Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Danbury, CT

West Redding

Warrups Farm in West Redding farms and sells its own products under a simple rule: farm responsibly, sell what's actually fresh. Beyond the produce stand and seasonal events tied to the New England farm calendar, the property includes Open Farmhouse, a five-bedroom rental farmhouse the family books out for stays and gatherings. Current offerings are posted through Instagram, @warrupsfarm, or @openfarmhouse for the rental side.

Newtown

Castle Hill Farm on Sugar Lane has been run by the Paproski family for four generations, going back to when it was one of the larger dairy suppliers in Fairfield County. It's now a fall agritourism stop with a corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkin patch, hayrides, and cut-your-own Christmas trees in December. The barns and pastures also double as an event venue for weddings, showers, and birthday parties.

Croton Falls

Outhouse Orchards is a pick-your-own apple orchard in the Croton Falls area of northern Westchester County, close to the Putnam County line. Fall is the season here, when Hudson Valley orchards open their rows for apple picking. The farm's old website is no longer active, so call or check local listings for current hours.

Patterson

Kessman Farms works land on Cornwall Hill Road in Patterson, in Putnam County near the Connecticut line. This corner of the lower Hudson Valley runs to small livestock farms, hay ground, and horse properties. Carried on the directory as an agritourism farm.

Patterson

BobBee Apiaries is a family-run apiary on Route 311 in Patterson, in Putnam County's slice of the Mid-Hudson Valley near the Berkshire foothills. Beyond bottling local honey, they offer full-service hive care and concierge beekeeping, swarm and colony removal, beekeeping education, and custom honey gifts, drawing on more than fifteen years of experience. Their Instagram (bobbeeapiaries) shows current honey and offerings.

Wilton

BeeLove Apiaries keeps one of the larger sets of hives in Wilton, on Sturges Ridge Road, where Ray DuBois produces raw honey and beeswax and teaches beekeeping classes. The operation focuses on pollinator conservation as much as honey production, building out bee sanctuaries alongside the harvest. Current honey stock and class schedules are posted at BeeLove.org.

Weston

Marina has kept bees in Weston since 2000 and sells the harvest as Red Bee Apiary: single-origin wildflower and blueberry blossom honey, honeycomb, creamed honey, bee pollen, propolis, and beeswax candles and salves. The property is a private working apiary, opened to the public only for occasional garden tours, talks, and honey tastings. Products ship through redbee.com and sell in specialty shops around Connecticut.

New Milford

Working alpaca sanctuary in New Milford caring for around 39 alpacas alongside sheep, chickens, dogs, and cats. The farm shop sells fiber goods spun and felted from its own herd - socks, mittens, sweaters, capes, and shawls - plus rugs felted to order. Tours run by appointment, and fiber days let visitors felt their own alpaca projects. A small farmstay bed and breakfast operates on-site for overnight guests.

Bedford Hills

Out of the Hive sits on Bedford Center Road in Bedford Hills, Westchester County. The name points to a honey or beekeeping operation, though the farm keeps little posted online. Local honey follows the bloom through spring and summer in the lower Hudson Valley. Contact the farm directly to confirm what they sell and when.

Monroe

Hannah's Honey keeps bees on Wheeler Road and sells raw honey, honey candy, honey sticks, beeswax candles, honey soap, and beeswax lip balm, along with custom gift baskets. Orders come through the website, local farmers markets, or by phone, with shipping or local pickup available.

Stamford

Heckscher Farm at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a 10-acre working farm inside a 118-acre property, keeping heritage-breed livestock and growing organic vegetables. Maple syrup gets boiled down on-site in their own sugar house, and the grounds include 80 acres of nature trails plus a planetarium and mansion museum. The center runs a Friday farm market and Sunday markets through summer.

Fairfield

Bee Baum Honey has hand-poured wildflower honey from hives on Papurah Road in Fairfield since the LLC was formed in 2000, run by Winthrop and Stefanie Baum. Alongside raw honey, they sell comb honey straight from the frame and beeswax candles made from their own wax. It's a husband-and-wife operation — expect small batches and seasonal availability rather than year-round stock.

Washington Depot

Averill Farm is a tenth-generation family farm on a hilltop in Washington Depot's Litchfield Hills, growing apples and pears as its main fall crop. The farm stand rounds out its own harvest with mums, maple syrup, honey, and eggs from neighboring farms, plus squash, gourds, and pumpkins.

