Farms Near Santa Maria, CA

Blosser Urban Garden is a CCOF-certified organic farm in Santa Maria, growing on multiple in-town acres since 1996 under founders Jerry and Alejandra Mahoney. The farm runs weekly and biweekly produce delivery and pickup for Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties.

Santa Maria's Town Center farmers market sets up in the plaza at 371 Town Center East, running seasonally from spring through fall. It's a smaller downtown market than the county's bigger weekend markets — a handful of stands selling local produce and prepared foods to shoppers already downtown for the Town Center's shops and restaurants. Vendors tend to be cash-only, so bring bills.

Santa Maria

Santa Maria

The Berry Stop sells fruit brought straight from the fields at its stand where Highway 101 meets Stowell Road in Santa Maria, run by owner Kathy McPike. The stand offers curbside pickup and delivery by calling or texting 805-714-6933, open Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Santa Maria

This Dominion Road farm outside Santa Maria grows five varieties of blueberries alongside Albion strawberries and Freedom blackberries, all without pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides. The fields open for u-pick from March through July, with apricots, plums, tomatoes, and lavender coming available as the season progresses toward summer.

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WE BREED PEDIGREE BONSMARA CATTLE Las Cumbres Ranch is a holistically managed cattle ranch on the Central Coast of California. We breed pedigree Bonsmara cattle which are highly adaptable and can thrive in dry, brittle environments while producing exceptional quality beef. Because Bonsmaras are browsers and grazers they are effective at fire mitigation. Our environmentally-appropriate livestock build soil fertility, restore biodiversity and sequester carbon.

Nipomo

Nipomo Pumpkin Patch sets up on Eucalyptus Road each fall, running from late September through October 31 with pumpkins priced by size, from two-for-a-dollar minis up to several-hundred-pound giants that need a truck to haul home. Both carving and decorative varieties are on the lot, with sizes running up to soccer-ball-and-bigger. It's open daily during the season, with shorter weekday hours than weekends.

Santa Maria

This u-pick blueberry patch sits on Dominion Road in Santa Maria, the same stretch of Central Coast farmland that grows a large share of California's blueberry crop. Bring your own container and expect a cash-only setup, typical of small u-pick stands in the area.

Santa Maria

Blueberries Ole' is a u-pick blueberry farm on Dominion Road in Santa Maria. As with most Central Coast blueberry operations, the picking window runs through the late spring and summer months while berries are on the bush.

Nipomo

Local growers founded this market in 2005 to sell direct to the Nipomo community, and it still runs year-round across from the tennis courts at Trilogy at Monarch Dunes, near Via Concha Road and Trilogy Parkway. Beyond produce, expect fresh flowers, nuts, honey, seafood, and handmade crafts from Central Coast vendors. It's smaller than the certified markets up in San Luis Obispo, closer in scale to a neighborhood market day, and it takes credit and debit cards.

David's Blue Ribbon Honey, LLC is a California honey producer. No verifiable location, schedule, or contact details were found online at the time of this listing.

Halcyon Farms shares its name with the small Halcyon community near Arroyo Grande, but no confirmed website, listing, or news coverage turned up to verify what this operation grows or sells.

Branch Mill Organic Farm shares its name with Branch Mill Road outside Arroyo Grande, though no confirmed website or listing turned up to verify the connection or what the farm currently grows.

Arroyo Grande's Saturday market sets up in Olohan Alley near the Swinging Bridge in the historic Village district, footsteps from City Hall on East Branch Street, running noon to 2:30 p.m. Vendors mix fresh produce with artisan goods and work from local artists, and the creekside setting pulls in visitors already browsing the Village's boutiques and restaurants rather than a typical parking-lot crowd.

Arroyo Grande

Arroyo Grande

No working website was found for the Route One Farmers' Market in this search. 'Route One' in California almost always means Highway 1, the coastal route — beyond that, the specific stretch, town, and market day are unconfirmed.

Arroyo Grande

Jerry Rutiz farms about 30 acres near Halcyon, just outside Arroyo Grande, growing vegetables, berries, culinary herbs, and cut flowers without pesticides. The farm isn't certified organic but follows organic practices, and sells through a CSA, an on-site stand, area restaurants, and seasonal u-pick. It's one of the longer-running small farms in this stretch of San Luis Obispo County.

Arroyo Grande

About 35 growers set up Wednesday mornings, 8:30 to 11 a.m., in the Smart & Final parking lot at 1464 East Grand Avenue — the earlier, more practical counterpart to Arroyo Grande's Saturday Village market. Summer tables lean into sweet corn, vine-ripened tomatoes, stone fruit, and berries, alongside everyday vegetables, fish, and cut flowers, drawing shoppers who want groceries done before the day heats up.

Talley Farms has grown produce on California's Central Coast since 1948, and its Farm Box program ships that produce direct from the Arroyo Grande fields to home subscribers instead of through a grocery middleman. The family also farms wine grapes under the Talley Vineyards label, and separate phone lines handle sales, shipping, and the farm office.

