Pemberton Farms Where You Can Pick Your Own This Fall

Strawberry and blueberry picking in Pemberton is over for 2026. North Arm Farm’s strawberry and blueberry rows are closed, and strawberries come back in June 2027. The Pemberton Farmers’ Market wrapped its season on October 16. The main thing you can still pick with your own hands this fall is a pumpkin (North Arm Farm also still lists u-pick field tomatoes), and two farms in the valley will let you walk out and choose one until Saturday, October 31.

The pumpkins are the deadline. The bigger story is what stays open after them. A string of stands on the official Pemberton Farm Stand Tour sells potatoes, meat, eggs and vegetables straight from the field all year, some of them on the honour system. Pemberton is about 2.5 hours from Vancouver on the Sea to Sky, 30 minutes past Whistler.

This covers both pumpkin patches, the harvest festival on October 24, the year-round stands worth the drive, the ones in their last days, and the practical stuff: payment, coolers and winter tires.

12. Blackwater Creek Orchard (D’Arcy)

A certified organic orchard stand below the Cayoosh Mountains, north of Pemberton near Devine. Tourism Pemberton lists it as a self-serve stop for local produce.

It’s self-serve and always open, with a listed season of mid-June to October. The exact closing date isn’t confirmed, so treat the rest of this month as your window. It takes cash and e-transfer.

Local tip: expect an honour box. Bring cash in small bills or have e-transfer ready.

Pemberton farm stands: open or closed as of late October 2026

Stand	Area	Listed season	Hours	Payment	Status now
North Arm Farm	Hwy 99	Year-round (pumpkin patch to Oct 31)	9am-6pm daily	Cash & card	OPEN – pumpkins + wagon rides to Oct 31
The Beer Farmers	Pemberton Meadows	Year-round (pumpkin patch Oct 1-31)	12-8pm daily	All payments	OPEN – pumpkins to Oct 31
Helmer’s Organic	Pemberton Meadows	Year-round	Always open	Cash & e-transfer	OPEN
Plenty Wild Farms	Pemberton Meadows	Year-round	8am-8pm daily	Cash, e-transfer, PayPal	OPEN
Pemberton Meat Co. (x2)	Pemberton / Birken	Year-round	9am-4pm	Cash & e-transfer	OPEN
Devine Gardens	Devine/D’Arcy	Year-round	Always open except Fri	Cash only	OPEN
Weeds & Rags	Pemberton	Year-round	8am-8pm	Cash & e-transfer	OPEN
The Clay Farmers	Pemberton	Year-round	Always open	E-transfer & PayPal	OPEN
Blackwater Creek Orchard	D’Arcy	Mid-June to October	Always open	Cash & e-transfer	LAST DAYS (to end Oct)
HappiLife Farm	Pemberton Meadows	April to October	8am-dusk	Cash & e-transfer	LAST DAYS (to end Oct)
Collins Cross	Pemberton Meadows	April to October	8am-8pm	Cash & e-transfer	LAST DAYS (to end Oct)
The Palomino Mercantile	Pemberton	August to October	11am-7pm	Cash, e-transfer, PayPal	LAST DAYS (to end Oct)
Cruz Family Farm	Pemberton	April to September	Always open	Cash & e-transfer	Closed for season
The Flower Wrangler	Pemberton Meadows	April to September	Weekends Apr-Jul; daily Jul-Sep	Cash & e-transfer	Closed for season
Willowcraft Farm	Birken/D’Arcy	May to September	Always open	Cash & e-transfer	Closed for season
Belle Acres	Pemberton	Late July to September	Daylight hours	Cash & e-transfer	Closed for season
Pemberton Farmers’ Market	Village	May 15 to Oct 16, 2026	Fri 3-6pm	–	Closed for season

What’s open when: Pemberton farm stand season calendar (month-by-month)

Stand	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov-Mar
North Arm Farm / Helmer’s / Plenty Wild / Pemberton Meat Co. / Devine Gardens / Weeds & Rags / Clay Farmers / Beer Farmers	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
HappiLife Farm, Collins Cross	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Cruz Family Farm, The Flower Wrangler	x	x	x	x	x	x
Willowcraft Farm		x	x	x	x	x
Blackwater Creek Orchard			mid	x	x	x	x
Belle Acres				late	x	x
The Palomino Mercantile					x	x	x
Pemberton Farmers’ Market (Fridays)		from 15	x	x	x	x	to 16

