Farms Near Shelbyville, KY

Shelby County Farmers Market has run out of Stargazer Plaza on Main Street since 2003, open Saturdays from 8am to noon, year-round rather than the seasonal schedule most Kentucky markets keep. Vendors sell produce, flowers, eggs, poultry, beef, pork, turkey, honey, baked goods, roasted coffee, and soap, plus woodcrafts and art. The market posts a monthly vendor newsletter and offers service in Spanish, reflecting Shelbyville's mix of longtime growers and newer arrivals.

Shelbyville

Dancing Acres Farm is a regenerative family farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky raising pigs on clover and grass with rotation to fresh pasture every week or two, plus chickens living on green grass for nutritious meat and eggs. Beehives, wildlife habitat, and Akbash livestock-guardian dogs round out a farm built on enriching the land rather than pillaging it.

Shelbyville

We started Bluegrass Beef in 2011 with the desire to raise quality, 100% grass-finished beef for our friends and family. Josh is a veterinarian, and grew up on a small farm in Winchester, KY. Melissa grew up in Frankfort, KY, in a neighborhood (not on a farm). We met while getting our undergraduate degrees at Murray State University. We married while Josh was in veterinary school at Auburn University, and eventually settled down in Shelby County, KY. In 2007, Josh had been practicing for a few y

Shelbyville

Gallrein Farms has grown produce and greenhouse plants in Shelbyville for more than 30 years, opening its gates to the public each spring through Halloween. Spring brings U-pick strawberries and a greenhouse stocked with annuals and tropicals; summer shifts to a market of same-day harvested vegetables; fall means a corn maze, hayrides, and U-pick pumpkins. A bakery and cafe run year-round alongside an online shop. The farm also hosts school groups and corporate outings.

Simpsonville is a small Shelby County community on US 60 between Louisville and Frankfort, in the middle of Kentucky's horse and bourbon country. This market at 6791 Shelbyville Road is a county stop rather than a big-city operation, a few miles from the larger Shelby County Farmers Market in downtown Shelbyville.

Shelbyville

Shelbyville

Simpsonville

Berry Bee Acres is a produce and agritourism farm in Simpsonville, in Shelby County along the Louisville-to-Lexington corridor of central Kentucky. No working website or listing turned up in research, so current crops, u-pick season, and hours aren't confirmed online.

Taylorsville

Rayn Swain is a small agritourism operation at 687 Chatman Lane outside Taylorsville, in the rolling farm country of Spencer County. No public website or listing details are available beyond the address on file with state agritourism directories.

Henry County Farmers Market's Eminence location sits on North Main Street in a small horse-and-cattle county between Louisville and Frankfort. Henry County farmland runs mostly to hay, tobacco, and grain, with Eminence sitting along the I-64 corridor connecting Louisville to Frankfort and Lexington.

Cheeks Produce is a Kentucky produce operation listed at 116 Normandy Road. No city, hours, or crop list is available in public records.

Pleasureville

Glover Farms LLC, registered since 2016, runs a strawberry drive-through out of Pleasureville each spring, with pre-orders taken ahead of pickup at $23 a gallon. The Cropper Road farm keeps customers updated on picking dates through its Facebook page rather than a standing website.

Pleasureville

D&R Farm is a small farm in the Franklinton community of Pleasureville, Kentucky, growing high-quality produce your family can enjoy less than 24 hours after harvest, plus farm-raised pork, chicken, and eggs. Order online for local pickup or free delivery over $50, or catch them Saturday mornings at the LaGrange Farmers Market.

Pleasureville

Pleasureville is a tiny Henry County crossroads community between Louisville and Frankfort, along the Castle Highway. Hickory Grove Farm runs a CSA from this address — Henry County is old tobacco country turned diversified farmland over the past few decades, the kind of place where small produce CSAs have replaced some of the burley acreage.

Taylorsville

Taylorsville

Taylorsville Main Street Farmers' Market sits a few doors down at 73 E. Main Street, in the same tiny Spencer County seat on the Salt River. Whether this is a second, separate market or the same one under an updated name and address isn't clear from public listings — Taylorsville's whole downtown is only a few blocks long.

Taylorsville is the seat of Spencer County, a small town along the Salt River just downstream from Taylorsville Lake. This Saturday market runs out of 46 E. Main Street, in the short block of downtown storefronts that makes up most of the town's commercial district.

