Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Vallejo, CA

American Canyon

ABC Tree Farms runs this pumpkin patch and inflatable park on Broadway in American Canyon, built for kids ages 2 to 12 in the more urban stretch of the Bay Area. Fall brings pumpkin selection alongside giant inflatables and water slides; the same lot turns into a Christmas tree lot in December. Admission and parking are free.

Fairfield

Suisun Valley's wine and farm country sits in Solano County between San Francisco and Sacramento, where more than a dozen member wineries pour tastings alongside farm stands selling produce grown right along Suisun Valley Road. The growers' association behind the region organizes u-pick days, winemaker dinners, and live music through the season without the crowds of Napa or Sonoma.

Fairfield

Larry's Produce stocks a roadside stand in the Suisun Valley with fruit and vegetables grown nearby, open every day but Wednesday from June through December. Locals call it one of the valley's biggest produce stops, with hours running 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The stand reopens each spring; check the farm's Facebook page for the exact date the season starts.

Fairfield

Il Fiorello presses extra virgin olive oil from certified organic groves that Ann and Mark Sievers planted in Green Valley and Suisun Valley, the stretch of countryside between Fairfield and Napa. Alongside the oil, the tasting room sells flavored balsamic vinegars, local honey, wine, and craft beer, and pours daily from 11am to 5pm. Guided tastings and farm tours run through the orchard and mill, where visitors can see the pressing process firsthand.

Berkeley

Bay Area Green Tours operated agricultural and sustainability-focused tours out of Berkeley, on Allston Way near downtown.

Fairfield

Erickson's Ranch is on Cordelia Road in Fairfield, California, part of the rolling grassland corridor between the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley where several seasonal pumpkin patches and corn mazes operate each fall.

Sonoma

Sonoma Broadway Farms is on Broadway in the city of Sonoma, in the middle of Sonoma Valley's wine and produce country. Broadway runs south from the historic plaza toward Highway 121, past a mix of tasting rooms and small agricultural parcels.

Oakland

Bee Healthy Honey Shop is a family business with beekeeping roots that trace back four generations to Yemen, now selling raw local honey, pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, and candles out of a small storefront on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. Staff will transfer pollen into glass jars on request. It's a walk-in retail shop rather than a working apiary — a place to buy honey, not to visit hives.

Oakland

This Oakland lot on Piedmont Avenue has sold pumpkins to the neighborhood for over two decades, open daily 9am-8pm through the first week of November. Hay bales and a small kids' area sit alongside the pumpkin selection, which reviewers note runs smaller and pricier than a farm-based patch. Located at 4414 Piedmont Avenue.

San Rafael

Marin Convention & Visitors Bureau operates from 1 Mitchell Boulevard in San Rafael as the county's destination marketing organization, not a farm itself. It publishes a visitor's guide, lodging directory, and event calendar covering Marin County, including its farms, ranches, and agricultural tourism. Reach the office at (415) 925-2060.

Petaluma

A Sonoma County regional park on land that was farmed for decades by the Cardoza family, who grew pumpkins here before the county acquired the property for public open space. The park now protects Tolay Lake itself, wetlands, and grassland trails between Petaluma and the Sonoma Valley, with that farming history part of what the site's interpretive programs cover.

Moraga

Captain Vineyards is a Bay Area winery in Moraga founded in 2005, farming more than 3,000 dry-farmed vines by hand. The estate makes unfiltered wines aged five to ten years in French oak, including Petite Sirah and Cabernet-driven blends, and has picked up the CoolCal and California Green Business awards for sustainable practices. Tastings run by reservation.

Novato

Lovepatch Farms raises miniature horses on a small property in Novato, about 29 miles north of San Francisco, and runs appointment-only tours built around hands-on time with the animals. The farm advertises its tours and presentations as accessible for all ages and abilities, and draws visitors from well beyond the Bay Area. It's a niche operation — no crops, no produce stand — just the horses and a visit booked in advance.

Alameda

Vacaville

Soul Food Farm is a family-run operation on Pleasants Valley Road in Vacaville, growing lavender, cut flowers, and specialty vegetables and pressing olive oil, alongside a small sheep flock raised for yarn. Alexis and Eric bought the land more than two decades ago and shifted from pastured chickens toward this more diversified, regenerative mix starting in 2012. The farm stand runs Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March through November.

Vacaville

Sweet Pea's Pumpkin Patch is on Alamo Drive in Vacaville, Solano County, in the flat farmland between Sacramento and the Bay Area. Vacaville's warm Central Valley summers give way to a reliable fall pumpkin season, and the town runs several seasonal patches each October.

Vacaville

Pleasants Valley Iris Farm grows more than 400 varieties of Tall Bearded iris in its viewing garden outside Vacaville, including reblooming and scented types. Rhizomes are hand-dug and shipped directly from the farm every August. Peak bloom runs April through May, when the farm opens its gardens to visitors — the owners say to bring a picnic lunch and stay a while rather than just walk through.

Petaluma

The Happy Dahlia Farm grew more than 100 varieties of dahlias on East Washington Street in Petaluma, selling cut stems, plants, and tubers and taking wedding orders through its Wednesday-to-Sunday season. The farm announced in January 2024 that it had closed, after being unable to find a new location to keep growing. Listings that still show it as currently open are out of date.

