Farms Near Poolesville, MD

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].

Pirate Adventure Corn Maze is a seasonal corn maze in western Montgomery County, off Darnestown Road near Beallsville. It's listed as a fall agritourism stop on regional corn-maze directories alongside Maryland's other pick-your-own farms. Call ahead to confirm the current season's hours and maze design before driving out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The National Drive-Thru Market operated at 18980 Upper Belmont Place in Leesburg, near the National Conference Center grounds in Loudoun County. The drive-thru format let shoppers pick up local produce and farm goods without leaving their cars, a model that spread across Northern Virginia during the pandemic. Loudoun is prime farm-and-vineyard country west of Washington. Verify whether the market still runs, and on what schedule, 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.

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.

The Cascades Farmers Market sets up at the senior center lot in the Cascades area of Sterling, in eastern Loudoun County. Loudoun holds one of Northern Virginia's most active farm belts, so seasonal markets here draw vegetables, orchard fruit, meats, and baked goods from county growers.

Leesburg

A small Leesburg farm on Limestone School Road specializing in seasonal Indian vegetables, greens, roots, herbs, and flowers grown for local families and restaurants. It runs as a CSA with an on-farm market that takes cash, cards, Venmo, and PayPal. The growers put real emphasis on rebuilding healthy living soil on a deliberately small scale. Hard-to-find South Asian produce is the draw here.

This farmers market operates on the grounds of Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard in Dickerson, about 30 minutes from the Capital Beltway. Local growers sell seasonal fruit, vegetables, baked goods, and flowers spring through fall, giving winery visitors a stop for fresh food alongside the estate's Bordeaux-style wines. The rolling vineyard setting makes it more destination than errand.

Leesburg

Fabbioli Cellars makes wine on Limestone School Road in Leesburg, in Loudoun County's wine country. The winery leans earth-friendly and pours in a tasting room open Thursday through Monday, with tours and events on the schedule. It sits among the cluster of vineyards north of town near the Potomac.

Leesburg

Dickerson

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.

Leesburg

Germantown

This Saturday market runs at 518 Goldsmith Lane in Great Falls, a wooded Fairfax County community near the Potomac in Northern Virginia. Regional farms and food makers sell produce, meat, bread, and eggs to area residents. Like most Northern Virginia markets, it follows the spring-through-fall growing season.

Adamstown

Sugarloaf Alpaca Co. raises alpacas in Adamstown, near Frederick and the Sugarloaf Mountain landmark the farm takes its name from. No working website or active social page turned up in research, so farm visits, fiber sales, or breeding stock availability should be confirmed directly with the owners.

Leesburg

Loudounberry Farm and Garden on James Monroe Highway (Route 15) in Leesburg sells fresh produce, apple cider, pumpkins, fresh-baked pies, and plant seedlings, plus eggs, milk, and non-GMO poultry feed. The farm also raises laying pullets and quail and sells fresh turkeys. Pickup runs through the Loudounberry Market and the nearby Lucketts Farmers Market.

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.

Leesburg

A seasonal roadside produce stand on Route 15, the James Monroe Highway, south of Leesburg in Loudoun County. Stands along this corridor generally sell locally grown sweet corn, tomatoes, and summer vegetables, moving to apples, pumpkins, and gourds as fall arrives.

Leesburg

Leesburg

Brossman Family Farm sits on James Monroe Highway (Route 15) south of Leesburg, in Loudoun County's farm belt. It runs as a family agritourism operation, though specifics aren't posted online. Loudoun's Route 15 corridor is lined with seasonal produce stands and pick-your-own stops, and this address falls along that stretch.

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.

Germantown

The Upcounty Hub is a farmers market at 12900 Middlebrook Road in Germantown, serving Montgomery County's upcounty communities north of the I-270 corridor. No independent website or social page was found to confirm current market days or vendor list.

Sterling

Cornerstones runs its FREE from Hunger Center to move surplus pantry staples and fresh produce from donors to families across northern Virginia. The Sterling location on Glenn Drive is one of the nonprofit's food-distribution points; Cornerstones itself is headquartered in Reston. Expect grocery staples and seasonal produce rather than a retail farm stand. The organization coordinates pickups and referrals through its main office.

