Central Coast

Wine tasting tours visit the Monterey and Santa Cruz wine countries, agricultural tours feature the Salinas and Pajaro Valleys, sightseeing/local history tours (Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Carmel or Big Sur), wine tasting and agricultural education lectures, gourmet cooking classes, beer tasting, chocolate tasting, olive oil and balsamic vinegar tasting, farmers market tours, local attractions, shopping, horseback riding, wildlife viewing, whale watching, kayaking, mountain biking, nature hikes

Education tours of the Monterey Bay region and agricultural consulting.

Festival

Wine and gifts. Corporate event site, wedding site. 700 acre cattle ranch, vineyards and winery.

Farmstand Saturdays 10am to 2 pm,
Farm tours Saturdays (appt. only)
Farm dinners
Hipcamp farmstay

cheese, yogurt, meat, eggs

During the summer our camps for kids 3-17 are in full swing. We offer horseback riding camps, outdoor adventures, animal care, and gardening as part of our summer programs. The fall brings outdoor preschool, field trips, pumpkin patch, and campfire nights.

Seasonal products are occasionally available on-site. Products include lavender wands, honey, organic u-cut flowers, eggs, alpaca and sheep fleece.

Agricultural & Rural Life Museum. Gift shop, 19 century school house, 19th century ranch house, 19th century working blacksmith shop, 19th century train depot, irrigation museum, educational garden, history of agriculture exhibits, extensive antique farm equipment collection both running and stationary.

Educational and historic tours along Salinas Valley's River Road, including agricultural sites. School tours available.

New agricultural wing of John Steinbeck museum dedicated to the history, people, products, and technology of the local ag industry

Camp, riding lessons, pony rides, horse shows, pony parties

Visitors to come and get a first hand feel of raising animals and different variety of birds. Also, experience being in a rural setting and able to see many types of wildlife in the area.

Wine Tasting Room & Gift Shop. Small meeting accomodations, Vineyard tours.

Fresh produce stand

Guest Ranch, Wedding and event facilities. 8 room lodge and 6 room bunkhouse. Grassfed beef. Participatory cattle drives and trail rides. A working cattle ranch. Located on the San Andreas fault most studied spot on earth for earthquakes.

Growers & processors of Blenheim Apricots
Farm Gift Shop

Dried Blenheim Apricots, savory and sweet dried apricot Preserves, Chutney and Toppings.  Chocolate covered dried apricots, scone and pancake mixes, gift baskets and gift cards. Free recipes.

The Bar SZ Ranch is a genuine working family ranch.  A few days here will immerse you in a lifestyle that we love to share with others.  Enjoy horseback riding, roping, morning and evening animals feedings, hayrides, skeet and trap shooting, archery, creek walking, hiking, BBQs, and campfires.

We are family-owned and operated since 1958. We grow the finest Bing, Rainier and Royal Helen Cherries (Summer), Fresh Blenheim Apricots (Summer). Our Dried Blenheim Apricots and Walnuts are available year-round. Come visit our unique family farm stand, and experience fruit fresh off the tree.

Fresh Sweet Bing, Rainier, Royal Helen Cherries (Seasonal Availability)
Fresh Blenheim Apricots (Seasonal Availability)
Dried Blenheim Apricots
Walnuts

We offer farm tours, Airbnb lodging, Airbnb experiences within our livestock management, wedding hosting, corporate event meeting spaces, and educational workshops led by the Paicines Ranch Learning Center.

100% grass-fed and finished lamb 100% grass-fed and finished cattle, pasture-raised Turkey (seasonal), pasture-raised pork.

We have a Farm Stay business, R&G Ranch Stay where guests can stay in a guest cottage, visit our Farm Stand, hike our property, learn about our organic olive farm and the production of olive oil (from tree to table). We also have a variety of farm animals and native plants.

We have a Farm Stand on site open to the public where we sell our organic olive oil & olive leaf tea, gourmet mustards, White Peacock Bath & Body products, saddle oil, llama fiber and other items.

