We are a family owned and operated farm that raises 300 head of purebred Japanese Wagyu Beef Cattle. Our passion is to provide our customers with the highest quality selection of beef by implementing best management practices that provide for the people, planet and animals.

The Durfee Family has farmed in Chittenango since 1945. Today the family milks 900 Holstein dairy cows, grows their feed and also grows and sells vegetables at their roadside stand. Hayride tours of the farm will run every half hour while the cows are being milked – from 11am to 2:30pm. The roadside stand will be open from 10am to 6pm. A calf petting zone and play area for small children will also be provided.

We are a 34 acre farm. 5 acres of hops with 21 varieties. We have a processing physicality on site. We will be giving tours on varieties of hops and how the hops are harvested.

Salt City Harvest Farm (SCHF) is a community farm with a great variety of produce grown by New American refugee farmers. Here you will find tomatoes next to Asian long beans, or watermelon next to bitter melon or a great variety of chili peppers all of which reflect the cultural heritage of groups from Bhutan, Congo, Somalia, Ertrea and Burma who now are part of the New American community. The farm provides training for New Americans to develop their own farm operation. There is also an orchard and small vineyard to stroll through.

Sterle Farm is a first generation dairy farm located between Eaton and West Eaton, NY. We milk 65 cows, mostly Holstein’s with a few Brown Swiss. During the fall we sell pumpkins roadside. Join us on Open Farm Day to see how our dairy farm operates. Pet a calf, enjoy samples of nutritious dairy products, and participate in a scavenger hunt!

Creekside Meadows Farm is a family and veteran owned and operated, diversified, 150 acre farm near DeRuyter Reservoir. Grassfed meats and chemical free veggies, herbs, flowers, popcorn and maple syrup are all from the farm and for sale at our farmstand. Tour the animals grazing in the pasture, vegetable gardens and the sugar shack. We also have our own sawmill, woodworking shop using our own timber (wood items for sale too), blacksmith demonstrations, antique Ireland Drag Saw with rare Detroit Sandow engine and antique tractors and tools on display. Check our website for updates and schedule. A Homegrown by Heros Farm!

Welcome to HY-HATT Farm! After almost 30 years, this 4th generation family farm is back in production. We proudly offer industrial hemp, hay, eggs, maple syrup, berries, vegetables, springtime ramps and pork. All raised, grown, and harvested as sustainably, and in some cases as organicly, as possible. Stop out and say “HI”, we would love to meet you!

Huftalen Farms is a 4th generation small, local organic dairy farm. We are passionate about soil health, sustainability, animal health and community. We are located five miles outside of Cazenovia, NY in Erieville. Sitting on 150 acres, we produce milk for Organic Valley, pasture eggs, beef, and chicken for the public. We will be offering pasture/herbal walks at 11am and 1pm, hay rides, and products for sale.

Hartwood Farm grows delicious certified organic vegetables for CSA shares and the Cazenovia Farmers’ Market. Our farm includes a beautiful mix of hay fields, woodlands, wetlands, a pond, and pretty much every vegetable that grows in upstate NY (and quite a few that you might be surprised grow here)! Stop by to join a walking tour of the crop fields (offered on the hour), check out our greenhouses, learn about growing vegetables in upstate NY, and enjoy the frolicking pigs. Open Farm Day visitors can also shop at out pop-up farm stand or purchase u-pick flowers bouquets to brighten your home!

Our Farm, an award winning agritourism destination, welcomes you to an array of activities. Please sample our rhubarb sauces. We’re also selling ice cream sundaes. Sherman (the donkey), Cody and Trixie (the horses) are thrilled to meet you AND Boris the giant catapult (trebuchet) , is launching watermelons every hour on the hour., starting at 11:00AM. We will be here to answer questions about our 10kW solar power system.  To complete the visit, view over 50 varieties of perennials in bloom in our beautiful flower gardens.

Focused on developing pest and disease resistant locally adapted honeybees, Resilience Apiary is the centerpiece of a diversified farm. Come by and take a horse drawn wagon ride to see how the pigs harvest their own feed and watch cows and calves graze in the rolling meadows. See the honeybees at work in our glass-sided observation hive and learn how the honey is extracted from the combs. Enjoy free samples of our local, raw honey. We offer raw and liquid honey, pastured non-GMO pork, honeybees and queens.

