Farmers Markets near Littleton, MA

Acton

This listing is Boston Area Gleaners, a nonprofit that harvests surplus crops left in the field after a farm's commercial pick is done and routes the produce to families facing food insecurity around Boston. Its food hub function handles the sorting, cold storage, and transport that turns gleaned produce into usable donations rather than compost. The organization estimates roughly a third of Massachusetts households deal with food insecurity, which is the problem the gleaning model is built to chip away at.

Chelmsford

Chelmsford Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 11 to 2, from late May through mid-October at 7 Academy Street, built around a mission of showcasing local, organic agriculture and connecting shoppers directly with the farmers who grow their food. It supports the town's economy and public health goals as much as it does the weekend grocery run.

next to Kimball's Ice Cream Stand Carlisle

Carlisle Farmers Market runs Saturday mornings, 8 to noon, in the lot next to Kimball Farm's ice cream stand on Bedford Road, an easy pairing of a produce run and a cone. Vendors sell locally sourced vegetables, fruit, and farm goods, with most taking cash and cards and some accepting SNAP, EBT, FMNP, and WIC.

Concord Community Market sets up on the grounds of the Old Manse, the 1770 parsonage on Monument Street where Ralph Waldo Emerson once lived and Nathaniel Hawthorne later wrote — now a nonprofit museum run by The Trustees of Reservations. Farmers, artisans, and food producers sell alongside one of Concord's most storied addresses, steps from the Old North Bridge.

Pepperell

Pepperell Farmers Market sets up at Town Field on Hollis Street, where local growers sell fresh-picked vegetables, grass-fed beef, cheese, eggs, and honey alongside a rotating lineup of artisans and musicians. Most vendors take cash and cards, and some accept SNAP, EBT, FMNP, and WIC.

Shirley

This open-air market sets up at 3 Parker Road in Shirley Center, historically running Thursdays — 4 to 8 p.m. in summer, shifting to 3 to 7 p.m. as fall days shorten. Worth calling ahead, since some listings suggest the market has gone quiet in recent seasons.

Lowell

Lowell

Community Teamwork has sponsored this USDA-authorized market since 1979, currently set up at 350A Dutton Street in front of the Hamilton Canal Garage. It runs Fridays, 1 to 5 p.m., July through early October, with local produce, honey, baked goods, prepared meals, and handcrafts alongside live music and cooking demos. Cash works everywhere; Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and WIC or senior coupons work at select stalls.

Lowell

Lancaster

Wayland

Nashua

The Nashua Farmers' Market operates at 65 Main Street in downtown Nashua, southern New Hampshire's second-largest city. Vendors bring produce, prepared foods, and handmade goods to the city center through the warmer months. A separate Main Street Bridge market also runs downtown. Check locally for current days.

The Main Street Bridge Farmers Market sets up at 53 Main Street in downtown Nashua, near the crossing over the Nashua River. Vendors bring produce, baked goods, and handmade items to the city center during the warm-season months. Check locally for current market days and the vendor lineup.

Framingham

Billerica

Lexington

Tewksbury

This market sets up at 1777 Main Street and runs seasonally from June through October. It's a separate market from the town's Tewksbury Community Market at Livingston Street Park, so double-check the address before heading out.

Tewksbury

Natick

Leominster

Local Food Works is listed at 325 Lindell Avenue in Leominster. The organization's old web domain no longer resolves to anything related to food, and no other listing or contact information confirms what this program currently offers.

Burlington

Burlington Farmers' Market has set up on the Recreation Department's front lawn at 61 Center Street, a Thursday-evening open-air market running roughly June through October with local produce, artisans, and live entertainment. The schedule has shifted from year to year, so check current listings before visiting.

Westborough

Reinvented by the Westborough Rotary Club in 2024, this Thursday market (2:30-6:30pm, June through early October) now sets up at Bay State Commons on the Town Green. Expect over 20 booths of locally grown produce, seafood, and specialty foods, plus live music every week. SNAP, HIP, and WIC accepted, with a free kids' and seniors' POP Club.

