Farms Near Chattanooga, TN

Chattanooga

Chattanooga

Set up in the Northside Presbyterian Church lot on Mississippi Avenue, this market runs Saturdays 10 to 1, May through September. Growers sell non-certified organic and sustainably grown fruits and vegetables, woodland-raised heirloom pork, grass-fed beef, and locally roasted coffee, plus seasonal plants, herbs, and flowers. A rotating set of handmade goods fills out the tables.

Chattanooga

This market runs year-round at Grace Episcopal Church, on the corner of Brainerd Road and Belvoir Avenue in Chattanooga. Saturdays bring naturally grown produce, farm eggs, dairy, meat, artisan bread, and pastries, and it takes EBT and SNAP. Summer hours stretch to early afternoon; winter mornings run shorter. Church volunteers keep it going.

Chattanooga

Ladies of the Lowland is an agritourism venture listed on East Manning Street in the North Chattanooga (37405) area, near the Tennessee River. Details about what it grows or offers visitors aren't published online, so contact the owners directly for current information.

Chattanooga

Chattanooga's only food-focused, vendor-run market, Main Street Farmers' Market opens Wednesdays 4 to 5:30 year-round on East Main Street, closing an hour earlier December through March. Every farm and food artisan sits within 100 miles of downtown, and farms must use environmentally friendly methods to sell here. Food artisans work with local ingredients when available.

Chattanooga

Main Street Meats is a Michelin-recognized butcher shop and farm-to-table restaurant on Chattanooga's Southside, practicing whole-animal butchery and pouring from a book of 280+ whiskeys. Open seven days for lunch, dinner, family-style menus, and catering.

A farm-to-table kitchen in Chattanooga rather than a farm itself, run by gut-health coach Autumn Rayn. The business builds meal prep, freezer meals, catering, and private chef service around specialty diets and food intolerances, sourcing 80 to 100 percent of its ingredients from Chattanooga-area farms depending on the season. It also runs GAPS-diet coaching and cooking classes.

Chattanooga

Holds a spring plant sale each year.

Chattanooga

The region's largest producer-only market fills the open-air First Horizon Pavilion at 1829 Carter Street on Sundays, April through December. Founded in 2001, it draws more than 300 vendors and thousands of shoppers each weekend for farm foods, local art, live music, and food trucks. A review panel checks that everything sold is grown or made by the seller. Admission is free.

Chattanooga

Lookout Farmers' Market runs Friday afternoons 4 to 7 at the Incline Railway in St. Elmo, a producer-focused market with indoor space. Vendors bring locally grown produce and goods from around Chattanooga, and shoppers can order ahead through the market's mobile app. Some vendors accept SNAP, EBT, and WIC alongside cash and cards.

Signal Mountain

Flintstone

Blowing Springs Farm cuts a cornfield maze into 10 acres at the base of Lookout Mountain each fall, run as Rock City's Enchanted MAiZE. Visitors navigate the maze, race rubber ducks, pedal go-karts, and shop a pumpkin market on the grounds. It's become a fall tradition for the Chattanooga Valley, drawing families from both sides of the Georgia-Tennessee line.

Ringgold

Sims Family Farm has raised strawberries in Ringgold for three generations, offering both We-Pick ($3.25/lb) and You-Pick ($2.75/lb) fields of Chandler, Camarosa, and Sweet Charlie berries from mid-April through early June. Blueberries and blackberries follow in June, and the farm also sells pasture-raised, grain-supplemented beef. Open Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.

Ringgold

Georgia Winery opened in 1983 as the state's first farm winery and is now run by a third generation of the same family. The tasting room pours more than twenty muscadine-based wines, from dry to sweet, with complimentary tastings of up to five wines daily and guided tours Saturdays at 1:30 and 3:30pm. A patio restaurant, gift shop, and event space round out the property, about 20 minutes from Chattanooga.

Ooltewah

Old Orchard Cattle Company in Ooltewah, Tennessee is family owned and operated — home-grown, grass-fed beef with no steroids, hormones, or "added icky stuff," straight from their field to your plate. Reserve a quarter, half, or whole cow with a deposit; taste like this doesn't come from a store.

Chickamauga

A 78-acre family farm in McDonald, just south of Cleveland in East Tennessee, growing vegetables for customers since 2008. Rachel and Jonathan Otto raise strawberries, blueberries, and nearly every vegetable suited to the region on about seven acres of production ground, plus pesticide-free heirloom vegetable plants each spring. They sell through a CSA and at the Chattanooga, Ooltewah, and Collegedale farmers markets.

Lookout Mountain

Rock Spring

Set on the grounds of the Walker County Agricultural Center on Highway 27 North, this market opens for the season each May and runs into fall. Vendors sell locally grown produce, farm eggs, beef, honey, baked goods, jams, and crafts, and Saturdays often bring live music, cooking demonstrations, and displays of antique farm equipment for kids and families.

