Farms Near Fairfax, VA

This market runs in Old Town Fairfax near Main Street, giving the city center a weekend produce stop. Northern Virginia growers bring vegetables, orchard fruit, and baked goods to the historic downtown through the growing season.

Fairfax

This Sunday market sets up at 10500 Page Avenue in the City of Fairfax, in the Northern Virginia suburbs west of Washington. The Page Avenue location puts it near Fairfax's downtown and government district in the middle of Fairfax County. A Sunday schedule sets it apart from the region's many Saturday markets, giving weekend shoppers another option for local produce and prepared foods. Check the current season and hours before going.

Fairfax

A community market on Page Avenue in the City of Fairfax, the historic county-seat city surrounded by Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. Page Avenue runs near Fairfax's older residential streets, and the market gives city residents a neighborhood source for local produce and farm goods in the Washington suburbs.

Fairfax

Page Avenue in the City of Fairfax hosts this community market, near Van Dyck Park in the Northern Virginia suburbs west of Washington. Regional farms and food makers bring produce, meats, baked goods, and prepared foods to a dense, commuter-heavy area. Fairfax anchors a busy stretch of Northern Virginia, and the market gives residents a direct line to growers from the Piedmont and Valley farms that supply the region.

Fairfax County runs this Wednesday market at the Oak Marr RECenter on Jermantown Road near Oakton and Vienna, roughly May through October, 8 a.m. to noon. Every vendor is producer-only, selling produce, meat, cheese, bread, or flowers grown or made within 125 miles of the county. It is a steady midweek stop on the county market circuit.

Oakton

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.

Oakton

The Oakton Farmers Market sets up on Hunter Mill Road in Oakton, just outside Vienna in Fairfax County. It draws Northern Virginia growers and food makers with seasonal produce, bread, and prepared foods on market days during the warmer months. Hunter Mill Road runs through one of the greener, lower-density pockets of an otherwise built-up county.

Oakton

A Smart Markets location on Hunter Mill Road in Oakton, a wooded pocket of Fairfax County between Vienna and Reston. The market was one of seven the Smart Markets network ran across Northern Virginia's suburbs, connecting area growers with residents who wanted local produce near home rather than a drive to a larger regional market.

The Burke Farmers Market is one of the Fairfax County Park Authority's producer-only markets, held on weekend mornings in this Northern Virginia suburb. Producer-only means every vendor grows or makes what they sell, so shoppers find Virginia produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods rather than resold goods.

Burke

Vienna

A separate Saturday market in Vienna, this one at 301 Center Street South, south of the town's Church Street core in Fairfax County. Vienna supports more than one market, and the Saturday timing suits weekend shoppers after produce, baked goods, and local vendors. The location sits close to Vienna's community and municipal buildings. Since the town hosts multiple markets, confirm which days this one operates before heading over.

This market runs at 131 Church Street NE in the town of Vienna, along the historic downtown strip in Fairfax County's Northern Virginia suburbs. Church Street's older storefronts and the nearby Washington & Old Dominion trail make it a walkable spot. As a close-in NoVA market, it draws regional growers and food vendors through the warm months. Check the current day and season before going.

Annandale

Bee Haven Honey is a small honey producer in Annandale, inside the Beltway in Fairfax County. Backyard and small-scale apiaries here sell raw local honey, valued by allergy-conscious buyers for coming from Northern Virginia's own bloom. Public details on the operation are limited.

Burke

Burke Nursery and Garden Centre is a full garden center on Burke Road in Burke, in suburban Fairfax County. It carries annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and houseplants, and offers landscape design, hardscaping, and lawn care. Each fall it runs a Farm Market and Pumpkin Patch, a longtime local October tradition.

Fairfax

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.

Fairfax

Vienna

Despite the name, this market runs at Wakefield Park, 8100 Braddock Road in Annandale, not the downstate town of Wakefield. The park sits in central Fairfax County, part of the Northern Virginia suburbs. Wakefield Park's trails and rec center draw steady weekend traffic, and the market fits that setting with regional produce and food vendors. Check the current season and market day before going.

Reston

FRESHFARM, the nonprofit that runs producer-only markets across the DC region, operates this Reston market at 11900 Lawyers Road in the southern part of town. Producer-only means the farmers and makers grow or make what they sell. Expect Northern Virginia and mid-Atlantic produce, meat, dairy, and bread in season.

Clifton

Reston

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.

McLean

This Smart Markets location set up on Westpark Drive in Tysons, the high-rise office and retail district within McLean in Fairfax County. Part of the Smart Markets network of Northern Virginia producer markets, it gave Tysons workers and nearby residents a place to buy regional produce and farm goods amid one of the region's largest job centers.

Clifton

Whitehall Farm works land on Popes Head Road in Clifton, in western Fairfax County. The farm carries an agritourism listing, but details aren't posted online. Reach the farm directly to find out what's open to visitors and when.

