4.8 from 545 reviews across 11 farms
Organised lists 11 farms in Connecticut, including 11 egg farms, 10 farm shops and 8 butchers. 8 deliver to your door.
Devon PointMeat & eggs · North Stonington4.9 (109 reviews)Devon Point Farm is a family run farm at North Stonington, Connecticut, raising grass fed beef and heritage pork on pasture without hormones or antibiotics. The farm keeps American Milking Devon cattle, a heritage breed it also offers as breeding stock, and its animals live outdoors on an all natural, pasture based diet.
Beef is sold by the half, quarter or sampler box and pork by the half or whole pig, ordered through the farm's online shop or with printable mail in forms, with pickup and delivery serving Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The farm store also carries raw milk, local honey and maple syrup, and vegetables come as CSA farm shares.Holcomb FarmFruit, veg & eggs · Granby4.8 (83 reviews)Holcomb Farm is a 317 acre historic working farm in West Granby, Connecticut, farmed since 1756 and now run by the nonprofit Friends of Holcomb Farm together with the Town of Granby. The farm grows mixed vegetables on 26 acres without chemical fertilizers or pesticides, not even organically approved ones, and signs the Connecticut NOFA Farmer's Pledge. Its produce feeds a 550 member summer CSA, a 100 member winter CSA, wholesale customers and Fresh Access, a program bringing fresh, locally grown food to around 600 food insecure households a week through the growing season.
The farm store at 87 Simsbury Road opens Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, selling the farm's own produce alongside dairy, meats and artisan goods from other local farms and makers. More than 10 miles of woodland trails cross the property, open dawn to dusk, and the farm hosts community events through the year.Baldwin Brook FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · Canterbury4.9 (68 reviews)Baldwin Brook Farm is a raw milk dairy in Canterbury, Connecticut, run by Mavis and Chris. The milk is grass fed, unpasteurised and non homogenised, sold with its cream line intact, and the farm also raises pasture raised pigs, chickens and cattle without antibiotics or artificial growth hormones.
The farm store on Depot Road is self serve, cash or check, with someone usually around if you need a hand and milk stocked through the week in glass bottles and plastic jugs. Truly farm fresh eggs and seasonal cuts of beef, pork and chicken sit alongside the milk, which is also carried by retail locations around Connecticut.
White Gate FarmMeat & eggs · East Lyme4.9 (58 reviews)White Gate Farm grows organic produce in East Lyme, Connecticut, and turns much of it into prepared foods and baked goods made on the farm. Pasture raised poultry and fresh eggs round out the range, along with locally produced pantry items from other makers.
Buying works on a weekly rhythm. You order online on Tuesday and Wednesday, then collect from the self serve pickup any time after 3pm on Friday. The farm stand is also open on Saturday from 9am to 2pm, and delivery is offered locally.
Killam & Bassette FarmsteadFruit, veg & eggs · Glastonbury4.6 (71 reviews)Killam & Bassette Farmstead has been farming in South Glastonbury, Connecticut since 1893. Kevin Bassette started working for Henry Killam at nine years old on what was then a dairy and tobacco farm, and he and Chris Bassette moved it into produce as milk prices declined. Today the family grows quality fruits and vegetables, picks its sweet corn the morning it is sold, and produces free range eggs, award winning canned goods and all natural, non GMO USDA pork and chicken. They spray minimally, using integrated pest management with beneficial insects wherever they can.
The farm stand at 1098 Main Street is open all year, daily from Mother's Day to December 31 and Tuesday to Sunday through winter. The family runs three CSA programs, attends 18 farmers markets a season, and hosts farm dinner fundraisers for a memorial scholarship. The stand also carries Connecticut milk, cheeses, honey, maple syrup and pies from other local producers alongside its own goods.
Calf and Clover CreameryRaw milk, meat & eggs · Cornwall4.8 (59 reviews)Calf and Clover Creamery is a small raw milk dairy at Cornwall Bridge in Connecticut. The herd grazes the farm's hillside pastures in rotation through the season, with only a small non-GMO grain supplement in the milking parlour, and the milk comes out rich and creamy. The family also host farm stays and weddings.
