Farms in Rockford, IL

Rockford · Farmers Market

Choices Natural Market is a local farmers market located in Rockford, IL in Winnebago County. Products available include Meat, Poultry & Game Processing, Meat, Poultry & Game, Chicken, Livestock & Animal Products. You can buy direct through on-farm sales and roadside stand. A community farmers market supporting local growers and producers.

Rockford · Farmers Market

Pasqua Mercato is a local farmers market located in Rockford, IL in Winnebago County. Products available include Herbs, Mushrooms, Baked Goods, Milk & Dairy Products, Prepared Food, Beverage Products, Value-Added Food Products, Eggs. A community farmers market supporting local growers and producers.

Rockford · Farmers Market

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 · Farmers Market

Rockford · CSA Farm, Organic Farm

Rockford · Agritourism Farm, Orchard

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 · Agritourism Farm

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.

Rockford · Farm Stand

Rockford · Agritourism Farm

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.

Rockford · CSA Farm

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.

Main St & Auburn St Rockford · Farmers Market

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.

Cherry Valley · Agritourism Farm, Orchard

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.

Davis Junction · Agritourism Farm, Poultry Farm

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.

Cherry Valley · Agritourism Farm

Stillman Valley · Farm Stand, Organic Farm

Winnebago · Farm Stand, Orchard

Caledonia · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

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 · Agritourism Farm, Plant Nursery

Caledonia · Agritourism Farm

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 · Meat Farm, Livestock Ranch

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.

Rockton · Farmers Market

Rockton River Market is a local farmers market located in Rockton, IL in Winnebago County. A community farmers market supporting local growers and producers.

Roscoe · Agritourism Farm, Poultry Farm

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.

Belvidere · Farmers Market

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 · Farm Stand, Poultry Farm

Meat Farm

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 · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

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 · Farm Stand, Organic Farm

Belvidere · Agritourism Farm

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 · Farm Stand, Orchard

Beloit · Farmers Market

Beloit · Farmers Market

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 · CSA Farm, Organic Farm

Poplar Grove · Agritourism Farm

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 · Agritourism Farm

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 · CSA Farm

Beloit · Agritourism Farm

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 · Agritourism Farm, Orchard

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 · Agritourism Farm

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.

Pecatonica · Livestock Ranch

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 · Apiary

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 · Agritourism Farm, Livestock Ranch

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 · Farm Stand, Organic Farm

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

Agritourism Farm

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 · Agritourism Farm

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 · Agritourism Farm

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 · Meat Farm, Livestock Ranch

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