Farms in Salinas, CA

Salinas · Farmers Market

Everyone's Harvest, a Salinas nonprofit, runs the Alisal Certified Farmers' Market at 632 East Alisal Street on Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., staying open year-round except for two weeks around the holidays. The market takes EBT, WIC, and Senior FMNP, and its Market Match program matches every EBT dollar spent on produce, up to $30 a visit. Free parking sits next to the market, and Salinas Transit routes 41 and 42 stop nearby.

Salinas · Farmers Market

This certified organic market takes over the 300 block of Main Street at Gabilan Street every Saturday, 9am to 2pm, rain or shine. The Oldtown Salinas Foundation runs it as a showcase for Salinas Valley farms — arguably the most agriculturally dense stretch of California — alongside flower vendors, food stalls, live music, and a free kids' craft area. It's a bigger production than a typical neighborhood market.

Salinas

Salinas · Farmers Market

Salinas · Farmers Market

Salinas · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

Salinas · Farmers Market

Salinas · Agritourism Farm

The Farm sits along the Salinas Valley, land growers call the Salad Bowl of the World for its lettuce, strawberry, and row-crop production. It is listed as an agritourism stop under a Salinas PO box address. Current hours, products, and ownership were not verifiable online at this time.

Moss Landing · Agritourism Farm

Monterey Bay Equestrian Center has led horseback rides along the dunes between Moss Landing and Monterey since 1981. Guides take riders out Monterey Dunes Way with views that stretch to Santa Cruz on a clear day, and the outfit also runs horse-drawn carriages for weddings and pony parties for kids. Riders must be at least 10 years old and 54 inches tall. Call ahead to book a ride.

San Juan Bautista

Morris Grassfed produces 100% pasture-raised beef, grown on the California central coast. Our beef is dry-aged and cut & wrapped by USDA-inspected artisan butchers. We look forward to filling your freezer with nutritious, delicious local beef. We deliver monthly from Monterey to Sacramento, May- November. Reserve your portion today.

San Juan Bautista · Farmers Market

Coke Farm is a certified organic food hub in San Juan Bautista that has aggregated and shipped produce from more than 100 regional growers since 1981. The company distributes organic strawberries, carrots, chard, kale, herbs, and heirloom tomatoes across the U.S. and Canada, employing around 114 people.

Carmel Valley · Agritourism Farm

Gardener Ranch is on West Carmel Valley Road in Carmel Valley, California, an events property whose site currently describes itself as being reworked, with booking handled through existing partners rather than public inquiries.

Seaside · Farmers Market

Carmel · Agritourism Farm

Carmel Valley Ranch is a luxury hotel and resort on Old Ranch Road in Carmel Valley, California, built on the site of a historic cattle ranch in the Carmel Valley wine region.

Carmel-by-the-Sea · Agritourism Farm

Serendipity Farms is on Carmel Valley Road, inland from Carmel-by-the-Sea in a valley known for small wine estates and produce farms between the coastal range and the Carmel River. Monterey County's mild inland climate supports year-round growing in this area.

Carmel · Agritourism Farm

The Holly Farm has run as a family-owned wedding and event venue on Carmel Valley Road since 1991, not a working farm despite the name — six and a half acres of gardens, sun-filled cottages, and winding paths built out for destination weddings and retreats. Packages start around $61,000 according to third-party wedding-planning sites.

Carmel · Agritourism Farm

The 16-acre Carmel Valley estate that operated as Chateau Julien Wine Estate, known for its French-style architecture and Chardonnay and Merlot dating to 1985, sold in 2015 for $12 million and now runs under new ownership as Folktale Winery.

Monterey · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

Cardinale & Wright runs its pumpkin patch each fall on the grounds of the Monterey County Fairgrounds, open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a midday closure from noon to 1. Beyond the pumpkin rows there's a hay maze and a cow train ride for kids, all inside the fairgrounds' gates rather than out in an open field. It's more fairground event than working farm, but the pumpkins are real.