Reston

This market stood on Wiehle Avenue in Reston, Fairfax County's planned community, near the Wiehle-Reston East Metro station. It operated as part of the Smart Markets network of Northern Virginia producer markets. Reston's dense, walkable neighborhoods gave the market a steady base of shoppers looking for regional fruit, vegetables, and farm products.

Vienna

Mclean

A fall pumpkin patch on Brook Road run by St. Thomas Episcopal Church in McLean. The pumpkins are grown and harvested on Navajo Nation land in northern New Mexico, and buying one supports that community as well as the church's giving. Every dollar of pumpkin sales goes to local charities; the patch has donated more than $45,000 since it started in 2008. It opens each October.

Lake Anne Plaza Reston

This Saturday market fills Lake Anne Plaza, the original 1960s village center of Reston with its modernist waterfront architecture. Growers and food vendors from the Northern Virginia region sell produce, meat, bread, and cut flowers beside the plaza through the growing season.

Vienna

Meadows Farms Nurseries runs a garden center at 10618 Leesburg Pike in Vienna, one of more than a dozen locations across Northern Virginia and the D.C. region. The stores sell plants, trees, shrubs, and garden supplies and offer landscape design, installation, and maintenance, plus a you-pick-it, we-plant-it service. This is a retail nursery chain rather than a produce farm.

A Fairfax County market at 6621 Columbia Pike in Annandale, inside the Capital Beltway. Northern Virginia county markets typically run one morning a week from spring into fall, with local growers selling produce, eggs, and baked goods. Specific days and hours aren't included in this listing.

Great Falls

Park Avenue by City Hall hosts the Falls Church Farmers Market, one of the longer-running markets in Northern Virginia and open on Saturdays through much of the year. Producers bring seasonal vegetables, meats, cheeses, baked goods, and plants to this small independent city between Arlington and Fairfax. The market is a fixture of downtown Falls Church and draws steady crowds from the surrounding walkable neighborhoods.

McLean

Fairfax County's McLean market fills the lot at Lewinsville Park on Chain Bridge Road on Friday mornings, roughly May through October, 8 a.m. to noon. Every vendor is producer-only, selling produce, meat, cheese, bread, or flowers grown or made within 125 miles. It is one of the steadier stops on the county's market circuit in McLean.

Chantilly

A neighborhood farmers market on Centreville Road in Chantilly, part of the Smart Markets network that ran producer markets across Northern Virginia's inner suburbs. Chantilly sits in western Fairfax County near Dulles Airport, one of the region's fastest-growing areas. Shoppers came here for locally grown produce and farm goods without driving into the District.

Springfield

A Smart Markets location at Spring Mall Drive in Springfield, a commercial hub of Fairfax County near the I-95/I-395/I-495 interchange. It was one of seven neighborhood markets the Smart Markets network ran across the D.C. suburbs. The Springfield site put local farmers within reach of commuters and residents in one of the area's densest corridors.

The Great Falls Farmers Market runs every Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., year-round in the Walker Road parking lot in Great Falls, a semi-rural, affluent corner of Fairfax County near the Potomac. The outdoor market brings together regional growers and food producers each week. Its name nods to the falls of the Potomac at nearby Great Falls Park.

This listing represents the Fairfax County Park Authority's farmers market program, with the address at Green Spring Gardens off Green Spring Road in the Alexandria area. The county runs a network of producer-only markets across Northern Virginia where vendors must grow or make what they sell. Farms from the Piedmont and Valley bring produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods to suburban neighborhoods through the season.

Great Falls

Krop's Crops runs a produce operation on Georgetown Pike in Great Falls, an affluent corner of Fairfax County just off the Potomac. Farm stands along this stretch sell seasonal Virginia vegetables and plants to a suburban Washington crowd. Current stand hours and crop lists aren't easy to confirm online, so call ahead in season.

The Herndon Farmers Market sets up on Lynn Street beside the town's historic train depot and red caboose, along the Washington & Old Dominion Trail in Fairfax County. Regional growers bring produce, meats, breads, and flowers through the season. Herndon's old rail corridor is now one of Northern Virginia's busiest cycling and walking paths.

Springfield

A community farmers market in Springfield, Fairfax County, at the Spring Mall Drive site near Springfield Town Center and the I-95 interchange. Springfield anchors a dense stretch of the inner Washington suburbs, and the market gives commuters and residents in this heavily traveled corridor a stop for regional produce and local food.

A farm market at 1392 Chain Bridge Road in McLean, in Fairfax County near Washington. The listing doesn't detail what BEC stocks or when it's open. Markets in this area usually carry local produce and prepared goods; the operators could confirm specifics.

Arlington

A neighborhood farmers market on N. McKinley Road in Arlington's Westover Village, beside the Westover branch library and the small strip of shops along Washington Boulevard. Vendors bring Virginia-grown vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat, bread, and cut flowers within walking distance of the surrounding streets. The market pulls its crowd from the dense residential blocks nearby rather than passing car traffic.

