Farmers Markets near Ithaca, NY

Ithaca

Every vendor sells food and goods grown, made, or cooked within 30 miles of Ithaca, a rule that sets this market apart. The Saturday market runs at Steamboat Landing on Cayuga Lake's south end (545 Third Street), 9am-3pm from early April through October, then 10am-2pm through December. Farmers, chefs, and artisans fill the covered pavilion. It's one of the Finger Lakes' largest and best-known producer-only markets.

Ithaca

Ithaca

Ithaca

The Ithaca Y runs a Neighborhood Food Hub out of its Graham Road West branch, alongside its pool, fitness, and youth programs. The hub connects area residents with fresh local produce as part of the Y's healthy-living work. Reach the branch at (607) 257-0101, visit ithacaymca.com, or find it on Facebook and Instagram.

A small community market in the town of Danby, just south of Ithaca on Route 96B in Tompkins County. Set in the hilly Finger Lakes farm country south of the city, it gathers nearby growers selling vegetables, fruit, and homemade goods in season. It's a rural, neighborhood-scale market.

A second listing for the farmers market at 27-29 Auburn Road in Lansing, the Tompkins County town on Cayuga Lake's eastern shore. Vendors here are Finger Lakes producers with in-season produce, baked goods, and local crafts. Lansing's spot between Ithaca and the lake keeps it within reach of both farmland and steady weekend traffic.

Lansing sits just north of Ithaca in Tompkins County, on the east side of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes. This market runs along Auburn Road (Route 34) and pulls from the dense cluster of small Finger Lakes farms nearby, offering vegetables, fruit, eggs, and prepared foods. The area's college-town demand supports a steady local-grower scene.

Newfield

A community food hub in Newfield, a rural town just southwest of Ithaca in Tompkins County. It's part of the local network that moves fresh produce from area growers to nearby residents. The specific hours, offerings, and farms behind it aren't documented online, so contact the site directly to confirm what it stocks and when it's open.

A small community market in Brooktondale, in the town of Caroline just southeast of Ithaca in Tompkins County. The Vallely Road site sits in the Finger Lakes farm belt, where nearby growers bring vegetables, fruit, and homemade goods through the warmer months. This is a rural, neighborhood-scale market rather than a large regional one.

A small community market on Valley Road in Brooktondale, in the Town of Caroline just southeast of Ithaca. It gives Tompkins County growers and home producers a place to sell summer vegetables, eggs, baked goods, and handmade items close to home. Hours run seasonally through the warmer months.

Freeville

Groton Farmers Market operates at 200 S. Street (Route 38) in Groton, a Tompkins County village in the Finger Lakes region north of Ithaca. Nearby farms supply seasonal produce and goods. Days and hours aren't widely posted online, so confirm locally before visiting.

Candor

A small Tioga County market at 101 Owego Road in the village of Candor, between Ithaca and Owego. Local growers and home producers sell seasonal vegetables, eggs, baked goods, and handmade goods close to home. Indoor space keeps it running in cooler weather. Hours run through the growing season.

Runs on Main Street in Moravia, a small Cayuga County village at the southern tip of Owasco Lake. This is Finger Lakes farm country, where nearby growers raise sweet corn, squash, apples, and grass-fed meats, and where maple producers tap the surrounding hills each spring. The market gives Moravia-area residents a local option without the drive north to Auburn.

Odessa

Held at Sunset View Creamery on County Route 15 in Odessa, a Schuyler County dairy farm in the Finger Lakes known for its farmstead cheeses. The market pairs the creamery's own cheese with produce and goods from other area growers, off the back roads between Watkins Glen and Ithaca.

Cortland

A rural market in the Town of Virgil, Cortland County, along Route 392 in the hills near the Greek Peak area. Central New York growers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods to this small community south of Cortland.