Arroyo Grande

Talley Farms has grown vegetables on California's Central Coast since 1948 and is now run by the fourth generation of the Talley family from Lopez Drive in Arroyo Grande. The farm ships fresh produce year-round through its Fresh Harvest farm-box program, built on food safety and sustainable growing practices on Central Coast ground shaped by coastal fog and mild temperatures.

Arroyo Grande

Pismo Beach

Pismo Beach sits in San Luis Obispo County's Five Cities area, Central Coast ground known for strawberries and coastal produce. This market runs at 555 Five Cities Drive, a stop for growers from the surrounding coastal farms rather than the beach's tourist strip downtown.

Lompoc

White Buffalo Land Trust practices, promotes, and develops systems of regenerative agriculture for local, regional, and global impact. We are committed to the evolution of land stewardship and reimagining our food system to address the climate, biodiversity, public health, and food security challenges we face today. With our staff, partners, and volunteers, we engage in direct land stewardship, education and training programs, ecological monitoring and research, and enterprise development. Our R

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Tutti Frutti Farms grows stone fruit and mixed vegetables on a small organic operation in Ventura County, California, selling mainly through direct farmers-market stands rather than a retail storefront.

Avila Valley Barn sits at 560 Avila Beach Drive outside San Luis Obispo, selling locally grown produce, homemade pies, and fresh-roasted corn from a family-run farm stand. Visitors can pick berries and seasonal produce, take a tractor hay ride through the orchard, hand-feed animals in the corrals, or eat at the Chicken Shack & Smoke House.

SLO Creek Farms is listed under San Luis Obispo's farm trail, but no confirmed website, social page, or market roster turned up to verify current crops or how to buy from them.

Santa Margarita

Double L Ranch is a working cattle operation turned family-run farmstay, 24 miles east of Santa Margarita near the headwaters of the Salinas River. The family bought the property in 1965 as a rundown turkey farm and built it into a cattle ranch over the decades since. Guests stay on-site and see real ranch work — feeding, fencing, moving cattle — in a secluded stretch of Central California mountains the ranch describes as California the way it looked a hundred years ago.

Avila Beach

Avila Beach's summer market runs Friday evenings, 4 to 8 p.m., along the Avila Promenade from May through August, mixing farm stands with artisan food vendors, crafts, and live music against the boardwalk backdrop. A free trolley shuttles visitors in during market hours so parking near the beach isn't a fight, and riders get a market buck to spend once they're there.

Santa Margarita

Rinconada Dairy makes raw and pasteurized cheese from its own sheep and goats on 92 acres bordering the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Margarita. The farm also raises pastured chickens and eggs and finishes pork on acorns gathered from its oak woodland. A farm stay is available, with a ranch breakfast sourced from what's raised on-site.

Firstfruits Farm SLO is listed on the San Luis Obispo trail, but no working website, social page, or news mention was found to confirm what they grow or sell.

San Luis Obispo

Growing Grounds Farm on Orcutt Road grows succulents, trees and Mediterranean-climate perennials, including California natives, opening its wholesale nursery to retail customers every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The nursery is run by Transitions Mental Health Association as a job-training program for people in San Luis Obispo County's mental health system. Reach the team at [email protected] or 805-543-6071.

Harvestly packaged San Luis Obispo County farmers market produce into boxes for local pickup or delivery, an online alternative to shopping the market stall by stall. Its website now redirects to a domain marketplace, so the service appears to be inactive.

SLO VEG delivers produce boxes — four sizes running $36 to $51 — sourced from Central Coast farms to homes and businesses around San Luis Obispo, with no subscription contract required. Boxes rotate with the season, and the company runs pickup points across the Central Coast alongside home delivery. Orders go through their online marketplace, which also carries other local artisan goods.

Avila Beach

The San Luis Obispo Wine Association was a trade group promoting the county's wine region, which spans Paso Robles, Edna Valley, and the coastal hills above Avila Beach. The organization's former web domain is no longer active, so current operating status is unconfirmed.

This weekday farmers market sets up in the Farm Supply Company parking lot in San Luis Obispo, one of the county's smaller certified markets outside the larger Thursday and Saturday events. Current schedule and vendor details weren't confirmed online at the time of this listing.

San Luis Obispo

Harvestly is an online Farmer's Market that delivers all local foods to your door. With no subscriptions or minimums, you can fully customize your Harvestly order and choose from farm-fresh produce, pasture-raised eggs, locally-caught seafood, grass-fed beef, baked goods, prepared meals, and more. Founded and run by Cal Poly students, Harvestly aims to build a more sustainable and healthy food system by connecting local farmers and food producers directly to consumers.

