Farms Near Skaneateles, NY

Skaneateles

The Greener Bean market runs on Fennell Street in Skaneateles, a second option alongside the village's main State Street market. It gives Finger Lakes growers another day to sell vegetables, baked goods, and farm products in this popular lakeside town. Skaneateles sits at the head of its namesake lake, among the cleanest in the Finger Lakes.

This market sets up on State Street in the lakeside village of Skaneateles, at the northern tip of Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes. Vendors bring Finger Lakes produce, flowers, cheese, bread, and prepared foods to one of the region's most-visited villages. Its walkable downtown near the lake draws both residents and summer tourists.

Skaneateles

Skaneateles

Skaneateles Sugar Shack taps sugar maples on Benson Road outside Skaneateles, at the north end of the Finger Lakes. The sap runs in late winter, and the shack boils it down to syrup during the region's short maple season.

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Marietta

Tim's Pumpkin Patch runs a pick-your-own pumpkin field on Rose Hill Road in Marietta, southwest of Syracuse. Weekends add wagon rides and apple cannons, and the on-site bakery and gift store sell baked goods. Tim's Brew Barn pours drinks for the adults. The farm opens daily 9am to 6pm through September and October, and it books school field trips.

This market sits on State Route 5 in Elbridge, a small Onondaga County town west of Syracuse in Central New York. Central New York farms supply the seasonal basics: vegetables, fruit, eggs, and baked goods. Despite the generic name, it functions as Elbridge's local village market rather than a large downtown one.

Skaneateles

Lockwood Lavender Farm grows lavender on West Lake Road along Skaneateles Lake, in the Finger Lakes. Farms like this usually open the rows in mid-to-late summer when the lavender blooms, selling bundles, dried buds, and lavender goods. A reachable website wasn't found, so hours and current offerings should be confirmed directly.

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Jordan

Yawney Farms has grown fruits and vegetables in Jordan, west of Syracuse, since 1976. The small family farm raises its own produce and runs a strawberry patch that draws pickers in June. Everything sold is home-grown rather than brought in, and the operation stays modest and seasonal. Their Facebook page is the best place to catch what's ready week to week.

Smokey Hollow Maple Syrup is a maple producer on Pierce Road in the Jordan area of Onondaga County, west of Syracuse. It taps local sugar maples and boils sap into syrup and maple products during the late-winter sugaring season, the stretch of freezing nights and thawing days that gets the sap running. A small Central New York sugarhouse.

Auburn

Strawberry Fields U-Pick lets you pick your own strawberries on East Genesee Street Road in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes. Strawberry picking here runs a short window, usually from mid-June into early July depending on the spring. Call ahead before driving out; berry fields open and close day to day with the weather and what's ripe. Cayuga County farmland surrounds the site.

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Leubner Apple Farm grows apples on Whiting Road in Jordan, in the fruit country west of Syracuse. Onondaga County's cool nights and lake-moderated fall make good apple ground. Details on varieties and pick-your-own aren't posted online, so hours are best confirmed directly with the farm.

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Borodino

Schoolhouse Farms sits on Rose Hill Road in Borodino, a hamlet above the west side of Skaneateles Lake in Onondaga County's Finger Lakes country. No active website or listing was found, so its crops and any farm-stand offerings couldn't be confirmed online.

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Town of Spafford

Burdock's Berries grows u-pick berries on West Lake Road above Skaneateles Lake in the town of Spafford, at the northern edge of the Finger Lakes. Hillside farms along this road grow strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries through the summer. Picking availability shifts with the weather and isn't posted online.

Auburn

Elderberry Pond Elderberry Pond is a certified Organic Farm in the Fingerlakes region of upstate New York. We have a country food store and a fine dining restaurant on the farm. We produce a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs and cut flowers on 36 acres of tillable land. The restaurant at Elderberry Pond is located on the farm in a wooded lot overlooking the orchards, vineyards and seasonal vegetable plantings. Our menu features fresh produce picked daily, pasture raised meats from our fa

across from Curley's Restaurant Auburn

Vendors set up across from Curley's Restaurant at 96 State Street, running Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., June through October. Shoppers find fresh vegetables, fruit, cut flowers, baked goods, and handmade jewelry from Finger Lakes growers and makers. The market accepts SNAP/EBT, and several farmers take WIC and Senior Farmers Market coupons. It runs as a grower cooperative registered with New York State Ag and Markets.