The farm store is open every day of the year from 7am to 7pm, run as a self serve honour system, though someone is usually on hand if you need change or have a question. It is regularly stocked with raw milk, yoghurt, chocolate milk, ricotta, eggs and dairy beef and veal, alongside honey, maple syrup, coffee, lacto-fermented goods and seasonal fruit and vegetables.
Toplands FarmMeat & eggs · Roxbury4.8 (35 reviews)Toplands Farm raises pasture reared beef, pork and poultry at Roxbury in Connecticut. The animals live outdoors on open pasture and the farm uses rotational grazing to look after its soil, keeping the land productive for the long term while the livestock lead a natural, low stress life.
Meat is sold directly to customers through the farm's online store, which runs on the Barn2Door platform, and in person from the farm stand on Painter Hill Road on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons and through the day on Saturday.
Cedar Hill FarmMeat & eggs · Orange5 (30 reviews)Cedar Hill Farm is a family farm in Orange, Connecticut, where five generations of the Bespuda family have lived and worked the land. The farm raises its own beef, chicken, pork and turkey alongside fresh eggs and seasonal produce, selling it all directly to the people who eat it.
The farm store is open year round on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, and visits outside those hours can be arranged for larger orders. Eggs often sell out, so the farm takes pre-orders through its website, and maple syrup appears when the season allows. Cash, cards and mobile payments are all accepted.
Whippoorwill FarmMeat & eggs · Salisbury5 (13 reviews)Whippoorwill Farm raises livestock on Salmon Kill Road in Lakeville, Connecticut, and sells its own meat from a small shop at the farm. The freezers hold beef in everything from filet mignon to short ribs and oxtail, along with pork, bacon, smoked ham, and whole and half chickens from a heritage breed the farm rates for its flavour.
The shop is open year round on Fridays and Saturdays, 10am to 5pm, or by request at other times, and cards are accepted. Eggs, maple syrup and raw honey are usually on the shelves too, though stock shifts with what the farm has ready.
Holbrook FarmFruit, veg & eggs · Bethel5 (8 reviews)Holbrook Farm is a family farm and farm stand at 45 Turkey Plain Road in Bethel, Connecticut, started by John and Lynn Holbrook and run for around 40 years. The farm grows its own vegetables on two acres, including broccoli, cauliflower, beans, peas, leeks, onions, garlic, spinach, arugula and Asian greens, and keeps 500 to 600 hens whose eggs go to restaurants through the winter and into the farm shop in the warmer months. In May 2024 the farm stand was taken over by Jonathan Lindblom, trading as Iron Hill at Holbrook Farm on the same land and growing without synthetic fertiliser or pesticide.
The farm shop carries its own picking in season, from lettuce mix, curly kale, beets, snap peas, cucumbers, garlic scapes and rhubarb through to pumpkins and winter squash in autumn, alongside cut flower bouquets, farm fresh eggs, and Holbrook Farm strawberry basil jam and pickles put up in Bethel. The shelves are filled out with goods from neighbouring producers, including cheese and cultured butter from Arethusa, chevre from Little Farm on Main, local honey and maple syrup. The farm also runs a CSA share and sells vegetables and eggs wholesale, and orders placed through its shop are collected at the farm rather than delivered.
Aradia FarmMeat & eggs · Southbury4.3 (11 reviews)Aradia Farm is a family run farm in Southbury, Connecticut raising Dexter cattle and Tamworth pigs under the motto Clean Food, Clear Conscience. The cattle are reared on grass for grass fed beef and the pigs live out on pasture for pork.
The online shop sells individual cuts, from ribeye and porterhouse steaks to ground beef, short ribs and marrow bones, along with eggs and soap. There is a monthly meat membership too, delivering a regular box, and the farm sells at local farmers' markets as well as from the farm itself.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
