Farms Near Franklin, NC

Franklin

Mountain Micro Farm sits on Stamey Mountain Road southeast of Franklin, in Macon County's Nantahala mountains of far western North Carolina. The 'micro' name signals a compact, high-elevation grow — the scale that usually means vegetables, herbs, or eggs sold close to home rather than shipped out. Little about the farm is published online yet.

Franklin

The farm wasn’t our original plan, it evolved. Greg and Stacy started looking for a place in the mountains in 2010. They did it in the way most Atlantans look for a second home:

Franklin

A farm on Murphy Road in Franklin, the seat of Macon County in the far western North Carolina mountains. Farms in this valley grow cool-season produce, and the county is known for tomatoes and Christmas trees. Little is documented online for this specific operation.

Franklin

A farm on River Road in Franklin, along the Little Tennessee River in Macon County. This mountain valley grows produce and hay, and River Road follows fertile bottomland south of town. Public information for this listing is sparse.

Mountain Micro Farm grows microgreens, based on its name, likely somewhere in the north Georgia mountains. No website or social page could be confirmed to verify its exact location, varieties grown, or how to buy from them.

Franklin

Sharp's Berry Farm grows more than 300 blueberry bushes and five long rows of thornless blackberries in the mountains outside Franklin. Picking usually opens around July 1, sometimes earlier, with berries running about $3 a quart. The rows stay family-friendly and easy for kids to work. Bring your own containers and cash, and watch their Facebook page for the season's opening date.

Franklin

A family farm in the mountains around Franklin, growing since 1951 and now run by Joe Deal with his wife Devon and son Braxton. They raise apples along with row crops like beans, beets, broccoli, and cabbage, and offer on-farm pickup. Located in Macon County near the Georgia line, the farm sells direct to local customers.

Franklin

A farm on River Road along the Little Tennessee River south of Franklin, in Macon County's far western mountains. Public details are thin, so it's best to contact the farm directly about what they grow and whether they welcome visitors. The surrounding valley is known for trout water, small produce plots, and mountain pasture.

J. W. Mitchell Farms is a small agritourism operation on Bradley Creek Road. The listing carries little detail and its location data looks incomplete, so the specific crops and season aren't confirmed here. Reaching the farm directly is the surest way to learn what it grows and when it opens to visitors.

Otto

An alpaca farm on Hannah Mountain Road in Otto, at the far southwestern tip of North Carolina near the Georgia line and Franklin. Small mountain alpaca farms like this typically raise animals for fleece and take visits or sell fiber products by appointment. Public details are limited, so contact the farm directly about tours and what they sell.

Cullowhee

A country property on Lloyd Hooper Road in Cullowhee, in Jackson County near Western Carolina University and the Tuckasegee River. Its former website is no longer active and current public details are limited, so contact the owners directly about tours, events, or lodging. The setting is classic southern Appalachian, a river valley walled in by forested ridgelines.

Cullowhee

Rabun Gap

Fifth- and sixth-generation farmers Ricky and Clint James run this produce market on Highway 441, a family operation going on more than 40 years. It's open daily, including Sundays and holidays, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., May through October, with pick-your-own fruit alongside a full stand of fresh, locally grown vegetables. It's one of the longer-running farm markets in the northeast Georgia mountains.

Rabun Gap

12 Spies Vineyards ran a tasting room in Rabun Gap, Georgia for 14 years before closing it for good. The vines are still tended, and existing wine inventory is available through pickup in Georgia or shipping to addresses within the state — order by emailing the winery directly rather than visiting in person.

Glenville

Tom Sawyer Tree Farm grows Christmas trees on Chimney Pond Road in Glenville, high on the Jackson County plateau between Cashiers and Sylva. The cool elevation suits Fraser fir, the signature Southern Appalachian Christmas tree. Choose-and-cut mountain farms like this open after Thanksgiving.

Whittier

Shelton Farms has grown produce in the mountains near Whittier since 1984, now under fourth-generation farmer William Shelton. The operation runs hydroponic Bibb lettuce year-round and fields tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, and squash, selling wholesale to grocers, distributors, and restaurants. It sits in Jackson County close to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The family has talked about opening an on-site market and adding farm tours and festivals.

Rabun Gap

Georgia's oldest operating bed and breakfast, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on York House Road. Twelve individually decorated rooms come with pillow-top mattresses, private baths, and a full breakfast, with 12 Spies Vineyards and Farm within easy reach for a wine stop. It has run continuously long enough to earn a reputation among North Georgia mountain travelers as the region's original inn.

Sylva

The Sylva Farmers Market in downtown Sylva, NC, connects small, local farms with the community, offering seasonal fruits, vegetables, eggs, dairy, meats, and value-added products. The market supports sustainable and heritage farming, fosters direct farm-to-consumer sales, and promotes food access programs like HOP and FarmsSHARE. Educational events and vendor interactions strengthen local food knowledge while helping small farmers thrive.

