Farms Near Elizabeth, CO

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Holly Acres Nursery and Garden Center on Highway 86 in Elizabeth was once the largest supplier of fruit trees in Colorado, selling bareroot, potted, and balled-and-burlapped trees wholesale and retail. The business closed permanently, liquidating its plants, tools, and equipment through a receiver's auction.

Elizabeth

Cowboy Cuts - Wyoming Raised Beef is a woman owned retail beef business selling USDA Certified Premium Beef. All beef is pasture raised, grain finished, aged 30 days. Shipping and delivery options available.

Elizabeth

The Patch is a seasonal pumpkin patch and corn maze drawing families from Parker, Castle Rock, Aurora, and Colorado Springs, with a petting area of ponies, goats, sheep, a mini Juliana pig, donkeys, and chickens. The operation now runs from 7400 SH-86 in Kiowa.

Andrew McArdle started Mountain Man Micro Farms in a basement outside Franktown in 2015, after working as a wildland firefighter in Montana. Now based at 1144 S Russellville Rd, the farm grows microgreens, shoots, and herbs to order for Front Range restaurants and home delivery, and donates a share of delivery proceeds to a low-income food access nonprofit.

Kiowa

StrathSmith Farms is a first-generation Colorado family farm raising livestock on wild land with regenerative practices — stewards of the land's health in support of yours. Customers meet the farmers once or twice a month for baskets of farm-fresh goods.

Parker

Parker closes Mainstreet to traffic every Sunday from Mother's Day through Halloween for this market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. More than 100 vendors set up, including four local vegetable growers and three Western Slope fruit growers, plus prepared food like breakfast burritos and fresh-cut flowers.

Parker

Flat Acres Farm runs a fall festival and maze from late September through Halloween on Dransfeldt Road in Parker, with a pumpkin patch voted Parker's best in 2017. Visitors can also rent a garden plot on the farm's 2.5-acre produce section to grow their own heirloom vegetables, and the farm sells its own honey.

A seasonal farmers market based in Parker, Colorado, bringing local produce, baked goods, flowers, and handcrafted goods from area vendors. Specific hours and location shift by season; check current listings before visiting.

Castle Rock's Sunday farmers market runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. through September near Wilcox Street in the Festival Park area, with close to 40 vendors selling farm-raised meat, fresh eggs, produce, and baked goods. Douglas County has run some version of this market for years, and the vendor mix leans toward ranch products alongside the produce stands.

Aurora

Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through September, vendors set up in the main plaza of the Southlands Shopping Center near E-470 and Smoky Hill Road in Aurora. The market pairs fresh produce and baked goods with handmade crafts, drawing shoppers already running errands at the retail center around it. It's a seasonal market, closed the rest of the year.

Colorado Springs

Lone Pine Alpacas raises alpacas on Oslo Grove in the Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, offering fiber, breeding stock, and support for people new to raising alpacas themselves. It's a working ranch rather than a public petting-zoo stop — visits and purchases go through direct contact rather than posted hours.

Held inside Tagawa Gardens, a longtime family-owned garden center at 7711 South Parker Road in Centennial, this market runs seasonally from spring through fall. Alongside fresh produce, shoppers find seasonal vegetable starts, herbs, and flowering plants, useful for anyone building out a home garden, not just buying dinner. Being indoors at a nursery means fewer weather cancellations than an open-air market.

Elbert

We specialize in the preservation and promotion of the endangered heritage breeds and heirloom varieties that have sustained us for countless generations. These heritage breeds and heirloom varieties have retained the vigor and flavor that have been unfortunately sacrificed with the advent of modern factory production. Our chickens are Free Range and Cage Free. Our produce is pesticide and herbicide free grown in a sustaining way consistent with organic principles. We are located in Elbert, Colorado and all of our produce is grown locally.

Colorado Springs

Four Corners Farm sits on Ropers Point in the Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, part of a small cluster of agritourism properties along the same road. Beyond the address and phone line, the farm keeps a low public profile — no website or social media turned up in research. Call ahead before visiting.

Wishing Star Farm sits on Ropers Point in the Black Forest area of Colorado Springs, sharing both the road and the listed phone line with nearby Four Corners Farm — likely two names tied to the same small agritourism cluster. No independent website or social presence surfaced in research. Call ahead before visiting.