Glen Ellen

Beltane Ranch farms 105 acres in Glen Ellen, growing estate Sauvignon Blanc, Rosé, Carignan and Zinfandel alongside olive oil, eggs, and heirloom produce through regenerative practices. The historic property runs as a farm-stay inn with chef-prepared, ranch-grown breakfasts, plus a working orchard, gardens, and animals including sheep, donkeys, chickens, and honeybees.

Alameda

This Alameda address is Niman Ranch's corporate office rather than a working farm open to visitors. Niman Ranch is a natural, sustainably raised meat brand supplied by a network of more than 600 independent family farms and ranches nationwide, raised without antibiotics or added hormones under Certified Humane standards. Farm visits happen at individual member ranches, not at this office.

San Leandro

Schmitz Ranch has raised livestock for the Bay Area since 1944, now in its third generation of the Schmitz family running the operation. It's registered as a wholesale meat business rather than a pick-your-own farm, so hours and product availability are best confirmed by phone before a visit. The ranch operates out of 410 Hester Street in San Leandro.

Vacaville

Bar J Ranch is a u-pick apple orchard on Cantelow Road outside Vacaville, growing apples across the property for pick-your-own visitors during fall harvest. Listings describe it as a working produce farm rather than an event venue, though current hours and varieties are thin online — call ahead before the drive.

Petaluma

Adobe Pumpkin Farm sits along East Washington Street east of Petaluma, not far from the Petaluma Adobe, General Vallejo's 1830s rancho and now a state historic park. The corridor remains one of the last working agricultural stretches on Petaluma's edge, known locally for its fall pumpkin patches.

Suisun City

The Western Railway Museum, a nonprofit rail-history museum in Suisun City since 1946, runs a vintage train out to Gum Grove Farm each fall for its Pumpkin Patch Festival. The ride includes pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, a zipline, tractor rides, and a hay fort, plus live music on weekends in October. Call ahead for the current year's dates and hours before visiting.

Petaluma

McClelland's Dairy Farm is a dairy operation on Bodega Avenue in Petaluma, in Sonoma County's dairy country west of town. Herd size, products, and public tour details weren't confirmed online this pass.

Petaluma

Lavender Bee Farm pairs beekeeping with lavender growing in Petaluma, part of Sonoma County's cluster of small flower and herb farms that supply local farm stands and farmers markets.

Vacaville

Menagerie Hill Ranch is a family-run alpaca farm in Vacaville raising around 29 alpacas alongside a small number of llamas. Owners Deb Galway and Kirk Howard run appointment-only tours where visitors feed and handle the animals, and operate a farm store selling alpaca fiber products. The ranch also sells breeding stock and offers mentoring for people looking to start their own alpaca operation, drawing on more than 20 years of experience.

Petaluma

Windrush Farm is a working sheep farm in Petaluma's Chileno Valley, founded in 1995 by Mimi Luebbermann around the idea of farming fiber rather than food. Reservation-only tours introduce visitors to sheep, lambs, chickens, llamas, and alpacas, and the farm teaches spinning and dyeing classes alongside a spring Lamb Days event.

Petaluma

Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and A'Mazing Corn Maze has grown pumpkins on Stony Point Road since 1993, now spanning more than five acres with over 50 varieties of pumpkins, squash, and gourds. The four-acre corn maze weaves through stalks ten feet tall, with only one way out. Fall hours run daily, extending to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Nicasio

Devil's Gulch Ranch raises rabbits, heritage chickens, quail, pigs, sheep, and goats on pasture in Nicasio, deep in Marin County's North Coast ranchland, alongside premium wine grapes and foraged ingredients. The ranch sells direct through its own online storefront and to restaurants, using sustainable and largely organic methods across the operation.

Santa Rosa

Eastside Seasonal Farm operates on Petaluma Hill Road south of Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County's dairy and vineyard country. No hours or seasonal offerings are published online for this listing; contact the farm directly.

Antioch

Jones Family Honey pairs small-batch honey sales with residential bee removal in Antioch, in eastern Contra Costa County. Outfits that combine live-hive removal with honey sales are common in this part of the Delta, where swarms move into attics and sheds every spring.

Petaluma

Larry Peter milks about 400 Jersey cows on his family's Spring Hill Road dairy outside Petaluma and turns that milk into cheese under the Spring Hill Jersey Cheese and Petaluma Creamery labels. The dairy dates to 1987; cheese production started in 1998, using traditional methods at what's now a century-old creamery site. The retail shop on Western Avenue sells the cheese, along with butter and ice cream.

Brentwood

McCauley Olive Groves grows olives on Balfour Road in Brentwood, part of East Contra Costa County's belt of orchards and row crops east of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Brentwood

Berry Best Family Farm grows four strawberry varieties for u-pick on Balfour Road in Brentwood, then moves into peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, plumcots, cherries, and figs as spring turns to summer. Hours run daily, roughly 9am to 5 or 6pm depending on the day of the week, with weekend closing times slightly earlier than weekdays.