Cullowhee

Thomas Berry Farm grows berries on Medalion Lane in Cullowhee, Jackson County, home of Western Carolina University in the far western mountains. High-elevation berry crops ripen later in summer than lowland farms. Reach out to confirm what's picking and when.

Darnell Farms is a 100-acre farm stand in Bryson City, North Carolina, along the Tuckasegee River in the Smoky Mountains — not Georgia despite this listing. It grows strawberries, sweet corn, and pumpkins, and runs a year-round farm stand plus seasonal U-pick strawberries in spring, a fall pumpkin patch with hayrides, and a Winter Wonderland light display through the holidays.

Bryson City

Darnell Farms grows 100 acres of strawberries, pole beans, sweet corn, pumpkins, squash, and tomatoes along the Tuckasegee River in Bryson City, at the edge of the Smokies. The farm stand sells that produce plus local breads, jerky, cheeses, and canned goods. Spring brings pick-your-own strawberries; fall means a pumpkin patch and hayrides, and winter adds a light-display hayride. Open daily 9am-7pm.

Rabun Gap

A working gristmill turned bed-and-breakfast on Taylors Chapel Road, where breakfast is served on a screened porch overlooking the property's waterfall. Innkeepers Mike and Linda build the morning meal around organic, locally sourced Rabun County ingredients and offer massage therapy, gourmet gift baskets, and catered dinners with advance notice. The mill leans into sustainable practices — recycling, green cleaning products, and carbon offsets for guests.

Sylva

WNC Farm to Table is a regional food hub in Western North Carolina that connects small farms with wholesale, retail, and community markets. It provides local fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, and value-added products, supporting farm viability and sustainable agriculture. The hub strengthens direct farm-to-consumer and farm-to-business sales, improves access to fresh, local food, and fosters education and community engagement around healthy, regional food systems.

Whittier

An agritourism listing on Whittier School Road in Whittier, in the far-western mountains near Cherokee and the Great Smokies. The nature of TinkerMania isn't documented online and the name doesn't clearly indicate crops or livestock. Contact the operator directly to learn what it offers before planning a visit.

Whittier

Pick-your-own blueberries and other small fruit at the edge of Whittier, in the Smoky Mountain foothills near Cherokee and the Qualla Boundary. Directory listings put the season in summer, with berries, melons, and stone fruit among what the farm grows, plus on-farm pickup. Cool mountain nights tend to push local blueberry ripening a little later than in the Piedmont, so call before making the drive.

Clayton

Goats On The Roof is a roadside attraction on Hwy 441 South in Clayton, Georgia, where goats climb ramps to a rooftop pen above a shop of local crafts and sweets. It's part of a small chain found in several Southern tourist towns; specific hours and admission for the Clayton location weren't confirmed.

Mountain City

Herbalist Patricia Kyritsi Howell founded this herbal education program in 1994 to teach the medicinal plants native to the Southern Appalachians, once called the apothecary of the nation for how much grows wild here. Classes historically ran as daylong and weekend seminars, field studies, and hands-on workshops out of the Clayton area. The school has downsized in recent years to occasional classes rather than a full course calendar.

Cullowhee

Clayton

Community Market of Rabun County is a producer-and-artisan market at 201 West Savannah Street in Clayton, set up at the Rabun County Civic Center. Beyond the usual produce and crafts tables, it runs a Power of Produce Kids Club for ages 4 to 12, plus occasional chef demonstrations and live music.

Clayton

Beechwood Inn is a bed-and-breakfast on Beechwood Dr in Clayton, in the Georgia mountain wine country around the Tiger and Rabun County vineyards. Their site was unreachable during research, so current room counts and rates aren't confirmed.

Sapphire

This is a Hampton Inn & Suites hotel on Highway 64 in Sapphire, near Cashiers on the Highlands-Cashiers plateau, so the agritourism tag looks like a directory mix-up rather than a working farm. It does make a practical base for the surrounding mountains, with waterfalls, Gorges State Park, and the plateau's orchards and tailgate markets all a short drive away.

Tiger

Tiger Mountain Orchards, on Bethel Road in Tiger, Georgia, was a pick-your-own operation for blackberries, grapes, and raspberries in Rabun County. Mapquest currently lists the business as closed, and no active phone, website, or hours could be confirmed — check before planning a visit.

Hayesville

Tiger

Stonewall Creek Vineyards is a small, family-run winery in Tiger, Georgia, pouring wine by the glass, bottle, or flight from an indoor tasting room or covered outdoor patio. The vineyard is dog-friendly — the resident greeter is Max, an eight-year-old Australian Shepherd mix — and serves charcuterie boards alongside the wine list. It holds a 4.5-star rating on Yelp across 59 reviews.

Hiawassee

Sanford and Liz Green planted Hightower Creek east of Hiawassee on Highway 76 around 2011, in the Blue Ridge foothills of the Upper Hiwassee Highlands. The tasting room deck looks over the vineyard and a pond, pouring both wine and mead. Live music plays Saturday afternoons from 2 to 5, and a rental cottage on the property lets visitors stay the night instead of driving the mountain roads home.