We have a wood fired, freshly stone milled grains for flour, bakery and soon we will add the Nut House Brewery to the farm by Spring of 2020. We grow hops and will make fresh beer - Cooking Classes and Farm to Table Dinners as well

Breads, Olive Oil, Beer (Spring 2020), Pastries, Pizza, Ice Cream, and Olive Leaf Iced Tea

Workshops, tours, volunteer opportunities, farmstays

cheese making classes

Working livestock ranch. Alpacas- Sales, Breeding, Fiber sales. Educational workshops, visits and classes. Onsite gift shop, Alpacazonia. Limited RV drylot parking for special event days or by weekend arrangement. Ask us to send you our agtourism brochure for details on arranging visits.

Vegetables, pumpkin patch, hay rides, picnic area

Working authentic cattle ranch demonstrating real life ranching skills in conjunction with CA Dept of Fish & Game's PLM program

Farm/ranch vacation

Blackberries, pumpkins, apples, tomatoes, pears and cherries

Hipcamp glamping experience, farm tours, Farm to Table meals, yoga classes & retreats, monthly full moon ceremony/drum circle

Certified OrganictTinctures, salves, aromatherapy roll-ons, jams, jellies, salsas, sauces
Seasonal vegetables: winter squash, garlic, lemons, eggs
summer: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant etc.

Bed & Breakfast

This is a working farm operation. Observe fields at different stages, barn, tractors, small cattle operation. Farm stand and pumpkin patch available in October only.

Farm animals, pottery, sculpture

Our Ranch is 1/2 endangered Monterey Pine Forest and 1/2 Meadows overlooking the Pacific Ocean. We have several herds of Clydesdale horses living like wild horses. It is a wildlife preserve as well. Tis is an exceptional tour like no other for the horse,wildlife, and nature lover.

Clydesdale Ranch Related items

Produce, herbs and juice

Hydroponic hybrid tea roses

Our goal is to promote SLO County FARMsteading skills and practices via educational experiences, events and gatherings at pop-up FARMsteading classrooms held at local farms, ranches and Ag related venues.

Ag related classes, events, fundraisers & experiences.

We feature California natives, Tuscan olives, David Austin roses, a large selection of lavender and other fine perennials, shrubs and trees in a farm atmosphere.

cheese making and soap making classes.
Farm events and tours

soap, lip balm, lotions, alpaca fiber hats, gloves, rugs, socks

Apples

Lavender U-Pick Experience (seasonal), farmer let walkabout the farm, meet our friendly farm animals, enjoy a picnic or time on the farm enjoying the million-dollar views!

Lavender Bundles are for purchase on the farm. We offer our handmade products on our website-hamblyfarms.com for pick up at the farm or they are available for shipping.

Observe fully functioning organic farm. Hands-on farm experience if desired. U-pick veggies, fruits and flowers. Farm stay accomodates 2 people in cottage and four people in Bungalow. Cottage guests receive full breakfast every morning.

Alpaca related products, clothing and yarn, are available for purchase

We are a 5th Generation Family Farm. We direct sell what we grow through our roadside stand. We offer u-pick in season and have farm animals on site as well as a picnic area. Additionally we have many fun things for kids to see and do including a hay stack and hay maze in the fall.

Summer: Honey, u-pick olallieberries, heirloom tomatoes, lavender, herbs, peaches and plums.

Fall: Honey, wheat berries, whole wheat flour, apples, u-pick pumpkin patch, jack-o-lanterns, winter squash and dried and decorative gourds.

JD Family Farms is an "Honor Stand" open most days. The family is expanding its operation each year, yet primarily focuses on English Walnuts and Haas Avocados. We grow seasonal gourds which are made into birdhouses and we are expanding our berry selection and potted plants.

English Walnuts, Haas Avocados, Gourds, Potted Plants

We are a working flower and produce farm with organic practices, and home to a highly lauded boutique Bed and Breakfast. We offer couples and families a unique retreat experience for their stay, U-pick produce and farm animal feeding for all visitors, and an unprecedented park-like event space.

Flowers and seasonal produce available for U-pick, bouquet CSA subscriptions available, and Cottage Foods items prepared and sold seasonally.

Horse events, branding, team roping, old Blacksmith Shop and old farm equipment

Hands on working ranch experience, guest cabins, camping, exotic animal tours and animal feeding for groups, family reunions,heirloom garden, pick up chicken eggs, weddings, stage for outdoor music and dances.