A diversified 480 acre family run farm which includes dairy, beef, retail greenhouse, garden center, CSA and year-round vegetable production. We also sell at several farmers markets. On Open Farm Day, only the greenhouse is open to public viewing. We will have plants and vegetables available for sale.

Heartstone Artisan Bakery is located on our farm, Alambria Springs Farm. Heartstone Bakery is a true artisan bakery where we make and bake naturally fermented sourdough breads and other baked goods including delicious pastries. We incorporate a large percentage of NY State flours, vegetables and fruits into our products. Visit us to see our recently expanded bakery and new oven. Offerings: A baking demo at 11AM – fresh breads, pastries and other products for sale all day or until sold out. We will also have several lunch options. A meet and greet tour at 1PM to meet Justin and Girlie and our other animal friends of Hope Springs Eternal Horse Sanctuary (a not-for-profit rescue located at Alambria Springs Farm, as well.)

Preston Hill Farm LLC is an equine riding facility offering boarding and lessons. We have a great lesson program with awesome horses and knowledgeable trainers. We offer lessons to all ages (4 years and up) including riders who want to pleasure ride or the more serious rider that wants to jump and show. If you sign up and pay for a set of 4 lessons on Open Farm Day, you will receive 20% off your first set of lessons! We will offer $5.00 pony rides on Open Farm Day on the hour, each hour, until 1/2 past the hour. Come see our four legged friends!

Ben & Judy’s Sugarhouse has been making syrup since 1980, and whlie technology has changed, we still harvest sap from local trees and make our all-natural products with care and family pride. We work all year to maintain our woods and usually boil from February through March when the weather conditions are right. Our family would love to have you stop by and sample some pure maple syrup, maple cream, maple cotton candy and maple candy!

Romagnoli’s is a family owned 60 acre Choose and Cut Christmas Tree Farm with over 19,000 trees consisting of five varieties. Our farm mission is to create an affordable holiday tradition for families to enjoy for years to come. We want to create fun & exciting holiday memories with you! NEW in 2017, Colored Christmas Trees! Come and select your tree on Open Farm Day, tag it, and choose your color! Red, White, Blue, Pink, Purple, Turquoise, and of course, GREEN! We’ll have our Christmas Shop open for folks to enjoy gift shopping, plus wreath-making demonstrations. JOIN US!

Kubecka Farms is a 3rd generation family farm started in 1943. Located on a sandy outwash from a long ago receeded glacial lake where we currently grow 200 acres of vegetable crops. We are most well known for sweet corn, tomatoes, and potatoes but grow a wide variety of other vegetables and small fruit that are all available at our roadside market. Come see the crops being grown and taste the freshly picked difference! Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

Local bee apiary with locally processed honey, cream honey, and bees wax candles. Honey uncapping and spinner for the extraction of honey from bee hives.

Silly Goats Farm is home to Silly Goats Soap Company where we make handmade, natural goat milk soap, lotions, liquid soap and bath bomb using pure goat milk from our herd of registered Lamancha Goats. As well as other natural skin care products like herbal bug repellant, salves, lip balms, etc. We have just finished building a new walk-in, milk parlor, show room and manufacturing facility to help improve our production for our growing business. Come by and visit this spring’s baby goats, see our new facility and learn what we are doing on our little slice of heaven called Silly Goats Farm.

We will be serving breakfast and lunch in the pancake house! We also offer maple tours from tap to table, free samples of our maple products, recipes, and advice on cooking with maple. New this year will be the sale of maple ice cream! Come share our passion for maple with three generations of our family.

Brownson Family Farm is a small family run farm specializing in homegrown produce. Nestled on the fertile banks of the Chittenango Creek, our farm boasts delicious fruits and vegetables. At the farm we grow numerous greens including many types of lettuces, swiss chard, collard greens, kale and more. The tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, beets all reap the rewards of our fertile soil. The sweet corn alone is worth the drive out to the farm. While at the farm take some time to look over the many jam, jellies, preserves and mustards we have in stock.

