Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Loomis, CA

Loomis

Flower Farm sits on Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis, in the Placer County foothill belt known for citrus and nursery stock at the edge of the Sacramento Valley. The name and agritourism listing point to a working nursery operation. No further confirmed details on plant selection, hours, or additional offerings.

Loomis

Horton Iris Garden has grown irises on King Road in Loomis since 1999 and now carries around 1,200 to 1,500 varieties. Bloom season runs April and May, when the garden opens Friday through Monday, 10am-5pm, for viewing and ordering bare-root and potted iris plants; a cut-your-own pumpkin patch runs in fall.

Loomis

The Flower Farm in Loomis combines a plant nursery, coffee house, and six acres of citrus, Malbec grapes, and cutting flowers with a separate bed and breakfast inn and event center down the road. The cafe serves breakfast burritos, seasonal sandwiches, and craft mimosas, and a small tasting bar pours Casque Wine on-site. The nursery and cafe have operated in their current form since 2006, with the inn and event space run from a second location on Auburn-Folsom Road.

Penryn

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Loomis

The Loomis Eggplant Festival is a community event held in Loomis, a small Placer County town with a farming history tied to fruit orchards and produce stands. It is organized around a single crop rather than a single farm. Current dates, vendors, and admission details were not verifiable online this search.

Granite Bay

Rickey Ranch grows its own pumpkins on Cavitt Stallman Road in Granite Bay and opens the fields every October 1st through the 31st, 10 a.m. to dusk. The family runs hayrides and horse rides alongside pens of pigs, goats, chickens, and sheep, and props skeletons on old farm equipment scattered through the property. Regulars say it's smaller and quieter than the county's bigger patches — plus there's a vineyard on the same ground.

Newcastle

Miller Honey Farms opened its Newcastle operation in 1974 and still sells jars locally at Echo Valley Ranch and Ace Hardware in nearby Auburn, alongside its own honey and mandarins. The Geraldson Road location is part of a larger multi-state beekeeping business, not a single-family roadside operation. Retail hours vary by season — check with local retailers carrying the honey before making a special trip.

Bushnell Gardens Nursery operates in Granite Bay, in the oak-studded foothill country northeast of Sacramento. The business sells plants, trees, and home decor, drawing gardeners from the Placer County suburbs and the wider Sacramento region.

Auburn

The Mountain Mandarin Festival celebrates Placer County's foothill-grown Owari Satsuma mandarins each year at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, the weekend before Thanksgiving. More than 30,000 visitors come through over the three days for grower booths selling 10-pound bags straight off the trees, food and artisan vendors, chef demos, and a kids zone. The Mountain Mandarin Growers Association has run the event for more than 30 years.

Auburn

Amber Oaks Raspberries is a family-owned u-pick farm on Shanley Road outside Auburn, open Saturdays from 9am to 2pm and closed the rest of the week. Beyond the raspberries in its name, the farm grows blackberries, peaches, mandarins, squash, and tomatoes, offering both pick-your-own and pre-picked orders depending on what's ripe that week.

Auburn

AnneBelle Farms sits on Grass Valley Highway in Auburn, California, in the Sierra foothills of Placer County - gold country terrain that gradually gave way to orchards, vineyards, and small farms after the mining era.

Lincoln

Nastase Honey Farm keeps hives on Sego Lane outside Lincoln and bottles what they produce as raw, unfiltered honey, mostly orange blossom and wildflower varietals shaped by the almond and citrus orchards nearby. It's a small, family-run operation — no storefront, no farmers market circuit listed, just honey sold directly from the farm.

Pilot Hill

Enchanted April Inn sits on a hillside in the Sierra Foothills between El Dorado Hills and Pilot Hill, with gardens planted around the property and views over the surrounding hills. Rooms come with fireplaces, daily housekeeping, and a full breakfast included in the stay. It's a small operation — TripAdvisor lists it as the only bed and breakfast in Pilot Hill — and reviewers consistently mention the quiet and the grounds over anything flashy.

El Dorado Hills

Once in a Blue Moon Berries is a small berry operation on Arroyo Vista Way in El Dorado Hills, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento, with an active Instagram account under the same name. Specific varieties, u-pick hours, or a public phone line weren't confirmed online.

Roseville

Bambi's Christmas Tree Land is listed on South Harding Boulevard in Roseville, running as a seasonal cut-tree lot in the Sacramento-area suburbs. No working website or social page turned up in research, so current pricing, tree varieties, and hours could not be confirmed.

