Farmers Markets near Bowie, MD

Gambrills

Anne Arundel County's largest farmers market runs Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon, in the Crofton Library lot on Riedel Road. It's producer-only, with more than 50 vendors selling produce, meats, dairy, breads, flowers, and crafts, plus food trucks on-site. Now past its first decade, the market draws enough of a following that its Facebook page tops 17,000 followers. Arrive early — parking fills fast.

Odenton

Piney Orchard Farmers Market has run outside the Piney Orchard Community Center on Stream Valley Drive for more than two decades, one of the longer-standing markets in Anne Arundel County. Wednesday hours run 2 to 6 p.m. from late spring through October, with vendors selling local produce, baked goods, honey, and specialty foods. The wooded community-center setting gives it a quieter feel than the county's bigger markets.

Crownsville

Wildberry Farm + Brewery in Crownsville, Maryland is a land-raised, hand-crafted farm brewery building out its on-site pavilion and grounds, having completed its first brew as it transitions from the former Wildberry shop.

Capitol Heights

Greenbelt

Beltsville

College Park

A group of North College Park residents started this market in 2013 to bring fresh food to their side of town, and it's grown into a Saturday fixture — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., through late November — in the Hollywood Shopping Center lot next to MOM's Organic Market. Live music runs alongside the produce and handmade goods stalls, and SNAP and WIC shoppers get matching-dollar incentives on top of their benefits.

Riverdale Park

College Park

Downtown College Park's market has run since 2010, set up indoors on Knox Road every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. across the spring-through-fall season. It draws a mix of residents, University of Maryland students, and visitors looking for locally sourced produce and prepared foods, with vendors taking a mix of cash and card. It runs alongside the newer Hollywood Farmers Market a few blocks north, giving College Park two Saturday options.

Savage

Upper Marlboro

Annapolis

This market sets up on the Anne Arundel Medical Center campus in Annapolis, at Riva Road and Harry S. Truman Parkway, giving hospital staff, patients, and neighbors a produce stand without leaving the medical campus. It runs on weekends during the season, with local vendors rotating through — a hospital system building healthy-food access directly into its own parking lot.

College Park

JESSUP

Unity Health Care

Aya Community Markets operates outside Unity Health Care at 3924 Minnesota Avenue NE in Ward 7, doubling as a farmers market, food hub, and youth-development program. It runs seasonally from May through November with locally sourced produce and goods. Vendors carry a range of products, and some accept SNAP, EBT, WIC, and Senior FMNP. The market ties fresh-food access to community and economic development on the east side of the city.

Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier's Farmers Market operates seasonally at One Municipal Place, giving small regional farmers and food producers direct access to Prince George's County shoppers. The lineup runs typical for the area — fresh produce, baked goods, and handmade crafts — with health and wellness programming alongside the food stalls. Confirm current weekly hours directly, since seasonal schedules shift year to year.

NE

Run by the DC Squared Markets network, this market appears in the Woodridge neighborhood of Northeast DC near Bladensburg Road, across from the Woodridge Library. Local farmers and food vendors sell on alternating Saturdays through the summer. It's one of several DC Squared stands bringing produce and prepared foods to Ward 5. Specifics online are sparse, so confirm the current schedule before you go.

Severna Park

Annapolis

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources hosts this small market in the parking lot of its own Tawes State Office Building on Taylor Avenue in Annapolis, Thursday afternoons from June through early September. It's aimed at state employees and nearby residents rather than tourists — produce, eggs, milk, meat, and other farm goods sold straight from the growers. Call for this season's exact schedule.

NE

This open-air farmers and flea market has run in the RFK Stadium lots off Oklahoma Avenue and Benning Road NE for more than 30 years. Local farms and vendors sell fresh produce, meats, dairy, and dry goods, and the flea-market side adds household finds. It typically operates Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, with plenty of free parking on the stadium grounds.

The D.C. Open-Air Farmers' Market has anchored the RFK Stadium grounds at Benning Road and Oklahoma Avenue NE for more than 30 years, running Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from early morning into late afternoon. Farm vendors sell fresh produce, meats, and dairy, and a large flea market alongside them offers clothing, records, housewares, and vintage finds. It operates from Parking Lot 6 year-round except on stadium event days.

The Brookland Farmers Market runs Tuesday afternoons from about 4 to 7pm at 10th and Otis Streets NE, next to the Brookland Metro station, from late spring into October. Growers from Pennsylvania and Virginia bring fruit, vegetables, and flowers, and it doubles as a CSA pickup point. A related Saturday FRESHFARM market operates a few blocks away on Monroe Street. The markets match SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP spending dollar for dollar.

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.

FRESHFARM launched this Brookland market in 2014, and it sits on the Arts Walk beside 27 local artist studios, next to the Brookland-CUA Metro at 716 Monroe Street NE. Farmers and food producers within 200 miles bring produce, artisan goods, and prepared meals, and the market adds live music and yoga on some mornings. It serves Ward 5 as a neighborhood gathering point. SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP benefits earn a FreshMatch.

