Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Dixon, CA

Dixon

Silveyville has grown Christmas trees and pumpkins on Silveyville Road in Dixon since 1979, with 20 acres now given over to more than 20 pumpkin varieties come fall and cut-your-own or pre-cut trees in December. The farm runs a corn maze, hayrides, a one-acre duck pond, and a petting area, plus free popcorn and hot cider by the fire pit.

Dixon

Family-owned since 1979, Silveyville Road runs two seasons back to back: a fall pumpkin patch with over 20 varieties, a corn maze, and hayrides, then a choose-and-cut Christmas tree lot with over 10,000 trees including Oregon Noble and Nordmann fir. A one-acre duck pond and farm animals stay on-site year to year, and the farm is dog-friendly.

Dixon

SustainaBee, a division of Dixon Bee Company, keeps hives along Silveyville Road and additional apiaries in Sebastopol and Healdsburg. The operation focuses on honeybee health, hive hosting, and educational visits, alongside seasonal raw honey harvested, bottled, and labeled on-site. It's a working apiary business more than a public attraction, though visits can be arranged.

Dixon

Lambtown is an annual festival built around sheep, lamb, and wool, held the first full weekend in October at the Dixon May Fairgrounds. The two-day event runs about 100 craft booths and 20 food vendors alongside shearing, spinning, weaving, and dyeing demonstrations, plus judged competitions for wool and livestock. It's organized by a local committee and sits roughly halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco off Interstate 80.

Dixon

Cool Patch Pumpkins holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest corn maze, hand-redesigned with a new theme every year on this family-run farm between Sacramento and San Francisco. Beyond the maze, visitors pick their own pumpkins and gourds, ride the hay wagon, and grab tri-tip sandwiches from the food stand. Open daily 9am to 8pm during fall season.

Dixon

Araceli Farms is on Pitt School Road outside Dixon, California, in the flat farmland of Solano County between Sacramento and the Bay Area, a region built on row crops and the annual Dixon May Fair.

Davis

Three Palms operated as Yolo County's only wholesale production nursery out of Davis for 30 years before closing permanently on March 31, 2019. Older directory listings still reference the County Road 95A address, but the business is no longer active.

Winters

Also known as Blue Ridge Pomegranates, this family-owned organic farm outside Winters grows roughly 4,000 pomegranate trees on Jaybee Lane. It keeps limited hours, open to visitors only on weekends, 8am to noon Saturday and Sunday, with fruit typically ready in fall.

Vacaville

Menagerie Hill Ranch is a family-run alpaca farm in Vacaville raising around 29 alpacas alongside a small number of llamas. Owners Deb Galway and Kirk Howard run appointment-only tours where visitors feed and handle the animals, and operate a farm store selling alpaca fiber products. The ranch also sells breeding stock and offers mentoring for people looking to start their own alpaca operation, drawing on more than 20 years of experience.

Davis

Great Bear Vineyards is a woman-led, CCOF-certified organic estate outside Davis, founded in 2014 by Jenny and Marcus. The family farms with wild yeast fermentation and deficit irrigation, keeping output to a few thousand cases a year, and has won Double Gold for its Cabernet Sauvignon and Best in Class for Tempranillo. The property also keeps a lavender field and presses its own olive oil. Tasting room open Thursday through Saturday.

Winters

Morgan's of California is based on Canal Lane in Winters, a Yolo County farm town known for almonds, olives, and apricots along Putah Creek. No product list or contact details were confirmed online.

Vacaville

Bar J Ranch is a u-pick apple orchard on Cantelow Road outside Vacaville, growing apples across the property for pick-your-own visitors during fall harvest. Listings describe it as a working produce farm rather than an event venue, though current hours and varieties are thin online — call ahead before the drive.

Vacaville

Sweet Pea's Pumpkin Patch is on Alamo Drive in Vacaville, Solano County, in the flat farmland between Sacramento and the Bay Area. Vacaville's warm Central Valley summers give way to a reliable fall pumpkin season, and the town runs several seasonal patches each October.

Woodland

Pacific Star Gardens sells farm-fresh fruits and vegetables from a roadside stand on County Road 99 outside Woodland, with u-pick strawberries running through spring and blackberries through summer. The farm also stocks garden transplants, tomatoes, peppers, and flowers, typically available through April and early May while supplies last.

Woodland

Yolo Wool Mill is listed in Woodland, a Yolo County farm town in the Sacramento Valley with a small but active fiber-animal community of sheep and alpaca growers. No working website turned up in research, so the mill's current processing services and hours could not be confirmed.

Vacaville

Pleasants Valley Iris Farm grows more than 400 varieties of Tall Bearded iris in its viewing garden outside Vacaville, including reblooming and scented types. Rhizomes are hand-dug and shipped directly from the farm every August. Peak bloom runs April through May, when the farm opens its gardens to visitors — the owners say to bring a picnic lunch and stay a while rather than just walk through.

Vacaville

Soul Food Farm is a family-run operation on Pleasants Valley Road in Vacaville, growing lavender, cut flowers, and specialty vegetables and pressing olive oil, alongside a small sheep flock raised for yarn. Alexis and Eric bought the land more than two decades ago and shifted from pastured chickens toward this more diversified, regenerative mix starting in 2012. The farm stand runs Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March through November.

