Farms & Farm Stands

America's oldest continuously operated apple orchard, just inland in Hampton Falls, growing over forty apple varieties across the season. Fall weekends bring live bluegrass, hayrides, and cider donuts straight from the fryer - and the donuts are sold in the farm market daily, so you do not need festival crowds to get them warm.

Farmed by the same family since the 1660s, and part of the scenery of every Stratham childhood - my husband grew up here with this Route 33 landmark as the backdrop of every fall. The pumpkin patch and corn maze are the draw; the sense that the town's farming story is still being written is the reason to care.

The big red barn on Dover Point Road holds a serious farm store - butcher counter, produce, prepared foods - while highland cattle pose photogenically outside. It has quietly become our answer for weeks when regular grocery shopping feels uninspired.

Farmed since 1655, which makes it one of the oldest family farms in America, just next door in Durham. Summer berries, a cheerful market and café, and resident goats that will end any plan to make this a quick stop. Budget the extra twenty minutes; the goats always win.

A third-generation York vegetable farm famous for summer sweet corn and the corn maze the whole town waits for each fall. When pumpkin season hits, this is simply where York goes - and the corn is reason enough to stop in August.

A family orchard a pleasant drive inland, where picking your own comes with cider pressing and warm donuts on fall weekends. Apples wait for no one - check which varieties are on before you make the drive, because the good picking moves week to week.

Home of the most photographed wagon in New Hampshire, and our favorite free outing on this list - public farmland on the Durham line rolling down to the Oyster River and Great Bay. Trails, winter sledding, and sunsets worth planning around. Bring the dog and a camera.

A pick-your-own orchard in nearby Lee where apples and peaches hand off to hayrides and a famously spooky haunted trail every October. One of the most complete fall outings in the region - plan a whole afternoon, not a stop.

The Lee farm behind the Seacoast's beloved sunflower festival, when acres of bloom draw photographers from all over New England for one short window in high summer. The intel that matters: buy tickets online ahead, leave the dog home (no pets on the farm), and spring for the early-morning session if photos are the mission. The corn maze brings everyone back in fall.

A Newfields farm famous for pasture-raised chicken, a stocked farm store, and summer evenings of live music and wood-fired food out in the field. Farm-to-table without a white tablecloth in sight - go hungry and stay for the music.