Stanton and Alabama Avenue SE

This open-air market serves the Stanton Road area of Southeast DC, near Stanton and Alabama Avenue SE. Vendors carry produce, meat, eggs, cheese, honey, jams, flowers, plants, and prepared foods, including some organic growers. It's one of the neighborhood markets bringing fresh food to the blocks east of the Anacostia River. Online detail is limited, so check locally for the current day and season.

Part of the DC Squared Markets network, this stand serves the Edgewood neighborhood in Northeast DC near 680 Rhode Island Avenue. Vendors bring naturally grown produce plus eggs, cheese, baked goods, honey, jams, flowers, and prepared foods. It typically runs on alternating Saturdays through the summer season, close to the Rhode Island Avenue Metro. Confirm the current schedule locally, since dates shift year to year.

Union Market packs around 20 food stalls into a 47,000-square-foot hall at 1309 5th Street NE, open daily 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Several vendors, including TaKorean, Red Apron Butcher, Rappahannock Oysters, and Buffalo & Bergen, started as DC food trucks before setting up permanent counters. The building revives the 1931 Union Terminal Market and reopened in 2012. Shared tables let you graze across tacos, bagels, oysters, and ice cream in one visit.

Fulton

The original Maple Lawn Farmers Market at 7405 Maple Lawn Boulevard has closed permanently, according to its own Facebook page. A successor, the Fulton Farmers Market, now runs nearby on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., April through November, selling seasonal produce and prepared foods. Shoppers headed to this address should confirm the current market location before visiting.

Saturday mornings on H Street NE bring out FRESHFARM growers with grass-fed meats, pastured eggs, certified-organic vegetables, fermented krauts, and fresh flatbreads and sandwiches. The market runs year-round and serves the H Street corridor's Atlas District, reachable by the DC streetcar. Baked goods, roasted coffee, and cut flowers fill out the stalls. Federal nutrition benefits (SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP) are matched dollar-for-dollar through the FreshMatch program.

Eastern Market has anchored Capitol Hill since 1873, and its South Hall still houses butchers, fishmongers, bakers, cheese sellers, and produce stands Tuesday through Sunday. On weekends the outdoor Farmers Line fills with growers hauling produce straight from farms in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia, alongside more than 100 arts-and-crafts vendors. Find it at 225 Seventh Street SE. Saturday and Sunday run 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a smaller Tuesday market.

Join the NoMa BID at the NoMa Farmers Market from April – October on Thursdays from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m., located on Third Street NE, where you’ll find fresh produce, quality meats, and artisanal goods. Grab ready-to-eat meals and treats while enjoying live music and outdoor seating. Conveniently located near the NoMa-Gallaudet Metro and Union Market, it’s perfect for evening commuters and locals alike!

NE

The NoMa market began at Alethia Tanner Park, named for a formerly enslaved woman who bought her freedom selling produce, and outgrew it, moving to Third Street NE between M and N. It runs Thursday evenings, roughly 4 to 8 p.m., from late April into October. Farm-fresh produce and local groceries fill the stalls near the Metropolitan Branch Trail. The NoMa BID organizes it.

Arcadia's Mobile Market is a farm stand on wheels that Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture launched in 2012 to reach DC neighborhoods short on fresh food, mainly Wards 7 and 8. The truck stops at schools, libraries, and rec centers stocked with local produce, herbs, pastured eggs, grass-fed beef and pork, milk, cheese, bread, and honey. It doubles SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP dollars. The Southern Avenue SE stop is one of several.

Takoma Park

The Rose Park Farmers Market brings vendors like Bread Furst, Potomac Roasting Company, and Quaker Valley Orchards to 26th and O Streets NW each Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. Shoppers grab produce, baked goods, and fresh juice, then stay for tacos from Alejandro's or pizza from El Jefe. Set in Georgetown's Rose Park along Rock Creek, the market runs spring through fall with the Friends of Rose Park.

SE

The community-run Ward 8 Farmers Market sets up at the Barns at St. Elizabeth's East, on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from June into the fall. Alongside seasonal vegetables, cooks serve jollof rice, fish patties, burgers, and Maryland blue crabs. The nonprofit matches Produce Plus, SNAP, and FMNP benefits, part of its push for healthy eating in Congress Heights.

This Ward 8 market runs on the THEARC campus at 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE, where FRESHFARM took over operations in 2024. The farm stand sells local produce, meat, baked goods, plants, and more on Saturdays through summer and fall. It's one of the few markets serving far Southeast DC, and it matches SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP benefits dollar-for-dollar. THEARC itself is a town-hall education, arts, and recreation campus.

Dreaming Out Loud is a DC food-justice nonprofit that farms in Wards 7 and 8 and runs farmers markets, a CSA, and food-access programs across the city. Members get customizable produce boxes, and the group trains food entrepreneurs through its DREAM accelerator. It also runs catering and helped develop the Marion Barry Avenue Market. Despite the state field, this organization is based in Washington, DC.