Farmers Markets near Nevada City, CA

Nevada City

Grass Valley

A farmers market on Bubbling Wells Road in Grass Valley, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Nevada County — Gold Rush country built around the old Empire Mine.

Grass Valley

Grass Valley has run a farmers market since 1980, now spread across three weekly slots downtown near Mill and Main: Saturdays, April through November, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, May through September, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Thursday evenings in early summer at Mill Street Plaza with a concert series attached.

Grass Valley

Nevada County Certified Growers' Market is held at the Historic North Star House on Auburn Road in Grass Valley, a former Gold Rush mining town in the Sierra foothills. Growers from Nevada County's small farms and orchards sell direct at the historic estate grounds.

Auburn

Open Saturday mornings, 8 a.m. to noon, spring through fall, at 11665 Lakeshore North inside the Lake of the Pines community near Auburn. Neighbors gather to buy locally grown produce from vendors serving this Nevada County foothill development.

Auburn

This Saturday market runs mornings, 8am to noon, spring through fall, at 10056 Combie Road in Auburn. Vendors bring seasonal produce, handcrafted goods, and other locally made items to the Combie Road corridor near Lake of the Pines, serving Auburn and Nevada County shoppers looking for a smaller, community-run alternative to the bigger valley markets.

Dobbins

Brownsville Farmers Market sets up Friday afternoons from 4 p.m. until dusk, May through October, at 16900 Willow Glen Road in the Sierra foothills of Yuba County. Every vendor sells only what they grew or made themselves, no resale, no middlemen, which means the sourdough, mushrooms, tallow products, and produce on the tables came from someone's own land. The market accepts CalFresh/EBT.

Foresthill

A small-town farmers market on Main Street in Foresthill, a Placer County community in the Sierra foothills and a gateway to Tahoe National Forest.

Auburn

A food hub listing in Auburn, California, in the Sierra foothills' Gold Country farming region. No verified details on this specific hub's growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

Auburn

Located at 3185 Auburn-Folsom Rd. in Newcastle, a Sierra foothill town in the fruit belt between Auburn and Folsom. Vendors sell local produce and crafts. No current hours are listed publicly — worth a call before visiting.

Garden Valley

A small mountain-town market at Garden Valley Park, at the corner of Marshall Grade and Garden Valley roads in the El Dorado foothills. Online details are thin beyond the address and phone number, which fits a market this size and this local — call ahead if you're coming from out of the area.

Lincoln

Lincoln's downtown market sets up on F Street in Placer County, in a town built on Gladding, McBean & Co., the terra cotta and pipe works that's operated here since the early 1870s. It's a small Sacramento Valley community market, not a large regional draw.