24 best farm shops in New York | Organised

Freedom Hill Farm
Otisville · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 447 reviewsFreedom Hill Farm is a small, visitor friendly Jersey dairy at 115 Grange Road in Otisville, New York, run by owners Rick and Julie. Rick grew up on this very farm and returned in 2003 after 26 years managing a 2,000 cow dairy, rebuilding it as a family farm that combines natural farming with Christian ministry, and all are welcome regardless of belief. The Jerseys are pasture fed, and the farm holds a New York state permit to sell raw milk, with the dairy regularly tested for quality. Pre ordered raw milk is sold from the farm alongside yogurt, kefir and buttermilk made with the farm's own milk. The farm store, open seven days a week, also carries free range eggs, local raw honey, local beef, pork and chicken, maple syrup and other goods from nearby producers. Visitors are welcome every day during the evening milking, from 3:30pm to 5:30pm.
Sunset View Creamery
Odessa · Farm shop, raw milk4.8 · 378 reviewsSunset View Creamery is the Hoffman family's dairy farm at Odessa in New York, established in 1905 and still worked by the family every day. The cows are never treated with hormones and are free of antibiotics, and the milk is processed on site in the family's own New York State inspected facility, a few steps from the parlour. The on farm store sells their cheeses, raw milk, cream on top milk and yogurt alongside local meats and other locally produced goods, open daily from 10am to 5pm, and cheese ships nationwide from the online shop. Visitors can take a self guided tour, cuddle a cow or learn to milk one.
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
Ghent · Farm shop, raw milk4.5 · 344 reviewsHawthorne Valley Farm Store is the retail arm of Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, New York, part of the nonprofit Hawthorne Valley Association. The land has been cultivated by biodynamic farmers and gardeners for over 50 years, and the store sells the farm's own biodynamic produce, raw and pasteurised milk, yogurt, artisanal cheese, organic breads and pastries, and daily prepared hot and cold meals, all made on site. The store is a full line organic grocery as well as a farm shop. It carries products from 45 local and regional farms, stocks 316 biodynamic products, runs UNFI and fresh produce buying clubs, and serves around 235,000 customers a year. It anchors a wider campus that includes a Waldorf school, summer camps and a farmscape ecology programme, and a self guided biodiversity trail begins behind the store. The store also runs the Double Up Food Bucks programme for SNAP customers.
Thorpe's Organic Family Farm
East Aurora · Farm shop, fruit & veg4.7 · 249 reviewsThorpe's Organic Family Farm began in 1983, when Mike and Gayle Thorpe started farming together just outside East Aurora in western New York. Six kids and 13 grandkids later the family farm continues, having made the leap from conventional to organic in the 90s after seeing what chemicals did to soil and health. The farm has been certified organic through NOFA NY since 1999, relying on cover crops, crop rotation, manure from its own cows and plenty of hand weeding. The farm store is open year round, Monday to Saturday, with certified organic fruits and vegetables, organic eggs and dairy, the farm's organically fed beef, pork and poultry, daily baked goods and organic drip coffee, with breakfast sandwiches on Friday and Saturday mornings. Summer brings pick your own organic blueberries and raspberries, and a weekly market CSA runs alongside Gayle's newsletter.
Churchtown Dairy
Hudson · Farm shop, raw milk4.8 · 195 reviewsChurchtown Dairy is a raw milk dairy, creamery and garden on 250 acres in Hudson, New York, in the Hudson Valley farmland Peggy Rockefeller began protecting in the 1980s. Her daughter Abby Rockefeller built the farm from 2012 with a conviction that small is beautiful in agriculture, and today it is home to 30 dairy cows and their calves, a beef herd, a handful of pigs, an award winning creamery and extraordinary round barn architecture, run collectively by a dedicated team under the Foundation for Agricultural Integrity. The farm store and welcome centre is open every day, selling the farm's own raw milk, cheese and meat alongside curated goods from local farmers and makers. The dairy farms on organic principles with pastured animals, and hosts education, research and gatherings, from grazing workshops to chamber music in the round barn, in service of small scale farming and real food.
