Farms in Santa Cruz, CA

Santa Cruz · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

The Live Oak Farmers' Market has anchored Sundays for the Live Oak, Pleasure Point, and Capitola communities since 2000, running 9 AM to 1 PM year-round at 15th and Eastcliff Drive. Tables stack high with organic produce, tree-ripened fruit, fresh bread, sustainable seafood, pasture-raised organic meats, and flowers, alongside celebrated brunch vendors, live music, EBT Market Match up to $15, and a monthly family day with the local school district.

Santa Cruz · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

Santa Cruz Community Farmers' Markets has run for 30 years, operating a family of five markets: Downtown Santa Cruz on Wednesdays, Westside Saturdays, Live Oak/Eastside Sundays (all year-round, rain or shine), plus seasonal markets in Felton and Scotts Valley. The markets showcase regional organic produce, pasture-raised meats, eggs and dairy, sustainably harvested seafood, and artisan goods, with EBT Market Match and pop-up breakfast events.

Santa Cruz · Organic Farm, Produce Farm

Yellow Wall Farm is a nearly three-acre CCOF-certified organic family farm in a secluded valley along the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, named for a wall of 8,000 sunflowers planted for a family wedding. Allen and Judy Rose Hasty tend 30-year-old heirloom apple trees plus peaches, Asian pears, persimmons, avocados, and citrus, grow summer vegetables and Slow Food Ark of Taste varieties, and sell to local restaurants, New Leaf Community Foods, and a Saturday farm stand from August through November.

Santa Cruz

At el Salchichero we provide delicious, top quality local meats that connect you to your community through healthy and mindful eating. We are passionate about the local foods we source from sustainable pasture raised animals. With our beautiful hand-cut meats, you’ll always know your food is from a carefully selected farm, with the highest and most humane standards. As your community butcher we artfully carve your meats and take great pride in bringing chef-driven, seasonally inspired recipes to

Santa Cruz

We are a small family farm, providing creative souls with the farm and agriculture supplies they need to create their own self sustainable lives. We raise Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Kune Kune Hogs, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, and vegetable gardens. We offer small scale farm to table catering, rentable small event venues are available. Our mission is to build community, by sharing how our lifestyles create our happiness.

Santa Cruz · Farmers Market

The Westside market runs Saturdays year-round, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Highway 1/Western Drive lot near Natural Bridges. Santa Cruz Community Farmers' Markets has run it as part of a five-market family for three decades, and the vendor mix leans hard organic — more than 30 farms and producers, plus pasture-raised meat, eggs, dairy, and locally caught seafood. A bluegrass band plays most Saturdays, as much a draw as the produce.

Santa Cruz · Agritourism Farm

Third-generation family farm on Coast Road two miles south of Davenport, growing Brussels sprouts, leeks, artichokes, beets, peas, beans, and strawberries across roughly 300 acres. The farm stand runs May through October with fresh produce, flowers, and local goods like honey and soap, and a u-pick pumpkin patch with a corn maze opens late September through Halloween. School field trips available by request.

Santa Cruz · Agritourism Farm

UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology manages this 25-acre certified-organic farm and 3-acre Chadwick Garden, internationally known training grounds for organic horticulture since master gardener Alan Chadwick founded them roughly 50 years ago. The grounds are open daily 8am-6pm with no admission charge, and organic produce sales run Tuesdays and Fridays, noon to 6pm, with blueberry u-pick in June and July.

Santa Cruz · Farm Stand, Organic Farm

Santa Cruz · CSA Farm

Scotts Valley · Farmers Market

Scotts Valley's market runs Saturday mornings, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., from May through November at the Community Center on Kings Village Road. It's a Santa Cruz Mountains neighborhood market — smaller than the coastal markets down in Santa Cruz proper — built around local produce, meat, and baked goods, with the community center lot doubling as the town's Saturday gathering spot for the season.

