Farms Near Hudson, NY

Hudson

The Hudson Farmers' Market has been serving the City of Hudson with local produce and products for over 27 years. We are the only year-round market in Columbia County, NY. Check out our social media and website for more weekly information.

Hudson

Hudson

Green Acres Farm and Bakery in Hudson, New York is celebrating 100 years — a seasonal farm and bakery serving the Hudson Valley from late June each season.

Claverack

Philip Orchards is a pick-your-own apple and pear orchard on Route 9H in Claverack, in the Hudson Valley's Columbia County. This stretch of the valley is long-standing apple country, with picking through the fall. Check ahead for open days and available varieties.

Hudson

Don Baker Farm is a fruit farm near Hudson, in Columbia County's orchard country along the east bank of the Hudson River. Farms on this ridge grow apples, peaches, and other tree fruit, much of it sold fresh in season and some as pick-your-own. Contact the farm for current picking, stand hours, and what's ripe before making the trip.

Athens

Hudson

Hudson

Smith Farms is on White Birch Road in Hudson, in Columbia County's Hudson Valley. Beyond its agritourism listing, little is posted about what the farm grows or offers. The surrounding area runs to orchards, vegetable farms, and small livestock operations. Contact the farm directly to confirm its products, on-site sales, and hours before visiting.

Ghent

Bee Crazy Farm sits along Route 9H in Ghent, in Columbia County's Hudson Valley farmland. The name suggests a focus on bees and honey, though little is posted online to confirm its full range of products. Stop by or call ahead to find out what the farm sells and when it's open.

Hudson

Fix Bros Fruit Farm is a fifth-generation orchard near Hudson, farming Columbia County ground since 1899. It grows sweet and sour cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pears, pumpkins, and a long list of apple varieties including Honey Crisp, Fuji, and McIntosh. Most apples go wholesale, but the farm opens pick-your-own for cherries, peaches, apples, and pumpkins in season. Call (518) 828-4401 or email [email protected].

Athens

A produce-focused market a few doors up Main Street from the village's arts district, in Catskill, NY. Sitting near the Hudson River in Greene County, it gathers growers from the surrounding Catskills foothills selling seasonal vegetables and fruit. Smaller and more straightforward than a craft-heavy market, it serves everyday grocery shopping for the village and nearby hamlets.

Catskill

Combining farm produce with local craft vendors, this market sits on Main Street in the village of Catskill, the Greene County seat on the west bank of the Hudson River. The 'artisans' half of the name means handmade goods share the stalls with vegetables, baked items, and prepared food. Catskill's Main Street has grown into an arts corridor, and the market fits that revived downtown.

Hudson

Hopedale Farm is on Klibar Road in Hudson, in Columbia County's stretch of the Hudson Valley. Farms here lean toward diversified vegetables, pasture livestock, and hay, and this one fits that pattern. Specific crops and any farm-stand or CSA details aren't confirmed online. Reach the farm directly to find out what it grows and how to buy in season.

Ghent

Germantown

Heller's Farm in Germantown has sold Columbia County fruit and vegetables since Gaza and Elizabeth Heller started it in 1930. Its signature crop is Concord and Niagara grapes, offered both pick-your-own and pre-packed, alongside fall vegetables and local apples. The Pickin' Shack stocks homemade preserves, cider, juices, maple products, and baked goods. Cut-your-own Christmas trees round out the season.

Hollowville

Philmont

The Philmont market runs from the Albert Tripp Center lot on Main Street in this Columbia County village, part of the town of Claverack in the Hudson Valley. Area farms supply vegetables, eggs, cheese, and baked goods, in a county known for its dense cluster of small farms. Philmont sits below the Taconic Hills, a short drive from the city of Hudson.

Railroad Station Stuyvesant

A small community farmers' market in the hamlet of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, held on Riverview Street near the old railroad station beside the Hudson River. Area growers bring Hudson Valley produce and farm products in season to this quiet riverside stop south of Albany.

Climax

Boehm Farm has grown fruit in Climax, Greene County for more than a century, selling apples, peaches, cherries, plums, and strawberries from its stand on County Route 26. Pick-your-own runs through the seasons, and the farm fries its own apple cider doughnuts. In fall it adds pumpkins and family activities, and it also sells at the Coxsackie farmers market in the Hudson Valley.

Ghent

Ghent

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Ghent

Double Up Food Bucks NY (DUFBNY) doubles the buying power of SNAP customers, helping low-income families in Columbia County access healthy, locally-grown fruits and vegetables. SNAP users get up to $20 daily in extra funds to spend on fresh produce at participating markets and stores. This free program supports nutritious eating and local farmers, with funds that never expire.

Kinderhook

Common Hands Farm keeps an active Instagram under its own name but doesn't have much else posted publicly — no confirmed address, hours, or product list turned up in research. Connecticut has plenty of small operations like it that sell mostly through word of mouth and direct relationships rather than a built-out website.

Ghent

Germantown

Rider Farm works land on Sawmill Road in Germantown, a Columbia County town on the east bank of the Hudson known for its apple and cherry orchards. Family farms here supply Hudson Valley farm stands and pick-your-own visitors through the growing season.

Germantown

Earlton

Germantown

Kinderhook

Stuyvesant

South Cairo

Maple Leaf Sugaring taps trees on Dupier Road in Ghent, in the farm country of Columbia County east of the Hudson. The operation boils sap into syrup during the late-winter run, the season that drives every sugarhouse in this part of the state. Details aren't posted online here, so reach out in late winter or early spring to learn what's available and whether they sell from the farm.