Crestwood

Taylorsville

With skills we learned growing up in farming – Patrick on the family farm, Leeta working for her grandfather at his John Deere business in Shelby County, KY – we use only the best of what we know are safe, sustainable farming practices. We’ve made a conscious decision to produce quality versus quantity, so our free-range beef, pork and dairy products are antibiotic, steroid and hormone free. We are proud of our locally produced Kentucky Meats & Cheeses. No wonder some of the best chefs in the Ke

Waddy

Cedar Haven Farm is an agritourism operation in Waddy, in Shelby County's Bluegrass farmland between Louisville and Frankfort. No working website or social page turned up in research, so current activities and hours aren't confirmed online.

The county's other market runs on North Main Street in New Castle, the Henry County seat, a few miles north of Eminence and off the I-64 corridor. New Castle keeps closer to the county's older farm and horse-country character than the highway-side communities to the south.

BeeLeaf Farm sits on Briar Ridge Road near Eminence in Henry County, between Louisville and Frankfort. The name hints at bees or honey as part of the operation, though that wasn't verifiable online.

A honey operation on Rosewood Road in the Crestwood area of Oldham County. No confirmed website or contact details online — the name and location are what's on record.

Eyes Blueberry Orchard is a pick-your-own operation off State Highway 1066 near Bloomfield, growing blueberries for visitors willing to bring a bucket and pick their own. Call ahead for picking hours, since the season is short and weather-dependent like any berry crop.

La Grange

La Grange Farmers' Market & Artisans is a Kentucky Proud Market offering fresh local products plus Artisans crafts, from April through October from 9am to 1pm.

LaGrange Farmers' Market and Artisans sets up on West Main Street in this Oldham County town northeast of Louisville. The "Artisans" in the name points to a market that pairs produce stalls with handmade goods, a common format in Kentucky's bourbon-trail bedroom communities. Hours, season dates, and vendor contact were not confirmed online.

La Grange

La Grange

The beauty of Ashbourne Farms lies as much in the nature of its people as it does in the elegance of its landscape. Of course, the land is partly responsible for that, too. The owners of Ashbourne Farms are inextricably linked to the land by their life’s history and subsequent passions. Growing up on the farm and in the region, they cultivated an indelible impression that manifested into a lifelong dedication toward conservation efforts, restoration, and agriculture. The legacy of this land is i

La Grange

Ashbourne Farms is a 2,250-acre third-generation farm in La Grange, Kentucky — the agricultural legacy of W.L. Lyons Brown and Sally Brown, rooted in bluegrass tradition, nature conservation, and the state's bourbon heritage. The intensely managed grounds produce farm produce and a CSA program while hosting luxury weddings, corporate events, sporting experiences, and Showbarn Sessions.

Louisville

Hidden Hollow Orchard and Wildlife Sanctuary sits off Apple Hill Road on the eastern edge of Jefferson County, closer to Louisville's rural fringe than its downtown. The dual orchard-and-sanctuary name points to both fruit growing and animal care happening on the same grounds.

Crestwood

Rootbound Farm is a family-run, certified organic farm in Oldham County, Kentucky growing 200+ varieties of fruits and vegetables plus organic eggs and meat, with no chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Its customizable weekly CSA farm-share boxes serve Louisville, Frankfort, and Lexington, and the farm sells at the Douglass Loop and LaGrange farmers markets while supplying restaurants and co-ops across the region.

This location operates out of the Landis Lakes Towne Center on South English Station Road, in far eastern Louisville near the Oldham County line — a newer, still-developing part of Jefferson County. It shares a name with the market on Shelbyville Road, but the two sit on opposite sides of the city.

Jeffersontown

Sulphur

Faul Family Riverside Farm in Sulphur, Kentucky is a small regenerative family farm healing the land while raising pasture-raised chicken, pork, and turkey, 100% grass-fed beef and lamb, and even Kentucky saltwater shrimp grown with healthy-ecosystem science. Monthly farm tours and dinners run May through October, meat bundles ship free nationwide, and the renovated 1880s barn hosts weddings a half hour from Louisville.

La Grange

Alpacas of the Bluegrass is an alpaca farm in La Grange, in Oldham County east of Louisville. Alpaca farms in this part of Kentucky typically offer farm visits and sell fiber, yarn, or finished products from their herds. No public website or listing was found confirming current tours or hours — contact the farm directly before visiting.