Wellesley

Wellesley's market runs Thursdays, 2pm to 6pm, May through October, in the Whole Foods parking area on Washington Street. Area farmers bring organic and local produce along with specialty crops, cheeses, baked goods, and flowers.

Running 15 seasons on the Wilmington Town Common, this Sunday market (10am-1pm, June through early October) offers organic baked goods, cheese, eggs, produce, honey, jams, meat, seafood, and crafts. Its SNAP matching program adds a dollar for every SNAP dollar spent, up to $25.

Hopkinton

Boylston

Boylston Farmers' Market sets up Saturday mornings, 10 to 1, on the Boylston Town Common at 10 Church Street, a small green in the middle of this central Massachusetts town. Vendors bring baked goods, cheese, flowers, eggs, vegetables, honey, jams, meat, poultry, coffee, and juice, plus handmade crafts and soap — a compact, all-in-one stop that fills the common most Saturdays through the season.

This market once ran on Woburn's city-owned Spence Farm, a 33-acre property the town bought in 2010, with fresh produce, seafood, meat, cheese, honey, and Thai food. It's since closed permanently; the farm grounds now host yoga, sports, and community events instead.

Salem

The Salem NH Farmers Market is committed to promoting fresh, local food and high-quality artisan products and making those products available to the greater Salem community. Every farmers market is a community event. We welcome you to come shop, make new friends and enjoy the bounty of goodness available all year long. We provide SNAP matching opportunities and Vouchers for Veterans. Sundays in Salem are the best at the farmers market!

Belmont

Our mission is to provide all members of the community a welcoming, inclusive, and safe place to purchase fresh, local produce and goods directly from farmers and producers in a congenial atmosphere; to provide farmers and producers a direct market for their produce and goods; to support local agriculture and producers; to educate the community about eating healthfully, maintaining a healthy environment, and the importance of sustainable agriculture; to offer food assistance to people facing food insecurity; and to provide a social experience that helps build community and enhances the quality of life in Belmont and surrounding communities

Salem

Voted New Hampshire's Best Farmers Market three years running, from 2023 to 2025, the Salem market runs year-round every Sunday, rain or shine. Summer sessions from May to October fill the Mall at Rockingham Park; winter moves indoors to the Fisk School on Main Street. Every item sold must be grown, baked, or handmade by the vendor. Expect produce, meats, baked goods, and prepared foods.

Newton Highlands

Newton's farmers market moves indoors for winter, setting up at the Hyde Community Center, 90 Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands, from November through spring. It complements the outdoor markets at Newton North High School on Saturdays and Cold Spring Park on Tuesdays, carrying the same mix of produce, meat, fish, cheese, eggs, olive oil, baked goods, and flowers.

Arlington

Small, food-focused, farmers' market in Arlington Center. Packed with local growers and food makers bringing the best local food to Arlington MA since 1993.

Andover

Shrewsbury

Groundwork Lawrence runs three weekly markets rather than one: Wednesdays at Campagnone North Common, Fridays at Nevins Memorial Library in Methuen, and Saturdays at O'Connell South Common, all running June through October. Vendors sell produce, prepared foods, and local artwork, and take SNAP/EBT, WIC, and senior coupons — with the state's Health Incentives Program matching fruit and vegetable purchases dollar for dollar up to $40 to $80 per visit.

Derry

The Derry Homegrown Farm & Artisan Market runs Wednesdays from 3 to 7 pm, June through September, at 1 West Broadway in downtown Derry. It's a nonprofit, all-local market with farm produce, prepared foods, and handmade artisan goods, plus free parking. Volunteers registered with the NH Department of Agriculture organize it.

This Derry market operates at 14 Manning Street in Derry, southern New Hampshire. Note that a separate Derry Homegrown market runs downtown at 1 West Broadway; this listing points to the Manning Street location. Expect seasonal produce and local goods, and check locally for current market days.

Somerville

Stoneham

Euro Food Hub, LLC is listed as a farmers market at 74 Maple Street in Stoneham, a Middlesex County town on Boston's north side. The name points to a focus on European specialty groceries rather than a single-farm operation. No independent listing, website, or social page for the business was found. Confirm hours and product selection directly before visiting.

