Farms Near Rockford, IL

Rockford

Rockford's Midtown Farmers' Market runs Friday afternoons, 3 to 7 p.m., mid-May through mid-October, in the Midtown District at 1131 2nd Avenue. It's a growers-only market — no resellers — with ethnic food stalls, coffee, live music, and activities for kids alongside the produce tables, and it accepts SNAP.

Rockford

Roots & Wings is a half-acre urban farm on Rockford Housing Authority property at Blackhawk Courts, run as a youth-led CSA that pairs agricultural training with community service. Members can sign up for Summer and Fall shares, with weekly premium shares running $360 and biweekly half shares at $180.

Rockford

Rockford City Market runs every Friday from 3 to 8 p.m. where State Street meets Water Street downtown. The Rockford Rock River Development Partnership organizes it as a weekly gathering spot, mixing produce and maker stalls with live music and food trucks. It's built to pull people downtown on a weeknight rather than a Saturday morning, and it runs through the warmer months alongside the city's other riverfront programming.

Rockford

North End Commons is a separate weekly market in Rockford's North End, based out of a city lot near Latham and King streets rather than the longer-running Main and Auburn market a few blocks over. Vendors sell seasonal produce, baked goods, and handcrafted items through the spring and fall growing season. It's smaller and newer than its North End neighbor, worth checking for a shorter line.

Main St & Auburn St Rockford

North End City Market has run for more than 20 years at Main and Auburn streets in Rockford's historic North End, Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., May through October. Vendors sell seasonal produce, baked goods, and handmade items, and the market welcomes dogs on leash. It sits within walking distance of the neighborhood's art galleries and antique shops.

HCC Realty Farmers Market sets up in the parking lot at 1280 S. Alpine Rd. in Rockford on Friday mornings, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall. It's a smaller neighborhood market rather than a downtown destination, with a rotating handful of vendors selling fresh produce and farm goods.

Colonial Village Farmers' Market, also known locally as the Forest City Farmers Market, sets up at 1240 S. Alpine Road on Rockford's east side. It's one of several neighborhood markets the city supports outside the larger downtown market, giving Alpine-area shoppers a closer option for produce and local goods without the drive downtown.

Rockford

Curran's Orchard is listed on Kilburn Avenue (Route 70) in Rockford. No verifiable website or business listing was found describing current fruit varieties or picking season.

Rockford's Edgebrook Farmers Market runs Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through October, on Alpine Road. Vendors sell produce, organic meats, flowers, plants, honey, farm eggs, jams, jellies, and artisan cheese — one of the longer-running seasonal markets in the area.

Rockford-Shumway Farmers Market operates out of the Shumway neighborhood on the city's south side, at 5633 Linden Road. Directory listings describe a small, spring-through-fall market of local produce and goods rather than a large event — the kind of stand you'd find by asking a neighbor, not searching a festival calendar. Some listings mark it inactive, so call ahead before making a special trip.

Rockford

Lockwood Park Haunted Hayride is a seasonal haunted-hayride event at Rockford's Lockwood Park, running as part of the city's fall haunted-attraction lineup rather than a year-round operation. It follows a limited October schedule, so specific dates and ticket details are worth confirming before planning a visit.

Four Sisters Organic Farm is a small, USDA-certified organic operation in Cherry Valley built around asparagus, with cut flowers, dry beans, herbs, and seasonal fruits and vegetables filling out the stand. The farmstand runs daily, weather permitting, and the family accommodates off-hours visits if you call first. Wild-harvested forest products round out an unusually varied lineup for a farm this size.

Cherry Valley

Valley Orchard sits on East State Street in Cherry Valley, in the Rock River valley of northern Illinois. Little turns up about the farm beyond its listing details — no working website or social page surfaced in a search. Best confirmed by a call before visiting.

Rockford

Lost and Found Farm is a small Rockford homestead raising cage-free, free-range chickens alongside produce and honeybees. Fresh eggs run $5 a dozen, sold through weekly or biweekly pickup arrangements coordinated directly with the farm. It's a home operation, not a retail storefront — reach out through Facebook to reserve a spot.

Davis Junction

Pete's Poultry raises rare and specialty poultry breeds on a small farm in northern Illinois, selling free-range eggs, specialty eggs, and hatching eggs by appointment or on weekends. It's open Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., a hobby-scale operation built around breed variety rather than volume.

Rockford

Cherry Valley

Bethkes' Farm Apples grows apples on Cherry Valley Road outside Rockford, part of the u-pick orchard circuit in the Rock River valley. No website or listed hours turned up online, so calling ahead before an autumn visit is the safer bet.

Stillman Valley

Davis Junction Farmer's Market sets up along Route 72 in this small Ogle County community, one of the smallest towns listed in Illinois' statewide farmers market directory. It's a modest, local operation rather than a destination market.