Whispering Hill Equestrian Center is a horse farm offering board, training and lessons. Although specializing in Hunter Seat Equitation Hunters and Jumpers, “WHEC” accepts boarders of almost any disiipline. Some may remember “The Old Orchard Hill” we here at WHEC are making strides to bring the farm back to its former glory! We welcome everyone to come see what we’ve been up to. Check out what we have to offer and even sign up for lessons or one of our summer camps!

Drover Hill Farm offers pasture raised beef, dry aged for 21 days, Berkshire Pigs, Lamb and Chicken. They have a 600 acre farm situated in the rolling hills of Earlville. Have a Black and Red Angust beef herd focusing on the best genetics to produce the best products available. We take pride on consistency, quality, tendreness and of course taste! Guided tours, animal interaction and all of our meats will be available for sale! Don’t forget your coolers! Also offering hay rides.

Glisson’s operates on 60 acres of farm land which we try to use to benefit our community. For the past three years our Country Store has raised money and awareness for Adoption and Foster Care. This year, in partnership with DeRuyter’s FFA (Future Farmer’s of America) we’ve added a Community Garden. Our store features a variety of furniture, clothing, home de’cor, and home made breads and cookies. Our Open Farm Day is interactive! For the kids FFA students will have craft activities, our Drum Circle is open to all ages, and the store has bread and cookie samples. Adults can shop and enjoy live music featuring local artist John Schuster playing Americana Folk, Blues and Jazz on his guitar and harmonica.

Amberfields Morgans is a small family farm in the hamlet of North Brookfield. Amberfields raises family friendly old type Morgans in various rare and wonderful colors. Visitors here get to pet and interact with palomino, buckskin, grulla, dun and grey Morgans. Several foals are born here each spring and we look forward to showing these foals off and demonstrate foal handling techniques.

Our farm is a unique combination of a working flower farm and greenhouse/nursery business. We grow annual and perennial flowers for fresh cutting. We retail fresh flowers along with potted perennials, combination planters and hanging baskets. We also custom grow for and sell to other retailers such as florists, restaurants, event venues and event coordinators. We have display gardens for sun, shade and in between. We offer on site landscaping consultations. Our farm is also home to On A Fence Designs and Rentals which rents green and flowering plants, trees and other props for weddings, graduation parties, anniversaries, etc. We deliver and set up at most venues including tents, barns and others.

Old Home Distillers is a family-run New York Farm Distillery and tasting room in rural Lebanon, New York. Our distillery is located in a renovated 100-year-old stable, where we produce small batch hand-crafted distilled spirits featuring locally-grown ingredients, including our own apples and maple syrup. We are firmly committed to the creation and successful marketing of high-quality products that will ensure a legacy for our family, benefit local farmers and enrich our corner of Madison County and the State of New York.

Would you like to spend some valuable time on a working dairy farm learning where your food comes from? Come meet Vincent and Juliet Wagner, both are 3rd generation dairy farmers just outside of Cazenovia on Ballina Road. On their 162 acre “Dairy of Distinction” dairy farm where they grow corn and alfalfa to feed their Registered Holstein herd of 80 milking cows and 75 calves and yearling heifers. Vince feeds and milks the dairy cows. Julie feeds the calves, keeps the lawns mowed and keeps the landscaping in top notch shape. Throughout the day, join Julie, Vince and their farm staff for a farm tour and raw milk samples! On the farm they sell saw milk, ground beef, brown eggs, butter, maple syrup and maple cream, all of which will be available for purchase. We accept cash only, thank you!

7 Trees Dairy is a fully functional goat dairy located in Perryville, NY. From our herd of Saanen goats we produce many cheeses. Our products include Aged cheese, semi-hard cheese, soft cheese, feta, marinated feta, and cheese curds. Our goat’s milk is also used to make lotions and soaps in various scents. Every spring we welcome dozens of kid goats which allows our milk production to begin. During the summer we are busy producing cheeses, attending farmers markets and caring for our goats. We welcome visitors to our farm to enjoy our goats, visit our cheese room and experience fresh made goat cheeses.

