Guide
Farm Stands on the Key Peninsula
A dozen farms on the Key Peninsula sell direct to the public, but only a few run a stand you can walk up to without calling first.
A dozen farms on the Key Peninsula sell direct to the public, and only a few of them run a stand you can walk up to without calling first. The peninsula is about 16 miles long and almost all of it hangs off one road, so a proper loop is a half day, not an errand. Below is who sells what, which stops are self-serve, and what to check before you drive.
Start with the thing that surprises people: there is no farmers market on the Key Peninsula. The old Key Peninsula Farmers Market ran out of Lakebay and LocalHarvest now lists it as no longer existing. Roadside stands, on-farm pickup and CSA boxes are the format here, which is why a list like this is worth having.
How the peninsula is laid out
From Highway 16 you take the Purdy Drive NW exit onto WA-302 west, cross the Purdy spit, and stay on 302 for a little over five miles. Where 302 bends west toward Allyn you continue straight onto Key Peninsula Highway and follow it south. Sound View Camp’s own directions put Longbranch at roughly 20 miles from the Highway 16 exit.
Going south the communities run Wauna and Minter, then Vaughn, Key Center, Home, Lakebay and Longbranch. Key Center is the only real cluster, with the Key IGA grocery store, a library and a fire station. Everything else is a mailbox and a gravel driveway, and the highway has thin shoulders, so pick your pull-outs early.
Plan on about 30 minutes from the Purdy bridge to Longbranch with no stops. Three or four stands and a walk on a beach will fill an afternoon comfortably.
Here is the trap that sends visitors to the wrong side of the water. Several farms at the north end of the peninsula have a “Gig Harbor, WA 98329” mailing address but are nowhere near the town of Gig Harbor. Astrid’s Lavender Farm, Moon Mountain Farm and Bill Family Farm all carry Gig Harbor addresses and all sit out on the Key Peninsula. Trust the road name, not the city line.
Who sells what
Listed roughly north to south. Hours and seasons change every year at operations this size, so treat this as a starting point and confirm before you drive.
| Farm | Where | Known for | How you buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Family Farm | 9501 159th St NW, north Key Peninsula | Pork, beef, eggs, goat’s milk soap | Contact the farm; a Key Peninsula Farm Tour stop |
| Astrid’s Lavender Farm | 13617 Thomas Rd NW, north Key Peninsula | Around 3,000 lavender plants in seven varieties, dried bouquets, essential oils | By appointment, with u-pick offered; site lists card and PayPal |
| Moon Mountain Farm | Near Minter Creek, north Key Peninsula | Specialty cut flowers, basketry willow, plant dyes, pottery | Flower CSA, farm pickup by appointment, a cart in downtown Gig Harbor |
| Adam’s Mushrooms | Vaughn | Fresh and dried mushrooms, powders, tinctures, foraged foods | On-farm pickup, online pre-order, and stocked at Key IGA in Key Center |
| Close to Home Farm | 2712 Key Peninsula Hwy NW, Lakebay | Dahlias, peonies, ranunculus, anemones, hydrangeas | Farm stand with market bouquets in season, plus online shop and subscriptions |
| Wildwood Hollow Farm | 4554 Key Peninsula Hwy NW, Lakebay | Dahlias, zinnias, Sungold tomatoes, serrano and jalapeño peppers, dry beans | Self-serve stand, open daily 9am to dusk |
| Lakebay Farm | Lakebay | Roughly 35 species of Pacific Northwest native plants | Mainly wholesale to licensed buyers, some retail; email first |
| Turnbull Farm | 1512 Whiteman Rd SW, Lakebay | Pumpkins, Christmas trees, cut flowers, workshops | Seasonal openings and flower subscriptions booked online |
| Honey Wood Farm | Longbranch | Close to 100 vegetable varieties | CSA shares only, serving the Key Peninsula and Gig Harbor |
| Doghouse Flowers | Longbranch | Cut flowers, edible flowers, vegetables, herbs, nursery plants | Bouquets sold at Close to Home Espresso in Key Center, plus CSA and farm pickup |
| Kaukiki Farm | 7012 Key Peninsula Hwy S, Longbranch | Grass-fed Angus cross beef and Oxford Down lamb on about 140 acres | Email or call for availability; visits by appointment only |
| Faraway Flower Farm | Filucy Bay, Longbranch | Cut flowers, dahlia tubers, dried herbs, wreaths | Pop-up events and special orders; their listing says not open to the public yet |
Two notes on things you may still find in search results. Trillium Creek Winery in Lakebay is listed as closed, and Two Fox Winery sits at the same address, but Two Fox’s own site says its tasting room shut at the end of 2025 and that wine is pre-order pickup now. Grand Farm in Vaughn is an equestrian facility and a Halloween haunted forest, not a food stop.
Staffed, self-serve, or neither
Most of this list is neither a shop nor a stand. Kaukiki, Honey Wood, Lakebay Farm and Moon Mountain sell by appointment, subscription or pickup, which means an unannounced visit is a wasted drive. That is not unfriendliness. These are small operations where the farmer is usually out in a field or at an off-farm job.
The stands you can actually walk up to are the exception on this peninsula, and they are worth planning around. Wildwood Hollow’s stand is self-serve and open every day into dusk, which matters more than it sounds: between late June and late October the sun sets more than three hours earlier, so a 7pm arrival that works in July is full dark in October.
On payment, assume cash unless a farm says otherwise. Astrid’s is the only one on this list that publishes card acceptance. Self-serve stands usually have a cash box, and increasingly a Venmo or PayPal handle taped to the shelf, but service is patchy south of Key Center so screenshot the handle before you lose signal.
How an honor-system stand works
If you have not used one, it is simpler than it looks. There is a shelf or a cooler, a price written on a card or a chalkboard, and a locked box with a slot. You take what you want, you put the money in the slot, and nobody watches you do it.
Bring small bills. A stand that sells $6 bouquets and $4 pints cannot make change for a fifty, and leaving a large note and taking change out of the box is how a stand ends up short. Exact change or a digital payment is the courteous move.
A few unwritten rules. Do not rearrange the display to find the best one, because the next person deserves a stand that looks like a stand. Close the lid and the gate behind you, since the cooler is keeping flowers cold and the gate is usually keeping something in. If a price is missing, pay the higher of the two nearest prices rather than guessing low.
If the shelf is empty, it is empty. Nobody is restocking at 4pm on a Sunday in August.
Practical notes before you go
Go earlier in the day. Bouquets are cut in the morning and tomatoes come off in the morning, so a stand that looked full at 10am can be picked clean by mid afternoon on a sunny weekend.
Parking is a real constraint. Most of these driveways fit two cars, and Key Peninsula Highway is not a road to park on. If a pull-out is full, keep going and come back rather than stopping on the fog line.
Bring a cooler and a bucket. It is a long warm drive back over the bridge, and cut flowers that ride home in a dry car look considerably worse than flowers that ride home in two inches of water.
If you would rather see everything at once, the Key Peninsula Farm Tour runs in late September and is organized by the KP Farm Collective. It is free, self-guided, and it opens farms that are closed to drop-ins the rest of the year.
For the Wildwood Hollow end of this, the farm stand page has what is currently on the shelf, visit has directions and parking, and pork covers the boxes coming off the fall harvest.