Felton · Agritourism Farm

Roaring Camp runs two historic narrow-gauge railroads out of Felton in the Santa Cruz Mountains — steam locomotives dating to the 1890s, among the oldest still in regular passenger service in the country. The Redwood Forest Steam Train climbs through old-growth redwoods to the summit of Bear Mountain; the Beach Train runs the other direction, down to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. The grounds also recreate an 1880s logging camp.

Soquel

Everett Family Farm is family owned and operated since 2001. We grow CCOF certified organic fruit, vegetables, and flowers on a beautiful 45 acre farm in Soquel, California in Santa Cruz County. We sell our produce at our farm stand and directly to local chefs and grocery stores. Farm stand located at 2111 Old San Jose Rd, Soquel.

Aptos · Farmers Market

Nearly 90 vendors set up every Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon, year-round in the Cabrillo College parking lot at 6500 Soquel Drive — a market that was voted America's favorite farmers market in California three years running and got a nod from Coastal Living. Beyond produce, stalls cover eggs, cheese, seafood, olive oil, mushrooms, and fermented foods, plus a knife and garden-tool sharpening stand.

Aptos · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

The Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College, run by Monterey Bay Certified Farmers Markets, is held every Saturday from 8 AM to noon at 6500 Soquel Drive in Aptos, celebrating over 50 years of farmers markets in the region with plentiful free parking and easy access.

Aptos · Egg Farm

Boulder Creek · CSA Farm

Camp Joy Garden has run as a nonprofit demonstration farm and training center in the Santa Cruz Mountains since 1971, growing organic fruit, flowers, and vegetables on its Boulder Creek hillside. The farm distributes a CSA locally and runs apprenticeships, kids' classes, and adult workshops in small-scale ecological growing, plus a spring plant sale and holiday wreath sale. Volunteers are welcome on scheduled farm days.

Davenport · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

Seaside Pumpkin Farms sits along Highway 1 near Davenport, California, on the Santa Cruz County coast, a stretch of bluff-top farmland known for artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and fall pumpkin patches with ocean views.

Davenport · Agritourism Farm, Produce Farm

An organic strawberry farm on Highway 1 near Davenport, one of the first in California to grow strawberries without synthetic pesticides and to unionize its field workers. The honor-system farm stand sells berries, jam, and merchandise, and the u-pick fields open seasonally for anyone willing to bend over a row and fill a basket.

Los Gatos · Agritourism Farm

Patchen California grows Christmas trees and pumpkins on Old Santa Cruz Highway in Los Gatos, on land the narrow gauge railroad once crossed on its 1880 run from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz. The farm sells fresh local produce alongside its seasonal crops. Call ahead for current hours before making the trip up into the hills.

Aptos · Agritourism Farm

Working farm and horse ranch on Hames Road tracing back to Manuel Joaquin Silva and his wife Caroline Augusta Alm, who settled the land around 1883. Apple picking and horseback riding are the draw, along with events held on the property through the year.

Davenport · Agritourism Farm

Swanton Pacific Ranch sits on Swanton Road north of Davenport, on the Santa Cruz County coast, a stretch of California better known for redwood forest and dairy ranching than for row-crop farmland.

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.

Watsonville · Farm Stand

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.

Los Gatos · Farmers Market

Los Gatos Farmers' Market runs weekly in downtown Los Gatos at Town Park Plaza, on Main Street at N. Santa Cruz Avenue. Shoppers find seasonal Santa Clara Valley produce, cut flowers, and prepared foods within walking distance of the town's shops and restaurants, a fixture of the local weekend routine.

Los Gatos · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

Not a farm at all — this is an annual glass-art fundraiser held on the lawn of Los Gatos High School, where Bay Area glassblowers sell thousands of handmade glass pumpkins starting around $25 each. The one-weekend sale has raised more than $250,000 for the high school's programs since it began, drawing collectors as much as families out for a fall outing.