Willow-Marsh Farm Store
Ballston Spa · Farm shop, raw milk4.7 · 139 reviewsWillow-Marsh Farm is a 135 acre, 5th generation family farm at Ballston Spa in New York, farmed regeneratively and without chemicals. The family raise beef, pork, veal and dairy cows, grow garlic, sweet corn and potatoes, and are best known for raw milk, cheese and Greek yogurt. Raw milk is paused while a new on site creamery is finished, with subscriptions on sale ahead of its return. The farm store carries the farm's own pasture raised beef and pork alongside goods from over 65 local small businesses, from honey made in hives on the farm to maple syrup, baked goods and handmade soaps. In winter the store opens Wednesday to Sunday.
Country Cousins Farm
Evans Mills · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 101 reviewsCountry Cousins Farm is a friendly family farm at Evans Mills in northern New York, established in 1993 and grown from a dairy herd into beef cattle, laying hens and a small farm store beside the dairy barn. The cows are milked twice a day, the raw milk is filtered, chilled and restocked in the store daily, and the beef is pasture fed, grain finished and USDA inspected. Pork comes from a neighbouring farm. The store is self serve on an honesty basis, open 7am to 7pm Monday to Saturday, taking cash, PayPal or Venmo. Alongside their own milk, eggs and beef it carries gelato and cheese curds made from their milk, plus local honey, maple syrup and handmade soaps.
Old Ford Farm
New Paltz · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 71 reviewsOld Ford Farm is a small diversified family farm in Gardiner, New York, run by Becky and Joe Fullam, raising Jersey cattle and poultry on pasture. The cattle eat grass and organically grown hay, moved to fresh grass daily under intensive rotational grazing, with lactating cows sometimes given a little certified organic grain. Antibiotics are never used preventatively, only in acute illness when no alternative exists. The farm is a New York licensed raw milk seller, its milk tested monthly by the state and sold by the half gallon in glass jars. Their year round, self service farm store at 1359 Old Ford Road in New Paltz is open 24 hours a day: customers record purchases on a clipboard and leave cash or a check in the box. Alongside the farm's own raw milk, beef, chicken and eggs, the store carries yogurt, cheese, butter, pork, vegetables, honey and maple syrup from named local farms that share its values, and a Food Access Fund halves prices for SNAP customers.
Side Hill Acres Goat Farm
Candor · Farm shop, raw milk4.7 · 66 reviewsSide Hill Acres Goat Farm sits at 79 Spencer Road in Candor, New York, between Ithaca and Binghamton. Russell and Rita Kellogg established the goat dairy in 1987 and added their own cheese processing plant in 1994. The barn houses 157 dairy goats, and the family handles every step itself, from raising and milking the goats to crafting gold medal winning goat cheese in aged logs, feta, cream cheese, mild cheddar and herb spreads. Farm tours let visitors mingle with the goats and even try milking by hand. Raw goat milk is sold at the farm in gallons, alongside pasteurised Grade A goat milk, kefir and yogurt. The farm store adds goat milk soaps and creams, organic and gluten free foods, and locally produced honey, maple syrup, eggs, grass fed beef, pork and chicken from neighbouring producers. They are members of the American Cheese Society and Finger Lakes Farm Country.
North Country Creamery @ Clover Mead Farm
Keeseville · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 51 reviewsNorth Country Creamery is a 100% grass fed, Animal Welfare Approved and Non GMO dairy on a 115 acre farm at Mace Chasm Road in Keeseville, New York, where a herd of Jersey, Milking Shorthorn and heritage cross cows grazes pastures overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains. Owners Ashlee Kleinhammer and Steven Googin run the small first generation farm. The creamery makes farmstead cheeses and creamline yogurts using only its own fresh milk, with nothing added beyond cultures, local herbs, maple syrup and organic extracts. Its raw milk, the only 100% grass fed raw milk in the Adirondacks, is sold on site at the Clover Mead Cafe and Farmstore in returnable wide mouth mason jars, inspected by NYS Agriculture and Markets. The cows are cared for with tinctures, essential oils and homeopathic remedies if ever they are in need, and the farm store also carries local and organic produce.