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Syracuse

Cedarvale Maple Syrup Co. produces maple syrup in the Cedarvale valley southwest of Syracuse, on Pleasant Valley Road in the town of Onondaga. This pocket of hills south of the city is long-standing maple country, with sap runs from late winter into early spring. Specific products and visiting hours aren't confirmed online, so reach the producer directly before stopping by.

Auburn

Ruwet Berry Scary Acres works both ends of the season in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes' Cayuga County. Summer brings pick-your-own berries; fall turns the property into Scary Acres, a haunted attraction. Online details are limited, so confirm picking conditions and haunt dates before heading over. The farm sits near downtown Auburn, north of Owasco Lake.

Syracuse

Navarino Orchard grows a wide range of apples plus strawberries, raspberries, and tomatoes on Cherry Valley Turnpike (Route 20) southwest of Syracuse, with U-pick through the season. The on-site bakery makes pies, breads, and cookies, and an apple-season fritter stand serves fritter sundaes. The Barn restaurant and a daily country store round it out, and the farm hosts weddings. Two decades in, it leans on earth-friendly growing and local sourcing.

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Baldwinsville

Hencles Berry Patch is a pick-your-own berry farm on Perry Road in Baldwinsville, northwest of Syracuse in Onondaga County. The patch focuses on seasonal berries, typically strawberries in June and other summer fruit as it ripens. Central New York's berry season runs short and weather-dependent. Call ahead or check locally for daily picking conditions, since patches open and close with the crop.

Syracuse

Pick-your-own strawberries, raspberries, and a wide range of apples grow at this Route 20 orchard south of Syracuse, in the Navarino area of Marcellus. The country store and bakery turn out pies, breads, and cookies daily, alongside homemade jams and canned goods, and the apple fritter sundae is a fall draw. The on-site Barn Restaurant serves lunch and dinner most of the week, and u-pick shifts by season from berries to tomatoes to apples.

Village of Weedsport

Gian Carelli Farm & Winery, also listed as SG&S Farms, operates on Short Cut Road in Weedsport, in Cayuga County north of the Finger Lakes. It's a small farm winery rather than a large estate. Tasting details aren't well documented online.

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Baldwinsville

Emmi Farms is a family farm on West Genesee Road in Baldwinsville, northwest of Syracuse. Farms in this part of Onondaga County typically sell sweet corn and summer vegetables from a stand, then move into apples, pumpkins, and mums as fall arrives. The farm keeps a website, though it was light on detail at last check; contact them for current crops and market hours.

Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville

Katie's Pumpkin Patch runs a fall pumpkin season on West Genesee Road in Baldwinsville, northwest of Syracuse in Onondaga County. Patches like this open in late September and October for pick-your-own pumpkins and harvest activities. No active website was found for this listing, so confirm the season's hours and attractions directly.

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Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville

Reeves Farms has worked this ground near Baldwinsville since the late 1800s and now runs in its fifth generation. Strawberries and organic blueberries are the draw, sold at the farm stand and offered pick-your-own in season, with fruit also going out to grocery stores across Central New York.

Runs on Main Street in Moravia, a small Cayuga County village at the southern tip of Owasco Lake. This is Finger Lakes farm country, where nearby growers raise sweet corn, squash, apples, and grass-fed meats, and where maple producers tap the surrounding hills each spring. The market gives Moravia-area residents a local option without the drive north to Auburn.

Homer

Valley View Farm is on Ripley Hill Road in Homer, in Cortland County's dairy and hill-farm country in central New York. Homer sits in the Tioughnioga River valley, where hayfields and pasture climb the surrounding ridges. Listed as an agritourism stop with seasonal hours.