Heirloom vegetables, chicken eggs,

Apples, Tomatoes, Peppers, on-farm B & B

All fruits, figs and walnuts. See a 90-tree orchard in operation at a small local spot with gorgeus views. Horses, chickens, Nubian goats, Jacob and Suffolk sheep.

Orchid Plants

Wine tasting and sales

We offer Farm stay lodging, cooking and cheese making classes,
 U-pick vegetables and fruits. Goats, goat milking , chickens and egg collecting.

Eggs, olive oil, forage hay

We offer three retro style RVs and in home accommodations to guests staying with us.  We also offer daily farm tours for guests.

Organic garden products, chicken and duck eggs, Sheep and Goat cheese when in season.

U-pick

40 Acre Apple U-Pick Orchard

U-Pick Apples, Pumpkins, Flowers and Vegetables

We offer private tours of our farmstead dairy and creamery daily. The tours are a wonderful way to get to know our friendly herd of LaMancha goats and tour our dairy and milking parlor that were both built inside of the ranch's historic 100-year old barn.

The tours are 1-hour long and will give you a unique and personalized opportunity to see what’s happening inside of our milking parlor and view our creamery from the outside viewing window as guided by one of our Stepladder Creamery staff members. Tour guests will learn all about the cheesemaking process and conclude their tour with a tasting of the seasonal cheeses that we have available.

Tours from February - July, includes spending time with the farm's many baby goats aka "kids" that arrive in the Spring.

Farmstead goat cheeses from pasture raised Lamancha goats
Pasture raised cow's milk cheeses
Haas avocados and citrus (oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes) and passion fruits

We have scheduled Farm Tours and Winery/Vineyard Tours.  Our farm tours include cooling facilities, nursery, and fields.  Winery tours include tasting, barrel, bottling rooms and vineyards.  We also have a Farm Stand at Talley Vineyards open spring through fall.

Talley Farms Fresh Harvest CSA farm boxes, Fruits & Vegetables at our Farm Stand, Wine and gifts at Talley Vineyards

At present: CSA and Farm Stand

Fresh vegetables, fruit, honey, flowers, and eggs

We are a hands-on family run olive farm for the production of the freshest extra virgin olive oil. We offer tours, tasting and lots of fun information about this sustainably grown specialty crop.

Certified Extra Virgin & Award Winning Olive Oils as well as many assorted flavors. We also have a beautiful vacation rental on the property along with a 3000 square foot, well-appointed barn and huge patio area perfect for our guests to host their own private party or country wedding.

Free drop-in tours to the public and gift shop

Luffas, glycerin soap and lotion, bath tea, bath salt, bubble bath, bath bombs, neck wraps, eye masks, gift sets.

Pony rides, wagon rides, petting farm animals. Party area. Also, mobile pony rides and petting farm animals at your door or party place. Learn about care and feeding of farm animals. Pony rides and Pony Wagon rides. Petting zoo. Great photo opportunities

Wine education via the vineyard. Six generation family farmers discuss sustainable wine growing. Jeep tour of 500 acres included. 2 hours

Visitor information

The winemaker will pour wines from the vineyard and explain the process of operating a vineyard and winemaking. Bed and Breakfast Inn

Trail rides, nature and farm tours, overnight farm stay, guided hunts, youth horse camps, women's horse camps, family reunions, prayer retreats, marriage encounter weekends

horseback riding, golf, tennis, fishing

Brewery tastings and Brewery tour

Good Land Organics is an exotic fruit farm that produces a variety of rare sub-tropical fruit. Our family run farm holds strong to growing all of our crops organically and have a strong loyalty for local business. We have begun to offer a series of agritours focused on a view into the coffee process from seed to cup, while also highlighting our other exotic fruit offerings. 

Exotic Fruit: Cherimoya, Caviar Limes, California grown coffee, and more.

Living history programs, hiking, horseback riding, tours, game and wildlife preserve

Strawberries

Free olive oil tasting at the farm stand.  Also local honey tasting.  Friendly dogs who love attention.  Farm stay available.

Olive oil, local raw honey, seasonal fruit and vegetables - peaches, cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, apples.

