North Fork Farm Stands: Where to Buy Pies, Produce, Flowers, Cider Donuts & Local Food

Farm stands are one of the best parts of a North Fork drive.

You can stop for corn, tomatoes, peaches, berries, flowers, pies, cider donuts, goat cheese, pumpkins, apples, jams, honey, plants or whatever looks good that day. Some stops are quick roadside stands. Some are full family outings. Some are famous enough that you should expect lines.

The best farm stand for your trip depends on the season and what you want: a pie to bring home, cider donuts with kids, flowers for the table, goat cheese, organic vegetables, pumpkins, apple picking or a quick stop between wineries.

Quick picks

Harbes Family Farm — Mattituck

Harbes is part farm stand, part family attraction, and part seasonal North Fork tradition. The Mattituck farm has the original farmstand, Barnyard Adventure, Harbes Vineyard Wine Barn and a lot of kid-friendly activity around it.

Best for: cider donuts, kids, fall weekends, farmstand, Mattituck stop.

Briermere Farms — Riverhead

Briermere is the pie stop. If someone says they are bringing dessert back from the North Fork, this is often the kind of place they mean. Go earlier if you care about selection, especially around holidays and summer weekends.

Best for: pies, jams, dessert to bring home, Riverhead stop.

Latham Farms — Orient

Latham Farms gives the eastern North Fork a real farmstand stop, not just beaches, ferry roads, and quiet drives. The farm dates to 1809 and is located in Orient, with fields between Long Island Sound and Gardiners Bay. Its stand is a place for fresh, native produce, with farm fields stretching from shore to shore.

This is the farmstand to keep in mind if you are staying in Greenport, East Marion, or Orient and do not want to drive back toward Mattituck or Riverhead for produce. It is also a good stop before or after Orient Beach State Park, the Cross Sound Ferry, or a slow drive through the eastern North Fork.

The farmstand is listed at 31800 Main Road in Orient. Check current hours before going late in the season.

Best for: Orient produce, flowers, eastern North Fork drive, Greenport/Orient stays.

Sang Lee Farms — Peconic

Sang Lee Farms is a Peconic stop for vegetables, prepared foods, plants, and more serious farm shopping. It is especially useful if you are staying in a rental house and want food for the fridge rather than only pies, donuts, or pumpkins.

Go here when you want a farm market that can help with dinner: vegetables, greens, sauces, prepared items, or plants for the garden. It also pairs well with Catapano Dairy Farm, Southold, Cutchogue, and a winery day.

Best for: vegetables, prepared foods, plants, rental-house groceries, Peconic stop.

Catapano Dairy Farm — Peconic

Catapano Dairy Farm is a goat dairy stop, not a standard fruit-and-vegetable farm stand. This is a good stop when you want something different from corn, tomatoes and pies. Buy goat cheese, look at the goats, pick up soap or skincare, and keep going.

Best for: goat cheese, goats, skincare, Peconic stop, kids.

Garden of Eve — Riverhead

Garden of Eve is a good Riverhead farm stop if you care about organic produce, CSA-style food and the farm side of the North Fork. It is better for people who want vegetables, flowers and a working-farm feel than for someone only looking for a quick pie line.

Best for: organic produce, CSA, flowers, farm animals, Riverhead start.

Wickham’s Fruit Farm — Cutchogue

Wickham’s Fruit Farm belongs on any North Fork farm list because it represents the older fruit-farm side of the region. Before going, check current hours and picking details. Fruit availability changes quickly.

Best for: fruit, orchard stop, Cutchogue, old North Fork farm feel.

Patty’s Berries & Bunches — Mattituck area

Patty’s Berries & Bunches is the kind of stop people picture when they want berries, flowers and a more colorful farm visit. It is especially worth checking during berry and flower seasons.

Best for: berries, flowers, picking season, photos, Mattituck-area stop.

Sep’s Farm — East Marion

Sep’s Farm is a useful eastern North Fork farmstand to know if your trip takes you toward Greenport, East Marion or Orient. It gives you a farm stop without driving all the way back to Mattituck or Riverhead.

Best for: eastern North Fork produce, Greenport/Orient drive, local food.

8 Hands Farm — Cutchogue area

8 Hands Farm is a good stop when you want more than fruit, flowers, or cider donuts. Think meat, eggs, prepared food, and a farm-store stop that can help stock a rental-house kitchen.

Best for: meat, eggs, prepared food, farm store, rental-house cooking.

KK’s The Farm — Southold

KK’s The Farm gives Southold a useful farm stop for vegetables, flowers, and a quieter food-focused visit. It belongs in the mix for people staying in Southold or planning a day around Southold restaurants, wineries, beaches, and inns.

Best for: Southold produce, flowers, local food, quieter farm stop.

Krupski’s Farm — Peconic / Cutchogue area

Krupski’s is a central North Fork farm stop to keep in mind for vegetables, pumpkins, and fall-season shopping. It fits naturally into a Mattituck, Cutchogue, Peconic, or Southold drive.

Best for: vegetables, pumpkins, central North Fork, fall stop.

Hallock’s Cider Mill — Laurel / Jamesport area

Hallock’s Cider Mill is one of those old-school North Fork stops that fits well into a fall or farm-stand drive. Think cider, baked goods, local food and a quick stop on the way east or west.

Best for: cider, baked goods, old-school stop, fall drive.

What to buy by season

Spring

Look for plants, flowers, early greens, farm markets reopening, goat cheese, baked goods and quieter farm drives.

Summer

This is peak farm-stand season for corn, tomatoes, peaches, berries, flowers, watermelon and picnic food. Bring a cooler if you plan to buy a lot before spending the day outside.

Fall

Fall is pumpkins, apples, cider donuts, corn mazes, hayrides, pies, squash, mums and harvest weekends.

Winter

Winter farm stops are quieter and more limited. Check hours carefully.

Best farm stands by trip type

With kids

Start with Harbes if you want activities, animals and more to do. Add Catapano if the kids like goats. Choose quick farm stands if everyone is already tired.

For pies

Start with Briermere. Go earlier on busy weekends and holidays.

For rental-house groceries

If you are staying in a rental, look beyond pies and cider donuts. Sang Lee, 8 Hands Farm, Sep’s, KK’s, Catapano, and Latham Farms are all worth checking when you want produce, cheese, meat, eggs, prepared food, flowers, or local items for the fridge.

For a Greenport weekend

If you are staying in Greenport, East Marion, or Orient, do not assume the best farm stops are all back toward Mattituck or Riverhead. Latham Farms and Sep’s are useful eastern North Fork stops. Catapano and Sang Lee are good Peconic stops on the way back toward Southold and Cutchogue.

Farm stands by area

Riverhead and western North Fork

Start here for Briermere, Garden of Eve, Harbes Orchard and other early stops before heading deeper into the North Fork.

Mattituck

Mattituck is one of the best farm-stop areas because it has Harbes, Love Lane nearby, farms, wineries and easy access to central North Fork roads.

Cutchogue and Peconic

This area is good for fruit farms, vegetables, goat cheese, farm markets, wineries and quieter roads.

Southold, Greenport, East Marion and Orient

Farm stands are more spread out here, but they are useful if you are staying farther east and do not want to drive back toward Riverhead or Mattituck.

Tips before you go

Bring a cooler if you are buying produce, pies, cheese or anything perishable. Go earlier for popular pies, donuts, berries and fall activities. Check current hours. Bring cash just in case. Buy what looks good. The best farm-stand stop is often the one you did not plan.