Montour Falls

The Montour Falls Farmers Market, founded in 2016, brings fresh, locally sourced food to Schuyler County every Thursday evening from June through early October at Clawson Boulevard. Vendors range from Habee Farm produce and Straight Way Farm meats and maple to Plow and Star artisanal bouquets and Seneca Sunrise coffee, with SNAP/EBT encouraged and community groups alongside.

Cortland

Aurora

Homer

Dave's Veggies is a greenhouse and farm market on Route 41 in Homer, in Cortland County's Central New York countryside. It grows and sells produce alongside greenhouse plants: bedding flowers and vegetable starts in spring, fresh vegetables through summer and fall. The roadside operation serves the Homer and Cortland area with its own and local-grown stock.

Homer

A village market in Homer, a Cortland County community known for its historic green and 19th-century architecture in Central New York. South Main Street runs beside that green. Growers from the surrounding Cortland and Tompkins County farmland bring produce, eggs, meat, and baked goods through the growing season. Homer sits just north of Cortland and within reach of the Finger Lakes farm belt.

Teal Park Horseheads

Held at Teal Park on Main Street in Horseheads, a village just north of Elmira in Chemung County. The Southern Tier's Chemung Valley grows sweet corn, tomatoes, and other row crops on its river-bottom farmland. Vendors bring seasonal produce, baked goods, and homemade items. Horseheads took its unusual name from a Revolutionary War pack-horse camp, and the market draws from the surrounding Elmira-area farms.

A roadside farm market on Route 414 in Hector, along the east side of Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes. The Route 414 corridor runs through Seneca wine country, and stands like this sell local produce and farm goods in season.

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Owego

Owego

Sets up on Main Street in Owego, a historic Tioga County village on the Susquehanna River often praised for its preserved 19th-century downtown. Farms across the Southern Tier bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, and baked goods. The riverfront village setting makes the market a natural weekend stop for both residents and visitors browsing Owego's antique shops and boutiques.

Held at 760 East Water Street, the Elmira Eastside Farmers Market serves the east-side neighborhoods of Elmira, the largest city in New York's Chemung County. Growers from the surrounding Southern Tier bring seasonal produce, eggs, and baked goods. Elmira's location on the Chemung River and near the Pennsylvania line ties it to a farm belt shared across the state border.

Elmira

The Eastside Market operates at 760 Water Street on Elmira's east side, in the Southern Tier's Chemung County. Elmira sits on the Chemung River, and area farms supply the sweet corn, tomatoes, apples, and other produce that fill the market's summer tables. This is one of two listings for the same east-side Elmira market.

Elmira

Elmira

Apalachin

Farmer Browns Marketplace runs along Route 434 in Apalachin, a Tioga County hamlet on the Susquehanna River between Binghamton and Owego. As a marketplace-style farm stand, it carries local produce and farm goods for the Southern Tier communities strung along the 434 corridor. The exact selection and hours aren't listed here, but the Route 434 location makes it an easy stop on the Vestal-Apalachin-Owego stretch.

Dundee sits in Yates County just west of Seneca Lake, in the middle of Finger Lakes wine country. Its farmers market puts local growers on Water Street in the village, drawing on a region known for grapes, produce, and a strong Mennonite and Amish farming community. Expect seasonal fruit and vegetables, plus the baked goods and farm products common to Finger Lakes markets.

A roadside market along Route 11 in Whitney Point, a Broome County village north of Binghamton near the Whitney Point Reservoir. Local vendors offer seasonal produce and farm goods during the Southern Tier growing season. Confirm current market days with the organizers.

Penn Yan

One of the Finger Lakes' largest open-air markets, spread across 40-plus acres on Route 14A between Penn Yan and Dundee. More than 175 vendors sell produce, flowers, furniture, custom cabinetry, crafts, and gifts, alongside food stands, six wineries, a brewery, and a distillery. It runs Saturdays from the third Saturday in April through late November, plus Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, and Black Friday, 8am to 4:30pm. Admission and parking are free.