For seven days in August (15^th – 21^st), farms around Vermont open up their doors to the public for a unique on-farm experience. With almost 100 farms hosting events during open farm week, there’s tons going on! With so much happening all around the state, it might seem overwhelming to plan out a fun week. To make it easier on you, we’ve created a list of events happening on each day of Open Farm Week!

Friday, August 19^th

Addison County

Kimball Brook Farm

• Kimball Brook Farm invites you to come visit our farm during open farm week. We will offer hay rides, farm tours, petting zoo, a farm market, live entertainment, and a Fresh Supper ala carte...much of which will be sourced right here on the farm!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-kimball-brook-farm

Lester Farm & Market

• Lester Farm & Market welcomes you to Open Farm Week. Come visit and enjoy produce sampling and wagon rides around the farm!
• 11am - 6pm: Tastings of in-season produce; 1pm - 4pm: Wagon tours of the farm, weather permitting
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-lester-farm-and-market

Lincoln Peak Vineyard

• Lincoln Peak is open daily 11-5 for wine tastings and picnics. Come sample wines made entirely from grapes grown on the farm, and enjoy a glass with some VT cheese on the winery porch.
• In addition to our regular hours, we will be hosting a free concert with bluegrass wizards, Hot Flannel, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-lincoln-peak-vineyard-and-winery

Twin Maple Sugarworks

• We'll be open from 9:00 - 5:00 pm every day, offering samples to taste and a complete explanation of the process of making maple syrup at our sugarhouse.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-twin-maple-sugarworks

Agricola Farm

Farm Stand

• A small sustainable farm using Italian traditions to raise pastured chickens, sheep and pigs. We process our meat using Italian approaches to butchering and processing fresh and cured meats. Come to the farm during Open Farm Week! Farm Stand open 8am - 8pm. Self-guided farm activities for children with an adult 11am - 2pm. Farm-made Italian baked goods ready to eat 8am-8pm.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-agricola-farm-farm-stand

Last Resort Farm

• The Last Resort Farm invites you to tour the beautiful farm and sample organic treats. Come see our famous garlic drying in the former dairy barn and learn to make a braid!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-last-resort-farm

Flatlander Farm

Bennington County

Merck Forest & Farmland Center

Learn to Care for Draft Horses

• If you're between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, here's your chance to get some hands-on experience with Fern & Arch, our Suffolk Punch draft horses. Learn about heritage breeds, receive instruction on how to care for our two gentle giants, and give Katie a hand harnessing and driving them around.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-merck-forest-and-farmland-center-learn-to-care-for-draft-horses-1

Caledonia County

Caledonia Spirits

• We'll be open every day from Noon - 5:00 pm offering free tastes of spirits, free distillery tours, free tastes of raw honey and free tastes of Urban Moonshine Bitters. Visitors will have the opportunity to purchase spirits and gifts on site.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-caledonia-spirits

Hardwick Farmers’ Market

• Shopping from vendors selling local foods and crafts, live music, Power of Produce (POP) Club and story time for kids, prepared foods available.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-hardwick-farmers-market

St. J ALFA Community Farm Dinner

• Enjoy an evening of tasty community farm, family fun! Enjoy grilled pizzas (by donation) that showcase the wonderful farm bounty, donated artisan cheeses and other toppings. Bring your own non-alcoholic beverages and take a walk through the gardens!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-st-j-alfa-community-farm-dinner

Chittenden County

Bread & Butter Farm

Burger Night

• Live music featuring The Zeichner's - serving our grass-fed burgers, salads, veggie burgers, hotdogs, drinks and desserts!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-bread-and-butter-farm-burger-night

Maple Wind Farm

Poultry Tours

• Free pasture raised poultry tours! Come visit Maple Wind Farm's chicken and turkey operation and our USDA processing facility. See the brooders housing 3000 chicks and 850 turkey chicks. Walk the fields to witness the innovative field coops that move 500 broilers every day to fresh grass on pasture! See the final stage of the process where the poultry gets bagged and labeled for sale to markets all over New England!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-maple-wind-farm-poultry-tours

Midnight Goat Farm

• We invite you to our GMO-Free, Net Zero, Grade A Goat Dairy and Creamery located in Huntington. Come meet our wonderful, pasture-fed Alpine goats and taste some of what they help us make!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-midnight-goat-farm-farm-tour-and-chores-with-the-crew-1

