather is a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm on NC Highway 18 in Laurel Springs, high in Ashe County's Fraser fir country near the Blue Ridge Parkway. This corner of the North Carolina mountains grows much of the nation's Fraser fir. Cutting dates and pricing aren't posted online, so contact the farm before the holiday season.

Spruce Pine

Sparks Farm is an agritourism operation on Biggerstaff Road in Spruce Pine, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County. No website or contact information was found online. The high-elevation setting supports cool-season produce and, on many area farms, Christmas trees.

North Wilkesboro

A roadside produce farm on Curtis Bridge Road in North Wilkesboro, selling fresh fruits and vegetables grown with natural methods. The lineup has run to beans, sweet corn, cucumbers, melons, onions, peas, pumpkins, tomatoes, and cut flowers, with Jennifer Bare handling the operation. Sales are cash only. Some directories now list it as no longer active, so it's worth a call before making the drive to Wilkes County.

Moravian Falls

Brushy Mountain Berry Farm grows about seven blueberry varieties that ripen in turn across the summer, opened for pick-your-own on NC-16 in Moravian Falls. The Wilkes County farm also has wild blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries, sells seasonal vegetables from an on-site store, and carries pasture-raised meats through a partnership with Terra Firma Farms. Reach them at 336-414-9958 or brushymountainberryfarm.com to check ripening before you go.

Moravian Falls

Perry Lowe Orchards grows more than 30 apple varieties, plus peaches, pears, and pumpkins, on NC-16 in Moravian Falls in the Brushy Mountains. Weekend u-pick apple picking runs through September and October. The Apple House store, open July through April, presses fresh, sparkling, and hard cider on-site and sells cider donuts, fried apple pies, and fritters. The store runs Monday through Saturday and is closed Sunday; u-pick reopens Labor Day weekend.

Wilkesboro

The Wilkesboro Open Air Market sets up on West Main Street in downtown Wilkesboro, the Wilkes County seat in the foothills of northwestern North Carolina. Growers and crafters from the surrounding mountains and foothills sell seasonal produce and handmade goods. Current days and hours aren't confirmed online.

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Bakersville

Blueberry Heaven charges $15 for a five-quart bucket of pick-your-own blueberries on Blevins Branch Road in the Buladean community near Bakersville, high in Mitchell County. A small shop sells fresh berries, homemade jams, and baked goods. Picking season runs hot, and the farm's Facebook page posts the weekly schedule, so check it and call ahead before driving up into the mountains. See blueberryheaven.net.