Castle Rock

WolfNRabbit Honey keeps hives across Castle Rock, Larkspur, and Parker and sells raw, unfiltered honey that's never heated, so it keeps its natural pollen and propolis. The same operation also raises grass-fed, hormone-free beef and pasture-raised eggs from Larkspur. Bee nucs with laying queens are available seasonally for backyard beekeepers.

Boulter's 5280 Urban Market sets up in the Safeway parking lot off Castle Pines Parkway near I-25, with offerings that shift by season: salad greens and radishes in spring, tomatoes and stone fruit at summer's peak, then apples, pears, and preserves once fall storage crops come in. Most vendors take cash and cards; some accept SNAP and WIC.

Monument

Larkspur

Bennett

Tuff's Ranch raises grass-fed beef without added hormones on open pasture outside Bennett, split across two properties. One side has a walking trail, shooting range, and archery range; the other keeps rescue chickens, ducks, turkeys, peacocks, geese, pigs, emus, sheep, and goats alongside a kids' fishing pond. The ranch also hosts a Memorial Day Western Experience and a Fourth of July block party.

Monument

Colorado Kids Ranch runs 40 acres near Monument built around kids' camps: Farm Camp for ages 6 to 13, Horse Camp for ages 7 to 14, and a Farm Construction Camp where kids build planters and fences with real tools. Fall brings the Colorado Pumpkin Patch, and December brings Christmas at the Ranch. The ranch is licensed exempt through the Colorado Office of Early Childhood.

Elbert

Spotted Horse Barnyard operates out of Elbert, a small ranching community on Colorado's eastern plains. No website, social media, or independent coverage surfaced in research beyond the listing itself — call ahead to confirm what's currently open.

Black Forest

Black Forest

High Altitude Rhubarb is a family-run, pick-your-own farm between Denver and Colorado Springs, growing rhubarb along with honey, herbs, and heirloom varieties for sale on-site. The farm also operates a small nursery selling rhubarb and horseradish starts, plus rhubarb cookbooks and seed packets for gardeners who want to grow their own at altitude.

Lone Tree

This seasonal market fills the former Sears Outlet parking lot at 8585 S. Yosemite Street from May through September, with vegetable and fruit growers alongside vendors selling ethnic breads, pasta, and ice cream. It's a suburban strip-mall market, convenient over scenic, but reliably stocked.

Strasburg

Pinon Ridge Ranch, east of Strasburg on County Road 46, has grown onions and pumpkins alongside pasture-raised turkeys, farm eggs, and honey pulled from its own hives, with pony rides and a petting zoo rounding out the visit. Some directories now list the ranch as closed, so confirm current status before making the drive out from Denver.

Colorado Springs

Aurora South Farmers Market II runs Wednesdays starting at 7am at 15324 East Hampden Circle, and closes whenever vendors sell out, not at a fixed time. It's an indoor setup, which keeps it running through weather that would shut down an outdoor lot. Pam Wilson handles vendor and visitor questions by phone. Getting there early matters more here than at markets with set closing hours.

SEDALIA

Seven miles west of Castle Rock in the Plum Creek valley, this Certified Naturally Grown family farm has been growing vegetables since 2004, later adding local meat and dairy. Members join a Community Harvest Hub for weekly shares, with pickup locations across the Denver metro area, a CSA model built for people who don't live close enough to drive out to Sedalia every week.

Bennett

Mile High Farms in Bennett runs two corn mazes across 11 acres alongside a pumpkin patch, petting zoo, antique tractor hayrides, and barrel cart rides. The fall festival operates weekends, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with concessions on site.

Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs

MK) Ranch raises purebred and crossbred Hereford cattle on more than 400 acres of grass near Sedalia, Colorado, offering both grass-fed and grain-fed beef. Started in 2013, the ranch sells whole, half, and quarter beef along with individual cuts, custom-butchered and dry-aged 14 to 21 days before vacuum-sealing. Beef is available to local and regional customers by order.

Larkspur

Founded in 2009, this market sets up in downtown Monument on Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through October, then moves indoors to Grace Best School for a winter season. The vendor list runs long: organic produce, honey, cheese, poultry, mushrooms, nursery plants and prepared foods share table space with soap and craft vendors.

Colorado Springs

This aquaponics greenhouse in Black Forest, north of Colorado Springs, grows several lettuce varieties, butterhead, red oak, and others, using 90% less water and 75% less energy than soil farming, according to the farm. Produce sells at the farm stand and through wholesale delivery. Through their Lettuce Help Our Neighbor program, they donate more than 7,000 heads a month to local food pantries, and open the greenhouse for public tours on Wednesday afternoons.