Watsonville · Farm Stand

Watsonville · Farmers Market

Watsonville

Watsonville

Crystal Bay Farm became certified Organic in 1997.

Royal Oaks · Dairy Farm, Livestock Ranch

Garden Variety Cheese is a small farmstead sheep dairy on 40-acre Monkeyflower Ranch in northern Monterey County, milking and making cheese since 2009. Its 80 ewes — each named after a garden flower — graze fresh pasture supplemented with alfalfa and organic grain, with no chemical wormers or antibiotics, producing rich sheep's milk cheeses and yogurt year-round through staggered breeding.

Watsonville · Organic Farm, Orchard

Clearview Orchards grows CCOF-certified organic apples on terraced hillsides overlooking the Watsonville valley, three miles from the ocean. Families come in fall for u-pick apples — Fuji, EverCrisp, and Mutsu among them — or shop the Apple Barn for organic fruit, fresh apple juice, apple turnovers, organic squash, pumpkins, dried lavender, and honey, weekends during the season.

Watsonville · Farm Stand

Join us on the farm for one of our seasonal U-Picks and visit our organic produce Farm Stand. We have a wide selection of fruits, vegetables and preserves available for sale! We are open on Saturdays and Sundays only through the month of October.

Watsonville · Farmers Market

Esperanza Community Farms runs a subsidized CSA out of Watsonville, delivering biweekly boxes of pesticide-free vegetables and fruit to families in the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys. The nonprofit also operates the Esperanza Food Hub, linking small local growers with schools and community organizations, and has run a Farm to Cafeteria program bringing organic salads into area schools. Its focus stays on food security in a farmworker region that grows much of the country's produce.

Monterey · Farmers Market

Monterey Farmers' Market at MPC is held on the campus of Monterey Peninsula College at 930 Fremont Street. It's one of several certified farmers' markets on the Monterey Peninsula, drawing on Salinas Valley growers just inland.

Watsonville · Agritourism Farm, CSA Farm

High Ground Organics is on Harkins Slough Road outside Watsonville, in the Pajaro Valley, one of the Central Coast's most concentrated organic vegetable and strawberry growing areas. No further confirmed details on current crops, CSA availability, or hours.

Monterey · Farmers Market

Old Monterey Farmers' Market runs along Alvarado Street in downtown Monterey, between Del Monte and Pearl, a few blocks from Fisherman's Wharf and the city's historic adobe district. Current schedule, vendor list, and contact details aren't confirmed online.

Monterey · Agritourism Farm

Not a farm — this is a walking ghost tour through historic Old Monterey, running since 2002. Tours last 90 minutes to two hours and cover local hauntings and a night walk through a graveyard, typically Saturday nights into early November.

Monterey · Agritourism Farm

Ag Venture Tours has run wine tasting, sightseeing, and agricultural education tours around Monterey Bay since 1997, making it the region's oldest operating tour company. Owner Evan Oakes, who holds agricultural degrees from UC Davis and Fresno State and previously worked as a UC Cooperative Extension research scientist in Salinas, leads half-day and full-day van and walking tours with private tastings available on request.

Hollister · Agritourism Farm

Darden's Farm & Vineyards is based on 4th Street in Hollister, the seat of San Benito County. The county sits between the garlic and lettuce fields of the Gilroy corridor to the north and the Cienega Valley to the south, one of California's older wine-grape districts.

Hollister · Farmers Market

The Hollister Downtown Association runs this Wednesday market from 3 to 7pm, April through October, at 5th and San Benito Street. Vendors sell fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, honey, and flowers, with live entertainment and kids' activities most weeks. Not everything is certified organic, though several growers sell produce grown without chemicals. Pets aren't allowed under California health code for open food facilities, though service animals are welcome.