San Luis Obispo

The Tuesday market at the SLO Grange runs 3 to 6 p.m., rain or shine, on Broad Street — smaller and more specialty-leaning than the county's big Saturday market on Madonna Road. The stall list runs toward things you don't find at every market: fresh-caught fish, brick-oven bread, handmade pasta, gluten-free baked goods, and soap and candles made from local beeswax, alongside the usual eggs and produce.

SLO Food Co-op has run as San Luis Obispo's community-owned grocery store since 1979, stocking local produce and sustainable, fair-trade goods at 2494 Victoria Avenue. It's open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and returns a share of proceeds to local nonprofits, working as both a grocery store and a standing outlet for the county's small farms.

See Canyon Fruit Ranch operates out of 2345 See Canyon Road in San Luis Obispo, running a farm store alongside its main business as a wedding and event venue. The property also lists on Hipcamp for camping stays, making it more of a working-land destination than a straightforward fruit stand.

City Farm SLO is listed as a San Luis Obispo-area urban farm, but no working website or social page turned up to confirm what they grow, their model, or how the public can buy from them.

SLO Ranch Farms and Marketplace operates in San Luis Obispo County under the domain sloranchfarms.com. Product and hours details weren't accessible online at the time of this listing.

Buellton

Something Good Organics grows organic fruits and vegetables for the Santa Barbara community, harvesting picked-to-order produce from coastal fields that produce year-round. Shoppers can visit the weekend organic farmstand on Santa Rosa Road in Buellton or the Ward Drive stand in Santa Barbara, and CSA members get a weekly farm box plus online-shop access with pickup and delivery options.

San Luis Obispo's Saturday morning market runs 8 to 10:45 a.m. at 325 Madonna Road, one of four certified markets the SLO County Farmers' Market Association operates across the county alongside markets in Morro Bay and Arroyo Grande. Shoppers buy direct from Central Coast growers, with EBT and Market Match accepted at select locations.

Sunrise Organic Farm Juicery & Market pairs a farm stand with a juice bar, based on the name alone — no confirmed crop, hours, or location details are on file yet.

Sunrise Organic Farms is a California organic grower with no crop or location details on file yet.

San Luis Obispo

The Saturday market in the World Market/Embassy Suites lot on Madonna Road is the largest of the five certified markets the San Luis Obispo County Farmers' Market Association runs — more than 60 vendors in a tight 8 to 10:45 a.m. window. The association has operated since 1978 under one rule: farmers sell only what they grow, and prepared-food vendors sell only what they make. It's shorter and earlier than the famous Thursday night Downtown market.

Bread Bike Bakery mills California-grown grain fresh on-site and bakes whole-grain sourdough and pastries in San Luis Obispo, then delivers to subscribers by bicycle under a community-supported bakery model it's run since 2019.

Downtown SLO's market runs Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m. along Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo, where more than 100 vendors set up as the city closes several downtown blocks to traffic. Produce stands sit next to barbecue smokers, hot food carts, and live entertainment, so it doubles as a weekly street fair. Locals do their grocery shopping here alongside visitors passing through on the way to Central Coast wine country.

Gopher Glen Organic Apple Farm grows apples under organic practices, per its name and category, but no working website, social page, or market listing could be confirmed online to verify current varieties, hours, or sales channel.

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Cal Poly's Fruit and Crop Science unit is a student-managed teaching orchard on the San Luis Obispo campus growing apples, pears, peaches, citrus, and berries. The orchard opens for pick-your-own access to the public, typically on Saturdays, as part of the university's Plant Sciences program.

Los Olivos

Clairmont Farm Lavender Co. has grown organic lavender and produce on Roblar Avenue in Los Olivos, California, since 1998. The Santa Ynez Valley farm sells lavender products alongside organic produce and livestock, and opens for visits Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with appointments available outside those hours by request.

Cal Poly Creamery is the dairy processing operation tied to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Dairy Science program on campus. Specific hours, products, and contact details weren't confirmed online at the time of this listing.

Santa Ynez

Quacken Farms sits in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County's stretch of ranchland and vineyards between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the San Rafael range.

CAFES Experimental Farm is Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's hands-on teaching ground for the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, spanning the Trestle Vineyard, a vertical farm used by engineering students, and the Swanton Pacific Ranch forestry site. Students run the operations — from grape processing to sausage making — as coursework, not staff-run production.

Rancho Olivos has grown, harvested, milled, and bottled artisan extra virgin olive oil at its Santa Ynez ranch since 2004. The family-owned producer offers complimentary tastings at the ranch itself and runs a second retail shop on Morro Bay's Embarcadero, plus an olive oil club with Duet and Trio membership options for regular customers.

Solvang

Ballard Apple Farm grows a wide range of apple varieties on Baseline Avenue outside Solvang, adding new plantings most years, alongside apricots and fresh eggs. The farm uses natural growing practices rather than heavy spraying, and visitors can pick their own apples or take a pony ride past the miniature donkeys the farm is named for.