Camping, Birthdays, Events, Gatherings, Chef services, Art, Archery Lessons, Horseback riding, Archery Range, Fresh Fruit and Eggs, Kids and adult programs and workshops. Summer, And other holiday fun, Farming, Agriculture,
Humanities, bird watching.+ More

Limes, lemons, pomegranates, persimmons, eggs, seasonal fruit and Veggies, Chicken, Turkey, Ham when available.

Return to Freedom is dedicated to preserving the freedom, diversity and habitat of America's wild horses through sanctuary, education and conservation, while enriching the human spirit through direct experience with the natural world.

Sanctuary Tours (the most basic of our tours) Wild Horse Walks (hiking into the hills to observe wild horse herd behavior and social dynamics) Kid's Days (focusing on ranch activities) Photo Safaris (for professionals and amateurs: capturing herd behaviors on camera). We also offer the sanctuary as a venue for clinics and special events

Educational tours of the farm and the Showcase Regenerative Farm project sites. Outdoor education retreats for youth. The annual Buellton Blueberry Festival.

Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, melons, cantaloupe, raw honey, jams, frozen pies, herbs & spices, fresh produce from local organic farms.

Wine Country Touring Maps

Each month we visit farms and food related events to meet our farms and learn about local food production

Festivals and fairs, camping, special events, conference

Ranch tours, horseback riding, pumpkin patch, hay maze, haunted barn maze, My town with western old-style jail, post office - open for visits, available for outdoor events

We do Weddings, Parties, Relax in the Country with breath-taking views, hiking, horseback riding, campfires, ATV riding

We have free self-guided tours, or guided tours that we charge a fee for.
Our education programs range from our Urban Homesteading series for adults, to summer camp and after school programs for youth.
We also host multiple festivals throughout the year.

Our farm stand carries the full line of products that we grow here on the farm

Wine tasting

All organic vegetables, strawberries, herbs, flowers, pumpkins, coastal California native plants

Farm Discovery at Live Earth engages kids and families with seasonal, organic, and local food systems for their bodies, the environment and their communities.

Food, farming and nature exist in complex, interconnected socio-cultural, economic and ecological systems. Farm Discovery empowers kids and families to make these systems regenerative and healing for individuals, communities, and the natural world.

Farm Discovery’s vision is growing healthy relationships through food, farming and nature.

Our farm, Live Earth Farm (LEF), established in 1996, is a 150 acre diversified, organic, family farm overlooking the Pajaro Valley in the Santa Cruz area of California. LEF runs a year round CSA, growing over 50 different fruits and vegetables surrounded by a native landscape of redwoods and oak woodland. LEF’s produce is directly marketed through local farmer’s markets, restaurants, a thriving web store, and a weekly CSA program. Education has always been a part of Live Earth Farm since its beginning, but in 2007 a separate non-profit entity, Farm Discovery was formally established to compliment and expand the educational programs at Live Earth Farm. We now host more than 2000 children on the farm each year for engaging farm-based, hands-on learning opportunities in a variety of formats.

- Farm Discovery offers educational programs that inspire youth and families to transform their relationship to food, farming and nature through 9 different farm-based education programs for all ages.
- We steward our working farm and its wild spaces as an environmentally and economically viable piece of the food system and a learning space.
- We collaborate with community partners to learn from each other and extend our collective impact in the community.

Farm to table bed and breakfast providing deluxe accommodations on a real working ranch. Cuisine features ranch raised meats and produce from our organic garden as well as seasonally foraged ingredients.

FlipJack Farm Store offers blue ribbon winning preserves, jams and pickles. Our ranch raised rabbit, chicken, pork and turkeys are available for sale through our CSA.

Life Lab is located on a 25 acre organic research farm, and runs a 2-acre model school garden which is open to the public. Life Lab has many resource guides for educators. Please check the website for more information.

Organic fruit and vegetable farm with events, workshops, tours and classes . Please see website for the wide variety of programs offered including: community farm days, school and private tours, a 0-3 year olds program. We have two day use facilities.

Choose & Cut Christmas tree farm with picnic tables, giant pond, walking trails, gift shop and more

Douglas Fir, Monterey Pine, Redwood, Noble Fir, Silvertips, others

Winery tour, vineyard walks and tours

Fresh produce & flowers. Mid June - late Oct. Tue & Fri, 12 - 6 pm (farm stand hours).