Agritourism & Farm Experiences in Gaithersburg, MD

Gaithersburg

Maryland Honey Company sells honey and live bees on a wholesale basis out of Gaithersburg, having closed its retail storefront. Beekeepers and honey buyers can still reach the company by phone to arrange wholesale orders — walk-in retail sales are no longer part of the business.

North Potomac

Sycamore Apiaries is a family-run beekeeping operation in North Potomac producing raw honey that's never heated or pasteurized. The honey is hand-harvested in small batches and sold at area farmers markets and at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. The family has said it plans to add beeswax candles, pollen, lotions, and soaps as the apiary grows.

Redland

The Agricultural History Farm Park preserves 455 acres of Montgomery County farmland worked from the early 1700s through the late 1960s, with an apple orchard, farm animals, and historic barns still standing. Montgomery Parks runs public programs here — swing dance nights, storytime for young kids, hiking talks — plus annual draws like the spring Gas and Steam Show and the fall Harvest Festival. The farmhouse is currently closed for renovation.

Germantown

Butler's Orchard has run its pick-your-own operation in Germantown for generations, with fields of berries, peaches, and apples feeding a farm market that stays open Tuesday through Sunday, 8:30am to 6pm. Beyond picking, the farm hosts seasonal festivals and keeps a restaurant on-site for visitors who want lunch before or after a trip through the fields. Closed Mondays year-round.

Germantown

Gazebo Garden Center and Nursery operates in Germantown, in Montgomery County. Research did not turn up an independent website or current listing, so specific inventory, hours, and contact details aren't confirmed — call ahead before visiting.

Germantown

Germantown

The same family has farmed this Germantown ground since 1933, growing Silver Queen sweet corn, pumpkins, green tomatoes, and pattypan squash off Schaeffer Road. A giant pumpkin grown on the property has drawn coverage from the Washington Post and the Germantown Gazette. Free tractor hayrides, horse-drawn wagon rides, and an oxcart run the property from July through October.

Germantown

Red Wiggler Care Farm, on Ridge Road inside Ovid Hazen Wells Park in Germantown, is a working organic farm built around employment for adults with developmental disabilities. Its 200-share CSA supplies vegetables, herbs, and flowers, and the farm's Harvest Share Program gives half of what it grows to low-income households in the community. Volunteers and farm tours are welcome.

North Bethesda

Boyds

Star Gazing Farm is located in Boyds, inside Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve — a zoned corridor of working farms northwest of Washington, D.C. No independent website or current listing surfaced in research, so what's growing there and whether it's open to visitors isn't confirmed.

Poolesville

This Poolesville pick-your-own farm runs a rotating harvest of blackberries, blueberries, tart cherries, peaches, apples, and pumpkins, priced by the pound and paid for at the field. The market building, open without admission, sells fruit preserves, honey, and pre-picked vegetables like tomatoes, corn, and greens from the same ground. Pets, professional photography, and birthday parties aren't permitted on-site.

Bethesda

Phil's Honey keeps hives in Bethesda, selling honey worked from the gardens and tree canopy of lower Montgomery County. Pricing and sales locations aren't listed online; reach the beekeeper directly for current availability.

Woodbine

Breezy Hill Alpacas raises alpacas on Woodbine Road in Woodbine, in western Howard County. No current website describes farm visits or fiber sales — contact the farm directly for specifics.

Brookeville

Sharp's has worked this 530-acre spread in Western Howard County since 1903, running a spring greenhouse operation - naturally raised herbs, heritage vegetable plants, cutting-garden flowers - from mid-April into mid-summer before shifting into fall hayrides and farm tours that run through mid-November. Group and birthday parties book the barns alongside educational farm programs for school groups.

Ijamsville

Beekeeper Martin Posse grew this Ijamsville operation from two hives to more than 100, selling honey weekly at farmers markets across D.C., Maryland, and Virginia with pickup also available on the farm. The apiary runs a hands-on class called "Dive into the Hive" teaching visitors how a bee colony works.

Great Falls

Krop's Crops runs a produce operation on Georgetown Pike in Great Falls, an affluent corner of Fairfax County just off the Potomac. Farm stands along this stretch sell seasonal Virginia vegetables and plants to a suburban Washington crowd. Current stand hours and crop lists aren't easy to confirm online, so call ahead in season.

Glenelg

Triadelphia Lake View Farm has been in the Brown family since 1896, when it started as a dairy operation. Today the farm cuts its own Christmas trees for the cut-your-own season, raises lamb, and sells holiday turkeys, wreaths, and roping alongside seasonal produce. It also runs a CSA and shows up at farmers markets around Howard County. Reach the farm at (410) 489-4460 or [email protected].

Bethesda

Bee Daddies Apiaries keeps hives around Bannockburn, in Bethesda. No public website lists current honey sales or hours — reach out directly for availability.

Poolesville

Farmathome operates out of Poolesville, inside Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve, 93,000 acres of protected farmland northwest of Washington, D.C. Current products and hours aren't published online; the farm is best reached directly.

Dickerson

Five generations of one family have farmed this stretch of Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve since 1907, when Edwin and Minerva Horine first worked the land. Their son Phil planted the first peach trees during the Depression; his great-grandson Gene Kingsbury later spotted a mutation on one of those trees and turned it into Kingsbury Pride, a yellow freestone peach the orchard now grows exclusively. Season opens with cherries and apricots in June, then peaches, plums, and nectarines.