Shelburne Farms

Farm to Medicine Cabinet Plant Walk with Kate Elmer Westdjik

• This “weed walk” will introduce participants to medicinal plants commonly found on different parts of the Vermont farm landscape and invites participants to engage in deepening the local food movement by incorporating nature-based local medicine as part of a resilient food system.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-shelburne-farms-farm-to-medicine-cabinet-plant-walk-with-kate-elmer-westdjik

City Market

Health Hero Farm Tour and Snow Farm Vineyard Wine Tasting

• Get to know the hard-working famers in your community and see where some of Vermont’s delicious local food and wine comes from! We will first visit Health Hero Farm for an interactive farm tour. Then, we will go just down the road to Snow Farm Vineyard for a wine tasting and local cheese pairing.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-city-market-health-hero-farm-tour-and-snow-farm-vineyard-wine-tasting

North Williston Cattle Company

• Come watch our herd of 240 Holstein cows being milked by robots, pet the baby calves and learn how a mid-size family dairy farm operates. Brief tours of the robots milking cows and of the calf barn each week day.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-north-williston-cattle-company

Philo Ridge Farm

Chicken Market

• Philo Ridge pasture-raised chicken is available fresh from the farm only twice per summer! Join the farmers on August 19th between 5:30 and 7:00 to buy a fresh, whole chicken, learn how they are raised, meet the next batch of chicks, visit our farm stand, and enjoy a delicious taco or two. Please RSVP by reserving a chicken.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-philo-ridge-farm-chicken-market 

Franklin County

Boston Post Dairy, LLC

• Boston Post Dairy, a family run farm, invites you onto the farm for Open Farm Week! Come and visit the goats and chickens and taste our award winning farmstead cheeses, made here on the farm!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-boston-post-dairy-llc

Farmer Brown

• Farm store open 10 am to 4 pm | Farm tours available all day. Come join us, visit the animals and enjoy our farm!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-farmer-brown

Grand Isle

Hackett's Orchard

•  Visit Hackett's Orchard for Open Farm Week! Take a wagon ride through the orchard and learn about apple growing; there will be a story trail, scavenger hunt and apple quiz.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-hackett-s-orchard

Hall Home Place & Hall's Orchard

• Hall Home Place and Hall's Orchard invite you to visit this historic property that has been in the Hall family since the 1790's. Tour the grounds, count the fossils and purchase specialty local products. The café and tasting room are open daily with games for all ages.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-hall-home-place-and-hall-s-orchard

Lamoille County

 Foote Brook Farm 

• Foote Brook Farm invites you to visit our farm stand during Open Farm Week and sample some of our produce and specialty products.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-foote-brook-farm

Valley Dream Farm

• Certified Organic Produce Farm. We have a retail farm stand, Kid friendly activities and snacks!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-valley-dream-farm

Sandiwood Farm 

Farm to Fork BBQ + Entertainment 

• A one of a kind Farm to Fork experience. Dine with others who want to enjoy a local meal on the farm. A tour, bonfire, sunset, community dinning at it's finest in our agritourism greenhouse. James Beard Award winning guest chef! Local beef and vegetarian options. The Eames Brothers' Band will be playing live throughout the evening. Come for a memorable, old time Vermont evening, dress for the weather.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-sandiwood-farm-farm-to-fork-bbq-entertainment

Orange County 

Silloway Maple 

• Learn all about how maple syrup is made, and sample the different grades. Shop for syrup, maple cream, candy, sugar, and maple sugar covered almonds. Bring a picnic, and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-silloway-maple

Shire Beef 

• We manage our cattle in an innovative way that rebuilds and maintains soil health and activity, sequestering more carbon than we produce. Hang out with the cows and goats. Take walk in our beautiful fields and woods.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-shire-beef

Pebble Brook Farm 

• Pebble Brook Farm invites all to visit us in Braintree, just a few minutes from Randolph. We grow produce and have a farm store that offers produce, local meat & eggs, and prepared foods and homemade ice cream. During Open Farm Week our Farm Store will be open.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-pebble-brook-farm

Orleans County 

Jed's Maple Products 

• A Certified Organic Maple Farm, we invite you to visit our Family Maple Museum, eco-friendly sugarhouse and more during Open Farm Week! Guided tours of how we used to make maple syrup compared to how we make it now. Kid-Friendly activities, tastings, tours and more!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-jed-s-maple-products

