A Saturday market is one morning a week. The food system around it runs every day — farm stands and pick-your-own fields, sugarhouses and farm stores, a tasting room, a creamery, a hundred-variety pumpkin patch. Some of these farms you will have met on the Parade Grounds. Some you won’t. All of them are worth your money.
This is the close-in tour: eighteen places within about ten miles of the market, near enough to fold into an ordinary afternoon. Farms further afield are on the full farm store directory.
The Ten-Mile Circle
Every stop on this page sits inside the dashed line. The market is the blue square at its center.
Ten miles as the crow flies — nearer fifteen or twenty minutes of driving.
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The Stops
Numbered by distance from the market — nearest first.
1 New Village Farm
700 Harbor Rd, Shelburne · 0.8 mi
Self-serve stand with raw cow and goat milk, pastured eggs and chicken, grass-fed beef, and seasonal vegetables.
Daily 8am to dusk (staff usually present 8am-3pm)
2 Shelburne Vineyard
6308 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne · 1.0 mi
Year-round tasting room pouring estate cold-climate wines, the Iapetus natural label, and Eden ice ciders.
Daily from 12pm; Mon-Fri to 7pm, Sat to 8pm, Sun to 7:30pm
3 Shelburne Farms
1611 Harbor Rd, Shelburne · 2.1 mi
Farmstead cheddar, maple syrup, organic produce, O Bread and Vermont gifts in the old North Gatehouse. No admission needed for the store.
Daily 9:30am–5:30pm, April 1–October 31
4 Fisher Brothers Farm
4947 Spear St, Shelburne · 2.1 mi
On-farm ice cream stand at a berry and wine-grape farm, scooping Sisters of Anarchy flavors made from fruit grown on site.
Closed Mon-Tue; Wed-Fri 2-6:30, Sat-Sun 12-6:30 (sources conflict)
5 Shelburne Orchards
216 Orchard Rd, Shelburne · 2.7 mi
Hilltop orchard opening Sept 11 for apple pick-your-own, wagon rides, cider donuts, pre-picked fruit and Dead Bird brandy.
Tue-Sun 9am-5pm, from September 11 through October
6 Palmer's Sugarhouse
332 Shelburne Hinesburg Rd, Shelburne · 2.9 mi
Maple syrup and maple products with sugaring demonstrations, sugar on snow, a farm barn and trails in season.
March 7–April 18, daily 9am–4pm. By appointment off-season.
7 Killeen Crossroads Farm
1283 Cheesefactory Rd, Shelburne · 3.0 mi
Red-barn farmstand daily 9-6 with vegetables including Asian greens, cut flowers, eggs, poultry and beef.
Daily 9am-6pm in season
8 Shelburne Sugarworks
746 Shelburne Hinesburg Rd, Shelburne · 3.3 mi
Three-generation maple farm with a spring-season sugarhouse store and free trails open dawn to dusk, year-round.
Sugarhouse store weekends 12-5, Mar 7-Apr 12 only. Trails daily dawn to dusk, year-round.
9 Bread & Butter Farm
200 Leduc Farm Rd, Shelburne · 3.6 mi
Farm store selling grass-fed beef, woodland pork and organic vegetables, with Blank Page Cafe sharing the space.
Mon-Fri 8-4, Sat 9-2, closed Sundays
10 Needham Family Farm
186 Boutin Rd, Hinesburg · 4.3 mi
Organically grown vegetables, berries and cut flowers plus eggs, raw honey, jams, and frozen lamb and chicken.
Daily, dawn to dusk, May–October
11 Farm Craft VT
6608 Route 116, Shelburne · 4.3 mi
Self-serve shop selling farm-made soaps, lotions, balms and herbal teas, above a three-acre sunflower field and herb garden.
Fri-Sun 9am-6pm, May through December (closed Jan-April)
12 Guillemette Farm
6802 Route 116, Shelburne · 4.4 mi
Family farm stand open sunrise to sunset with pick-your-own sunflowers and pumpkins, cut flowers, produce and honey.
Daily, sunrise to sunset, in season
13 Philo Ridge Farm
2766 Mount Philo Rd, Charlotte · 4.5 mi
Nonprofit regenerative farm with an organic market, walk-in Summer Barn lunch, reservation dinner, and garden paths.
Market Wed-Sun 8:30am-5pm; closed Mon-Tue
14 Sweet Roots Farm
4702 Ethan Allen Hwy, Charlotte · 6.2 mi
Certified organic vegetables and fruit plus groceries and local products in a daily on-site market. Blueberry PYO in summer.
Daily 10am–6pm
15 Flower Gap Farm & Creamery
4685 Greenbush Rd, Charlotte · 6.8 mi
Small-batch Nigerian Dwarf goat yogurt and fresh cheeses in glass jars, plus a goat-kid viewing area.
Daily 9am–6pm, April–December
16 Trillium Hill Farm
10643 Route 116, Hinesburg · 6.8 mi
Certified-organic vegetable farm with a farmstand open 8-8 daily, plus neighbor-farm dairy, meat and pantry goods.
Daily 8am-8pm, April through November
17 Head Over Fields
6035 Ethan Allen Hwy, Charlotte · 7.6 mi
Organic vegetables, herbs and flowers alongside Vermont fruit, meat, cheese, eggs, coffee, preserves and ice cream.
Mon–Sat 10am–6pm, Sun 12–6pm, May–November; self-serve shed in winter
18 Full Belly Farm
686 Davis Rd, Monkton · 9.3 mi
Six-day farm stand with own-grown produce, pick-your-own flowers, and seven named Vermont partner producers.
Tue-Sun 10-5, closed Mondays; late April to the week before Thanksgiving
Further afield
Nine more farm stores sit beyond the ten-mile circle — an honor-system cheese fridge eight miles short of Quebec, an island taproom, a self-serve stand in Lincoln open eight to eight. Worth the drive when you have the day.
See all 27 farm storesWhen to go
The farm landscape changes with the seasons. Here's when to take which tour.
Spring
Mar–Apr. Maple season. Palmer's Sugarhouse runs March 7 to April 18; Shelburne Sugarworks opens its sugarhouse store on weekends. Pancakes, sugar on snow, wagon rides.
Summer
May–Aug. Peak season, nearly everything open. Ice cream at Fisher Brothers, vegetables at Killeen Crossroads, goat yogurt at Flower Gap, daily stands at New Village and Sweet Roots.
Fall
Sep–Oct. Apples at Shelburne Orchards from September 11. Pick-your-own sunflowers and a hundred-variety pumpkin patch at Guillemette.
Year-round
Shelburne Farms, Bread & Butter's cafe, Philo Ridge, Shelburne Vineyard. Shelburne Sugarworks' trails are free and open dawn to dusk, every day of the year.
Discover a new farm this week. And when Saturday comes, tell the vendor you visited — they'll remember.
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