Jeffersontown

Tower View Farm and Nursery sits on Taylorsville Road in Jeffersontown, just east of Louisville in Jefferson County. It combines a working plant nursery with agritourism visits, the kind of stop where you can pick up potted stock for the yard and walk the grounds in the same trip. Jefferson County's mix of bottomland and rolling terrain suits both ornamental and shade plantings, and a nursery this close to the Louisville metro tends to serve landscapers and homeowners alike.

Louisville

Spade and Table Farm grows nutrient-dense, certified organic vegetables, greens, and microgreens using no-till, biodynamic methods — a favorite of restaurants, caterers, and persnickety chefs. After nearly seven years of suburban farming in Louisville, farmers Lisa and Jeff are relocating the operation to a farm in Glasgow, Kentucky as Spade and Table 2.0, adding pasture and cattle country to the adventure.

Campbellsburg

Blueberry Hill Farm grows produce in Henry County outside Campbellsburg, part of the farmland belt between Louisville and the Bluegrass. The name and produce listing point to berries as at least part of what's grown, alongside other seasonal vegetables.

Taylorsville

A pick-your-own farm on Little Union Road, marked by roadside signs less than an eighth of a mile past Fairfield's only flashing signal — GPS often gets it wrong. Rows are grass-sodded and heavily straw-mulched, growing thornless blackberries, strawberries, and asparagus, each with its own short picking window. Open Saturdays only, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sunday. Bring your own containers; the farm doesn't sell pre-picked fruit.

Frankfort

We strive to provide certified organic fruits, vegetables, & nuts cultivated using sustainable & regenerative practices as much as possible. We hope to offer organic free range eggs in the future. Visitors also have the opportunity to participate in our mind/body & wellness activities such as sport nutrition sessions, personal training, and yoga.

La Grange

StoneLedge Farm is an 80-acre working horse farm on Smith Lane in La Grange, owned and run by Kelly and Fred Bennett about 25 minutes north of Louisville. Beyond the horses, the property hosts events at its barn and rents out farm-stay lodging — a farmhouse, log cabin, and cottage — for guests who want to sleep on a working farm rather than just visit one.

Middletown

Bedford

Campbellsburg

McGuire Farms in Campbellsburg, Kentucky breeds Rocky Mountain Horses — smooth-gaited, friendly mounts prized for trail riding — and raises Red Devon cattle for solely grass-fed heritage beef without hormones or antibiotics.

Louisville

Betsy Ramey's property is on Shady Hollow Drive in Louisville's Jefferson County. It appears as a small agritourism entry with no independent website, so what's grown or offered there isn't publicly confirmed. Reaching out directly is the best way to learn more.

Frankfort Habilitation Market operates on Lawrenceburg Road in Kentucky's state capital, Franklin County. The name points to a connection with a vocational or community-support program rather than a typical grower cooperative, though specific vendor and hours information isn't available online.

Jeffersontown

Lawrenceburg

Above the Dirt Garden Shop sells honey alongside its garden and nursery stock in Kentucky. Public details on the apiary's location, harvest season, or hours were not available online at the time of this listing.

Lawrenceburg

Anderson County Market sits along the U.S. 127 bypass in Lawrenceburg, in the bourbon-country stretch between Frankfort and Lexington. No independent website, hours, or vendor list were found online for this listing.

Goshen

Mt Washington

Westport Road Baptist Farmers Market operates out of a Baptist church along Westport Road, a major corridor through Louisville, Kentucky's east end. Its current schedule and vendor details were not confirmed through public sources at the time of this listing.

Frankfort

A honey operation based on West 2nd Street in downtown Frankfort. Listed in Kentucky agritourism directories under honey production; no confirmed hours or contact info beyond the address.

Mount Washington

Whittaker Run Farm is in Bullitt County near Mount Washington, just southeast of Louisville. No hours, animals, or activities are published online for this farm. Contact directly to confirm what's currently open.

Turners Station

Frankfort

Bluegrass Bounty Farm is a small regenerative family farm on S. Benson Road just southwest of Frankfort, Kentucky, raising 100% grass-fed and finished beef plus truly free-ranging pastured chickens and eggs since 2019. The hens roam pastures and woods foraging on non-GMO feed for omega-3-rich eggs; Andrea and Rick meet customers monthly in Lexington and Georgetown and welcome farm visits by appointment.

Frankfort

Welcome to the Franklin County Farmers Market located in historic downtown Frankfort. Walk through our market and see fresh produce, eggs, breads, meats, jams and salsa, cheese, soap, plants, and more, all produced in Franklin and surrounding counties. Enjoy fresh food, support local farmers, and chat with friends. We hope you’ll visit us soon!