Darnestown

Leesburg

This Saturday market runs at Loudoun Station, the mixed-use development beside the Ashburn Metro stop at the end of the Silver Line. Central Station Drive sits in eastern Loudoun County, one of the fastest-growing corners of Northern Virginia. Vendors bring produce and prepared food to the plaza during the warmer months for the surrounding apartment and office crowd.

Leesburg

The Leesburg Saturday Farmers Market runs year-round at the Virginia Village Shopping Center on Catoctin Circle SE, with summer hours of 8 a.m. to noon from May through October. More than 50 vendors bring grass-fed meat, goat cheese and milk, fresh produce and berries, artisan bread, honey and maple syrup, plants and flowers, and prepared foods from empanadas to pho. Loudoun Valley HomeGrown Markets operates it.

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.

Adamstown

The Herndon Farmers Market sets up on Lynn Street beside the town's historic train depot and red caboose, along the Washington & Old Dominion Trail in Fairfax County. Regional growers bring produce, meats, breads, and flowers through the season. Herndon's old rail corridor is now one of Northern Virginia's busiest cycling and walking paths.

Gaithersburg's Main Street Farmers Market runs year-round, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Main Street Pavilion. Vendors sell fresh produce, microgreens, mushrooms, plants and flowers, plus prepared meals and baked goods. The market accepts SNAP/EBT, eWIC, FMNP, and Montgomery Moves More e-Incentive cards, making it one of the few markets in the county running through winter.

Clarksburg

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.

Lake Anne Plaza Reston

This Saturday market fills Lake Anne Plaza, the original 1960s village center of Reston with its modernist waterfront architecture. Growers and food vendors from the Northern Virginia region sell produce, meat, bread, and cut flowers beside the plaza through the growing season.

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.

The Great Falls Farmers Market runs every Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., year-round in the Walker Road parking lot in Great Falls, a semi-rural, affluent corner of Fairfax County near the Potomac. The outdoor market brings together regional growers and food producers each week. Its name nods to the falls of the Potomac at nearby Great Falls Park.

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.

Clarksburg

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.

Lovettsville

Lovettsville

Patowmack Farm is one of Virginia's oldest certified-organic farms, set on a hillside above the Potomac in Lovettsville, Loudoun County. It is best known for its farm-to-table restaurant, where the kitchen cooks around what the surrounding gardens and greenhouses produce. The property also hosts weddings and events overlooking the river.

Leesburg

Fleetwood Farm Winery pours tastings amid gardens and vineyard rows on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg, in the thick of Loudoun County wine country. The kitchen turns out food pairings, and the calendar carries trivia nights, live music, weddings, and private events. Visits are 21-and-up most days, though children are welcome on Sundays and at private bookings. Weekend hours run late; the winery closes Monday and Tuesday.

Burnt Hill Farm is 117 acres of vineyard and polyculture farmland in Clarksburg, inside the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve, purchased in 2016 and built around regenerative, animal-integrated farming rather than a single cash crop. The estate makes its own wine and runs a wood-fired kitchen led by chef Tae Strain, with Food & Wine naming it one of the country's most beautiful vineyards. Visits run through ticketed tastings booked online, not walk-in.

Germantown

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.

Great Falls

Reston

This market stood on Wiehle Avenue in Reston, Fairfax County's planned community, near the Wiehle-Reston East Metro station. It operated as part of the Smart Markets network of Northern Virginia producer markets. Reston's dense, walkable neighborhoods gave the market a steady base of shoppers looking for regional fruit, vegetables, and farm products.

Montgomery Village

Montgomery Village's farmers market sets up Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot of Christ the Servant Lutheran Church on Centerway Road. Vendors including Abundant Grace Farm, Canela Bakery, and Holy Crepes sell produce and prepared foods to the surrounding community. The market was built specifically to give this planned community a weekly gathering point, not just a shopping stop.

Rockville

Germantown

Listed as an orchard, but the address shown (Wildcat Road, ZIP 20876) maps to Germantown, Maryland, not Washington State, so the location in this record appears to be an error. No verified crop or contact details are available for the Washington listing.

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.

Reston

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.