Agritourism & Farm Experiences near San Leandro, CA

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.

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.

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.

Castro Valley

Part of the Moore family's pumpkin and Christmas tree operation, running in the East Bay since 1984, though current listings point to San Ramon and Livermore locations rather than Castro Valley specifically. Worth confirming this address is still active before visiting.

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.

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.

Pleasanton

Classic Pumpkin Patch & Trees sells pumpkins each fall and Christmas trees each winter from Rowell Ranch on Dublin Canyon Road between Pleasanton and Castro Valley. The lot runs Wednesday through Sunday afternoons and evenings, closed Mondays, with staff on hand to help load up a tree or a truck bed of pumpkins.

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.

Fremont

Ardenwood Historic Farm is a working 19th-century farm at 34600 Newark Boulevard in Fremont, California, centered on the restored 1857 Patterson House. Run by the East Bay Regional Park District, it operates a narrow-gauge railroad, blacksmith shop, and cultivated fields, and hosts seasonal events including pumpkin patches. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Berkeley

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

San Mateo

ABC Tree Farms' San Mateo lot near Fashion Island Boulevard, part of the family company's roughly 15 seasonal sites across the Bay Area since 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and sold through Halloween; the company also runs a Summer Fun Zone with inflatables at a separate San Mateo address.

San Carlos

ABC Tree Farms' San Carlos lot along El Camino Real at Arroyo Street, part of a family-run network of roughly 15 seasonal pumpkin and Christmas tree sites across the Bay Area dating to 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and sold through October, with a gift shop on-site.

Newark

Fear Overload Scream Park is a seasonal Halloween haunt at Newpark Mall in Newark, part of the wave of mall-lot and parking-structure scare attractions that open across the Bay Area each October.

San Mateo

The Honeyverse is a honey shop in San Mateo, on the Peninsula between San Francisco and the South Bay.

Belmont

Honey by the Bay keeps hives and sells honey out of Belmont, on the San Francisco Peninsula, closer to a small urban apiary operation than a traditional farm. No working website confirms current products, harvest season, or where to buy.

Sunol

Hillcrest Ranch presses olive oil from a six-and-a-half-acre grove inside Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, including roughly 137 century-old trees standing among about 2,000 total. The Picholine, Mission, and Manzanillo trees are farmed organically without irrigation. The ranch opens to the public every other month for tastings, small-mill demonstrations, soap-making workshops, and olive-brining classes, and visitors can either hike in or catch a shuttle up to the grove.

Mountain View

Shoreline Lake Boathouse & American Bistro sits on the water at Shoreline Park in Mountain View — a boat rental and cafe operation, not a working farm despite its agritourism listing. The Boathouse serves espresso and snacks with lake-view patio seating; kayaks, paddleboards, and sailboats are available to rent on the lake.

Portola Valley

Webb family land in Portola Valley worked since 1922, now roughly 250 acres of horse boarding, riding lessons, and CCOF-certified organic farming minutes from Stanford. The u-pick berry fields — olallieberries, marionberries, and blackberries — open for six to eight weeks each summer starting around mid-June, and fall brings pumpkins and organic compost sales, with Christmas trees closing out the year.

Half Moon Bay

4-C's Pumpkin Patch sits on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, part of a corridor growers have farmed since the 1930s after two brothers first sold pumpkins to passing motorists. The town now calls itself the pumpkin capital of the coast, and 4-C's is one of several family-run patches along that stretch each October.

Half Moon Bay

Family-owned working farm on Highway 92 above Half Moon Bay, in operation since 1942. October turns it into a full fall outing with pony rides, a train, a petting zoo, hayrides, and even goat yoga, alongside the pumpkin patch itself.

Half Moon Bay

Pastorino Farms is a longtime farm stand on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, part of the coastal produce corridor between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo known for pumpkins, artichokes, and Brussels sprouts.

Half Moon Bay

Repetto's Pumpkins is a family pumpkin patch on San Mateo Road in Half Moon Bay, part of the Highway 92 farm corridor that turns into one of the Bay Area's busiest pumpkin stretches every October.

Livermore

A Livermore corn maze and pumpkin patch on East Airway Boulevard that's been a fall fixture long enough to get featured twice on the David Letterman show. Beyond the maze and pumpkin picking, the farm runs fruit-picking and other hands-on activities aimed at families with young kids.

Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay Lavender has grown lavender on San Mateo Road in Half Moon Bay, California, since 1995, one of the longest-running lavender farms on the coast. The family grows English, French, Spanish, and hybrid varieties, harvests fields each July, and sells dried lavender year-round alongside handmade bath and body products. Hours run daily, with weekends opening earlier and closing later than weekdays.

Half Moon Bay

G. Berta's Pumpkin Patch farms a stretch of Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, the same coastal corridor where Bay Area families have picked pumpkins each October since local growers began selling roadside in the 1930s.

