22 best farm shops in Connecticut | Organised

Rich Farm Ice Cream Shop
Oxford · Farm shop4.8 · 2,248 reviewsRich Farm Ice Cream began on July 3, 1994, when David and Dawn Rich opened an ice cream shop on the family dairy farm in Oxford, Connecticut. The farm goes back five generations to Raffaele Ajello, who founded it on Great Hill in Seymour; his son Thomas moved it to 100 acres in Oxford in 1950, and grandsons Don and Dave Rich took over the dairy in the early seventies and continue to operate the farm today. All of the ice cream is made daily on the farm using an all natural mix with no corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, growth hormones, polysorbates or phosphates. The Connecticut Department of Agriculture honoured the family for running a Dairy Farm of Distinction for beauty and high quality milk, an honour that still stands. The Oxford shop is open seven days a week, with sister shops in Bristol and Middlefield and a franchise in Placentia, California.
Bishop's Orchards Farm Market & Winery
Guilford · Farm shop, fruit & veg4.5 · 934 reviewsBishop's Orchards has been growing fruit on the Connecticut shoreline in Guilford for over 150 years. The main orchard on New England Road offers pick your own berries, peaches, apples, pears and flowers through the seasons, alongside an activity area, a seasonal cider hut and the Little Red Barn with live music and trivia through the summer. The farm makes its own fruit wines and Daughters & Sons hard cider right on the farm. The year round farm market on Boston Post Road sells farm grown produce, everyday groceries, scratch made pies, breads and prepared foods from its own kitchen, with an emphasis on local and regional makers. Bishop's Creamery shares the site, serving ice cream daily, and a farm share programme and educational visits round out a busy family destination.
Holmberg Orchards
Ledyard · Farm shop, bakery4.6 · 689 reviewsHolmberg Orchards is a family fruit farm in the hills of Gales Ferry, Connecticut, growing its own fruits and vegetables, along with lavender, and making wines and hard ciders on site. The farm market at its heart carries the farm's own produce alongside an in house bakery, prepared foods and specialty gourmet goods. The market is open daily all year round, while pick your own runs Tuesday to Sunday through the season. You can order pies ahead, shop online, or stop in to taste the wines and ciders made from the farm's own harvest.
Deerfield Farm
Durham · Farm shop, raw milk4.8 · 175 reviewsDeerfield Farm is a farmstead dairy in Durham, Connecticut, milking its own herd of Jersey cows and making every product on the premises. The cows graze the rolling fields through the warm months and eat hay from the farm's own hay fields, balanced with a little grain and an organic kelp mineral mix. The farm store sells raw Jersey milk, bottled fresh several times a week, along with European style yogurt with the cream on top, chocolate milk, a soft fresh cheese called Brianna and whole milk basket ricotta. Everything apart from the raw milk is pasteurised, and the store is open daily from 10am to 5.30pm.
The Garlic Farm
Granby · Farm shop4.9 · 140 reviewsThe Garlic Farm grows its own pesticide free produce in West Granby, Connecticut, following Northeast Organic Farming Association practices. Garlic is the speciality, sold alongside a wide variety of vegetables from the farm's fields. Everything is sold from the farm stand and the market in the big red barn at the end of the short driveway off Simsbury Road. The stand is seasonal, opening in July and running until sometime in October, with daily hours from 10am to 6pm while the season lasts, and exact dates are posted on the farm's Facebook page.
Stone Gardens Farm Market
Shelton · Farm shop, butcher4.6 · 177 reviewsStone Gardens Farm Market is a family farm and market in Shelton, Connecticut, started by Fred and Stacia Monahan and still run largely by family and friends. The cattle graze pasture in summer and in winter eat the farm's own hay and silage along with spent brewers' grain and extra vegetables, with no hormones or antibiotics. Beef, poultry and pork are cut in the farm's own USDA-approved cutting room and sold fresh from the coolers at the market, alongside fresh eggs and a country kitchen turning out prepared foods daily. The market is open Monday to Saturday from 8am to 7pm and Sunday from 8am to 4pm.
