Farms Near Santa Cruz, CA

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Bee Company practices regenerative beekeeping across the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas, offering full-service hive management, swarm relocation, site selection, and honey alongside the hives. Experienced apiarist Emily Bondor teaches beginner and advanced beekeeping classes, leads hive tours and honey tastings for schools and corporate events, and mentors new beekeepers one-on-one.

Felton

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

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

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 Permaculture farms 26 regenerative organic acres on the Pacific coast 20 minutes north of Santa Cruz — land farmed organically for over 100 years and famous from 1995-2020 as Swanton Berry Farm's strawberry, olallieberry, and kiwi U-Pick. Over 80 crops span five acres of vegetables, flowers, and herbs, two acres of blackberries, and a third-acre of kiwis, sold through U-Pick, farm stand, farmers markets, CSA, and wholesale — all alongside permaculture courses with over 1,000 alumni and ocean views near Año Nuevo.

Scotts Valley

Santa Cruz

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

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

Davenport

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.

Boulder Creek

Estrada Grass Fed Beef is a family-owned ranch and premiere grass-fed beef provider in Santa Cruz County, California, selling traditional, authentic beef directly to local consumers as whole, three-quarter, half, and quarter carcasses. Animals are processed by a USDA-certified butcher and cut and wrapped to each customer's specifications.

Davenport

Aptos

Los Gatos

Aptos

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

Davenport

Aptos

Los Gatos

Los Gatos

Pescadero

Saratoga

Saratoga

Saratoga

Watsonville

Watsonville

Watsonville

Watsonville

Campbell

San Jose

San Jose

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.

Cupertino

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.

Cupertino

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.

Watsonville

San Jose

Watsonville

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

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

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

Watsonville

Crystal Bay Farm became certified Organic in 1997.

San Jose

Cupertino

Watsonville

La Honda