Trenton

Trenton Farmers' Market sets up at Veterans Park in Trenton, seat of Dade County in Georgia's far northwest corner — a county so cut off by mountains from the rest of the state it's sometimes nicknamed the State of Dade. Local produce here runs on the same calendar as the rest of the Appalachian foothills.

Ooltewah

Smith-Perry Berries is a pick-your-own farm on Ooltewah Georgetown Road, a partnership between longtime farmers Aubie Smith and Bill Perry. Strawberries are the anchor crop, ripe from mid-April into June, but the calendar fills out with tulips in March, sunflowers in July, and pumpkins from September through Halloween. The families farmed row crops and cattle for decades before turning to u-pick fruit and flowers. Call 423-228-0774 to confirm what's ready for picking.

Rock Spring

Five Dollar Farm operates out of Rock Spring in Walker County, between Lookout and Pigeon Mountains in the Chickamauga Valley. No website or social page lists current crops or visiting hours.

Tunnel Hill

Ooltewah

The Chattanooga Corn Maze operates on Ooltewah-Georgetown Road as part of Flat Top Mountain Farm, opening each fall with a cut-corn maze, hayrides, and pumpkin picking. Visitors also cut their own flowers and take farm tours during the season. The farm keeps an active Instagram account, @flattop_mtn_farm, where it posts maze designs, u-pick flower rows, and fall hours. Call ahead at 423-344-6029 to confirm open days, since the season runs roughly September through October.

Rock Spring

Raulston Acres is a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm on Highway 95 in Rock Spring, in northwest Georgia's Walker County. No working website turned up in research, so tree varieties and season hours aren't confirmed.

Whitwell

Whitwell

Whitwell

The Willis Farm rents kayaks and canoes for trips on the Sequatchie River from its property on Inman Road in Whitwell. The owner welcomes day visitors to put in from the farm, paddle the river, and spend time along the water. It is a small, owner-run operation rather than a large outfitter. Call ahead at 423-827-8765 to check availability and river conditions before heading to the Sequatchie Valley.

Soddy-Daisy

Soddy Daisy

Soddy Daisy

Flat Top Mountain Farm is on Jones Gap Road in Soddy-Daisy, along the Cumberland Plateau's edge north of Chattanooga in Hamilton County. The ridges here give way to hollows and creek bottoms suited to cattle, orchards, and mountain gardens. The listing carries no hours or product details, so contact the farm directly to learn what it offers.

Cohutta

Leo's Berry Patch sits on Red Clay Road in Cohutta, a few miles from the Tennessee line in Whitfield County. No website or social page confirms current hours or what's ready to pick — a phone call is the best way to check before driving out.

LaFayette

Listed simply as The Blueberry Farm, this Walker County u-pick operation sits on North Old Alabama Highway. Little turns up online beyond the name, address, and the blueberry season timing typical of North Georgia farms — call ahead before visiting.

Cleveland

Loof'n Round Gardens is a small garden operation on Dalton Pike SE in Cleveland, the Bradley County seat in southeast Tennessee near the Georgia line. Southeast Tennessee's mild spring and long fall support a wide range of vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers. Details online are limited, so contact the growers directly to learn what they plant and sell.

Rogers Farm is on Rogers Lane in Walker County, near Chickamauga in North Georgia's blueberry country. Specific crops and hours for this listing aren't published in regional farm directories — check ahead before visiting.

Dunlap

Wheeler's Orchard farms 200 acres on Fredonia Mountain above Dunlap, growing more than 20 apple varieties along with grapes, peaches, pears, and strawberries on the Cumberland Plateau. They press fresh, unpasteurized cider in season and run a vineyard and nursery on the same land, with pick-your-own fruit and minimal spraying. It's about an hour from Chattanooga. Reach them at 423-949-4255 or [email protected], or see wheelersorchard.com for the harvest calendar.

Rocky Face

Cohutta

The Berry Patch is on John Bell Hood Drive in Cohutta, Whitfield County, in north Georgia's carpet-manufacturing corridor near Dalton. No website lists current berry varieties or picking hours — call ahead before a visit.

Dunlap

The Cookie Jar Cafe serves home cooking inside a working dairy farm and takes its name from the 400-plus cookie jars displayed around the dining room. The cafe opened in 2002 on Kelly Cross Road; the surrounding Johnson Family Farm has been in the family for more than 150 years. The front porch looks out over the Sequatchie Valley. Beyond the restaurant, the farm runs corn and hay mazes, hayrides, and farm tours for school and church groups.