Woodland

Gibson House is a Victorian mansion built in 1857 on what was once William Byas Gibson's working farm and ranch outside Woodland. The Yolo County Historical Museum now runs out of the house, showing roughly 11,000 artifacts from 1830 to 1930 alongside the original farmhouse outbuildings that trace the county's early agricultural history. The museum is free to enter and open Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 4pm, plus one Saturday a month.

Woodland

Yolo Land & Cattle Co. has raised 100% grass-fed Angus beef outside Woodland since 1976, with no hormones, antibiotics, or grain in the mix. The Stone family runs the ranch, sells beef jerky and beef sticks under a separate label, and rents the property out for film shoots. The operation has won an Environmental Stewardship Award.

Winters

Henry's Bullfrog Bees & Pure Honey is based in Winters, in Yolo County's almond and stone-fruit belt west of Sacramento — an area with some of the heaviest managed-hive traffic in the state during almond bloom.

Woodland

The California Agriculture Museum in Woodland holds a collection of vintage tractors and farm artifacts tracing the state's agriculture from the Gold Rush through today. The museum has vacated its former Hays Lane building while relocating to a new permanent site, and offers group and student tours by appointment during the move.

Suisun City

The Western Railway Museum, a nonprofit rail-history museum in Suisun City since 1946, runs a vintage train out to Gum Grove Farm each fall for its Pumpkin Patch Festival. The ride includes pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, a zipline, tractor rides, and a hay fort, plus live music on weekends in October. Call ahead for the current year's dates and hours before visiting.

West Sacramento

Dave's Pumpkin Patch, part of Vierra Farms on Burrows Avenue, has drawn Sacramento Valley families for over 30 years with a 20-acre corn maze, hayrides, a jumping pillow, pig races, and Dave's apple cider cinnamon donuts. The adjacent fruit stand keeps regular hours year-round; the patch itself only accepts cash or check on site.

Fairfield

Il Fiorello presses extra virgin olive oil from certified organic groves that Ann and Mark Sievers planted in Green Valley and Suisun Valley, the stretch of countryside between Fairfield and Napa. Alongside the oil, the tasting room sells flavored balsamic vinegars, local honey, wine, and craft beer, and pours daily from 11am to 5pm. Guided tastings and farm tours run through the orchard and mill, where visitors can see the pressing process firsthand.

Fairfield

Erickson's Ranch is on Cordelia Road in Fairfield, California, part of the rolling grassland corridor between the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley where several seasonal pumpkin patches and corn mazes operate each fall.

Courtland

The Delta Farm & Winery Trail links multigenerational family farms and wineries along Scenic Highway 160 through the Sacramento River Delta near Courtland. Member farms sell tomatoes, pears, melons, squash, sweet corn, beans, stone fruit, and eggs direct from the field, and several host kids' activities and vintage farm equipment displays through the season. The trail's biggest event, Wine & Produce Passport Weekend, runs each August.

Courtland

Wine & Produce Passport Weekend is the August centerpiece of the Delta Farm & Winery Trail, when visitors drive Scenic Highway 160 between three- and six-generation family farms and wineries around Courtland. The Delta region grows pears, cherries, wine grapes, corn, alfalfa, and asparagus, and passport holders get access to tastings and produce stands minutes from Elk Grove and Sacramento.

Courtland

Steamboat Acres grows Certified Organic pears and cherries on Sutter Island Road in the Sacramento River Delta near Courtland. It's a small operation, real orchard work rather than a big visitor destination, supplying organic fruit out of the Delta's historic pear-growing country.

Fairfield

Larry's Produce stocks a roadside stand in the Suisun Valley with fruit and vegetables grown nearby, open every day but Wednesday from June through December. Locals call it one of the valley's biggest produce stops, with hours running 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The stand reopens each spring; check the farm's Facebook page for the exact date the season starts.

Fairfield

Suisun Valley's wine and farm country sits in Solano County between San Francisco and Sacramento, where more than a dozen member wineries pour tastings alongside farm stands selling produce grown right along Suisun Valley Road. The growers' association behind the region organizes u-pick days, winemaker dinners, and live music through the season without the crowds of Napa or Sonoma.

Sacramento

R. Kelley Farms grows seasonal produce on Scribner Road south of Sacramento, opening select fields for limited u-pick alongside scheduled tours and farm lectures. There's a picnic area for visitors who want to make a day of it. Like many small Sacramento Valley operations, the picking calendar shifts with what's ripe, so a call ahead helps before driving out.

Walnut Grove

Double M Farms and McDowell Hunting Preserve sit along Grand Island Road in Walnut Grove, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Delta's leveed islands and wetlands have long drawn waterfowl hunters and small farm operations to this stretch of the Sacramento River.

Sacramento

The Becker family has kept bees since 1920, and four generations later they run The Bee Box out of a Sacramento storefront stocked with raw honey, pollen, royal jelly, and beeswax. Across the 12,000-plus hives they manage, the shop offers daily honey tastings and a seasonal observation hive so visitors can watch bees work behind glass. They also handle swarm removal and sell packaged bees to backyard keepers.

Capay

Capay Valley Lavender grows lavender on County Road 79 in the Capay Valley, a narrow Yolo County farming valley known for its small organic operations and agritourism trail. No details on U-pick access, products, or season are published online yet.