Winnebago

Caledonia

A family-run pumpkin patch operates every fall on Illinois Route 173 outside Caledonia, offering a corn maze, barnyard animals, and tractor-pulled hayrides across the grounds. A heated barn stocks pre-picked pumpkins for anyone who'd rather skip the walk into the field. The farm runs daily through the end of October, weather permitting.

Harrison Market Gardens is a Wisconsin market-garden operation, the kind of small farm that grows vegetables and flowers for local sale. Public details were limited, so its exact town and full product list aren't confirmed here.

Stillman Valley

Stillman Valley Nursery operates on Kishwaukee Road in Ogle County, in the farmland between Rockford and Rochelle. No public website or social listing turned up online, so current plant stock and hours are best confirmed by phone.

Caledonia

Wind Ridge Herb Farm grows more than 400 varieties of culinary and medicinal herbs on Certified Naturally Grown ground in Caledonia, with no synthetic fertilizers or dyes anywhere in the process. Owner Liz Fiorenza, a registered nurse and clinical aromatherapist, sells fresh plants, dried herbs, teas, and essential oils, and offers one-on-one consultations by appointment. Seasonal themed dinners run through the summer.

Stillman Valley

Brass Family Farm in Stillman Valley, 15 minutes south of Rockford, has been in the family for over 100 years, with fourth-generation Stephen Brass running daily operations. The farm sells premium 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef in quarter, half, and whole shares plus smaller beef boxes for farm pickup — raised on convictions of healing the soil and feeding families clean, nutrient-dense food, backed by 80+ five-star reviews.

Roscoe

Margie's Grass Kickin' Chicken raises USDA-inspected pastured chicken, breakfast pork sausage, and fresh brown eggs on a small farm outside Roscoe, alongside chemical-free seasonal vegetables. The farm runs a CSA from June through October and sells direct at the Beloit Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. Cash and check only.

Sweet Harvest Co. is listed as a farm or producer in Illinois. No product list, location, or contact details are published online for this listing.

Belvidere

Belvidere's Farmer's Market and Crafts has run since 1987 and is the only farmers market left in Boone County. It sets up Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October, at 1940 N. State Street, with vegetables, fruit, crafts, local specialties, and organic goods sharing table space. Check the market's Facebook group, Belvidere Farmers Market and Crafts, for weekly vendor updates.

Roscoe

Prairie Hill Meats is a meat market in South Beloit, Illinois, just across the state line from Beloit, Wisconsin. The counter carries beef, chicken, ham, and seafood, and cuts to custom sizes on order. They also assemble gift and holiday meat boxes. Open weekdays, with pickup at the shop.

Caledonia

Lindberg Pumpkin Patch farms seven acres on Illinois Route 173 outside Caledonia, with a Harvest Barn stocking pre-picked pumpkins for anyone who'd rather skip the walk into the field. The farm runs tractor rides, a corn maze, and barnyard animals through the fall, and calls itself northern Illinois' favorite fall stop — a claim the reviews seem to back up. Open daily 9am to 6pm, September 11 through Halloween.

South Beloit

A separate market from Belvidere's longer-running Farmer's Market and Crafts, Hometown Market operates out of 324 South State Street through the B-Town Cooperative. It brings together local farmers, food artisans, and community vendors for an open-air setup in downtown Belvidere. Call the cooperative for current hours and vendor space.

Belvidere

Summerfield Zoo is a privately owned zoo in Belvidere holding exotic animals that include mountain lions, zebras, lemurs, alligators, giant tortoises, wolves, reindeer, and monkeys, many of them rescues. A petting-zoo area lets visitors get closer with baby goats and other animal ambassadors. It sits a few miles off I-90, convenient to the Rockford area.

Rockton

Beloit

Beloit

Our indoor market starts the first Saturday in November and ends the last Saturday in April. Rain or shine.

Angelic Organics Learning Center, now operating as Farmers Rising, runs farm-based education from 1936 Rockton Road in Caledonia, Illinois, just south of the Wisconsin line. Programs include farmer training, an incubator farm, farm camps and field trips for kids, CSA boxes, and a mobile grocery serving the Rockford area.

Caledonia

Trogg's Hollow runs a CSA and market farm out of Poplar Grove in Boone County, selling through an online store rather than a walk-in farm stand. Customers sign up for CSA shares or browse current stock through the store itself, since specific crop lists and pricing aren't posted elsewhere online. It's a small operation — check the online store directly before making a special trip out to Poplar Grove.

Poplar Grove

Bull Run Maze cuts a corn maze through its Poplar Grove fields every fall, backed by pumpkin picking, pig races, and doughnuts for the drive out from Rockford or Belvidere. It's a family-owned operation built around the maze itself rather than a long list of rides — expect to lose a few hours between the rows before finding your way back out.