Eden Ice Cider/Eden Orchards 

• Eden Orchards is the home farm for Eden Ice Cider Company. It is the only organic/biodynamic cider fruit orchard in Vermont. Take a guided tour of the orchard and enjoy free hard cider tastings (age 21+)! Tours will be hosted Friday-Sunday from 1:00 – 5:00 pm, with tours leaving every hour on the hour.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-eden-ice-cider-eden-orchards

Kingdom Brewing

• After years of trying out other professions, the folks at Kingdom Brewing decided to combine a lifelong interest in home-brewing, farming and building to create a working family farm and brewery. Visit, taste and enjoy during Open Farm Week!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-kingdom-brewing

Newport Ciderhouse Bar & Grill 

• The Newport Ciderhouse Bar & Grill at the Northeast Kingdom Tasting Center is a new American restaurant focusing on locally-sourced casual food and drink. Each evening, throughout the Kingdom Farm & Food Days event, you can enjoy a carefully constructed locavore prix fix dinner menu for $30pp or $45 with selected drink pairings.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-newport-ciderhouse-bar-and-grill

Northeast Kingdom Tasting Center

• Sip a sweet ice cider at The Tasting Bar, savor a sticky maple treat from the Maple Shop, enjoy fresh breads and pastries from Jocelyn & Cinta's Bake Shop, or sit and grab a bite at the Newport Ciderhouse Bar & Grill. It's all good, and it's all local! The NEK Tasting Center is dedicated to featuring and supporting Northeast Kingdom farmers and producers.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-northeast-kingdom-tasting-center

Cate Hill Orchard

• Cate Hill Orchard invites you to visit our farm during open Farm Week. Come and tour our organic apple orchard and see our new sheep dairy; watch a sheep milking demonstration; listen to a short concert of farm songs from around the world. Our farm store will be open with lots of goods from our farm for sale: the first organic apples of the season, organic plums, honey, apple cider vinegar, lamb, our famous lard-crust apple pies, wool, raw sheep milk and more!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-cate-hill-orchard

Log Cabin Farm Alpacas

• Enjoy a hands on tours, meeting the herd of 40+ alpacas, learning about the rich history of these lovely animals, fleece qualities and characteristics!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-log-cabin-farm-alpacas

Devaney Farmstand

• The Devaney Farmstand sells fresh grown vegetables, lilies, annuals, perennials, cedar trellises, maple syrup, fresh eggs, hand-made Vermont crafts, as well as wild fiddlehead. Throughout the weekend, the Devaney Farmstand will welcome visitors and provide free samples of their offerings!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-devaney-farmstand

Maxwell's Neighborhood Farm

• Maxwell’s Neighborhood Farm invites visitors to see a mainstay of dairy farming in the Northeast Kingdom, and a leader in energy production. Come see the 300-horspower engine, generating electricity from the biogas captured from the manure, and the peat-moss-like bedding that results. There’s also calves to visit, and you can visit the milking parlor and the see the cows.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-maxwell-s-neighborhood-farm

Rutland County 

Madrugada Farm, LLC

• Madrugada Farm, LLC invites you for a short stroll to learn about farming for your pantry and processing dry beans and grains with an antique thresher and fanning mill.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-madrugada-farm-llc

Smokey House Center 

• Join us anytime between 9 and noon for onion-weeding, potato-hilling, carrot-thinning fun in the field. Find us in the gardens. Tools will be provided, bring work gloves if you want them.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-smokey-house-center

Washington County

Hartshorn Farm Market 

• Hartshorn Farm Market is participating in Vermont Open Farm Week. They'll be selling blueberry milkshakes, creamies and pizza! Open Noon-5 on Friday and 11-4 on Sunday
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-hartshorn-farm-market

Peaceful Harvest Mushrooms 

• Come and see how science and the art of growing come together to cultivate fresh edible and medicinal mushrooms.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-peaceful-harvest-mushrooms

Flywheel Farm 

Farm Stand 

• Come visit our farm stand Thursday through Saturday of Open Farm Week!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-flywheel-farm-farm-stand

Knoll Farm

Lamb Kebab Dinner

• Join us for a beautiful, abundant, and delicious feast of the field with Middle Eastern flavors. We will be grilling our own spiced lamb kebabs over a woodfire and serving them up with many vegetarian complements from the gardens inspired by the cuisines that understand lamb best. We will be using our outdoor bread oven and serving outside in the gardens weather permitting.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-knoll-farm-lamb-kebab-dinner