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Franconia

Nalls Produce runs a farm market and garden center on Beulah Street in Franconia, inside the Fairfax County suburbs south of Alexandria. The stand sells fresh local vegetables alongside plants, mulch, and soil, and offers a Crop Share subscription for weekly produce. A pumpkin patch and seasonal events fill out the fall. It has long anchored this corner as a working produce market for local shoppers.

Alexandria

The ALIVE! West End Food Hub is a free, mini-market-style grocery storefront at 510-F South Van Dorn Street in Alexandria, run by the nonprofit ALIVE!. Neighbors check in for an ALIVE! Food Card, then choose fresh and shelf-stable groceries sized to their household — a family of four typically leaves with meat, produce, eggs, dairy, grains, and bread. Open Tuesday-Thursday 11-6 and Saturday 9-3. Call (703) 837-9300 or email [email protected].

Woodbridge

Set on Oakwood Drive in the Lake Ridge community of Woodbridge, this market served Prince William County shoppers south of the Occoquan River. It ran under the Smart Markets network, which placed producer markets in residential pockets across Northern Virginia. Lake Ridge is a large planned community, giving nearby families a close spot for local produce.

The Marymount Farmers Market runs at Marymount University on North Glebe Road in north Arlington, serving the Ballston-to-Cherrydale corridor of inner Northern Virginia. Campus-hosted markets like this one bring produce, bread, and prepared foods to students and nearby residents on market days during the warmer months, a pocket of local farming in a dense urban county.

This Saturday market runs at 518 Goldsmith Lane in Great Falls, a wooded Fairfax County community near the Potomac in Northern Virginia. Regional farms and food makers sell produce, meat, bread, and eggs to area residents. Like most Northern Virginia markets, it follows the spring-through-fall growing season.

The Kingstowne Farmers Market sets up at Kingstowne Towne Center off Kingstowne Boulevard, serving the planned Kingstowne community in the Franconia area of Fairfax County near Alexandria. Regional producers bring seasonal produce, breads, meats, and prepared foods to shoppers in this dense Northern Virginia suburb south of the Beltway.

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.

Alexandria

Virginia Honey Bees sells 100% pure raw honey that's spun and bottled to order, along with cut comb, honey straws, creamed honey, and bee-balm lip and skin products. The Alexandria beekeeping operation also sells bees and handles swarm removal. Its lineup shifts with the seasons, and you can order online or find the stand at local farmers markets.

Arlington

A FRESHFARM-run market at Welburn Square, 901 North Taylor Street in Arlington, across from the Ballston Metro. It runs Thursday afternoons year-round, with fruits and vegetables, grass-fed meats, pastured eggs, baked goods, and prepared foods like empanadas and rice bowls. The site doubles as a Market Share CSA pickup and hosts a monthly first-Thursday Mega Market.

Sterling

Cornerstones runs its FREE from Hunger Center to move surplus pantry staples and fresh produce from donors to families across northern Virginia. The Sterling location on Glenn Drive is one of the nonprofit's food-distribution points; Cornerstones itself is headquartered in Reston. Expect grocery staples and seasonal produce rather than a retail farm stand. The organization coordinates pickups and referrals through its main office.

Not to be confused with the Henrico market of the same name, this West End Farmers Market runs at Ben Brenman Park, 4800 Brenman Park Drive in Alexandria's West End. The park setting inside the City of Alexandria puts it in the close-in Northern Virginia suburbs near I-395. Regional growers bring produce and prepared foods on market days. Check the current season and schedule before visiting.

Centreville

Cox Farms runs one of Northern Virginia's largest fall festivals, drawing families to its Braddock Road farm in Centreville each autumn for hayrides, giant slides, farm animals, and a produce market. The Fairfax County operation is a long-running, family-run agritourism destination. Confirm current dates and tickets before visiting.

Bethesda

Phil's Honey keeps hives in Bethesda, selling honey worked from the gardens and tree canopy of lower Montgomery County. Pricing and sales locations aren't listed online; reach the beekeeper directly for current availability.

Potomac

Potomac's farmers market has run since 2010 and now sets up Thursdays from 2 to 6:30 p.m., May through October, in the parking lot of Potomac United Methodist Church at Falls and South Glen roads. Regular vendors include McCleaf's Orchard, Rocklands Farm, and Frankly Pizza, selling grass-fed meats, seafood, wood-fired pizza, and cut flowers alongside produce and baked goods.

Bethesda

Bee Daddies Apiaries keeps hives around Bannockburn, in Bethesda. No public website lists current honey sales or hours — reach out directly for availability.

The City of Manassas Farmers Market sets up under the Harris Pavilion in Old Town Manassas, an open-air structure on the historic downtown square by the train depot. It runs on multiple days through the growing season, with regional produce, meats, cheese, and baked goods.