Farmers Markets near Milford, NH

Bedford

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.

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.

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.

Weare

Micro Mama's has made raw, certified-organic lacto-fermented vegetables, whole-food condiments, and botanical infusions in Weare since 2012. The products are vegan and gluten-free, built from locally sourced produce, and the small operation switched to solar power in late 2023. Visits are by appointment at 291 Dustin Tavern Road. Call 603-785-4517 or see micromamas.com.

Manchester

Fresh Start Farms is a collective brand for immigrant and refugee farmers in New Hampshire, run by the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success in Manchester. Growers raise culturally significant vegetables and greens sold through the group's CSA, farmers markets, and mobile market, and the program accepts SNAP with Granite State Market Match doubling. More at freshstartfarmsnh.com.

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.

Weare

A seasonal market in the rural town of Weare, held along North Stark Highway near the town center. Local farmers and makers sell vegetables, eggs, honey, baked goods, and crafts through the growing season. Weare covers a wide stretch of Hillsborough County countryside west of Concord, with many small family farms nearby.

A community farmers market in Weare, playing on the town's name with its 'We Are One' branding. Held at 118 Center Road, it gathers local growers, bakers, and crafters from the Weare and Henniker area. Expect seasonal vegetables, eggs, baked goods, and handmade items. Weare is a rural town in Hillsborough County, west of Concord.

Peterborough

The Peterborough Farmers' Market meets at the Peterborough Community Center, 25 Elm Street, in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire. Growers bring seasonal produce, meat, eggs, and prepared foods from surrounding farms. Peterborough has a long local-food tradition, and the market runs through the growing season. Check locally for the current day.

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.

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].

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.

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.

The Antrim Farmers Market sets up at 128 Concord Street in Antrim, a small town in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire. Expect the usual growers'-market mix of seasonal produce, baked goods, and handmade items from area vendors. Check locally for current market days, which run through the warm-season months.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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!

For years, Cole Gardens hosted Concord's winter farmers market inside its heated greenhouse at 430 Loudon Road, giving Capital-area shoppers local food through the cold months. That property now operates as Oak Glow Farm, a garden center and florist, so the market's status at this site has changed. The winter market tradition featured produce, meats, eggs, cheese, bread, and crafts.

The Holiday Winter Farmers' Market is a cold-season, indoor market at 430 Loudon Road in Concord, New Hampshire's capital. Holiday and winter markets like this give area farmers, bakers, and crafters a place to sell through the colder months, often timed around the December holidays. Check locally for dates.

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.

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

The Deerfield Farmers Market sets up at 8 Raymond Road in Deerfield, a rural town in southeastern New Hampshire better known for the long-running Deerfield Fair. Area farmers bring seasonal produce, eggs, and homemade goods through the growing season. Check locally for current days and the vendor lineup.

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.

Fremont

Three River Farmers Alliance was a farmer-led local food effort on New Hampshire's seacoast, set up so member farms could aggregate and sell their products together. Listed in the Fremont area, its website and online presence now appear inactive, so check current status before trying to order.

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