Ghent

Hawthorne Valley Farm has produced biodynamic and organic food on County Route 21C in Ghent, New York, since 1972. Its full-line natural foods grocery store, open daily 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., sells the farm's own dairy, meat, and baked goods alongside other regional products.

Ghent

Hawthorne Valley Farm is a Demeter-certified biodynamic farm on roughly 900 acres in Ghent, in Columbia County. Its dairy herd supplies raw milk, yogurt and quark, and the farm is known nationally for its lacto-fermented sauerkraut and krauts. A vegetable CSA, an on-farm store and a bakery round it out, alongside a Waldorf school and farm-based education programs.

Held on Church Street in the village of Chatham, this Columbia County market sits in the farm country between the Berkshires and the Hudson River. Local growers bring vegetables, fruit, eggs, and baked goods during the season. Chatham is a small railroad-era village, and the market anchors its walkable downtown.

Valatie

Valatie

Yonder Fruit Farms sits along U.S. Route 9 in Valatie, in Columbia County's stretch of the Hudson Valley fruit belt. The region is apple and stone-fruit country, lined with roadside stands between Albany and the mid-Hudson orchards. Listed here as an agritourism stop.

Valatie

Golden Harvest Farms sells apples in more than a dozen varieties, Honeycrisp and McIntosh among them, plus cider and cider donuts baked daily. The Route 9 property also houses Harvest Spirits, a distillery pouring Cornelius Applejack, Core vodka and gin, and John Henry whiskey, alongside a smokehouse serving barbecue. The farm store stocks honey, maple syrup, pies, and pastries. Family-run in Columbia County, about ten minutes north of Kinderhook.

Chatham

The Chatham Berry Farm is a family-owned Columbia County institution — "your every day farmers market," open 8 to 6 daily, 364 days a year — voted the county's best specialty food store and best garden center. Beyond pesticide-free greenhouse greens grown year-round, the farm offers full meat and seafood departments, seasonal no-spray u-pick fruit and cut flowers, and the Greenhouse Cidery taproom from April through October.

Purling

Named for the Shingle Kill waterfall in Purling, a hamlet in Greene County's northern Catskills, this market sits on Mountain Avenue near the falls. Small mountain-town markets like this rely on Catskill-region farms for summer vegetables, eggs, honey, and baked goods. The waterfall nearby makes it a scenic stop for visitors in the area.

Hillsdale

Tivoli

All the way back in 1916, G. Gordon Mead purchased a diversified 100 acre farm in Tivoli, which included some dairy, chickens, and hogs, with a variety of grain and fruit crops. Soon he began shipping apples in barrels to NYC down the Hudson River by boat. At that time, the farm was known as White Clay Creek Orchards - named after the creek that meandered through the property. It wasn't until the late 1980's that the name was changed to what it is today, Mead Orchards. ​ When Gordon's son, Sid,

Tivoli

Mead Orchards is the Hudson Valley's original family-friendly pick-your-own farm, growing incredible fruit in Tivoli for over 100 years — 50+ apple varieties plus spray-free blueberries, cherries, peaches, raspberries, tomatoes, and pumpkins with a corn maze in fall. Wander 100+ acres of spectacular views, shop the seasonal farmstand for cider, apple butter, and applesauce, and enjoy free parking and entry.

Red Hook

Red Hook

Greig Farm runs one of the Hudson Valley's long-standing pick-your-own operations, spread across fields on Pitcher Lane in Red Hook. Visitors pick berries through summer and pumpkins in fall, and the property hosts a farm market and several independent food vendors. Dutchess County, a few miles from the village of Red Hook and Bard College.

Saugerties

Red Hook

Greenville

A small mixed-animal farm on West Road in Greenville, in Greene County west of the Hudson. The name points to poultry and a range of other farm critters. Little else is documented online.

Northaven Pastures, based in Red Hook, New York, sells 100% grass-fed beef, corn- and soy-free pork, and soy-free pastured eggs, with no hormones, antibiotics, or mRNA vaccines given to the animals. Beef and pork are available by bulk pre-order in various cuts and package sizes.

Ancram

Thompson-Finch Farm is a certified-organic operation on Wiltsie Bridge Road in Ancram, in the Columbia County hills of the eastern Hudson Valley. It's best known for organic pick-your-own strawberries in June and pick-your-own apples in fall, with a farm stand selling the harvest. Growing without synthetic chemicals is central to how the place has long run.

Village of Castleton-on-Hudson

Swartz Farm sits on Eleanor Drive in Castleton-on-Hudson, a Rensselaer County village on the east bank of the Hudson River south of Albany. It's a small local farm; specific crops and any pick-your-own or stand sales aren't detailed online.

Castleton

Swartz Farm runs a small stand on Eleanor Drive in Castleton, just south of Albany in Rensselaer County along the Hudson. Capital Region stands like this sell seasonal vegetables through the summer and fall, from sweet corn and tomatoes to beans and winter squash. Swartz Farm doesn't appear to have a website, so check locally or stop by in season for current offerings.

Hillsdale

Vine Gate Lavender grows lavender and cut flowers on Whippoorwill Road in Hillsdale, in Columbia County. Pick your own lavender and blooms in season, browse a farm store of handmade goods, or join a workshop on lavender crafts or meditation. The farm also supplies flowers for events. Summer hours run Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 11am to 2pm, weather permitting.

Town of Red Hook

Montgomery Place Orchards grows apples in Red Hook, in the Hudson Valley's Dutchess County. The farm sells from a wayside stand that dates back to the 1935 Dutchess County Fair and still serves as its market building today. Chefs and Hudson Valley locals know the orchard for its wide range of apple varieties and other tree fruit. Check the farm's website for current market hours and what's ripe.