Critz Farms is a diversified agritourism farm located just south of Cazenovia. Recognized as a NY State Agritourism Business of the Year, the farm also operates Critz Farms Brewing & Cider Co. and offers handcrafted beer and hard cider from crops grown on the farm. Crops include apples, pumpkins, blueberries, and Christmas trees. The farm also produces sweet apple cider and maple syrup. Tour the cider mill, sugar house, brewery and winery. Visit the tasting room for a free sample of farm made hard cider or beer. Go blueberry picking, visit the animals and playgrounds, and enjoy music and lunch too!

Dizzy Lizzie’s Farm is a Certified Organic family farm offering fresh produce, beautiful cut flowers, plants, maple syrup, poultry products, and a seasonal u-pick berry patch located south of Tuscarora Lake. Come and enjoy a hay ride, tour of the sugar shack, a relaxing stroll through the berry patch, a self guided tour of the vegetable/flower fields, a scavenger hunt for the kids, or simple enjoyment of our hot lunch offering in the shade of our stately 300 year old maple tree. Farm products will be for sale for you to take home with you and enjoy. Check out our website and Facebook for updates.

Just east of Chittenango Falls State Park, Empire Buffalo is home to a herd of more than 40 grass fed bison. Lower in fat than chicken, bison is a great tasting and good-for-you choice for your next barbeque. Stop by and sample some bison, buy a burger and enjoy local music. We will have plenty of meat in the freezer! New this year, is an educational area, where you can see a buffalo hide and learn more about these magnificent animals! If you can’t make it on Open Farm Day, then check our website of Facebook page!

Local Roots Farm is a family farm that produces a wide variety of vegetables, maple syrup, eggs from free range hens, and pastured chicken, all available at our Farm Store. Whether petting the goats, walking through the gardens and high-tunnels, or a stroll to the chicken pasture, we hope you enjoy your visit. We will offer a Farm to Table lunch prepared by our own staff featuring Local Roots meat and vegetables. Activities for the day will include buggy and pony rides for all ages and a petting area for the children. Our farm store will be open all day, along with a lemonade and cookie stand by our children.

Welcome to our grass based dairy! We look forward to sharing with you all the benefits of grazing and what it takes to make the first rate milk that supplies Kriemhild Dairy Farms grass fed dairy products. We’ll be offering 45 minute guided pasture walks at 10:45am, 12:15pm and 1:45pm or you can join us in the afternoon at 3pm as we milk our colorful mixed breed herd in our open air milking parlor. If it’s Meadow Butter that you’re interested in, we’re offering butter making demos at 11am and 3:30pm.

Our farm market features seasonal fresh produce featuring strawberries, raspberries, peas, sweet corn, cabbage, green beans and much more. U-pick strawberries and raspberries available when in season.

Our family has produced maple syrup for over one hundred years and the tradition continues at our farm. Sap is collected from the trees with traditional buckets as well as a modern vacuum pipeline system. We recently completed an eco-friendly upgrade to our production facility, which includes a reverse osmosis system and a new evaporator, cutting our total energy consumption in half. In addition to maple syrup, we produce a variety of other maple products – candy, cream, jelly and granulated sugar. We sell homegrown beef by the half, quarter, and individual cuts, including hamburger with no additives. Come visit our sugarhouse where you can learn about making maple syrup!

Madison County’s pioneering 21st Century hop farm is now Madison County’s newest farm brewery. Larry and Kate Fisher have led the movement to re-establish hop farming in NY and they welcome you to their farm and taproom to learn all about hops history – then and now – and to enjoy their small batch beers made with at least 90% NYS malt and 100% hops grown and processed on the farm. Check out the homebrew shop and their line of local products including Foothill Hops mustards, jellies, soaps, and more. Family friendly with homemade soda, lemonade and juice for the kids.

Common Thread CSA is a family farm located in Madison, NY. We grow a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, flowers, and some small fruit for CSA (Community Support Agriculture) and farmers’ markets. We sign the Northeast Organic Farmers Association’s Farmers’ Pledge. We will offer tours of our greenhouses, fields, and CSA distribution area and share information about CSA, eating vegetables in season, and sustainable growing methods.

