Farmers Markets in Portland, ME

Portland

Cultivating Community runs two farms supporting 60 families and manages community garden plots where more than 485 people grow their own food each year in the Portland area. The nonprofit paid 50 young people through leadership internships and brought garden-based lessons to about 3,000 elementary students. In 2024 it delivered $190,000 worth of culturally specific crops to food pantries and matched $187,000 in SNAP/EBT and WIC benefits through its food access programs.

Portland

Portland Winter Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., December through April, moving indoors once the outdoor summer market at Deering Oaks Park closes for the season. It's run by the same organization behind Portland's warm-weather market, with a newsletter and social accounts for weekly vendor updates.

Falmouth

The Cumberland & Falmouth Farmers Market is a 501(c)(6) non-profit featuring a diverse group of farmers and artisans providing local, sustainable and organic produce, meats, milk products, baked goods, prepared foods, honey, flowers, plants and handmade gifts.

South Portland

Fork Food Lab rents commercial kitchen space and processing equipment to food entrepreneurs who aren't ready to build their own facility. The South Portland space runs over 30,000 square feet and currently supports more than 80 member businesses, from bakers to sauce makers, at different membership tiers. It's Maine's only nonprofit food business incubator of its kind, built to get small food businesses past the commercial-kitchen bottleneck.

South Portland

Preble Street is Portland's longtime anti-hunger and anti-poverty nonprofit, running soup kitchen, shelter, and resource programs across the city. This listing is for its Food Security Hub site on Darling Avenue in South Portland, part of the same food-industry corridor as Fork Food Lab next door.

Scarborough

Scarborough Farmers' Market sets up along US Route 1, one of several markets strung along that stretch of coastal Cumberland County. No vendor roster or schedule was available online at the time of research.

Cumberland

The Cumberland & Falmouth Farmers Market is a 501(c)(6) non-profit featuring a diverse group of farmers and artisans providing local, sustainable and organic produce, meats, milk products, baked goods, prepared foods, honey, flowers, plants and handmade gifts.

Westbrook

Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods distributes to commercial kitchens across Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, stocking more than 3,000 products sourced from over 140 local farms and outside suppliers. Restaurants order through a B2B portal or mobile app, with deliveries running five days a week out of the Westbrook warehouse. A curbside pickup arm, Native Maine Direct, serves smaller orders that don't need a full delivery route.

Gorham

Greater Gorham Farmers' Market sets up Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., May through October, in the small park between the library and the Gorham Times office on South Street.

Saco

Saco

Saco Farmers' and Artisans' Market sets up in the Saco Valley Shopping Center lot on Route 1, pairing produce vendors with local craftspeople rather than running as a produce-only market — the split focus is built right into the name. It's part of southern Maine's seasonal market circuit, running through the growing season rather than staying open year-round.

Brunswick

Auburn

Harvesting Good freezes vegetables at peak ripeness and distributes them to grocery stores, schools, hospitals, and senior centers across the Northeast. It runs as a subsidiary of Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine, built to give regional farmers a processing outlet when their harvest outpaces the fresh market. The operation fills a gap most small Northeast farms hit every year: too much produce, too short a fresh-sale window.

Wells

Wells Farmers' Market sets up in the Wells Town Hall parking lot on Sanford Road, a short drive from the town's beaches. No vendor list or season dates were confirmed online.