Farms Near Oakland, CA

Oakland

Set inside the Fruitvale Transit Village at 3411 E. 12th St., steps from BART, this market is run by the Unity Council as part of a larger community hub. Vendors sell fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables alongside Latin American food stalls and crafts. Call the Unity Council at 510-535-7178 to confirm the current market day — listings disagree on whether it runs Thursdays or Sundays.

Alameda

Tuesday and Saturday market at 1451 Harbor Bay Pkwy. in Alameda, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall. It's part of the PCFMA (Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association) network, which runs certified markets across the Bay Area sourced directly from grower-vendors.

Oakland

Saturday market at Splash Pad Park, Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue in Oakland, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., year-round. Run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, it has operated near Lake Merritt since the late 1990s and grew substantially after the park's 2003 redesign by Oakland architect Walter Hood. Expect organic produce, flowers, coffee, and prepared foods like dim sum, with grassy space to eat under the palm trees.

Alameda

This Alameda address is Niman Ranch's corporate office rather than a working farm open to visitors. Niman Ranch is a natural, sustainably raised meat brand supplied by a network of more than 600 independent family farms and ranches nationwide, raised without antibiotics or added hormones under Certified Humane standards. Farm visits happen at individual member ranches, not at this office.

Alameda

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association operates a certified market in Alameda's West End near Haight Avenue and Webster Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Alameda is an island city in the East Bay, and the market draws growers from Central Valley and coastal farms who sell direct rather than through wholesale.

Oakland

A food hub listing in Oakland, California. No verified details on growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

San Leandro

Schmitz Ranch has raised livestock for the Bay Area since 1944, now in its third generation of the Schmitz family running the operation. It's registered as a wholesale meat business rather than a pick-your-own farm, so hours and product availability are best confirmed by phone before a visit. The ranch operates out of 410 Hester Street in San Leandro.

Oakland

Oakland

Planting Justice runs what it calls North America's most biodiverse urban nursery, stocking more than 1,500 plant varieties from its East Oakland and El Sobrante, California locations. The organization hires and trains formerly incarcerated people as nursery staff, pairing plant sales with reentry jobs, youth programs, and food-access work across the Bay Area.

Oakland

This Oakland lot on Piedmont Avenue has sold pumpkins to the neighborhood for over two decades, open daily 9am-8pm through the first week of November. Hay bales and a small kids' area sit alongside the pumpkin selection, which reviewers note runs smaller and pricier than a farm-based patch. Located at 4414 Piedmont Avenue.

Oakland

Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center hosts a certified farmers market on its Broadway campus, running seasonally in spring through fall. Local growers bring fresh produce to the hospital grounds for patients, staff, and the surrounding Pill Hill neighborhood. Confirm this season's exact day and hours before visiting, since Kaiser's hospital-campus markets shift with staffing and season.

Johann and Wendy started Hidden Star Orchards in 2002, growing CCOF-certified organic apples, blueberries, cherries, and pomegranates in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The fruit becomes cider, applesauce, preserves, and dried fruit at their San Leandro warehouse, sold through Bay Area farmers markets including Ferry Plaza and Heart of the City. A separate taproom and bakery in Camino pours 24 ciders on tap.

Oakland

Bee Healthy Honey Shop is a family business with beekeeping roots that trace back four generations to Yemen, now selling raw local honey, pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and candles out of a small storefront on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. Staff will transfer pollen into glass jars on request. It's a walk-in retail shop rather than a working apiary — a place to buy honey, not to visit hives.

Alameda

Speer Family Farm sets up on Ferry Point in Alameda, on the shoreline flats near the old naval air station rather than open farmland — this stretch of the island city hosts seasonal tree lots and pop-up patches more often than year-round growing operations. No verified details on current offerings or hours turned up online this session.

Oakland

The Freedom Farmers' Market serves as a gathering place that is creating harmony while offering a variety of produce, fruits, and healthy foods grown by Black farmers and other underserved farmers. People come to the Market not only to shop, but to socialize and to reconnect with a history that ties food to land, culture and community building.

Oakland

Over the last one hundred years the majority of food production, processing and distribution became consolidated into a handful of large corporations. So began the fast decline of our country’s small farms and farmers. The process of building resiliency in our local food system starts with diversifying supply back into the hands of many small farms and ensuring their continued operations and growth. Understanding this, in 1999 David Evans founded Marin Sun Farms as an extension of his upbringing

Oakland

This Oakland listing sits on Market Street under the name Raising the Hope Freedom, but no working website, phone number, or social page could be verified for it. Treat the address and hours as unconfirmed until the operator updates the listing directly.