Echo Farm
Essex · Farm shop4.9 · 41 reviewsEcho Farm is a diversified farm of nearly 170 acres of tillable and forested land in Essex, New York, between Sprig and Whipple Mountains in the Champlain Valley. The land was acquired through conservation partnerships, with a 75 acre lease of the Sayre Family Farm, and the farm began as a diversified homestead and dairy operation. It received the 2024 Agricultural Environmental Management award for Essex County and was a finalist for New York's Leopold Conservation Award. The farm feeds its own business, Farmstead Catering, which grows and raises entire wedding and event menus on the land: vegetables, legumes and root crops, pasture raised pork and beef, cultured butter, artisanal cheeses, salad greens and flowers, with only items like coffee and olive oil bought in. Summer picnics and an asado series bring guests onto the farm, and the realmilk directory records seasonal raw milk, meat, eggs and vegetables sold from the farm store.
Sunny Cove Farm
Alfred Station · Farm shop, raw milk4.6 · 52 reviewsSunny Cove Farm is a small grass based family dairy at 1444 Randolph Road in Alfred Station, New York, producing raw milk since 1977. The farm was certified organic through NOFA-NY in 2002, added a certified grassfed accreditation in 2016, and in January 2006 was granted a New York State permit to sell certified organic raw milk. The farm's headline offer is organic raw milk and grass fed beef, and its listing in the state farm directory adds butter, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, eggs, honey, maple products, apples, sweet cider and a wide range of vegetables, with dairy cows, goats, pigs and poultry on the land. A farm stand and store in Allegany County is open to the public, and the farm also welcomes agritourism visits.
Erba Verde Farms
East Aurora · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 37 reviewsErba Verde Farms is a small family farm on Porterville Road in East Aurora, New York, raising pasture raised and free range chicken, pastured pork, grass fed beef, veal and milk from grass fed cows for Buffalo and the surrounding parts of Western New York. It is run by Bryan Strzelec, who grew up on the dairy farm his father has run for more than 40 years, took a degree in animal science at Cornell University, and has managed two dairies and two restaurants. The name means green grass in Italian, and that is the whole idea: the farm grows good grass and the animals do the rest. The cattle graze organic pasture with no antibiotics and no artificial hormones, the pigs live out on pasture and move to fresh grass regularly with only local grain and whey used as a supplement, and the chickens are Freedom Rangers left to forage in the open. There is a self serve farm store in the barn at the end of the driveway, open daily, taking card, cash, Venmo or check. Alongside the farm's own chicken, beef and pork the shelves carry goods from local partners, including raw honey, maple products, jams, Amish raised organic free range eggs, coffee and tallow balm. Bulk beef quarters, halves and wholes are ordered through a partner farm, Legacy Pastured Beef, while Erba Verde's own retail cuts, sausages, bacon, ham and organ meats are sold from the farm and through its online store. The farm delivers to Clarence, Williamsville, Hamburg, Ellicottville, Grand Island and parts of the city of Buffalo, stands at the Elmwood Village and East Aurora farmers markets from May to November, and supplies a long list of Buffalo restaurants.
Mecox Bay Dairy
Bridgehampton · Farm shop, raw milk4.8 · 38 reviewsMecox Bay Dairy is the only dairy farm on Long Island's South Fork, family owned and run in Bridgehampton, New York. The farm is committed to quality and consistency, making artisan dairy through sustainable farming with respect for the landscape around it, and it also raises grass fed beef on the family's pastureland. Raw milk is bottled fresh on the farm with minimal processing, and everything is sold from the farm store at 855 Mecox Road, which is open daily. The stand runs on an honour system, so you can call in whenever suits and leave payment as you go.