Drive times from downtown Vancouver up the Sea to Sky

Leg	Distance	Time	Source
Downtown Vancouver -> Squamish	64 km	55 min	Explore Squamish
Whistler -> Pemberton	–	30 min	Tourism Pemberton
Vancouver -> Pemberton (total)	~160 km from YVR	2.5 hours	Tourism Pemberton
Pemberton Meadows Road (Slow Food Cycle route)	40 km round trip	–	Tourism Pemberton

11. The Clay Farmers and Weeds & Rags (Pemberton)

Two year-round stops on the official tour that aren’t about food. The Clay Farmers sells handmade pottery inspired by the riverbeds and landscape of the Pemberton Valley. Weeds & Rags is a stand with plants, trees, farm goods, vintage homeware and clothing.

The Clay Farmers is always open. Weeds & Rags runs 8am to 8pm. Both are listed year-round, so they’re still there after the seasonal stands close.

Local tip: The Clay Farmers takes no cash, only e-transfer or PayPal. Weeds & Rags takes cash and e-transfer.

10. Devine Gardens Farm Stand (near D’Arcy)

A biodynamic market garden and orchard with a wide range of fresh, seasonal and preserved goods. The stand carries fruit and vegetables, eggs, herbs, teas, preserves, baked goods, hot sauce, coffee beans, ice cream sandwiches and vegan treats, plus starter plants, seeds and perennials.

It’s listed as always open except Fridays, year-round. That makes it one of the few stands up the Portage Road you can count on after October.

Local tip: it’s cash only, with no card or e-transfer listed. Pair it with Pemberton Meat Co. at Gates Lake and Blackwater Creek Orchard on the same drive.

9. Pemberton Meat Co. (Pemberton and Birken)

A family-owned farm selling locally raised beef, pork, lamb, poultry and eggs, plus seasonal produce. The listing says all of it is raised without hormones, pesticides or antibiotics.

There are two farm-stand locations, the Pemberton stand listed as open year-round from 9am to 4pm (check the Birken stand’s hours before driving up). One is on Pemberton Farm Road West near the village. The other is up at Gates Lake on Pemberton Portage Road in the Birken area, north-east of Mount Currie. Payment is cash or e-transfer.

Local tip: 4pm is earlier than most stands close. If you’re stocking a freezer, make this an early stop and bring a cooler.

8. The Palomino Mercantile (Collins Road, Pemberton)

A farmstand on Za Ropa Ranch selling fresh flowers, fruit and locally sourced market goods, with a rotating mix of handmade and specialty items.

Hours are 11am to 7pm, and the listed season runs August to October, so it’s near the end of its year. It takes cash, e-transfer and PayPal.

Local tip: The Clay Farmers pottery stand is next door at 1428 Collins Road. Do both in one stop.

7. Collins Cross Farmstand (Pemberton Meadows)

Run by multigenerational locals, this stand sells spray-free flowers grown on the farm. Alongside the flowers you’ll find locally made soaps, essential oils, candles, pottery and honey.

It’s open 8am to 8pm, with a listed season of April to October. It takes cash and e-transfer.

Local tip: its address (7548) puts it before Plenty Wild (7611) and HappiLife (7702) on the Meadows road, and a good place to pick up small gifts before it closes for the year.

6. HappiLife Farm (Pemberton Meadows)

A colourful seasonal stand with organic produce, farm eggs, honey, fruit preserves, cooking salts and cut-flower bouquets. Some is grown on site and some comes from neighbouring farms.

Its listed season is April to October, open 8am to dusk every day, so 2026 is down to its final days. The listing just says October, so the exact closing date isn’t confirmed. It takes cash and e-transfer.

Local tip: once the stand closes, you can still find HappiLife eggs at Helmer’s on weekends.

5. Helmer’s Organic Farm (Pemberton Meadows)

If you want Pemberton potatoes from the people who grow them, this is the stand. Tourism Pemberton describes a fourth-generation family farm in the Meadows since 1980, growing up to 18 varieties of potatoes and seasonal root crops with organic and biodynamic practices.

The farm’s September 2026 update says potatoes, carrots and beets were all harvested. The stand was stocked with potatoes, carrots, beets and garlic, plus organic vegetables from Rootdown Farm. On weekends it also carries HappiLife eggs. In August every variety passed its second and final CFIA seed potato inspection, and the online seed potato store for 2027 planting is now open.

The stand is listed as always open, year-round. The farm’s own winter note says it stays open until it gets too cold, somewhere around minus 10. Stand prices aren’t posted. The farm advertised 20-pound sacks of eating potatoes for $30 at its Vancouver market sales in March 2026.