Now branded as the Backyard Market, this Saturday market (9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through October) draws more than 70 vendors, making it the largest producer-only market in the greater Colorado Springs area. Every vendor grows, raises, bakes, or makes what they sell, no resellers. Live music and a kids' corner run alongside the produce stands each week.

Greenwood Village

This market runs indoors at the Landmark shopping center in Greenwood Village, open seasonally from June through September. Vendors cover more ground than a typical produce-only market, mushrooms, seafood, and pantry goods sit alongside meat and vegetables, with some sellers carrying USDA organic or Good Agricultural Practices certification. Orders can be placed ahead through the Foraged app for pickup. Being indoor space rather than an outdoor lot makes it less weather-dependent than most Front Range markets.

Denver

Denver

Aurora

The City of Aurora runs a seasonal pumpkin patch out of its municipal complex at 151 E. Alameda Parkway — the same address as Aurora's city offices and history museum. It's a city-organized event rather than a working farm. Call ahead for current dates and hours before visiting.

Aurora

Jessica and Steve Deden have run this farm stand on South Parker Road for 22 years, sourcing directly from Colorado growers rather than growing everything themselves. The stand opens daily through August, September, and October, the two months when the state's harvest peaks, selling green chiles, melons, summer squash, and whatever else is coming off Colorado farms that week. It closes the rest of the year, so timing a visit matters.

This Aurora market sits along East Alameda Avenue, pulling in vendors selling produce and other goods sourced locally rather than through wholesale distributors. Several vendors take SNAP, EBT, WIC, and FMNP benefits in addition to cash and cards. Beyond the address and payment options, the market keeps a low public profile online, so hours are best confirmed before a trip.

Aurora

Fresh Start Family Farms LLC operates out of Aurora's 42nd Avenue corridor near the airport. Beyond the address, no website, social presence, or news coverage surfaced in research — call ahead to confirm current offerings.

Aurora

Half Section Plus raises pasture-raised chickens for eggs on land between Rush and Boone, out on Colorado's Eastern Plains. Eggs move through donation centers in Colorado Springs, including God's Pantry and the Fresh Start Center, rather than a farm stand or retail store. It's a small operation without a heavy public presence online.

Aurora

Bennett

Bennett Community Market pulls from an actual farming community rather than importing vendors from the city, it's 20 miles east of Denver International Airport, just off the Bennett exit on I-70. The market runs alternating Saturdays from late May through September, 9am to 2pm, with organic produce, frozen meats, cheese, eggs, honey, and baked goods rotating with the season. Checking the schedule before driving out matters, since it's every other Saturday, not every week.

Greenwood Village

Fridays from May through October, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., this market sets up at 5859 South University Boulevard in Greenwood Village. Local farmers, ranchers, and small artisans sell fresh produce, breads, and prepared food directly to shoppers. It's a smaller, neighborhood-scale market compared to Denver's downtown options, which makes it easier to park and easier to talk to the person who grew what you're buying.

Highlands Ranch

Denver

Ekar Farm is a nonprofit urban farm in the Denver metro rooted in the Jewish vision of an environmentally sustainable, socially just world — growing produce so that all who are hungry can come and eat. The farm sends roughly 20,000 pounds of organically grown produce to food access partners each year, supports 50+ community gardens with seeds and compost, provides hundreds of culturally relevant meal kits, and teaches youth and volunteers on the farm.

Denver

Connect, grow, nourish, repair: Ekar Farm grows sustainably raised fruits and vegetables on an urban farm serving the Denver and Aurora metro, delivering about 20,000 pounds a year to local food access organizations. Rooted in Jewish values, the nonprofit also runs a cooperative garden initiative with the Food Bank of the Rockies, youth education programs, and volunteer days in the field.

Rafter W Ranch is a Wheeler family operation on 640 acres in Simla, raising grass-fed beef and pastured eggs with cattle moved to fresh pasture as often as twice a day. The ranch is a certified producer with the American Grassfed Association and grew out of a 2.5-acre homestead the Wheelers started in Elizabeth, Colorado.

Denver

Set up in the parking lot outside Hangar 2 at the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, this market runs Tuesdays from 4 p.m. until dusk, June through September. It sits steps from the Lowry Beer Garden, with produce, meat, dairy and artisan goods from area farms and covered indoor vendor space.