Oakland

Oakland

Listed in West Oakland near the Mandela Marketplace corridor, part of a cluster of worker- and community-owned food businesses built to bring fresh produce distribution into a neighborhood long underserved by grocery retail. Specific details on this listing's current operations were not independently verified.

Oakland

Clove & Hoof is an Oakland restaurant on Broadway serving a butcher-driven menu of classics — the burger and the cheesesteak lead the list — alongside a rotating slate of kitchen specials and Sunday brunch. Open daily from 11 AM to 8 PM with online ordering for pickup and delivery.

Oakland

Marin Sun Farms runs whole-animal butcher shops selling grass-fed, pasture-raised beef, lamb, goat and pork, plus poultry and eggs, all raised without antibiotics or hormones. The company sources from a network of Northern California ranches and operates what it describes as the last remaining slaughterhouse in the Bay Area. Its retail butcher shop sits inside Rockridge Market Hall in Oakland; the company's offices are in Petaluma.

San Leandro

San Leandro's downtown market closes off Parrott Street between E. 14th and Washington Wednesdays from April through October, 3 to 7 p.m. It's a smaller, after-work market than the city's Saturday Bayfair market — produce, cut flowers, and baked goods packed into a few downtown blocks instead of a mall parking lot. Exact start and end dates shift year to year, so it's worth checking before the first spring visit.

Dow Village

Royal Food Hub appears in local food directories as a small organic provider based in Dow Village. Beyond that listing, no website, hours, or product details could be verified — worth a call before visiting if you're in the area.

San Leandro

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this certified market on the Kaiser Permanente San Leandro campus at 2500 Merced Street. Local growers bring fresh, seasonal produce and goods to hospital staff, patients, and San Leandro residents as part of PCFMA's Bay Area network of more than 30 certified markets.

Berkeley

Emeryville

This market's address places it at the Bay Street shopping center at 5616 Bay Street in Emeryville, though a check of Bay Street's own site turned up no active farmers market listing — Emeryville's Saturday market now runs instead at the Public Market on Shellmound Street. Confirm before visiting; the listing may be outdated or the market may have relocated.

Berkeley

Bay Area Green Tours operated agricultural and sustainability-focused tours out of Berkeley, on Allston Way near downtown.

Alex Market is listed as a market in California. We haven't found a working website or verifiable listing for this business, so location and product details aren't confirmed.

Berkeley

Berkeley

The Local Butcher Shop sources whole animals from local farms and butchers them in-house at 1600 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, turning out sausages, pates and roasts alongside stocks and rendered fat from a zero-waste approach. The shop also teaches in-person and online butchery classes and runs a rotating Butcher Basket subscription.

Community Grains mills and sells 100% whole-grain flour, pasta, polenta, and bread from grain grown by Northern California farmers using regenerative practices, based in Oakland on College Avenue.

Every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., more than 40 California farmers and food purveyors set up at Moraga Way and Moraga Road, drawing shoppers from Moraga, Lafayette, and Orinda. Produce is typically picked hours before the market opens. The market is run by the California Farmers' Markets Association and adds seasonal events like a Halloween costume parade and an Easter egg hunt.

Berkeley

San Leandro

The Bayfair market has run every Saturday since 1994, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the mall's parking lot at 15555 E. 14th St. The California Farmers' Markets Association runs it, pulling in more than 45 growers and food producers — Brentwood corn, Delta asparagus, Watsonville berries. It draws shoppers from San Leandro, Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, and Hayward, and takes EBT. Its exact spot in the lot shifts through the season.

Orinda

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company is listed as a natural foods grocer in Berkeley, California. We haven't found a working website or current listing for this business, so product details and hours aren't confirmed for this listing.

San Leandro

Dig Deep Farms & Produce is a CSA and produce operation based in the Ashland area of unincorporated San Leandro, in Alameda County. Its website is under construction, so crop details, share pricing, and pickup locations are not confirmed online at this time; contact the farm directly for current offerings.

San Leandro

A farm listing in San Leandro, California. The operation's website was still in pre-launch status during research, with crops, hours, and products not yet published.

Berkeley

The Natural Grocery Company is an independently owned organic grocer with stores in El Cerrito and Berkeley, plus a Prepared Food Annex serving housemade meals, wine, and beer. The stores are known for organic produce, florists offering fresh local cut and dried bouquets, weekly sales flyers, and the Annex Sessions live music series.

