Mini Barn Market

Open right now

The barn is always open.

An air-conditioned farm stand at the top of Whirlwind Lane in Ramona. No cashier, no closing time, no key.

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Illustration of Mini Barn Market at dusk A poster-style illustration: the small red Mini Barn Market with its gambrel roof and the white neon Mini Barn Market sign in the gable, both white doors swung open and warm light pouring out across the ground. Oaks and the Ramona hills behind, stars overhead, crates of produce by the door, and a painted sign in front that reads Open, with a banner beneath it that reads 24 hours, 7 days. OPEN MINI BARN MARKET WHIRLWIND LANE · RAMONA · CALIFORNIA

The stand

It runs on trust, which is the whole point.

Mini Barn Market sits at the heart of a working Ramona homestead. It is the community's front porch and the farm's larder at the same time, and it works on one old-fashioned principle: we assume you are good for it.

That one decision, to trust people first, is what makes the place feel the way it does.

  1. 1

    Take what you came for.

    Nobody stands behind a counter.

  2. 2

    Pay how you like.

    Cash in the box, a card, or your phone.

  3. 3

    Pull the door shut behind you.

    The door is unlocked twenty-four hours a day.

On the shelf

  • Sourdough
  • Sweet treats
  • Eggs
  • Produce in season
  • Australian finger limes
  • The soaps

Instagram shows today's shelf

Two children holding eggs beside a red barn with a Fresh Eggs sign, hens at their feet.

Live on Instagram, every day

Carissa posts what is on the shelf today.

If you want to know what is in the barn right now, this is where you look.

@minibarnmarket
Better than organic, non-toxic, small batch, handmade.View on InstagramLime, but make it caviar. Australian finger limes, straight off the farm.View on InstagramYour neighborhood farm stand is open. Always.View on InstagramSourdough, sweet treats, eggs, produce in season, and a good deal more.View on InstagramA San Diego County farm stand that never closes.View on InstagramTwenty-four hours, seven days, held up by the honor system.View on Instagram
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Visit us

Whirlwind Lane

From Highland Valley Road, take Whirlwind Lane. As you come over the hill you will see the barn in the distance.

Directions

Always open

24 hours, 7 days

Every day of the year, including the ones everybody else takes off. Come at dawn. Come at midnight. The light is on.

What is in stock

Pay your way

Cash, card or tap

Gift cards work here too, and they never expire.

Gift cards
The illustrated Ramona Farmstand Map, showing farm stands drawn across the valley.

Beyond our own gate

We drew the map.

Cory and Carissa work at the whole of agritourism in Ramona, not just their own corner of it, coaching and mentoring people who want to open a stand of their own and make a living from their own land.

"To further this mission, we created the Ramona Farmstand Map and Farmstand.TV. Both are designed to help visitors find and appreciate the agricultural riches of the whole region."

Cory & Carissa
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Know what is on the shelf.

What is ripe, what has just come in, and when the barn has something worth the drive. One or two emails a month.

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Stay a while

The stand is at the back gate of a ranch you can book.

Mini Barn Market belongs to Farmhouse Getaways, a working ranch and a mountain retreat, both about thirty-five minutes from San Diego. Guests walk down to the barn in their pajamas.

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