Roseville

Berryfest is Roseville's annual strawberry festival, held on Mother's Day weekend near Vernon Street and the surrounding downtown blocks. Local farms supply the strawberries for shortcake and other treats sold alongside arts and crafts booths, a parade, live music, and a petting zoo. Johny 5 Productions organizes the event.

Lincoln

Faisan Valley Ranch sits in the Placer County countryside outside Lincoln, in the Sierra foothill belt that's grown into one of Northern California's newer wine and ranch corridors. No crops, animals, or visiting details are published online yet.

Shingle Springs

El Dorado Honey bottles raw, unfiltered honey sourced from bee yards across El Dorado County, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. Rather than selling from a single farm stand, the honey moves through more than a dozen regional retailers, including Boa Vista Orchards and Nugget Market. No heat-processing or additives, a standard several small foothill apiaries use to set themselves apart from imported honey blends.

Lincoln

Stirling Oak Cellars is a winery listed on Lone Pine Lane outside Lincoln, in the granite-soil oak country of western Placer County. The domain that once hosted its website is now parked and inactive. No details on varietals or tasting hours are available online.

Grass Valley

Dry Creek Herb Farm has grown organic herbs and edible plants in the Sierra gold country since 2006. Beyond the retail gardens, where visitors can walk through and buy plants directly from the source, the farm runs as a working learning center offering herbalism classes and apprenticeships. Owner Mary Evans Peterson built the operation around hands-on plant education rather than just sales, and the gardens stay open for browsing through the growing season.

Rancho Cordova

Shirak Honey and Orchard Pollination operates out of Olson Drive in Rancho Cordova, in the Sacramento Valley's almond and stone-fruit belt. Beekeeping operations in this region typically split their year between honey production and contract pollination, trucking hives to orchards during almond bloom each February.

Coloma

American River Conservancy is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in the historic Kane House at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma. Since 1989 it has protected more than 30,000 acres and built 35-plus miles of trail across the upper American and Cosumnes River watersheds. Its working farm, Wakamatsu Farm, hosts public tours and partners with local growers.

Coloma

American Whitewater Expeditions ran river trips from a New River Road address in Coloma, on the South Fork American River where California's commercial whitewater rafting industry got its start. No current website was located under this name, so operating status is unconfirmed.

Placerville

The American River Conservancy runs Wakamatsu Farm in Placerville, site of the 1869 Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony — the first Japanese colony in the United States. FogDog Farm now grows organic food on the land, and the Conservancy opens it for Open Farm Days on spring and fall Saturdays ($10 per vehicle) plus docent-led tours booked two weeks out.

Grass Valley

The Haunted Pumpkin Patch in Grass Valley runs a pumpkin patch by day and a haunted house by night through November, with separate mild (ages 5+) and scarier evening experiences. Daytime admission is $15; nighttime tickets run $15-$20 depending on age. They take cash, credit, and Venmo.

Grass Valley

Linda Grace's Place Farm is on Friendly Valley Place outside Grass Valley, in the pine-and-oak foothill country of Nevada County, old Gold Rush terrain that today supports small orchards, pasture, and mixed homestead farms at elevation. No further confirmed details on what the farm grows or offers visitors.

Garden Valley

Also known as Rustic Dream Farmstead, Berry Heaven is a family-run u-pick operation in Garden Valley near historic Coloma, growing eleven varieties of blueberries alongside blackberries, raspberries, apples, and strawberries from May through November. A petting zoo and school tour program round out visits, with an on-farm market selling what didn't get picked.

Colfax

Charleston Lavender Farm sits at the corner of Yankee Jims and Pine Hollow roads in Colfax, where visitors can walk the rows during Lavender U-Pick Days on Fridays and Sundays each June and July. Open house weekends bring in other local vendors selling handcrafted goods alongside the farm's lavender products.

Placerville

The Rice family has run this u-pick cherry and berry farm off Highway 49 near Placerville since 1994. Four cherry varieties and seven berry varieties, including raspberry, boysenberry, and olallieberry, ripen from late spring into summer, with a one-acre picnic lawn and koi pond on site. Entry runs $5 a person, and some years the cherry crop fails outright to weather.