Callahan Farm 

• Shop our farm store for 100% awesome meat and vegetables produced on our small-scale farm in Central Vermont. Prize winning tomatoes, natural meats & chicken, plus maple syrup. Callahan Farmers Fred & Mary look forward to meeting you!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-callahan-farm

Good Heart Farmstead

• 12:00-6:00 pm, farm stand open, bring a picnic lunch to eat, taste tests, farm tours @1:00 and 5:00
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-good-heart-farmstead

The Barn Yard 

• The Barn Yard is a small diversified family farm that takes an organic and whole farm approach in raising high quality vegetables and animals for year round production and root storage. Join us for a farm tour, kid's scavenger hunt and a community potluck dinner.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-the-barn-yard

Windham County

Adams Farm 

• Adams Farm welcomes you during Open Farm Week! Visit our wide variety of friendly farm animals. Join us for paintball in our sheep pastures, or for a guided trail ride on our docile horses. Wagon rides around the perimeter of the farm depart daily. Paintball and trail rides require reservations.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-adams-farm

Boyd Family Farm

• Please join us for a great farm experience. Blueberry fields will be open for picking! Pack a lunch and enjoy the view from the mowing!
• https://www.diginvt.com/places/detail/boyd-family-farm

Sprague & Son Sugarhouse 

• Sprague & Son Sugarhouse invites you to the Sugarhouse during Open Farm Week for tours and tastings.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-sprague-and-son-sugarhouse

Taylor Farm 

• Taylor farm is open to the public daily from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, and on any given day might have activities such as cheese making, kite flying, farm tours, and woodland hikes.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-taylor-farm

Dwight Miller Orchards 

• Dwight Miller Orchards invites you onto our farm for Pick-Your-Own Organic Blueberries during Open Farm Week!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-dwight-miller-orchards

Meadows Bee Farm

• Meadows Bee invites you to visit our very busy and diverse educational farm. Morning chores and tour
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-meadows-bee-farm

Windsor County

Earthwise Farm & Forest 

• Our farm stand will be open with a selection of items for sale including Fresh Vegetables, Eggs, Flower Bouquets, Organic Chicken, Garlic & Garlic Braids, Rhubarb Jam, Pickled Dilly Scapes, and Lisa’s Joyful Pottery. Visitors will also be invited to take a tour of gardens, visit with the draft horses, check out our pastured poultry and pastured pig operations. We will be happy to answer any questions about our farming practices, and will share information about upcoming classes that will be taking place at our farm in September and October.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-earthwise-farm-and-forest

Four Springs Farm, Campground & Learning Center

• Tucked high on a west-facing slope with vistas of the Green Mountains and lovely sunsets, the orchards, greenhouses and vegetable gardens of this multi-faceted organic farm along with pastured poultry dotting the fields, provide a welcoming landscape for visitors who come to Four Springs Farm for rustic camping, volunteering or educational programs. Come visit during Vermont Open Farm Week for farm tours and group prepared snacks from the farm!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-four-springs-farm-campground-and-learning-center

One Chicken at a Time Farm 

• One Chicken At A Time Farm is a diversified farm. Our main attraction is our 30 friendly goats, they love to run and play. We have a great view for a walk or picnic in the fields. Haying is also something we will be doing. Come pick some veggies from the gardens or some flowers. You never know what’s going to happen on this busy farm!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-one-chicken-at-a-time-farm

Sugarbush Maple & Cheese Farm

• Sugarbush Farm invites you sample maple syrup, 15 varieties of cheese, and many Vermont made jams, mustards and spreads. Visit the farm sugar house for an educational display & walk in the maple woods. Make friends with our farm animals!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-sugarbush-maple-and-cheese-farm

Kelly Way Gardens at Woodstock Inn and Resort 

• Kelly Way Gardens invites you to explore the Woodstock Inn and Resort's certified organic chef's and cutting garden! Come see our culinary and decorative inspiration before enjoying it at the Resort.
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-kelly-way-gardens-at-woodstock-inn-and-resort

Hartland Farmers' Market 

• The Hartland Farmers' Market invites you to participate in a "Love a Farmer Scavenger Hunt" in coordination with Vital Communities! This scavenger hunt is for all ages and will be a fun activity with questions that will engage kids with local food and farms (find a farmer, what is the name of their farm, find a root you can eat, etc). Prizes will be awarded at the end!
• https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-hartland-farmers-market