Set up on the Milford Water Company property at 66 Dilla Street, this Saturday market runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from June through October. Vendors sell produce, honey, baked goods, jams, pickles, soap, and crafts, plus knife sharpening and the occasional food truck. SNAP and Senior WIC are both accepted.

Somerville

Derry

Creative Chef Kitchens is a licensed commercial kitchen in Derry, at 35 Manchester Road, Unit 9, that rents certified space to small-batch and artisan food makers. Bakers, caterers, food trucks, and meal-prep businesses share the facility, and the team helps newcomers with startup permitting, ingredient sourcing, and production. Contact them at 888-625-2111 or [email protected].

Medford

The Medford Farmers Market strengthens our diverse community of Medford, Massachusetts, through access to fresh, healthy, and local food direct from local farmers & producers.

Allston

Allston Village Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 11 to 3, May through October at 500 Cambridge Street, organized by the Allston Brighton CDC. Vendors bring eggs, vegetables, fruit, honey, cheese, seafood, and maple products, and the market accepts SNAP and WIC alongside credit cards.

Bedford

Medfield

Medfield Community Market sets up Sundays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 26 North Street, running May 31 through October 25. Local farms, bakers, and makers fill the tables alongside prepared-food vendors, and the market has become the regular Sunday stop for a town with no grocery-anchored downtown of its own.

Held at Choate Park on Oak Street, the Medway Farmers Market brings out local bakers and producers selling bread, cheese, honey, eggs, cut flowers, pickles, jams, sauces, and soap. It runs through the town's Parks and Recreation Department in season — call ahead, since the day and hours have shifted between years.

Cambridge

The Farmers' Market at Harvard has run on the Science Center Plaza near Oxford and Kirkland streets since 2005, with produce, cheese, baked goods, maple syrup, and live music drawing students and neighbors alike. It doubles the value of SNAP and WIC purchases, up to $15 a week. Its schedule has scaled back recently to a handful of dates each summer rather than a weekly run.

Somerville's only cold-weather market runs Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., from November through April, inside the Center for Arts at the Armory at 191 Highland Avenue. It fills the gap between the last outdoor market of fall and the first of spring with produce, meat, and prepared foods from regional farms.

Brookline

Cambridge Winter Farmers Market fills the gymnasium at the Cambridge Community Center on Callender Street every Saturday, 10 to 2, from January through April, when the outdoor markets go quiet. About two dozen New England farmers and food producers set up alongside live music and cooking demonstrations, and SNAP/EBT shoppers get up to $10 matched per market day.

West Roxbury

A collaboration between Temple Hillel B'nai Torah, Theodore Parker Church, and West Roxbury Main Streets, this market runs Sundays, 11am to 2pm, June 26 through October 30, in the Bank of America lot at Centre and Corey. New England farms bring fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, and seafood, and the market adds live entertainment and food trucks most weeks. WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition benefits accepted.

Somerville

Somerville

The Boston University Farmer's Market sets up Thursdays on the George Sherman Union Plaza, bringing campus regulars like Ward's Berry Farm produce, Taza Chocolate, Follow the Honey, Danish Pastry House baked goods, and Q's Nuts within walking distance of class. It runs through the summer and into early fall.

Melrose

Westminster

Nestled in the heart of North Central Massachusetts, the Westminster Farmers' Markets continues to grow each year, bringing to you the best farmers, producers and purveyors of local agriculture and goods. Join us each week from May-October, rain or shine to stock your fridge, freezer, pantry and shop local artisans. Feed of the vibe as you feed yourself and family. Come be apart of something bigger as the movement to support local takes root. Each week the Westminster Farmers' Market brings to you live entertainment, from bagpipes to big band or blues, you'll be able to shop, sit and sip at the market.

Holden

Holden Farmers' Market sets up Tuesdays, 3 to 6:30, May through October in the Damon House parking lot on Main Street. It's a weekday-evening market by design, timed for the commute home, with locally made products and produce from area growers filling the lot each week.

Somerville

Roslindale