Wheatland

Bill and Sandy Bishop started this Wheatland farm in 1973 and it now claims the largest u-pick pumpkin field anywhere, with hayrides pulling visitors out into the rows. A corn maze, carousel, petting zoo, and Mrs. B's Country Bakery round out the grounds, plus Bishop's Other Cider for the 21-and-up crowd. The 2026 season runs September 4 through November 15.

Garden Valley

Rome Valley Vineyards is on Traverse Creek Road in Garden Valley, part of the El Dorado wine region in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Placerville. Growers here plant at elevations up to 3,000 feet, producing wine distinct from California's flatland Central Valley vineyards.

Rio Oso

Hudson Orchards is listed on Bear River Drive in Rio Oso, a small Sutter County community in the Sacramento Valley long known for peach and plum orchards. No working website or social page turned up in research, so current crops, sales, or hours could not be confirmed.

Penn Valley

Lazy Valley Ranch grows pick-your-own blueberries and blackberries in the Sierra foothills near Penn Valley, using organic-approved sprays and fertilizers on its rows. The ranch keeps informal hours — Sunday through Thursday, 9am to 4pm, closed Friday and Saturday — with no appointment needed. Cash and checks only.

Bierwagen's Donner Trail Fruit and Pumpkin Patch is a working family farm on Lower Colfax Road near Grass Valley, open Wednesday through Sunday during its season. Beyond u-pick and pre-gathered fruit, the farm runs a mini corn maze, hay and wagon rides, a petting zoo, pony rides, and sells honey harvested from its own hives on site.

Rough and Ready

Amaizing Cattle Drive is listed on Cattle Drive Road in Rough and Ready, a small unincorporated Nevada County community in Gold Country. Its name suggests a corn maze paired with a cattle-drive attraction, a common fall agritourism combination in the region, but no working website turned up to confirm current activities or season.

Grass Valley

The Draft Horse Classic and Harvest Fair has run at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley since 1987, billed as the premier draft horse show in the western United States. Pulling competitions, halter classes, driving classes, and choreographed performances fill the arena under the fairgrounds' tall pines each September. The harvest fair side adds vendors and seasonal programming alongside the horse events.

Grass Valley

McClaughry Farms Honey keeps bees along Colfax Highway outside Grass Valley, in the Sierra foothills of Nevada County. No current product list or contact details are available online.

Placerville

Smokey Ridge Farmstead & Winery is on Carson Road in Placerville, part of the Apple Hill growing district in El Dorado County. Carson Road anchors a strip of wineries, farm stands, and orchards that draw Sacramento-area visitors into the Sierra foothills each fall.

Placerville

Pine'O'Mine is a third-generation family farm on Carson Road in the Apple Hill district above Placerville, with u-pick apples, mainly Granny Smith and Pink Lady, running late August through mid-December, plus summer u-pick blueberries, a fall pumpkin patch, and fresh-cut Christmas trees. The barn serves food and local beer with live music most weekends from May through December.

This four-generation family ranch on Carson Road sits in the Apple Hill growing region and opens Labor Day weekend through Christmas Eve. Visitors pick up apple-barn goods, bakery items, and candy, plus a mining sluice activity and a life-size maze for kids. Standard hours run 8:30am to 5:30pm, with shortened hours on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.

Sacramento

The Becker family has kept bees since 1920, and four generations later they run The Bee Box out of a Sacramento storefront stocked with raw honey, pollen, royal jelly, and beeswax. Across the 12,000-plus hives they manage, the shop offers daily honey tastings and a seasonal observation hive so visitors can watch bees work behind glass. They also handle swarm removal and sell packaged bees to backyard keepers.

Wilton

Fog Willow Farms is listed on Cecatra Drive in Wilton, in the rural stretch of Sacramento County known for small dairies, vineyards, and equestrian properties along the Cosumnes River. The farm's old website domain no longer resolves to working content, and no other details are published online.

Placerville

Lava Cap Winery has grown estate grapes at 2,700 feet in the Apple Hill district of the Sierra Foothills since the Jones family planted the vineyard in 1986. The volcanic ash soils on the property produce Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Barbera, Zinfandel, and Petite Sirah described as intensely aromatic. The tasting room opens daily from 10am to 5pm, with picnic tables set among the vines for anyone who wants to stay through lunch.

