4 best fruit and veg farms in Connecticut

4 best fruit and veg farms in Connecticut | Organised

Bishop's Orchards Farm Market & Winery
Guilford · Fruit & veg, farm shop4.5 · 906 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.
Holcomb Farm
Granby · Fruit & veg, eggs4.8 · 83 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.
Killam & Bassette Farmstead
Glastonbury · Fruit & veg, eggs4.6 · 71 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.
Holbrook Farm
Bethel · Fruit & veg, eggs5.0 · 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.

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