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.

El Cerrito

A weekly farmers market at El Cerrito Plaza, a Contra Costa County shopping center next to the El Cerrito Plaza BART station.

Richards Regenerative — five generations of California ranchers with roots outside Sacramento since 1941 — raises American Grassfed Certified beef that also carries the Savory Institute's Land-to-Market Ecological Outcome Verification. Launched as Richards Ranch Meats in 2014 to sell directly to customers, the ranch now ships ground beef bundles, ribeyes, New York steaks, and country blends nationwide.

San Francisco

Gus’s Market has been a local neighborhood staple for more than 40 years. In all that time, we’ve worked out how to serve best: you like to find the highest quality version of what you’re looking for, at great prices. Our family still heads out on the floor to make sure you’ve got everything you need, because we don’t just call ourselves mom n’ pop – we strive to make you part of our family.

San Francisco

Gus’s Market has been a local neighborhood staple for more than 40 years. In all that time, we’ve worked out how to serve best: you like to find the highest quality version of what you’re looking for, at great prices. Our family still heads out on the floor to make sure you’ve got everything you need, because we don’t just call ourselves mom n’ pop – we strive to make you part of our family.

San Francisco

San Francisco

Mission Bay Farmers' Market operates on Gene Friend Way between 3rd and 4th Streets in San Francisco's Mission Bay district, near UCSF's Mission Bay campus. It serves a fast-growing neighborhood of offices, labs, and new residential towers built largely since the 2000s.

The Ferry Building Marketplace counter is Carmel Honey Company's San Francisco stall, selling the same raw, unfiltered honey the company harvests from its own hives at its Monterey County locations. Look for jarred honey, honeycomb, and honey-based bath and beauty items alongside the company's gift boxes.

Castro Valley

Castro Valley Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round at the Castro Valley BART station, rain or shine. Urban Village Farmers' Markets operates it and matches EBT spending dollar for dollar up to $15 on fruits and vegetables, a real discount, not a marketing line. The market also takes WIC and Veggie Rx vouchers.

Saturday market at Hayward City Hall Plaza, 777 B St., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round, rain or shine. Run by Agricultural Institute of Marin organizers, it has grown past 35 regular vendors — nearly 60 during summer — over more than two decades, and sits one block from BART.

San Francisco

The Crocker Galleria farmers market sets up under the glass dome at 50 Post St in San Francisco's Financial District every Thursday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It's a lunch-hour market built for downtown office workers — organic produce next to ready-to-eat bolani, tamales, smoked seafood, and chocolate. Shoppers note prices run a notch below the Ferry Building market a few blocks away, which is part of why the line moves fast at noon.

Walnut Creek

This one comes with a catch most markets don't have: it's open only to Rossmoor residents and their families, run out of the Gateway parking lot near Golden Rain Road and Tice Valley Road every Friday, May through October, 9:30am to 1pm. Fifteen-plus local farmers sell produce and flowers alongside prepackaged and hot food. Non-residents get pointed to the Saturday Diablo Valley Farmers' Market in Walnut Creek instead.

San Francisco

Alemany opened in 1943 as California's first farmers market and still runs every Saturday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 100 Alemany Boulevard in Bernal Heights. Locals call it "the People's Market" for its low stall fees and mix of home cooks and restaurant buyers. Since 2026 the nonprofit Foodwise has operated the market with the City of San Francisco, working with dozens of small family farms on seasonal produce. Free parking on site, and CalFresh and WIC are accepted.

San Francisco

Mission Food Hub formed in May 2020 to get culturally appropriate groceries to San Francisco's Latino families, and it still runs a grocery distribution every Friday at 701 Alabama Street. Volunteers add extra distributions around Thanksgiving and Christmas. The hub grew out of Mission District mutual aid during the pandemic and has stayed focused on food equity in the neighborhood since.

San Francisco

San Francisco's only independent, farmer-run nonprofit market, operating since 1981. It spent decades at UN Plaza before relocating to Fulton Plaza in 2024, and still draws roughly 55 farmers on Wednesdays and Sundays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., year-round — one of the few markets in the city open every week, including holidays.

San Francisco

Located at 1745 Folsom St, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative has been in San Francisco’s Mission District since 1975. For nearly 50 years we have provided affordable vegetarian food products which have minimal negative impact both ecologically and socially; buying goods from local organic farmers and vendors whenever possible.