Litchfield Co.

Starberry Farm has grown stone fruit on the New Preston side of Washington Depot since 1978, with pick-your-own cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, and nectarines rotating through the season. Up to 15 apple varieties follow later in the year. The farm typically opens daily from noon to 5 p.m., July through September, though hours shift with the weather and what's actually ripe.

Woodbury

Highwire Deer & Animal Farm in Woodbury keeps more than 30 animals — deer, goats, kangaroos, zebras, and donkeys among them — for visitors to walk up to, pet, and feed on a self-guided tour. It's open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., May through September, then weekends only into fall. The farm closes during rain or extreme heat, so call ahead if the weather's questionable.

Town of Beekman

Barton Orchards runs a large pick-your-own operation on Apple Tree Lane in Poughquag, with apples and pumpkins you harvest yourself plus a five-acre corn maze, petting zoo, hay rides, and gem mining. The farm bakes its own apple cider donuts and pours local beer and cider in an on-site tap room. A second stand, The Apple Core, sells produce year-round in nearby Poughkeepsie. Live music runs through the fall season.

Shelton

Valley Farm is one of Jones Family Farms' pick-your-own fields, moving through flowers in May, strawberries in June, blueberries in July, pumpkins in September and October, and Christmas trees in December. Hours run noon to 6 p.m. most days, noon to 7:30 p.m. Fridays, though picking times shift with the weather and the crop.

Shelton

Jones Family Farms Winery sits on land the Jones family has worked for over 150 years across six generations, in the White Hills of Shelton. The tasting room, converted from a former dairy barn, pours seven estate-made wines from grapes and berries grown on the property, and visitors can cut their own bouquets in the flower fields between tastings. Open mid-March through December.

Bridgeport

Listed as an agritourism site at 10 Wickliffe Circle in Bridgeport, but no working website, social page, or business description turns up under this name. The listing appears to be a placeholder in state agritourism directories rather than an active farm stand or attraction.

Shelton

The Beardsley family has farmed this Shelton land since 1849 and has pressed cider commercially here since 1999. Pick-your-own apples run weekends in September and October, backed by pre-picked apples, peaches, plums, and nectarines, plus cider donuts, pies, and jams from the farm store, open daily 10 to 5:30 from August through Christmas. Weekend visitors after 11 a.m. can also buy unpasteurized cider by the jug for home fermenting.

Fairfield

Monkey's Pocket Apiary is a family-run beekeeping operation in Fairfield that has kept hives for more than 20 years. It sells raw wildflower, clover, buckwheat, and basswood honey with no added flavoring, plus beeswax candles and farm eggs, and also handles live bee swarm removal and relocation.

Oxford

Belinsky Family Farm grows apples, peaches, and pumpkins on Moose Hill Road in Oxford, working orchards that predate the current pick-your-own operation. Pick-your-own runs weekends, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the farm stand carries fresh produce, cut flowers, and Christmas trees in season.

Yorktown Heights

White Oak Farm sits on Croton Lake Road in Yorktown Heights, in the reservoir country of northern Westchester County. Farms in this pocket tend toward produce, pumpkins, and small-scale agritourism close to the New York City suburbs. There's little public detail on this one, so contact the farm directly to confirm what it grows, what's for sale, and when it's open to visitors.

Bethlehem

Shagbark Hollow Farm in Bethlehem runs a licensed bakery alongside a mini-donkey rescue called The Donkey's Cross, which also cares for other rescued animals. The farm sells natural, untreated wood products for mulching and erosion control, with proceeds supporting the rescue and community initiatives. It's operated as an LLC since 2018.

Warren

Angevine Farm has been in the same family since 1868, when John H. Angevine and Mary C. Marsh started what grew into a dairy, tobacco, and vegetable operation off Route 202 in Warren. Today the farm runs as a choose-and-cut Christmas tree operation — Balsam, Canaan, and Fraser fir among the varieties — with reserved weekend cutting hours and a Harvest Barn gift shop stocking local maple syrup, soaps, and handmade goods.

Dover Plains

Soukup Farm works land on Halls Corners Road in Dover Plains, in the eastern Dutchess County countryside near the Connecticut line. Small farms across this part of the Hudson Valley grow vegetables and run seasonal stands and CSA shares. This one keeps little of a presence online, so contact the farm directly for its crops, hours, and how to buy before heading out.

