Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Fairfield, CA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

American Canyon

ABC Tree Farms runs this pumpkin patch and inflatable park on Broadway in American Canyon, built for kids ages 2 to 12 in the more urban stretch of the Bay Area. Fall brings pumpkin selection alongside giant inflatables and water slides; the same lot turns into a Christmas tree lot in December. Admission and parking are free.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Antioch

Jones Family Honey pairs small-batch honey sales with residential bee removal in Antioch, in eastern Contra Costa County. Outfits that combine live-hive removal with honey sales are common in this part of the Delta, where swarms move into attics and sheds every spring.

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.

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.

Moraga

Captain Vineyards is a Bay Area winery in Moraga founded in 2005, farming more than 3,000 dry-farmed vines by hand. The estate makes unfiltered wines aged five to ten years in French oak, including Petite Sirah and Cabernet-driven blends, and has picked up the CoolCal and California Green Business awards for sustainable practices. Tastings run by reservation.

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.

Sonoma

Sonoma Broadway Farms is on Broadway in the city of Sonoma, in the middle of Sonoma Valley's wine and produce country. Broadway runs south from the historic plaza toward Highway 121, past a mix of tasting rooms and small agricultural parcels.

Brentwood

Berry Best Family Farm grows four strawberry varieties for u-pick on Balfour Road in Brentwood, then moves into peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, plumcots, cherries, and figs as spring turns to summer. Hours run daily, roughly 9am to 5 or 6pm depending on the day of the week, with weekend closing times slightly earlier than weekdays.

Brentwood

McCauley Olive Groves grows olives on Balfour Road in Brentwood, part of East Contra Costa County's belt of orchards and row crops east of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

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.

Brentwood

Gursky Ranch Country Store, on Apricot Way in Brentwood, California, sells nuts, dried fruit, local honey, olive oil and vinegar, and hand-packed gift baskets wrapped to order. It's open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mondays.

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.

Dwelley Farms is on Elvis Lane in the Byron area of eastern Contra Costa County, a delta-adjacent farm belt known for row crops, orchards, and cattle grazing between the Diablo foothills and the San Joaquin Delta. No further confirmed details on what Dwelley Farms grows or sells.

Brentwood

Heritage Family Farm is on Concord Avenue in Brentwood, part of the East Contra Costa County corridor Bay Area residents know for U-pick cherries, peaches, and pumpkins each summer and fall. Brentwood's sandy delta soil and warm inland climate have supported that stone-fruit economy for decades.

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.

Brentwood

Nunn Better Farms has grown in the Brentwood area for more than 150 years, according to the farm, and today offers u-pick cherries in season, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil from its own Arbequina grove, and five estate wines. No reservations are needed for u-pick during normal hours, and the farm also sells at the Brentwood Farmers Market on Saturdays, 8am-noon at 1st and Oak.

Brentwood

Harvest Time in Brentwood is a nonprofit association of independent growers who sell directly to the public through roadside stands and u-pick farms across East Contra Costa County. The group publishes an annual farm trail map and keeps an online tool showing which member farms are open on a given day, covering everything from stone fruit orchards to pumpkin patches. Harvest Time has run for more than 50 years and draws an estimated 200,000 visitors to the region each season.

Brentwood

Farmer's Daughter Produce is a U-pick stone fruit farm on Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood, run by Hailey Nunn, whose family has farmed the Brentwood area for roughly 150 years. Pick your own peaches (including O'Henry and Dr. Davis), nectarines, plums, pluots, apricots, and cherries, plus sweet corn and citrus, or buy pre-picked at the farm stand. Open daily 9am-6pm, mid-May through early September. No entrance fee, pay only for what you take.

Brentwood

The Creek Road field of Peter Wolfe Ranch is one of several u-pick stops the family operates around Brentwood, known locally for cherries, loquats, apricots, and peaches. Cherry season typically opens in late May and draws pickers out from the Bay Area before the fruit turns. Like the ranch's other fields, hours depend on what's ripe that week.

Seko Ranch Cherries is on Eureka Avenue in the Brentwood growing area, zip 94513 — ground zero for the region's cherry harvest. Ranch-style cherry operations here tend to run smaller and more informal than the larger commercial orchards nearby, often selling by the roadside during the short spring season.

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.

Brentwood

G&S Farms is a third-generation family farm in Brentwood, California, best known for its Brentwood Diamond sweet corn - bi-color, white, and yellow varieties sold June through October. The farm also runs cherry u-picks in late spring, pumpkin patches with corn mazes each October, tomatoes for its own sauces, and Blue Lake and Romano beans through summer.

Grandpa Lenny and Thelma Canciamilla started this u-pick orchard in Brentwood in 1982, and it's still one of the smallest fruit stands in town, now run by their son Leonard Jr. Visitors pick peaches, nectarines, plums, apriums, and plouts, and the stand also sells walnuts and homemade jam. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in season, at 401 Eureka Avenue at Walnut Boulevard.

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.

Glen Ellen

Beltane Ranch farms 105 acres in Glen Ellen, growing estate Sauvignon Blanc, Rosé, Carignan and Zinfandel alongside olive oil, eggs, and heirloom produce through regenerative practices. The historic property runs as a farm-stay inn with chef-prepared, ranch-grown breakfasts, plus a working orchard, gardens, and animals including sheep, donkeys, chickens, and honeybees.

Petaluma

A Sonoma County regional park on land that was farmed for decades by the Cardoza family, who grew pumpkins here before the county acquired the property for public open space. The park now protects Tolay Lake itself, wetlands, and grassland trails between Petaluma and the Sonoma Valley, with that farming history part of what the site's interpretive programs cover.