Local tip: payment is cash or e-transfer, so set up e-transfer before you lose cell signal. Can’t make the drive? Helmer’s sells at the Riley Park markets in Vancouver through March.

4. Plenty Wild Farms (Pemberton Meadows)

A certified organic vegetable farm with a roadside stand selling a wide range of vegetables grown on site. Tourism Pemberton says it has been producing food for over a decade, with a focus on soil health.

The stand is listed as year-round, 8am to 8pm daily. Those long hours make it one of the more dependable stops in late October and through the winter. It takes cash, e-transfer and PayPal.

Local tip: 8pm is well after dark this time of year. Go in daylight, when you can see what’s on the shelves and the road.

3. Fall Harvest Festival (Pemberton Museum, Saturday, Oct. 24)

Stewardship Pemberton Society is running its first annual Fall Harvest Festival at the Pemberton Museum. Expect local artisans, fresh local goods, family activities, live music and prizes. Money raised goes to the society.

It runs Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 11am to 3pm, the same weekend as the pumpkin patches. That makes it an easy midday stop between North Arm Farm in the morning and the Meadows road in the afternoon.

Local tip: it’s ticketed. The price isn’t on the listing, so buy ahead through the Zeffy ticket page linked from the Tourism Pemberton event listing.

2. The Beer Farmers (Pemberton Meadows)

The valley’s second pumpkin patch is on a farm brewery. The family farms certified-organic land in the Pemberton Meadows, now in its fourth generation. Their story starts in 1895, when a 16-year-old left Scotland and eventually cleared a farm out of the Pemberton Valley wilderness. Today the brewery grows and malts its own barley on site, which it says few breweries in the world do, and brews with well water from beneath its fields.

The pumpkin patch is listed from October 1 to October 31, 2026, open noon to 8pm. Tourism Pemberton also lists eggs, flowers and pumpkins for sale and highland cows among the on-farm draws. Pumpkin prices aren’t posted. Tourism Pemberton lists all payments as accepted; it doesn’t say whether there is an admission charge.

This is the most family-friendly stop on the Meadows road. The tasting room serves food, is listed as kid-friendly, and dogs are welcome outside on leash. It stays open noon to 8pm daily, year-round, after the patch closes.

Local tip: nothing happens here before noon. Plan North Arm Farm for the morning and The Beer Farmers for a late lunch and a pumpkin. Hours are on the farm’s site.

The two Pemberton pumpkin patches, side by side

	North Arm Farm	The Beer Farmers
Address	1888 Highway 99	8324 Pemberton Meadows Road
Patch dates (2026)	Sep 26 to Oct 31	Oct 1 to Oct 31
Hours	Wagon rides weekends in October, 10am to 4pm	Noon to 8pm
Pumpkin pricing	By weight	Not posted
Also there	Gourds, winter squash, baked goods, animals, ice cream	Tasting room with food, highland cows, eggs, flowers
Dogs	Not stated	Outside on leash
Payment	Cash and card	All payments
After Oct 31	Shop open year-round	Tasting room open daily, year-round

1. North Arm Farm (Highway 99, between Pemberton and Mount Currie)

This is the valley’s best-known family farm and the easiest pick-your-own stop this fall. The pumpkin patch is open, and you can walk out into the field to choose one or pick from the pumpkins already brought into the barn. Pumpkins are sold by weight. You’ll also find gourds, winter squash, farm produce and baked goods, and Tourism Pemberton notes on-site animals and ice cream.

Wagon rides run every weekend in October, 10am to 4pm. The patch season is listed from September 26 to October 31, 2026, so the weekend of October 24 and 25 and Halloween weekend are your last chances. The farm’s u-pick page also still lists field tomatoes, Roma and field slicers, at $1.50 a pound, dropping to $1.25 over 50 pounds and $1.00 over 100. That listing may be out of date this late in October, so call before you plan a canning weekend around it.

After Halloween the farm doesn’t shut. It stores produce in coolers through the winter and the shop is listed as open year-round, which makes it a reliable stop for root vegetables. The contact page lists 9am to 6pm daily, while another page on the same site says 8 to 6. Check the farm’s contact page or call ahead to confirm late-fall hours. A Christmas Market is set for Sunday, December 13, 2026.

Local tip: the farm sits right on Highway 99 at 1888, so there’s no back-road driving. Do this one first, in the morning, and save the Pemberton Meadows stops for the afternoon. Pumpkins are priced by the pound, so the giant ones add up fast.

