Farmer's book ''On Zion's Mount
won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His book Trees in Paradise
won the 2015 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians. His book Elderflora'' won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History from the
American Philosophical Society. In 2014, Farmer received the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute. In 2017 he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the following year the
American Academy in Berlin awarded him a Berlin Prize. Farmer delivered the 28th annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture in 2023. == Bibliography ==