Essex Farm
Essex · Farm shop, raw milk5.0 · 23 reviewsEssex Farm is a year round, whole diet CSA farm in Essex, New York, in the Adirondacks a mile from the Essex Charlotte ferry dock. One of the only full diet, free choice membership farms anywhere, it raises and grows what its members need for the whole year, vegetables and fruit, grassfed meat, pasture raised eggs, raw milk and dairy, maple syrup, grains, flours and dry beans, plus fermented and value added products. The farm is not certified organic but follows or exceeds the National Organic Standard, except where that would discourage proper medical care for an animal, and never uses conventional pesticides or herbicides. There is also a small farm store on NY Route 22, open self serve around the clock, with the farm's grassfed meat, raw milk and seasonal produce alongside locally made goods.
Berle Farm
Hoosick Falls · Farm shop, raw milk4.7 · 28 reviewsBerle Farm is a certified organic dairy farm in Hoosick Falls, New York, founded by Beatrice Berle in 1989 and still owned and operated by her today. The dairy is licensed and inspected by the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets and sells fresh raw milk, certified organic with the cream on top, from a small herd bred with A2 genetics since 2016 across Ayrshire, Jersey, Milking Shorthorn and other breeds. Milk runs March through December; the cows take a break in January and February. The farm makes European style jar set yogurt and cellar aged cheeses, BerleBerg and HayMakers among them, sold at dozens of stores across New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. Certified organic beef comes from cattle born on the farm and raised on its organic pastures on grass. Maple syrup, organic apples from the farm's own orchard and soil grown vegetables round out the farm store, which runs on solar electricity and solar hot water.
Hidden Camp Farm
Canajoharie · Farm shop, butcher4.8 · 25 reviewsHidden Camp Farm in Canajoharie, New York produces grass fed dairy, pastured eggs and meats with a regenerative approach that starts with the soil. The milk is A2/A2, the animals are raised outdoors on pasture, and feed is kept corn and soy free. The farm has recently changed hands, and most of the business has merged with Pasture To Fork, whose online shop now carries the range with delivery to your door or a nearby pickup point. The farm store itself stays open by appointment, selling dairy and eggs only.
Chaseholm Farm
Pine Plains · Farm shop, raw milk4.5 · 31 reviewsChaseholm Farm is a third generation dairy in Pine Plains, New York, in the Hudson Valley, where Sarah Chase farms the land her family has worked for generations alongside her brother Rory. The herd of Jerseys and Holsteins is certified organic and 100 percent grass fed, grazed intensively through managed pastures in season and fed hay made on the farm through winter, an approach they sum up as learning from nature, farming for health. Chaseholm is a New York certified raw milk dairy, bottling milk in glass for the self serve farm store, open every day from 8am to 8pm. The store also carries the farm's 100 percent grass fed beef from Red Devons and British Whites, whey fed heritage pork raised in the fields and forests, whole milk yogurt made from their milk, and farmstead cheeses from Chaseholm Farm Creamery up the road, plus goods from Hudson Valley neighbours. A meat and dairy CSA, HolmGoods, serves ten locations across the valley.
Finch Family Farm
Marathon · Farm shop, raw milk5.0 · 12 reviewsFinch Family Farm began in 2017, when Air Force veteran Dakota Finch bought a 100 percent grass fed organic dairy herd and started farming in South New Berlin before moving with his partner Courtney Kimble and their four children to Marathon, New York in 2019. The herd has grown to 48 milking cows plus heifers, calves, steers and beef cows, all certified organic and 100 percent grass fed, certified by Organic Plus Trust and NOFA NY. The farm is licensed by New York State to sell raw milk, bottled fresh daily and tested weekly, and its farm stand carries grass fed beef, pasture raised pork from son Memphis's business The Crispy Pig, pasture raised chicken and eggs from Weston's Wings, and whipped beef tallow body cream. The stand is open 8am to 8pm, seven days a week, with local delivery and pick up through the online store.
Remembrance Farm
Trumansburg · Farm shop, raw milk4.9 · 11 reviewsRemembrance Farm is a 100 acre biodynamic vegetable and dairy farm in Trumansburg, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes. The farm specialises in salad greens and root vegetables, grown for local stores and restaurants as well as for households nearby. Vegetables reach members through a cooperative CSA called the Full Plate Farm Collective, and the dairy side supplies organic raw milk, cheese and yoghurt to members of the farm's Dairy CSA. Wholesale, retail and raw milk enquiries each have their own contact on the farm's website.