A tailgate market at the historic Stecoah schoolhouse on Schoolhouse Road in Stecoah, in remote Graham County in far western North Carolina. Growers and makers from the Great Smoky Mountains foothills sell seasonal produce, crafts, and homemade goods. The Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center anchors this small mountain community.

Hillside Orchard Farms has made small-batch jams, syrups, and preserves from its own fruit for more than 30 years in Rabun County, along Old Highway 441. The retail market, in nearby Lakemont, is open Monday and Thursday through Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM and Sunday 1 to 5 PM, with u-pick apples and blackberries, a corn maze, hayrides, and a gem mine on site.

Waynesville

A 20-acre alpaca farm on Walker Road outside Waynesville, open seven days a week for 45-minute guided tours where visitors meet alpacas, llamas, miniature horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, and cows. The farm also runs alpaca yoga classes, birthday parties, and field trips, and stocks a gift shop with alpaca-fiber goods. Tours are ticketed, with discounts for seniors, military, and kids.

Lakemont

Blue Ridge Honey Company in Lakemont has been keeping bees since 1981 under Bob Binnie, whose beekeeping YouTube channel has made the operation famous among fellow beekeepers. The store on Highway 441 sells 100% raw, pure honey — Wildflower, Sourwood, Tupelo, Orange Blossom, Black Sage — plus beeswax, pollen, candles, live bees, and hive woodenware handcrafted in-house.

Paul's Blueberries grows u-pick blueberries along Whitewater Falls Road in the far northwest corner of South Carolina, near the Oconee County line and the Whitewater Falls scenic area. Blueberry season in the SC mountains generally runs from late June into August. Bring your own containers, and expect cash payment at a small operation like this one.

Chattooga Belle Farm sits just across the state line in Long Creek, South Carolina, in the Blue Ridge foothills near northeast Georgia. The 200-acre farm grows apples and berries, raises grass-fed Black Angus beef, and distills its own whiskey, vodka, and gin on-site. Visitors can pick fruit, eat at Belle's Bistro, or camp overnight in a tiny home or RV site.

Waynesville

Locally grown hardy shrubs and perennials — rhododendron, mountain laurel, azaleas, daylilies, and hostas — on Mountain Haven Road in Waynesville. The nursery also does landscape design and installation and sells at the WNC Farmers Market in Asheville from March through June. Will runs it year-round by appointment, so call before visiting. Fresh-picked berries show up for sale in season too.

Hiawassee

Blueberry Patch runs u-pick blueberries on Highway 76 East in Hiawassee, with buckets provided and berries charged by the pound. Season hours run Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's one of several u-pick stops in the Georgia mountains near Lake Chatuge.

Hayesville

An evening market on Main Street in Hayesville, the small county seat of Clay County in North Carolina's far southwestern mountains near Lake Chatuge and the Georgia line. Held around the historic courthouse square, it gives growers from the Nantahala region a place to sell after the workday. Hayesville is the only incorporated town in the county.

Tamassee

Willow Springs Berry Farm grows berries on Willow Springs Road in Tamassee, in the mountain foothills of Oconee County near the Blue Ridge. Cooler Upstate elevations push blueberry and blackberry season into June and July. Ripeness and open days shift with the mountain weather, so check with the farm before heading up.

Lake Toxaway

Killer Bees Honey is an artisanal apiary deep in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina, surrounded by 512,000 farm-free acres of the Pisgah National Forest — producing raw, glyphosate-free honey with antimicrobial Total Activity rivaling Manuka. A Good Food Awards winner and the only North American producer publishing lab purity reports, it also offers beeswax candles, wraps, body care, and private honey tastings.

Robbinsville

Stoney Hollow Farm sits in Robbinsville, deep in Graham County in the far southwestern mountains of North Carolina near the Nantahala National Forest. The listing marks it as agritourism but includes no crop or event specifics, and no website is posted. This remote mountain setting means a short, cool growing season.

Hayesville

Timberlane Farm is a small family operation outside Hayesville that raises chickens, grows its own food, and bakes bread for sale. It sits in Clay County's far-western mountains near the Georgia line. The family sells through an online shop and posts flock and baking updates on Instagram. Expect eggs, seasonal produce, and fresh loaves rather than a large storefront.

Andrews

Mountain Grass Fed Beef raises cattle on grass with no added hormones, antibiotics, or whole grains, run by Keith and Teresa Wood on Healey Fields Road in Andrews. The far-western Cherokee County pastures sit deep in the North Carolina mountains near the Georgia and Tennessee lines. Beef sells direct from the farm.

Hayesville

Qualla Berry Farm grows berries on Qualla Road near Hayesville, in Clay County in North Carolina's far southwestern mountains. Cooler mountain weather pushes berry season later than the lowlands, with strawberries and other fruit ripening from late spring into summer. The farm sells its fruit in season. Mountain harvests shift with elevation and weather, so check that picking is open before making the drive.