Baldwinsville

Abbott Farms on Cold Springs Road in Baldwinsville runs pick-your-own fields that roll from strawberries and blueberries in summer to apples and pumpkins in fall. The farm adds a Fun Zone with obstacle courses and slides, a café serving breakfast and lunch, and a bakery with regular and gluten-free goods. Seasonal events run all year northwest of Syracuse in Onondaga County.

Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville

Beaver Lake Nature Center hosts a late-winter maple sugaring program at its Onondaga County park in Baldwinsville, showing visitors how sap is tapped and boiled into syrup. The center sits on a glacial lake with miles of trails and a visitor center, north of Syracuse. Sap season in central New York runs from roughly late February into March, so check the center's schedule before visiting.

Lafayette

McLusky Orchards grows apples along Route 20 in LaFayette, Onondaga County's apple country south of Syracuse. LaFayette's ridges are known for orchards and an annual Apple Festival, and this farm sits in that belt. Expect fall apples and cider sold in season. Confirm hours and whether picking is offered before visiting, since the harvest is a short autumn window.

Union Springs

Penny's Pumpkin Patch grows pumpkins on Gray Road in Union Springs, along the west shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes. As a seasonal fall operation it's built around pick-your-own pumpkins and autumn visits from roughly late September through October. Confirm opening dates and hours directly, since small patches often run weekends only.

Cayuga

Plum & Mule is a Syracuse food hub that lets local farms and specialty producers sell straight to shoppers through an online marketplace. Orders ship twice a week within Onondaga County, with pickup from the market's home in the historic Gere Block on Tipperary Hill. The idea is to pool small producers so they can meet demand for local food across Central New York.

Town of LaFayette

Beak & Skiff has grown apples in LaFayette, south of Syracuse, for more than a century, and its Apple Hill site is a fall pick-your-own destination. The farm's 1911 Established brand turns that fruit into hard cider, spirits, and wine, backed by a distillery, tasting room and tavern, café and bakery, general store, and an adventure park on the grounds. School field trips and live music run through the season.

Locke

A farm in Locke, set in the hills of southern Cayuga County between Owasco and Skaneateles lakes. Little about its crops or hours is posted online.

Tully

Dutch Hill Maple has produced pure maple syrup in Tully since 1968, in the maple-heavy hills of southern Onondaga County. Beyond syrup in several grades, it sells maple cream, maple sugar, granulated sugar, and maple beverages, plus gift sets. The farm takes part in New York's Maple Weekend each spring, with sugarhouse visits and raffles. Order or ask about pickup at 315-481-6802 or [email protected].

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Union Springs

Fingerlakes Honey Company is a honey producer based in Union Springs, on the west shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes. Small apiaries in this region sell raw and local honey along with hive products. The company keeps its own website; contact it there for what's currently in stock, pricing, and where to buy.

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Tuckerman Farms sits on West Genesee Street Road in the Aurelius and Auburn area of Cayuga County, in the Finger Lakes. The listing marks it as an agritourism farm; crop and visit details aren't posted online, so contact the farm directly to confirm what they offer and when.

Syracuse

A mobile market bringing fresh produce into Syracuse neighborhoods on the city's South Side, based near West Newell Street. Markets like this one target areas with limited grocery access, selling fruit and vegetables at rotating stops around the city.

A small-town market serving the Town of Conquest in rural Cayuga County, west of Auburn. Area growers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods to this crossroads community near the Montezuma wetlands.

This market is listed at 5933 S. Salina Street on Syracuse's south side, in Onondaga County. Local produce and farm goods anchor markets across this part of Central New York. Public information is thin here, so verify the current schedule before making a trip.

Syracuse

One of Central New York's largest markets, the CNY Regional Market on Park Street in Syracuse runs weekends year-round under permanent open-air sheds. Operated by the Central New York Regional Market Authority, it hosts a wide range of farmers, food producers, and general vendors drawing shoppers from across Onondaga County and beyond. The scale sets it apart from the small village markets nearby.

Cato

Stevers Berry Harvest Farm offers pick-your-own berries on White Cemetery Road in Cato, north of Auburn in Cayuga County. This flat, fertile country between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes grows strawberries and other summer berries. Exact picking days depend on the season and aren't posted online.

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