Monterey · Farmers Market

This market sets up in the parking area of Del Monte Center, at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 68 — the largest shopping center on the Monterey Peninsula. It draws from the peninsula's coastal growers as well as farms just inland in the Salinas Valley.

Gilroy · Agritourism Farm, U-Pick Farm

Ranch Four is one of several independently farmed u-pick orchards clustered around Gilroy and Morgan Hill, an area long known for stone fruit and berries. This site is worked by Borello Farms under the 101 Ranch name on Castro Valley Road.

Hollister · Agritourism Farm

Suncoast Farm has run a wood-fired bakery on its 27-acre certified organic property in Hollister for more than 14 years, milling its own grain for bread and pastry. The farm also grows olives and citrus, tends a hop yard, and brews small-batch beer under the Nuthouse label. The bakery opens Saturdays from 9am to 3pm for walk-in visitors to eat on the patio.

Pacific Grove · Farmers Market

Pacific Grove Farmers' Market runs Monday afternoons at Central and Grand avenues, one of six Certified Farmers' Markets the Salinas-based nonprofit Everyone's Harvest operates around Monterey County, alongside markets in Marina, Alisal, Natividad, Seaside, and Salinas. Reach the organization by phone or email for current hours and vendor questions.

Hollister · Agritourism Farm

A working farm in Hollister since 1928 that supplies produce to 15 farmers markets and select Bay Area restaurants year-round, on top of running an October fall festival with a haunted corn maze called Terror in the Corn. The festival side draws over 30,000 visitors each season, and the property's barn hosts private events for up to 400 guests.

Carmel · Farmers Market

Carmel's certified farmers' market sets up Tuesday mornings, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the parking area at The Barnyard Shopping Village, and runs seasonally from May through September. Monterey Bay Certified Farmers Markets organizes it and rotates in a free booth for a local nonprofit each week. Vendors bring fresh produce, nuts, flowers, live plants, and baked goods.

Gilroy · Farmers Market

A certified farmers market at 7351 Rosanna St. in Gilroy, the self-declared Garlic Capital of the World. It has historically offered organic produce, baked goods, hummus, and olive oil from Santa Clara Valley growers. Directory listings disagree on whether it's still operating — call ahead before making the trip.

Carmel-by-the-Sea · Agritourism Farm

The Barnyard Shopping Village is an outdoor retail center at 3663 The Barnyard in Carmel, off Highway 1, with more than 50 stores, restaurants, and galleries set among garden landscaping. The venue regularly hosts farmers markets, car shows, and live music alongside its regular tenants. Management can be reached at (831) 624-8886.

Watsonville · Farm Stand

Gilroy

Family farm in Gilroy, CA. Weekend farm experiences, weekday petting zoo, farmstays, event venue, & dog/cat boarding.

Gilroy · Agritourism Farm

Lazy K Ranch grows cherries in the hills around Gilroy, the South Santa Clara Valley town better known for garlic. Bay Area cherry season typically runs May into June, though this ranch's current hours and contact details aren't posted online.

Hollister · Agritourism Farm

B & R Farms works land on Fairview Road in Hollister, in San Benito County's row-crop and orchard country south of Gilroy.

Hollister · Agritourism Farm, Flower Farm

Swank Farms has worked land in Hollister since 1928 and now draws close to 30,000 visitors to its fall festival alone. The sunflower field has grown to four and a half acres of varieties from Mammoth Russians to Teddy Bears, cut for two dollars a stem with proceeds going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Pumpkin patches and corn mazes round out the fall season, and the farm also sells at Bay Area farmers markets.

Pebble Beach · Farm Stand, Apiary

Gilroy · Agritourism Farm, Produce Farm

Berry Island Farms grows certified organic berries and vegetables on Watsonville Road outside Gilroy, selling farm-fresh on a first-come, first-served basis with no reservations needed. It's a small family operation, not a commercial outfit, so what's available shifts week to week — call or text ahead to check what's ripe before making the drive.