Kirkland

Walnut Grove Vocational Farm is listed on Pearl Street in Kirkland, in DeKalb County. No verifiable website or listing was found describing its vocational programming or farm operations.

Beloit

Beloit

Happy Acres is an agritourism farm on South Afton Road east of Beloit, in Rock County near the Wisconsin-Illinois line. Little about it appears online. The setting is southern Wisconsin row-crop and pasture ground along the Rock River. Contact the farm directly to confirm what it grows and whether it's open to visitors.

Poplar Grove

Edwards Apple Orchard is a fourth-generation family farm on Centerville Road in Poplar Grove, growing apples since 1964. The orchard runs September through November with pick-your-own apples, pumpkins, and berries, plus fresh-pressed cider and apple cider donuts.

Caledonia

Kinnikinnick Farm raises Berkshire pork, pastured chicken, and grass-fed beef on pasture in Boone County, selling meat, free-range eggs, raw honey, and stone-ground grains through online ordering with local pickup. No hormones or antibiotics, non-GMO feed. Beyond the meat business, the farm runs overnight farm stays and glamping where kids can wander the pastures and meet the animals firsthand.

Summerdale Farms raises grass-fed beef and pastured, free-range chickens in Boone County on land that's never had herbicides or pesticides applied. The property dates to 1837 and spans pastures, orchards, gardens, and woods. It's a registered Illinois corporation selling organic, farm-fresh products through local food directories and direct orders.

Pecatonica

Pecatonica River Honey began when Barb ordered two beehives and called Chris — six words that grew a northern Illinois hobby into more than 100 hives. The pair sells pure, raw, unfiltered honey straight from the hive plus creamed honey, and works local beeswax into small-batch cold-process soaps and lotion bars made with natural oils and butters.

Pecatonica

Irish Grove Farms has been in the Flynn family for over 100 years, set in the rolling hills of northern Illinois near Pecatonica. Four generations have worked the land, now managed since 2006 by Jackie (Flynn) Batista — a wildlife ecologist who also directs the nonprofit Farmers Rising — and her husband Marcelo, the farm's inventive mechanic, with the belief that happy farmers make for happy animals.

Pecatonica

The Lamb Lodge is a small pick-your-own farm in Pecatonica, though details on what's currently in season and open hours are thin beyond its listing on regional u-pick directories. Best to call ahead before making the drive.

Pecatonica

Beloit

History of Beloit WI & Downtown Beloit Association Photo by Mark Preuschl Downtown Beloit has the neighborhood feel in the urban downtown where customers are friends and culture and art are accessible to all. The Downtown Beloit Association was formed in 1987 and is a collaboration of property owners, business owners, and community volunteers who have jointly committed to the mission of revitalizing and managing Beloit’s Central Business District, utilizing the Main Street Four-Point approach as

The Apple Hut is an apple farm and farm store on West Walters Road southwest of Beloit, Wisconsin, near the Illinois state line. Southern Wisconsin orchards like this typically sell picked apples, cider, honey, and baked goods through the autumn harvest. Its Rock County location makes it an easy stop from Beloit, Janesville, or northern Illinois. Contact the farm to confirm this season's hours and which apples are in.

Garden Prairie

Susie's Garden Patch runs a produce stand on US Highway 20 in Garden Prairie, selling what's in season straight off the farm. It's a small, family-run operation without much of a web presence — the kind of stand you find by driving past it, not by searching for it online.

Poplar Grove

Beaver Creek Gardens operates in Poplar Grove, in Boone County's stretch of small nurseries and garden centers. No current web listing was found describing current stock or hours. Call ahead to confirm before visiting.

Rochelle

Nadig Family Farm offers premium 100% grass-fed beef, pasture-raised lamb, organically fed pork, and raw dairy herdshares, sold in whole, half, and quarter shares with transparent pricing and a small deposit to reserve. Cattle roam freely on pasture eating only natural grass, and orders are processed, vacuum-sealed, and picked up custom-cut from the processor — trusted by customers for over a decade.

Clare

our farm story We’re a local farm family committed to farming regeneratively. We currently serve our northern Illinois community by offering sustainably raised freezer meats and farm visits. We call ourselves Pasture Grazed because our pastures are at the core of everything we do. Studies show that meat from animals raised on pasture with regenerative farming practices can have 85% more phytonutrients than conventionally raised meat. Not to mention the improved fatty acid profile and environment

Kingston

UP Berries grows raspberries on Lanan Road outside Kingston as a pick-your-own operation, with visitors picking straight from the canes and paying by the pound. The farm recommends bringing reusable bags rather than plastic. It's a straightforward, single-crop farm — no frills, just raspberry rows and a scale.