Half Moon Bay

Cozzolino's traces back to the floral farm Alex and Sharon Cozzolino started in Half Moon Bay in 1970, and the family now runs several seasonal stands along the Highway 92 corridor selling colored pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, and cut Christmas trees. The San Mateo Road location is one of a few Cozzolino family stands in town.

Half Moon Bay

A pumpkin farm on the Half Moon Bay coast, part of San Mateo County's well-known pumpkin-growing belt along Highway 1, where fog-cooled soil produces some of the giant pumpkins the region is famous for each October. No independent website turned up in research beyond the listing itself.

Half Moon Bay

Doniga Markegard runs a regenerative cattle operation along Highway 1 south of Half Moon Bay, moving herds of cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens across pasture the way wild grazing animals once did. The ranch sells grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and lamb through weekend farmers markets and pickup points in Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, and La Honda. No feedlots, no grain finishing — everything eats grass and moves.

Half Moon Bay

The Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival takes over Main Street every October (the 54th edition runs October 17-18, 2026) with juried art, live music, a parade, and pie-eating and costume contests. It's built around the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, held a few days earlier at the IDES Grounds, and is put on by the nonprofit Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee.

Half Moon Bay

The marquee event of Half Moon Bay's Art and Pumpkin Festival, where growers haul in giant pumpkins — some pushing past a ton — to be weighed on Main Street in front of a crowd chasing a world record. Organized by the Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee, the weigh-off runs the Monday before the main festival weekend each October on the IDES Grounds.

Livermore

Lyman Backyard Honey sells raw honey from a small apiary near the corner of Arroyo Road and Rivers Bend Circle in Livermore, in the East Bay wine country. It reads as a small-scale operation selling direct from the hive rather than a storefront business.

Santa Clara

Juniper Meadow Farms is listed on Calabazas Boulevard in Santa Clara, an address in dense Silicon Valley where farmland has largely given way to housing and office parks. No working website or social page turned up in research to confirm whether the operation is still active.

Livermore

A working cattle ranch on Mines Road south of Livermore that's run a fall pumpkin patch since 1990. Pumpkins range from mini to oversized, plus Indian corn, gourds, and wheat bundles, with a corn maze, pumpkin bowling, a kids' train, animal feeding, and an Old West Town backdrop. Open October 3–31, 10am–6pm, cash only — there's an ATM on-site.

La Honda

Skyline Chestnuts is a gather-your-own chestnut orchard on Skyline Boulevard above La Honda, open Wednesday through Sunday during the October–November harvest. Chestnuts run $10.50 a pound with a cash discount, and morning visitors need an advance parking reservation since the mountain lot is small. It's a pick-them-off-the-ground operation, not a pick-from-the-tree one.

Santa Clara

A seasonal pumpkin patch on El Camino Real in Santa Clara, one of the pop-up lots that fill vacant South Bay parcels each October. No independent website surfaced in research — confirm current hours before visiting.

Santa Clara

ABC Tree Farms' Santa Clara lot on Benton Street, one of about 15 seasonal patches the family-run company has operated across the Bay Area since 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and ready for carving, with school tours and birthday parties booked on-site through October.

Half Moon Bay

Arata's Pumpkin Farm has grown pumpkins on Verde Road in Half Moon Bay since 1932, one of the oldest patches on the San Mateo County coast. Beyond the pumpkin fields, the farm runs a two-acre hay maze, a haunted barn, a petting zoo, and train, pony, and hay rides. It's open daily 9am–6:30pm through most of the season, with later Friday-Saturday hours in October.

Half Moon Bay

Bob's Pumpkin Farm sits on Highway 1 in Half Moon Bay and keeps its patch old-school: haystacks, farm animals, and a hunt for the season's biggest pumpkin rather than a haunted-maze setup. It's one of the original stops on the coast's fall pumpkin route.

Santa Clara

ABC Tree Farms' Monroe Street site in Santa Clara, one of the family company's roughly 15 Bay Area lots running since 1983. Pre-picked pumpkins are on sale through Halloween, followed by Christmas trees in the same spot come November.

San Jose

A seasonal Halloween pumpkin patch and haunted trail on Doyle Road in San Jose, one of several neighborhood pop-up patches that open each October in the South Bay. No independent website turned up in research, so confirm current hours before visiting.

Small organic farm on the Half Moon Bay coast, started in 1998 by Joanne Andreotti and her sons Richard and David Holtz. No synthetic pesticides or fertilizers here — they grow pumpkins, beans, corn, squash, and garlic, and raise grass-fed Angus cattle and goats along a stretch of coastline with real ocean views.

Brentwood

McCauley Olive Groves grows olives on Balfour Road in Brentwood, part of East Contra Costa County's belt of orchards and row crops east of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Brentwood

Berry Best Family Farm grows four strawberry varieties for u-pick on Balfour Road in Brentwood, then moves into peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, plumcots, cherries, and figs as spring turns to summer. Hours run daily, roughly 9am to 5 or 6pm depending on the day of the week, with weekend closing times slightly earlier than weekdays.