Hoofprint Cheese Company
Millbrook · Farm shop, raw milk5.0 · 10 reviewsHoofprint Cheese Company is a small scale artisanal goat dairy and creamery in Millbrook, New York, in the heart of the mid Hudson Valley. It was founded by a couple drawn back to rural life, and their motto tells you most of what you need to know, "Happy Goats. Delicious Cheese. Wonderful Life." The goats come first here, treated as family and given a comfortable life, and their milk becomes the creamery's cheeses. The farm supplies humanely raised, sustainable food to its local community, and it keeps daily opening hours, so call in or phone ahead to see what is fresh.
AKM Farm Market and Dairy
Millbrook · Farm shop, raw milk5.0 · 7 reviewsAKM Farm is a small Jersey cow dairy in Dutchess County, New York, owned and operated by Diane and Michael Massarone and named for their three daughters, Amanda, Katelyn and Melissa. Michael grew up raising dairy cows through the Dutchess County 4H programme, and the couple's herd is currently two milking cows, Luna and Juno, with three young heifers coming on. The cows have access to pasture and are mainly grass fed, supplemented with some grain, and the farm also raises registered Alpine and Nubian dairy goats. The farm holds a New York State raw milk licence, with its milking equipment and milk quality monitored by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets and regular visits from Quality Milk Production Services. The on farm market sells raw cow milk, raw goat milk and fresh chicken eggs alongside locally sourced Hudson Valley products, from beef, pork and chicken to breads, yogurt, cheese and seasonal produce. It is open every day, and visitors are welcome to meet the animals.
WintersGrass Farm
Sauquoit · Farm shop, raw milkWintersGrass Farm sits in the Sauquoit Valley of New York, about 10 minutes from the city of Utica, and is run by Jordan and Hannah Winters. Jordan grew up in the Utica area and spent a year apprenticing under Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm in 2006 before coming home to start the farm. In 2012 he managed Maple Hill Creamery's 100 percent grassfed dairy at Little Falls, then spent a year in Virginia supplying raw milk to local families through a herdshare, and that is the work that set him on the raw milk path. Hannah grew up on her father's small hobby farm in Minnesota and moved to New York in 2014. The couple leased their present farm in 2015, and since April 2016 it has held a New York State raw milk dairy license, the first and still the only one in Oneida County. The farm calls itself pasture based and beyond organic. The herd is moved daily on rotational grazing, and the animals raised on that grass become 100 percent grassfed raw milk, 100 percent grassfed beef, pastured pork and GMO free pastured eggs. Chicken and turkey are not available at present. Cuts are processed and vacuum packed by Jordan Brandt of Red Barn Meats in Croghan, and sold from the farm store alongside bulk beef and pork in quarters, halves and whole animals. You can collect on the farm, or have an order shipped to your door.
Threefold Community Farm
Monsey · Farm shop, raw milkThreefold Community Farm cares for forty acres of land at Monsey in Rockland County, New York, about thirty miles north west of New York City. It was formed in 2018 when the Pfeiffer Center of the Threefold Educational Foundation and Duryea Farm of the Fellowship Community came together, and it is worked biodynamically throughout. The team grows vegetables, herbs, flowers and seed crops, makes its own compost and potting soil, rotationally grazes and cuts hay for what they describe as Rockland County's only dairy herd and raw milk creamery, works two draft horses and manages an apiary. The self serve farm store on Ackertown Road runs on the honour system and is open 7am to 8pm, seven days a week, for as long as there is stock. It sells raw milk from the farm's own Jersey forward micro herd, yogurt made in house with heirloom cultures, cheeses, herbal teas, the farm's Lightroot herb salt, beeswax salves and seasonal ferments, with pasteurised milk offered alongside the raw. Because the dairy is seasonal, quantities follow the cows' lactation cycles, and the farm says milk is plentiful from May to January and scarce in late winter and early spring. There is also a CSA, a Friday produce stand in season, guided farm tours and practical training in biodynamics.