Woodbine

The Moore family has grown pick-your-own crops on this Western Howard County land since 1973, rotating through more than 20 crops and 90-plus varieties from late May into mid-November. Field tickets are priced by container size rather than by the pound, and the farm market stocks goods from roughly 25 local vendors alongside what's coming out of the fields that day. Soil conservation practices shape how the ground gets planted each season.

Ashton

Blueberry Gardens sits on Ashton Road, Route 108, in the Sandy Spring area of Montgomery County. Its website could not be reached at research time — call ahead to confirm current hours and what's available.

Dickerson

Lewis Orchards is listed at 18901 Peach Tree Road in Dickerson, inside Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve near Sugarloaf Mountain. Current crops and hours aren't confirmed online — note that a separate, unrelated Lewis' Orchards operates near Smithsburg, so call ahead to reach the right farm.

Mount Airy

Rock Hill Orchard pairs pick-your-own peaches, apples, and blackberries with something most orchards don't have: its own dairy herd. Woodbourne Creamery turns that milk into ice cream on-site, under the farm's own motto, 'From Cow to Cone.' It's one of the few pick-your-own stops in northern Montgomery County where the cows and the fruit trees share the same address.

Mclean

A fall pumpkin patch on Brook Road run by St. Thomas Episcopal Church in McLean. The pumpkins are grown and harvested on Navajo Nation land in northern New Mexico, and buying one supports that community as well as the church's giving. Every dollar of pumpkin sales goes to local charities; the patch has donated more than $45,000 since it started in 2008. It opens each October.

Vienna

Meadows Farms Nurseries runs a garden center at 10618 Leesburg Pike in Vienna, one of more than a dozen locations across Northern Virginia and the D.C. region. The stores sell plants, trees, shrubs, and garden supplies and offer landscape design, installation, and maintenance, plus a you-pick-it, we-plant-it service. This is a retail nursery chain rather than a produce farm.

Poolesville

Aix La Chapelle Farm is a 180-acre estate in Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve that combines a working pick-your-own orchard with event hosting. Its grounds have held the Old Line Market vintage and artisan fair and the Mid-Atlantic Antiques Festival, which draws more than 60 dealers from 18 states. Full catering packages are available for private events, with booking currently open into 2028. Contact the farm at [email protected].

Dickerson

Soleado Lavender Farm grows lavender on Harris Road in Dickerson, inside Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve near Sugarloaf Mountain. Bloom season, u-pick access, and products aren't confirmed online — contact the farm directly before visiting.

Woodbine

Sunflower Farm Lisbon grows sunflower fields near Woodbine, in the farm country along the Howard-Carroll County line. No current website or listing describes its opening dates or pricing — check local event calendars before visiting.

Ijamsville

Nearly 150 animals live on this 124-acre Ijamsville property, from horses and llamas to goats and pigs that race for the crowd on weekends. Visitors feed cattle and goats by hand, ride a wagon out to the barns, and catch seasonal draws like an Easter egg hunt and a fall pumpkin patch. The farm also books birthday parties and weddings on-site year-round.

Glenwood

This 10-acre corn maze off Carrs Mill Road in Glenwood runs its season from late September through the first days of November.

Silver Spring

Mount Airy

Blueberry Hills Farm is located in Mount Airy, on the Carroll-Frederick county line in Maryland's Piedmont, an area known for pick-your-own berry operations. The farm's old web domain has since expired, and no current site or social page could be confirmed — call ahead before planning a visit.

Poolesville

East Oaks Farm, on Whites Ferry Road in Poolesville, is run by Ali Mohadjer, who trained through the University of Maryland Extension before building it into a working small farm. It raises free-range Rhode Island Red hens on a soy- and GMO-free diet alongside grass-fed cows, goats, and sheep, and grows produce and flowers sold through a CSA. Visitors can book animal visits and farm tours, and the grounds also host private events.

Arlington

Cherry Blossom Honey is an Arlington-based honey label listed at a Clarendon Boulevard address in the Rosslyn and Courthouse corridor. Small near-urban apiaries like this bottle local Northern Virginia honey, sometimes sold through markets or online. Public details were limited, so reach out to confirm where and how to buy.

Annandale

Bee Haven Honey is a small honey producer in Annandale, inside the Beltway in Fairfax County. Backyard and small-scale apiaries here sell raw local honey, valued by allergy-conscious buyers for coming from Northern Virginia's own bloom. Public details on the operation are limited.

Adamstown

Adamstown

Thanksgiving Farms is listed on Buckeystown Pike outside Adamstown, in Frederick County farmland between the Monocacy and Potomac rivers. The farm's old web domain has since lapsed, and no current offerings or hours are posted online — contact the farm directly.

Buckeystown

Mayne's grows a full vegetable stand — asparagus, sweet corn, peaches, strawberries — then turns to Christmas trees once the fields go quiet for winter. Cut your own tree on-site or grab one pre-cut, plus a custom wreath from the farm's own greenery. Fall brings a corn maze and pumpkin picking, and the farm stand stays open for produce through most of the growing season.

Mount Airy

Char-Lene has farmed 400 acres of beef and row crops in Mount Airy for more than 50 years, and the year-round market sells hormone-free beef, pork, and honey straight off the property. It keeps a tight schedule — Tuesday through Friday, 11 to 6, Saturday 11 to 4, closed Sunday and Monday — so check the hours before heading out.

Eagletree Farm is on Harrison Hill Lane in the Purcellville area of western Loudoun County, in the rolling farm-and-vineyard country west of DC. It's listed as an agritourism farm; public information is thin. Contact the farm directly to learn what it raises and whether it hosts visitors or events.