Farms in Santa Maria, CA

Santa Maria

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Santa Maria · Farm Stand, Produce Farm

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.

Santa Maria · Agritourism Farm, U-Pick Farm

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.

Santa Maria · Agritourism Farm, Produce Farm

Santa Maria · Farm Stand, Produce Farm

Santa Maria · Agritourism Farm, Produce Farm

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.

Santa Maria · Agritourism Farm, U-Pick Farm

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.

Orcutt · Farmers Market

Nipomo · Agritourism Farm, Pumpkin Patch

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.

Nipomo · Farmers Market

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.

Arroyo Grande

Arroyo Grande · Agritourism Farm

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 · Farmers Market

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.

Arroyo Grande · Agritourism Farm

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 · Farm Stand

Pismo Beach · Farmers Market

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

Lompoc · CSA Farm

Santa Margarita · Agritourism Farm

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 · Farmers Market

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 · Agritourism Farm, Dairy Farm

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.

San Luis Obispo · Farm Stand

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.

Avila Beach · Agritourism Farm

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.

San Luis Obispo · Farmers Market

San Luis Obispo · CSA Farm, Meat Farm

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 · Farmers Market

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.

Buellton · Organic Farm, Produce Farm

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 · Farmers Market

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.

San Luis Obispo · Agritourism Farm

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 · Agritourism Farm, Flower Farm

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.

Santa Ynez · Agritourism Farm

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.

Solvang · Agritourism Farm

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.

Ballard · Farmers Market

Santa Ynez · Agritourism Farm, Plant Nursery

Summerset Farm & Dale's Nursery is on Baseline Avenue in Santa Ynez, in the Santa Ynez Valley wine and horse country of Santa Barbara County. Warm days and cool nights in the valley support vineyards, orchards, and nursery stock side by side across its ranch-zoned parcels.

Santa Ynez · Farm Stand, Plant Nursery