Picturesque and family-friendly farm stores and stands are open year-round across Boulder County, selling everything from the juiciest harvest season produce and pickled veggies to cut flowers and pasture-raised, artisanal meats. Here's a growing list of Boulder's farm stands — drive on over, take a gander and grab a few items grown with love right here in Colorado soil to make an unforgettable picnic or to take home with you as a souvenir.
Know Before You Go
It's best to bring cash for payments, sunscreen and water and leave your pets at home. Due to the weather-dependent nature of farming, we recommend calling to check open hours before visiting.
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Meat, eggs, honey, seasonal produce
Open year-round, Friday noon-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm Try: Light honey, considered a good allergy-prevention honey and made by bees who pollinate local wildflowers and grasses
Certified organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, starter plants
Open seasonally, Tuesday-Thursday, 10am-6pm Try: Delicious, tender and organic greens, which vary through the growing season
Fresh flowers and eggs
Open seasonally, Friday-Sunday, hours vary Try: A "build your own bouquet" at their bouquet bar (purchased via honor system — learn more)
Raw honey, eggs, feathers, sunflowers, other bee-related products
Open year-round, 7 days a week, 8am-dark Try: A jar of Colorado bee pollen — a super food to sprinkle on your oatmeal, ice cream or smoothies
Organic veggies, grains, meats and local products
Open year-round, Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm Try: Any of their certified-organic produce (you really can’t go wrong; they harvest daily)
Seasonal produce and goat milk, soap and salve
Open seasonally, Wednesdays, 3:30-6:30pm Try: Any of their goat-related products, made on-farm from goats in their own dairy
Seed library, produce and plant nursery
Open year-round, Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday 10am-1pm (hours may change seasonally) Try: Any of their heirloom seed packets that are adaptable to climate shifts and Front Range soils
More than 150 varieties of 36 different fruits and vegetables
Open seasonally, Monday-Saturday, 10am-2pm Try: Seasonal rhubarb or their giant heads of lettuce
Sweet corn, pumpkins and other produce
Open seasonally, Monday-Thursday 11am-6pm and Friday-Sunday 10am to 6pm Try: What Munson is known for — their peaches-and-cream sweet corn
Certified Organic produce and pumpkins
Open seasonally (usually September-October), Friday-Sunday, 10am-5pm Try: Homemade pumpkin bread from their own pumpkins
Fresh-picked apples, apple cider donuts, apple pies, apple cider, apple butter and more
Open seasonally, days and times vary Try: The apple cider donuts are made fresh daily and can't be missed