Antioch

Jones Family Honey pairs small-batch honey sales with residential bee removal in Antioch, in eastern Contra Costa County. Outfits that combine live-hive removal with honey sales are common in this part of the Delta, where swarms move into attics and sheds every spring.

Brentwood

Maggiore Cherry Ranch's Walnut Boulevard stand anchors one of three Brentwood locations the family runs along the Marsh Creek u-pick corridor, itself home to more than 65 direct-to-consumer growers. Alongside its cherries, this location added two rows of Himalayan mulberry trees and now sells pre-picked mulberries in season, a rarity on a route otherwise dominated by stone fruit.

San Jose

One of roughly 15 seasonal lots run by ABC Tree Farms, a family business working the Bay Area since 1983. The Capitol Avenue site sells pre-picked pumpkins mid-September through Halloween, with a gift shop, snacks, and a bounce house for kids, then flips over to a Christmas tree lot from mid-November to Christmas Eve.

Gerard'Z Honeybees keeps hives around Livermore, in the Tri-Valley's scatter of small apiaries that sell jarred honey through local markets and roadside stands rather than large retail distribution.

Brentwood

Heritage Family Farm is on Concord Avenue in Brentwood, part of the East Contra Costa County corridor Bay Area residents know for U-pick cherries, peaches, and pumpkins each summer and fall. Brentwood's sandy delta soil and warm inland climate have supported that stone-fruit economy for decades.

Brentwood

The Creek Road field of Peter Wolfe Ranch is one of several u-pick stops the family operates around Brentwood, known locally for cherries, loquats, apricots, and peaches. Cherry season typically opens in late May and draws pickers out from the Bay Area before the fruit turns. Like the ranch's other fields, hours depend on what's ripe that week.

Long Shadow Farm sits along Walnut Boulevard in the 94549 zip code, in the stretch of Contra Costa County orchard country between Lafayette and Walnut Creek known for its cherry ranches and family farms. Public listings turn up little beyond the address — no confirmed crop list, hours, or contact details.

Brentwood

Papini Family Farms works land along Brentwood's Walnut Boulevard, inside the same Marsh Creek-area district that supports dozens of the region's cherry and stone fruit growers. No public source yet confirms which crops the Papini family sells direct from this stand.

Seko Ranch Cherries is on Eureka Avenue in the Brentwood growing area, zip 94513 — ground zero for the region's cherry harvest. Ranch-style cherry operations here tend to run smaller and more informal than the larger commercial orchards nearby, often selling by the roadside during the short spring season.

Livermore

Moggi Ranch is listed on Altamont Pass Road in Livermore, in the grazing hills east of the Livermore Valley wine region. No working website turned up in research, so current activities, season, and hours could not be confirmed beyond the ranch's name and location.

Brentwood

Rancho Zaragoza is on Walnut Boulevard in Brentwood, inside Contra Costa County's u-pick corridor, where cherries come in late spring and peaches, apricots, and corn follow through summer. The address places it in one of Northern California's most concentrated agritourism districts.

Brentwood

Gursky Ranch Country Store, on Apricot Way in Brentwood, California, sells nuts, dried fruit, local honey, olive oil and vinegar, and hand-packed gift baskets wrapped to order. It's open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mondays.

Brentwood

Three Nunns Farm is a fifth-generation, 40-plus-acre operation in Brentwood where you pick your own cherries in May and June, then peaches, apricots, plums, and berries through summer, before fall brings pumpkins and a corn trail out to the patch. General admission runs from $4.32, with season passes around $27-$32 and free parking and wagons.

Grandpa Lenny and Thelma Canciamilla started this u-pick orchard in Brentwood in 1982, and it's still one of the smallest fruit stands in town, now run by their son Leonard Jr. Visitors pick peaches, nectarines, plums, apriums, and plouts, and the stand also sells walnuts and homemade jam. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in season, at 401 Eureka Avenue at Walnut Boulevard.

Brentwood

At 22111 Concord Avenue, Peter Wolfe Ranch's Concord field grows apricots, peaches, cherries, tomatoes, loquats, and watermelons for u-pick customers. It's one of four Brentwood-area locations the family farms, each opening on its own schedule as different crops come ripe. Watermelon and tomato picking usually stretches latest into summer.

Brentwood

The Camino Diablo Road stand is the third Maggiore Cherry Ranch location in Brentwood, part of the same family cherry operation spread across the Marsh Creek growing area. Like its sister stands, it sells fruit direct off the tree during Brentwood's cherry season, typically mid-May through June.

Brentwood

The cherry orchard at 611 Payne Avenue, run under the Mike's U-Pick name, closed for good after its 2025 season — ten years of Brentwood pick-your-own cherries came to an end. The peach and nectarine location on Concord Avenue, operated by the same family, is still running each spring.