Grass Valley

Loma Rica Organic Farm sits on the Loma Rica bench above Grass Valley, a flat stretch of Nevada County farmland at higher elevation than the surrounding Sierra foothill mining country — well-drained ground that's long drawn small organic growers. No verified specifics on this farm's current crops, CSA, or hours turned up online this session.

Camino

High Sierra Iris & Wedding Gardens is on Hassler Road in Camino, California, in the El Dorado County Sierra foothills known locally as Apple Hill, the region's orchard and harvest-tourism belt.

A registered California farm operation on Striplin Road in Nicolaus, Sutter County, in the flat Sacramento Valley farmland north of the delta.

Camino

Wofford Acres Vineyards sits on Hidden Valley Lane in Camino, within the Apple Hill area of the El Dorado County Sierra foothills, a region better known for apple orchards than vineyards. A working website was not reachable during research, so current tasting room hours and wine list could not be confirmed.

Placerville

High Hill Ranch is part of Apple Hill, the cluster of orchards and farms above Placerville in El Dorado County. Its website highlights pie-baking instructions, consistent with the ranch's reputation for take-home pies alongside its apple orchards. No further confirmed details on cider, restaurant hours, or seasonal activities.

Camino

Sun Mountain Farm sits on North Canyon Road in Camino, inside El Dorado County's Apple Hill district, the volcanic-soil, roughly 3,000-foot elevation band that supports the area's dozens of apple orchards and Christmas tree farms. No public listing yet confirms which crops this specific farm sells direct.

Camino

Apple Hill orchard on North Canyon Road known for the Apple Ridge Express, a miniature train that's run through the fall season for over 40 years. There's a fruit stand and bake shop on-site, open Friday through Sunday from late September to Thanksgiving. Listed among UC Davis's recognized farm trails and part of the 120-plus-member El Dorado County Farm Trails.

Camino

Goyette's North Canyon Ranch is on North Canyon Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district of El Dorado County, a cluster of high-elevation ranches known for apples, pumpkins, and fall farm visits above Placerville. No further confirmed details on Goyette's specific crops, hours, or activities.

Camino

Celtic Gardens sits on Canyon Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district of El Dorado County. At roughly 3,000 feet in the Sierra foothills, the area's volcanic soil and cool nights have made it one of Northern California's best-known apple, pumpkin, and wine-grape regions.

Placerville

Tomary Heirloom Tomatoes & Dahlias grows on Pleasant Valley Road outside Placerville, in the Sierra foothill farm country south of Apple Hill. The name states the crops plainly: heirloom tomato varieties and dahlia flowers, grown at an elevation that gives El Dorado County warm days and cool nights through the growing season.

Plymouth

Amador Flower Farm in Plymouth grows more than 1,200 daylily varieties across 4 acres of demonstration gardens, plus a nursery and gift shop. They ship plants online March through November and are open daily 9am-4pm in season (Thursday-Sunday in winter).

Placerville

Pleasant Valley Harvest is a small farm property on Bucks Bar Road outside Placerville, listed in local business directories as a market and event space for orchard products, weddings, and gatherings. Business records list around two employees. It's a modest operation — call ahead of a visit rather than showing up unannounced.

Camino

Argyres Orchard sits on Apple Hill in Camino, where some of the apple trees are more than 80 years old. Visitors pick their own apples and Concord grapes on weekends only, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting in late September and running until harvest is picked clean. Bring cash or a checkbook — the orchard doesn't take cards. Owner Maryann Argyres has run the place for decades.

Camino

Honey Bear Ranch is on Barkley Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district above Placerville, and is listed locally under both agritourism and honey. No further confirmed details on hive count, honey varieties, or visiting hours.

Camino

Ralph's Apple Ranch is a pick-your-own orchard on Larsen Road in the Apple Hill district of Camino, growing apples exclusively rather than mixed fruit. It's a small, single-crop u-pick stop within El Dorado County's fall apple region.

Camino

Larsen Apple Barn has stayed in the same family since the 1860s, making it the longest continuously family-owned farm on Apple Hill. Eight generations later, the ranch still grows apples, pears, and nectarines, and sells them alongside baked goods from its own bakeshop and a small farm museum. The barn opens Sunday through Friday from Labor Day through December, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and stays closed on Saturdays during the season.

Plymouth

Amador Country Acres sits on Fiddletown Road outside Plymouth, in Amador County's Shenandoah Valley wine and orchard district. No further details on crops, hours, or products turned up online at the time of this listing.