Watsonville · Farm Stand

Saratoga · Farmers Market

Blarney Plaza, at the corner of Big Basin Way and Saratoga Avenue, hosts the second of Saratoga's two weekly markets — smaller and more village-scale than the West Valley College market, mixing certified growers with permitted non-farm vendors selling hummus, kettle corn, and fresh seafood. Parking is behind Village Burger Bar and along Big Basin Way.

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.

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

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

Crystal Bay Farm became certified Organic in 1997.

Watsonville · Farmers Market

Saratoga · Farmers Market

West Valley College hosts Saratoga's Saturday market in Parking Lot 3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with an 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. shopping hour reserved for seniors and high-risk visitors before the crowds arrive. More than 50 local farmers and food producers set up weekly, with a mix that leans toward Asian vegetables, mushrooms, honey, farm eggs, and a rotisserie chicken stand regulars build their Saturday around.

Pescadero · Agritourism Farm, Produce Farm

Jim Cochran and Mark Matze founded Swanton Berry Farm in 1983, and it became the first certified-organic strawberry grower in California. The farm still markets itself as organically grown by union labor, a distinction it's held for decades. U-pick strawberries and olallieberries run seasonally at the Coastways Ranch fields on Highway 1 in Pescadero, with a year-round farm stand up the coast in Davenport.

Saratoga · Agritourism Farm

Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards farms hillside grapes on Garrod Rd in Saratoga, in the Santa Cruz Mountains appellation above Silicon Valley. The property has grown fruit since the early 1900s and now produces estate wine from that same land.

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 Jose · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

Pick of the Patch Pumpkins, run by third-generation ABC Tree Farms, has operated its Hillsdale Blvd location in San Jose for more than 70 years. The seasonal lot includes an inflatable park, giant slides, an inflatable maze, and a small petting zoo alongside the pumpkin selection, with Christmas trees sold at the same site later in the season.

Campbell · Farmers Market

San Jose · Orchard, Produce Farm

J&P Cosentino Family Farm is the last working orchard in San Jose — an urban farm in the old Valley of Heart's Delight, tended by five generations of the Cosentino family since 1945. Nearly 600 trees grow more than thirty varieties of peaches plus heirloom apricots, plums, prunes, nectarines, apples, figs, berries, persimmons, and grapes, all picked fully ripe and sold with farm classes, pop-ups, and events on-site.

San Jose · Agritourism Farm, Apiary

Wendy Towner manages more than 600 hives across Santa Clara County under The Honey Ladies name, bottling raw, unfiltered honey while also running a round-the-clock bee removal service for homeowners with unwanted swarms in walls and chimneys. The honey sells through their Campbell storefront and online. It's less a farm stand than a working apiary business, built on relocating bees rather than just harvesting from them.

San Jose · Farmers Market

San Jose · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

ABC Tree Farms' Blossom Hill Road lot in San Jose, one of about 15 seasonal pumpkin and Christmas tree sites the family business has run across the Bay Area since 1983. Pumpkins are pre-picked and ready to carve through October.

San Jose · Farm Stand

San Jose · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

The Farmers' Market at Westfield Oakridge — formerly the Blossom Hill Farmers' Market — has served San Jose's Blossom Hill neighborhood for 17 years, every Sunday from 9 AM to 1 PM, year-round. Over 40 growers and food producers set up at peak season, including local organic farms and Santa Clara Valley growers, with public transit access and the association's weekly Crop Watch newsletter.

San Jose · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

Cupertino · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

The Cupertino Certified Farmers' Market, part of West Coast Farmers Markets, has operated Sundays from 9 AM to 1 PM in the De Anza College parking lot on Stevens Creek Boulevard. The market is temporarily closed — check West Coast Farmers Markets' other locations or their site for reopening updates.

Cupertino · Farmers Market, Produce Farm

The Creekside Farmers' Market, operated by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association, runs Fridays from 8 AM to noon year-round at 10455 Miller Avenue in Cupertino, bringing California-grown produce and farm products direct from regional farmers.