Celebrating 40 YEARS of GREAT CORN! Three generations of Henry’s proudly offer the best in a TRUE FARMER’S MARKET featuring their homegrown sweet corn, tomatoes, asparagus, beans, cucumbers, squash, shiitakes, and raspberries. From their neighbors they carry apples, blueberries, lettuce, peppers, strawberries, Stoltzfus & Seven Trees milk, yogurt and cheeses; and in the freezer, Henry’s Homegrown Pork and Beef. The cupboard features Terry’s Bread and Butter Pickles, 100 Acre Woods Honey, Parlow Pies, SalsaCuse, Sweetrees Maple Products, Olive-on-Brooklea’s Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegars. 3:00-6:00PM every Friday John’s Seafood arrives fresh from Boston. HENRY’S IS OPEN EVERY DAY 9:00AM to 6:00PM.

Family owned and operated since 1927 and currently run by the 4th generation. We have a very large variety of annuals, perennials, and vegetable plants all grown and planted by us on or in our acre of greenhouses. If driving through neighboring towns and Villages you can see many of our beautiful plants on display. We have expanded our family business recently to now include Debrucque Produce Stand located on Rt 5 near Tops. This is where we sell homegrown local vegetables and fruits in season. Some things we grow are tomatoes, green beans, lettuce, and of course our very own Sweet corn. Stop by either of our locations on Open Farm Day and see us and support local.

Hermit Pond Farm is home to 50-80 cashmere goats, a dozen cats, and one aging refugee from city life. The Hermit Pond goats are almost all black, with fine, crimpy fiber. They have earned a nice collection of ribbons from cashmere goat shows, and prize-winning bucks have been purchased to enrich the bloodlines. Located in Brookfield, Hermit Pond Farm is one of the oldest cashmere goat farms in the Northeast. Come and watch the antics of the 3-month-old kids, admire the handsome bucks, hold a bottle baby, and learn a bit about these amazing animals and their fiber.

Skanda’s goats, mini-donkeys, ducks, chickens, and horses are incredibly loving and gentle, and at Skanda they have a loving home where they can relax, live free from fear and emerge into who they really are. Families are welcome to enter the goat paddock, where you can play with the goats and feed them apple branches, their favorite treats! Snuggle with our miniature donkeys, who love to be brushed and groomed. The land of Skanda is beautiful and nurturing — take a hay ride through our hay field, past the hops grown by IPN hops or take a nature walk through our orchards and woods, or relax on a bench to watch the animals play. We will have farm fresh vegetables and vegan snacks available.

On our 225-acre farm, we produce milk from our dairy sheep, which is made into award-winning cheeses, and we grow pasture-raised beef and lamb. We are also home to a Belted Galloway cattle herd, sheep-guarding Maremma dogs, and a flock of parasite-controlling hens! On Open Farm Day you can take a wagon tour of our farm (every hour), have lunch provided by FCI-trained chef Emily Prial (all day), scratch our friendly sheep, feed our lambs (10:00), learn how to spin and felt lambs’ wool (11:00), meet our beef cattle, collect hens’ eggs (2:00), and/or watch our sheep being milked (3:00).

We are a small family mushroom farm located in rural Lebanon, NY. In 2007 we began to wildcraft shitake. There will be tours through our outdoor yard, as well as our indoor grow room. We will guide you through the process of growing mushrooms and discuss why mycelium is important. Tours will be ongoing all day long. Fresh, dried, and powdered mushroom will be available for purchase. We will also have teas and grow your own kits available.

Johnston’s Honeybee Farm is a 300 beehive operation that produces bees (nucs), queens, honey (processed and raw), and pure beeswax candles. On Open Farm Day we will demonstrate candle making in our downstairs store and honey extracting (if we have been able to harvest honey by then) in our gravity flow honey house. Come and check out our newly paneled farm store.

G & M Farms is a small, family owned farm, in Morrisville. We grow a wide array of vegetables and fruits using organic growing practices.Our specialty is hot peppers. We produce a line of salsas, hot sauces, and jams from our homegrown fruits and vegetables.

Greyrock Farm is a diversified and dynamic farm with dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs, draft horses, and vegetables. We operate a year-round, local food farmstore that offers raw milk from our 100% grass-fed, brown swiss cows, as well as a variety of meats, vegetables, dairy products, eggs and more!