Easy Pickin's Orchard
Enfield · Farm shop4.5 · 195 reviewsEasy Pickin's Orchard is a family owned pick your own farm at Enfield, Connecticut, growing a broad spread of fruit, vegetables and flowers. Apples, berries, peaches and pumpkins each come into season in turn, and the land is managed with integrated pest management and careful attention to the soil. Visitors pick their own produce out in the orchard and fields, with the crop list shifting as the season moves on. Picking hours run through the week with longer days at the weekend, and it is worth checking what is ready before you set out.
Devon Point
North Stonington · Farm shop, butcher4.9 · 111 reviewsDevon 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 Farm
Granby · Farm shop, fruit & veg4.8 · 85 reviewsHolcomb 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 Farm
Canterbury · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 69 reviewsBaldwin 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.
Killam & Bassette Farmstead
Glastonbury · Farm shop, fruit & veg4.6 · 76 reviewsKillam & 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.
White Gate Farm
East Lyme · Farm shop, butcher4.9 · 58 reviewsWhite 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.
Calf and Clover Creamery
Cornwall · Farm shop, raw milk4.8 · 60 reviewsCalf 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 Farm
Roxbury · Farm shop, butcher4.8 · 36 reviewsToplands 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 Farm
Orange · Farm shop, butcher5.0 · 31 reviewsCedar 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.
Gazy Brothers Farm
Oxford · Farm shop4.1 · 28 reviewsGazy Brothers Farm is a family farm in Oxford, Connecticut growing a wide range of vegetables, herbs and fruit. The family looks after the soil with seasonal crop rotation and careful pest management, farming in a way that keeps the land healthy from one season to the next. Their produce is sold directly to customers through farmers' markets, seasonal farm shares and market stands, and orders can also be placed through their online ordering site. Expect whatever is in season, picked fresh and sold close to home.
StefanFarms
Windsor · Farm shop4.8 · 11 reviewsStefanFarms is a small vegetable farm in Windsor, Connecticut, a two person partnership that has been refining its way of growing on leased land since 1993. Mark manages the field production while his partner looks after the systems and community side, and they describe their approach as minimalistic alternative, non GMO and as clean as possible, with an honest answer for anyone who asks how something was grown or treated. Produce is sold through the farm store, a CSA programme and local markets, with bulk and wholesale buying available too. Pickup is at the farm on Matianuck Avenue, with the season running from summer into late autumn.
Holbrook Farm
Bethel · Farm shop, fruit & veg5.0 · 9 reviewsHolbrook 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 Farm
Southbury · Farm shop, butcher4.3 · 11 reviewsAradia 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.
Star Light Gardens
Middlefield · Farm shop4.3 · 6 reviewsStar Light Gardens grows vegetables, salad greens and flowers in Durham, Connecticut, farmed with no till methods and without synthetic chemicals. The beds turn out heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, carrots, kale and lettuce, along with delicate pea tendrils, sunflower shoots and glorious salad greens. Orders go through the weekly online market and are collected at the farm on Friday and Saturday afternoons, always ordered in advance rather than walked in. Alongside the vegetables there are mixed and sunflower bouquets, plus Sweet Sage Bakery loaves for Friday collection.
Radical Roots Farm
Canterbury · Farm shop, butcherRadical Roots Farm is a small family run farm working land in Canterbury and Sterling, Connecticut. The animals are pasture and forest raised, the fruit and vegetables are grown chemical and GMO free, and the whole operation stays small enough to be hands on. Meat sells in bulk through the online shop, from a beef sample box up to quarter, half and whole animals, with meat share subscriptions in full, half and sample sizes. There are pre orders for chickens and young egg layers too, and delivery can be arranged.
Farmer Joe's Gardens
Connecticut · Farm shop, raw honeyFarmer Joe's Gardens has grown out of a Wallingford, Connecticut farm stand and CSA into something quite different. Farmer Joe and Homestead Ida now bring the farm to you, renting out backyard laying hens and running chick and quail hatching programmes for families, schools, libraries and senior communities across Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. Rentals arrive fully set up, with the coop, feed, equipment and ongoing support included. Laying hens and chicks can be adopted year round, and the farm sells pure maple syrup through its online shop.