Sequatchie Cove Farm is a diversified family farm in southeast Tennessee, dedicated to regenerative agriculture since 1998 — four generations working side by side raising grass-fed beef, Katahdin lamb, forested heritage pork, pastured chicken and eggs, organic produce, and shiitakes. The Saturday Farm Trading Post, Chattanooga's Main Street Farmers Market, 26 regional egg retailers, and the on-site Cumberland Folk School (traditional crafts and farming classes) connect the cove to its community.

Cleveland

The Cleveland Apple Festival takes over downtown Cleveland, Tennessee each fall with art and craft vendors, live music, food booths, and a kids' zone with a petting zoo. Run by a 501(c)(3) that gives net proceeds to area nonprofits, the 2026 event runs October 17-18, Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 1pm-6pm. Admission to the kids' area is free for children 12 and under.

Cleveland

The Downtown Halloween Block Party is a free street festival that MainStreet Cleveland has hosted for nearly four decades along Ocoee, Broad, and Church Streets in downtown Cleveland. Held on October 31 from 5 to 10 p.m., it closes off the streets for live music, food vendors, a costume contest, and a Treat Street candy giveaway for kids. It is a community event rather than a farm. Details are posted each year at msctn.org.

Sale Creek

Old McDonald's Farm sits on Coulterville Road in Sale Creek, north of Chattanooga in upper Hamilton County. It is listed as an agritourism destination, the category covering farm visits, animal encounters, and seasonal events in the Tennessee River valley north of the city. Reach out to the farm directly for its animals, activities, and open hours.

Running since 1977, this market sits beside the Bradley County Cannery at 3110 Peerless Road NW in Cleveland. It opens in early June, Saturdays 7 a.m. to noon, with added Tuesday afternoon hours in July and August, and wraps in mid-October. Growers bring vegetables, local honey, herbs, salsas, and potted plants. Call (423) 728-7001.

North Georgia Farmers & Flea Market operates on Legion Drive in Dalton, the Whitfield County seat known as the Carpet Capital of the World for its flooring mills.

Sequatchie

Once upon a time, an artist and a horticulturalist fell in love and started making cheese in the place with the most caves on the continent. Since 2010 Nathan and Padgett Arnold have used time-tested methods to conjure the terroir of the Sequatchie Valley, collaborating with cute cows and the living landscape to make cheeses worth sharing. On their journey of discovery, they’ve developed expressive cheese styles inspired by the Sequatchie Valley and the Cumberland Plateau. It all started with a

Dalton Saturday Market runs on W. Waugh Street in downtown Dalton, the longtime Carpet Capital of the World, every Saturday morning from spring through fall. Growers set up around 8 a.m. and typically pack up by early afternoon, selling produce, baked goods, and crafts. Table selection shifts with the growing season, so a June visit and an October visit look different.

Dalton

Downtown Dalton Saturday Market meets at the corner of N. Thornton Avenue and W. Waugh Street, a block or two from the Dalton Saturday Market address most directories also list -- the two names likely describe the same downtown market rather than two competing ones. It runs Saturday mornings, roughly 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., spring through fall, with produce, baked goods, and crafts typical of small Georgia downtown markets.

Dalton

Fiddleheads Garden Center is listed in Dalton, the Whitfield County seat known as the Carpet Capital of the World. Garden centers in this category typically sell plants, nursery stock, and seasonal landscaping supplies, though no working website confirms this location's current inventory or hours.

Rising Fawn

Lookout Lavender Farm grows lavender across 55 acres in Rising Fawn, with u-pick lavender and blueberries running from June into early July. The on-site Lav Shack sells dried bundles, plants, and lavender essential oils, and stays open Saturdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. during season, or by appointment. The farm also runs Lavender 101 classes and sits a short drive from Cloudland Canyon State Park.

A regenerative family farm based just over the state line in Rising Fawn, Georgia, that serves Tennessee through a Chattanooga pickup point and shipping. Iron Root Pastures raises pasture-raised chicken, pork, and turkey on non-GMO feed that is soy-free and corn-free, with no antibiotics or vaccines. Orders go out online for pickup around Chattanooga and North Georgia.

Chatsworth

Prewitt Berry Farm sits on River Road outside Chatsworth in Murray County, in the berry-growing foothills of the North Georgia mountains. No additional detail on crops, season, or hours could be verified online — worth a call before making the drive.

Cleveland

Tracy City

Chatsworth

Grassy Mountain Blackberries grows blackberries in Chatsworth, the Murray County seat near Fort Mountain State Park in the north Georgia mountains. Mountain blackberry patches in this area typically ripen in July; no working website confirms this farm's current picking hours or access.

Meagan McCliment runs this small family farm at 1110 Boanerges Church Road in Old Fort, southeast of Cleveland. The roadside stand sells fresh eggs, produce, baked goods, and jams, plus herbs like basil worked into pesto. Hours run 10 a.m. to sundown, seven days a week during the season. The farm posts what's ready on its Facebook and Instagram pages.