Already closed for 2026

• The Pemberton Farmers’ Market ran May 15 to October 16, 2026. It’s done.
• North Arm Farm’s strawberry and blueberry u-pick are closed. Strawberries reopen June 2027.
• Belle Acres, Cruz Family Farm, The Flower Wrangler and Willowcraft Farm all had seasons ending in September.
• Slow Food Cycle Sunday happened on August 16, 2026, its 21st year. The 2027 date isn’t posted yet. It’s held the third Sunday of August.

When to go

The weekend of October 24 and 25 and Halloween weekend are the last days for both pumpkin patches and the North Arm Farm wagon rides. Saturday, October 24 adds the Fall Harvest Festival at the museum, 11am to 3pm.

After October 31, the year-round stands carry on: North Arm Farm’s shop, Helmer’s, Plenty Wild, Pemberton Meat Co., Devine Gardens, Weeds & Rags, The Clay Farmers and The Beer Farmers tasting room. North Arm Farm holds its Christmas Market on Sunday, December 13, 2026.

Tourism Pemberton notes that Pemberton and Lillooet run warmer than the rest of the Sea to Sky in fall. If you have time, it suggests the Duffey Lake Road for fall colour.

A simple farm-day loop

Start at North Arm Farm on Highway 99 in the morning, when the wagon rides begin at 10am. Head into Pemberton village for the Harvest Festival if it’s October 24. Then work north up Pemberton Meadows Road: Collins Cross, Plenty Wild, HappiLife, The Beer Farmers once it opens at noon, and Helmer’s a few doors on. Pemberton Meat Co. closes at 4pm, so fit it in early if meat is on your list.

Getting there

Pemberton is about a 2.5-hour drive from Vancouver on the Sea to Sky Highway, continuing 30 minutes past Whistler. Squamish is 64 km and about 55 minutes from downtown Vancouver, which makes it the obvious coffee stop. YVR is roughly 160 km from Pemberton.

You’ll need a car. The Route 99 Pemberton Commuter bus runs 10 trips a day between Whistler Village and Pemberton village, early morning and evening only, with no stops in between and no service beyond downtown Pemberton. There’s no taxi service in Pemberton. Details are on Tourism Pemberton’s getting there page.

Go prepared: winter tires are required on Highway 99 from October 1 through the winter (until March 31 on some Sea to Sky sections, and Tourism Squamish advises having them through April 30). Check DriveBC for road conditions before you leave, especially in the shoulder season.

What to bring and stand etiquette

• Cash and e-transfer, both. Many stands are self-serve. Devine Gardens is cash only, The Clay Farmers is e-transfer or PayPal only, and North Arm Farm takes cards.
• A cooler if you’re hitting several stops. That’s Tourism Pemberton’s own advice.
• Your own bags or containers.
• At North Arm Farm, produce gets weighed and paid for before you eat it. No snacking before you pay.
• A map. Download the guide or save the Google Map from the Farm Stand Tour page. The Visitor Information Kiosk at 7424 Frontier Street, where paper maps are available, is open Thursday to Sunday, 9am to 5pm, only through October.
• Dogs are welcome outside on leash at The Beer Farmers. It’s the only stand we found with a posted dog policy; ask at the others.

Why Pemberton potatoes are a big deal

Pemberton has its own provincial seed potato regulation. Valley lands are designated a certified seed potato control area under BC’s Seed Potato Act, with orders going back to 1949.

A 2009 BC Ministry of Agriculture land use inventory credited Pemberton farmers with an international reputation as the only virus-free seed potato production area in the world. That was the ministry’s wording in 2009.

Keeping it that way takes room. Seed potatoes are grown in rotations of at least four years to cut the risk of soil-borne disease. The same report estimated about 320 ha in potatoes at any time, within roughly 1,920 ha of rotation land. The chart below shows how much valley farmland had potatoes as its main use in 2009, second only to forage.

That’s the context for Helmer’s news that its 2026 varieties passed their final CFIA seed potato inspection. The potatoes on the stand come out of that system.

The pick-your-own part of a Pemberton fall ends on October 31, when both pumpkin patches close. The farm stands don’t. Go up for a pumpkin this weekend or next, and you’ll find the same road worth driving in January for a sack of potatoes and a freezer’s worth of meat. Bring cash, an e-transfer app, a cooler and winter tires.

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Photo credits

• Autumn in Nairn Falls.jpg by mpslxz, CC BY-SA 4.0 (combined into a montage, cropped). Via Wikimedia Commons.