Yorktown Heights

Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm is a pick-your-own orchard and Christmas tree farm on White Hill Road in Yorktown Heights, in northern Westchester County. The name tells the story: apples and other fruit in the fall, cut-your-own firs heading into December. It sits within easy reach of the northern New York City suburbs.

Woodbury

Logue Farms has stayed in the same family for more than a hundred years, now run by the third and fourth generation on Artillery Road in Woodbury. Fall is the main event: pick-your-own pumpkins on October weekends, a corn maze, free hayrides, and a stand selling apples, cider, straw, and cornstalks. Outside pumpkin season, hours are limited — call ahead.

Bethlehem

The Maddox family has farmed this ground in Bethlehem since 1890, and Sun One Organic Farm now runs it as a certified organic operation with CSA vegetable and flower shares. Beyond the CSA, the property rents an on-farm Airbnb and a barn that holds up to 120 people for events. Find their produce at the Watertown Farmers Market on Sundays, June through October.

Verbank

Abel's Trees is a Christmas tree farm on North Clove Road in Verbank, part of the town of Union Vale in eastern Dutchess County. Choose-and-cut farms in this part of the Hudson Valley open the weekend after Thanksgiving for families cutting their own fir or spruce.

Shelton

Wells Hollow is a fifth-generation family farm in Shelton that opened its ice cream creamery in 2007, run by Daniel and Jamie Wells. The shop turns over more than 50 homemade flavors alongside smoothies, soft serve, Italian ice, and ice cream cakes, with dairy sourced from farms across Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, and Michigan. A 3,000-square-foot open-air patio hosts birthday parties and farm-animal visits alongside the ice cream counter.

Morris

Peck's Berry Farm is a pick-your-own blueberry patch about a mile west of Morris center on Route 109. It's a straightforward u-pick operation without much online presence beyond local farm directories, so call ahead to check picking hours before making the trip.

Fishkill

The Fresh Air Fund runs this site as part of its Sharpe Reservation, more than 2,000 acres of woods, lakes and trails in Fishkill in the Hudson Valley. The nonprofit uses the land for outdoor and environmental education, including a working farm and maple sugaring that show visiting children where food comes from. The Fresh Air Fund has served New York City kids since the 1870s.

Pleasant Valley

Lilymoore Farm on Moore Road in Pleasant Valley runs guided alpaca treks and farm tours across a historic Dutchess County property built around an 1840 colonial house and a 1900 barn. It hosts birthday and bachelorette groups, school and scout visits, and rents out as a film and photo location. The farm also shelters rescued pigeons through the nonprofit 'Dreaming of a Chance.' TripAdvisor ranks it the top thing to do in Pleasant Valley.

Milford

Glendale Farms has grown annuals and vegetable starts in Milford since 1917, now in its third generation. The greenhouse turns out hanging baskets, patio plants, herbs, and combination planters alongside ground covers and seasonal ornamentals, sold daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., cash or check only. The farm also runs an indoor arena for horse boarding on the same property.

Watertown

Evergreen Berry Farm has grown certified-organic black raspberries as its signature crop since 1979, on 27 acres that were once part of Watertown's 1800s-era Hiram French Farm. Black raspberry season runs early-to-mid July, picking hours 8 a.m. to noon daily while berries last; the farm also grows blueberries and herbs and sells berry seltzers, frozen berry pops, and herbal tea.

Litchfield

Bunnell Farm is a fifth-generation family operation in the Milton section of Litchfield, on Maple Street — one of the older working farms in Litchfield County, still family-run across five generations. Specifics on current products and hours weren't available in public listings, so call ahead.

Sharon

Ellsworth Hill Orchard picks apples, peaches, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, sour cherries, pears, and plums across a season that runs mid-June through November on Route 4 in Sharon. The farm stand backs up the pick-your-own fields with fresh-baked pies, apple cider donuts, sweet cider, muffins, and honey. It's a family-owned operation in Connecticut's Northwest Corner, with hours that shift by season — best to call ahead.

Orange

Sunflower Farm is located in Orange, a shoreline suburb between New Haven and Milford.

Millbrook

A Hudson Valley farm in Millbrook that raises a herd of more than 200 Suri alpacas and turns their fleece into a luxury home and apparel line. Products include alpaca throws, blankets, pillows, and bed linens, plus coats and knitwear for women, men, and children, crafted by artisans and sold under the brand's own label.