Experience local agriculture up close at Open Farm Days, Saturday and Sunday, August 10th and 11th from 12 to 4pm each day. 20 farms will welcome you for FREE tours, food tastings, animal visits and MORE! Visit farms that raise alpacas, heirloom apples, mushrooms, goats, sheep, fruits, organic vegetables and MORE! Meet hard cider and cheese makers, pick blueberries, tour a dairy or a hop farm and brewery! There's something for everyone in the family.
Different farms are open each day. Farms on the east side of Cayuga Lake will be open for tours on Saturday, August 10 th while farms on the west side of the lake will be open on Sunday, August 11th.
Admission to all farms is FREE, dogs are not permitted. Visitors are encouraged to bring a cooler as many farms will have products for sale. Read through the farm descriptions and pick the farms you want to visit. It is generally possible to visit about 5 farms during the 4 hour Open Days’ time period.
Find photos and detailed information on all the tour sites at OpenFarmDays.org, a mobile-friendly website that enables visitors to use their smart phones to plot their tour route in real time.
Sponsored by Cornell Cooperative
Extension of Tompkins County. Made possible in part by grants from the Tompkins County Tourism Program and Tompkins County Farm Bureau.
Monika Roth
Agriculture Specialist (Part-Time)
mr55@cornell.edu
(607) 272-2292 ext. 126
Last updated August 8, 2019