For seven days in August (15th – 21st), 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!
Thursday, August 18th
Addison County
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
- 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.
- https://www.diginvt.com/places/detail/lincoln-peak-vineyard-and-winery
Treleven Farm
- Treleven Farm invites you to explore farm and forest with self-guided trails!
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-treleven-farm
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
Bennington County
Merck Forest & Farmland Center
Farm Chores for Children
- This hands-on/hands-dirty workshop is designed to introduce your children ages 3 and up to simple farm routines and products, and to meet our animals under expert supervision. Please Pre-Register early, because participation is limited
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-merck-forest-and-farmland-center-farm-chores-for-children
Celebrate Your Farmer Pizza Party
- Join NOFA-VT for farm-fresh pizza and a celebration of Merck Farm and Forest, raising pastured pork, grassfed lamb and maple syrup. Come and enjoy dinner baked in NOFA-VT's wood-fired pizza oven, followed by a farm tour.
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-merck-forest-and-farmland-center-celebrate-your-farmer-pizza-party
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
Chittenden County
Jericho Settlers’ Farm
Class and Dinner
- Seasonal Cooking with Chef Contos (farm tour included)
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-jericho-settlers-farm-class-and-dinner
Maple Wind Farm
Crop Mob
- Bring your gloves, sun hat and water bottle and join Beth and Margaret somewhere in our 15-acre organic vegetable field for a project/weeding/harvesting... fun in the dirt!
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-maple-wind-farm-crop-mob
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
Red Wagon Plants
Salad Fixings Series, Part 2
- We welcome our customers, friends, and neighbors for a summer garden salad workshop. We will offer lots of tips and tricks for creating the best salads of high summer. Tomatoes, roasted peppers, grilled eggplants: these are all the basic needs of delicious summer meals that are easy to produce from your abundant gardens.
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-red-wagon-plants-salad-fixings-series-part-2
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
Snow Farm Vineyard
- Extended tasting room hours 11:00 - 9:00 pm. Free concert 6:30 - 8:30 pm with local band Blues for Breakfast! Picnic or purchase flat bread pizza that night!
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-snow-farm-vineyard
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
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
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, 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 Thursday-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
Washington County
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
Twilight Farm Tour
- Tour Flywheel Farm and meet your farmer. Ansel Ploog and Justin Cote will be sharing how the farm works, from season planning, planting and cultivation, to harvest, cleaning and storage. With fresh veggies and corn on the cob!
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-flywheel-farm-twilight-farm-tour
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
- 5:00-7:30 pm, CSA pick-up, farm stand open, farm tours
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-good-heart-farmstead
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
Deer Ridge Farm
- Visit Deer Ridge Farm and learn about flower, berry, and vegetable production. Tour the flower fields with over 100 varieties of flowers. Observe honey bees in action. Sample maple syrup and honey. Taste test a variety of tomatoes.
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-deer-ridge-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
Feast and Field Market
- Feast and Field Market is a unique farm-based market set in the back fields of an old dairy farm. 4:30-7:30 farmers market, 4:30-6 kids activities, 5:30-7:30 Bessette Quartet with Doug Perkins.
- https://www.diginvt.com/events/detail/open-farm-week-feast-and-field-market
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