Farmers Markets near San Rafael, CA

San Rafael

The Sunday market at the Marin Civic Center, run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, has been ranked among the top ten farmers markets in the country. It runs year-round, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., off Ave. of the Flags in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium lot — a big enough footprint that AIM also uses it for food-education programs alongside the produce stands. It's the larger of AIM's two San Rafael markets.

San Rafael

Marinwood Community Farmers' Market operates on Marinwood Avenue in the Marinwood neighborhood of San Rafael. Marin County is home to some of the Bay Area's best-known organic and small-scale farms, and this market serves the community north of downtown San Rafael.

San Anselmo

The Agricultural Institute of Marin runs this Friday-evening market, 4 to 8pm through October, in the Elan Fitness Center parking lot at 220 Greenfield Avenue. It's one of several certified markets the nonprofit operates around Marin County, built around organic produce, grass-fed meats, and baked goods from small regional farms rather than resellers. Like most Marin markets, it closes for the winter months.

San Rafael

AIM's Thursday market takes over 4th Street near B Street in downtown San Rafael, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round. It's the smaller sibling to the Institute's Sunday market at the Civic Center — same certified growers, same rule that farmers only sell what they grow, just a tighter downtown footprint suited to a lunch-hour or after-work stop rather than a full grocery haul.

San Rafael

The Sunday Marin Farmers' Market at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center is the third-largest weekly farmers market in California, with over 150 year-round vendors every Sunday from 8 AM to 1 PM, rain or shine. Shoppers find organic produce, grass-fed meats, 32+ varieties of cheese, baked goods, and hot food from diverse cultures; the Agricultural Institute of Marin accepts CalFresh EBT, Market Match, and WIC, and the market is reachable by car, SMART train, or bike trail.

Fairfax

Novato

Mill Valley Farmers Market is held on East Blithedale Avenue in downtown Mill Valley, at the base of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. The market draws on Marin and North Bay growers known for organic and small-scale farming.

Novato

The City of Novato runs this one on Tuesdays, May through October, on Sherman Avenue next to City Hall's lawn — 4 to 8pm through summer, trimming to 4 to 7pm as the season winds down in October. Local growers set up alongside prepared-food stalls, live music, and kids' activities, making the grassy setting as much a weeknight hangout as a produce run. It's seasonal, not year-round.

Novato

Richmond

Urban Tilth runs North Richmond Farm, a 10-acre urban agriculture site that anchors the group's food justice work in Richmond, California. The nonprofit sells CSA shares, gives away produce at free farm stands, hands out fruit trees through its Orchard for ALL program, and grows native plants at its own nursery. It also trains and hires local residents to do the growing, treating job creation as part of the food-access mission.

Richmond

Richmond Main Street Initiative, a nonprofit working to bring foot traffic back to downtown Richmond, runs this Wednesday market, 10am to 2pm, at Nevin Plaza near Nevin Avenue and 13th Street. Fresh seasonal produce shares the plaza with live music, artisan vendors, baked goods, and kettle corn — part farmers market, part weekly gathering point for a neighborhood in the middle of a comeback.

Richmond

Richmond's certified market sets up at 24th Street and Barrett Avenue in the city's Iron Triangle neighborhood, an East Bay refinery and shipping town more associated with industry than farmland. Growers from the surrounding Bay Area counties sell direct here rather than through wholesale channels.

San Francisco

Fort Mason Center's farmers market runs Sundays in the parking lot at 2 Marina Boulevard, overlooking the bay in San Francisco's Marina district, typically from about 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It's operated by the California Farmers' Markets Association, a certified-market nonprofit whose vendors must sell only what they grow themselves, with produce, flowers, and other seasonal goods each week.

San Francisco

A farmers market on the grounds of the San Francisco VA Medical Center near Clement Street and 42nd Avenue, on the Outer Richmond bluffs above Ocean Beach.

San Francisco

Clement Street closes to traffic every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for this Richmond District market, rain or shine, year-round. Alongside the produce stands are several Bay Area creameries — Achadinha Cheese Company, Stepladder Creamery, Nicasio Valley Cheese, and Tomales Farmstead Creamery — plus bakers and flower vendors. It's one of the few San Francisco markets that stays open straight through the holidays, including the Sundays before Christmas and New Year's.

Set on the grounds of the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center on Geary Boulevard, this market gives hospital staff, patients, and Richmond District neighbors a produce stand close to home. It's part of a network of onsite farm stands Kaiser runs at its Northern California facilities.

San Francisco

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this market outside Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco campus at Geary Boulevard and St. Joseph's Avenue, every Wednesday from 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine. Growers bring seasonal fruit, vegetables, greens, and nuts to the medical center for patients, employees, and the surrounding Richmond District.

San Francisco

The Fillmore Farmers' Market sets up at O'Farrell and Fillmore in San Francisco's Fillmore/Japantown district, at the Fillmore Center Plaza.

Petaluma

Pinole

The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this Saturday market, 9am to 1pm, year-round, at Fernandez Avenue. It's one of more than 30 certified markets PCFMA operates across the Bay Area, all built around the same rule — vendors have to grow or make what they're selling, no resellers. A steady, no-frills produce market rather than a festival-style event.

San Francisco

This certified market sets up in a parking lot between 8th and 9th Avenue off Irving Street every Sunday, 9am to 1pm, year-round. It's smaller than the big Bay Area markets, but the mix runs deep: organic produce, pastured eggs and chickens, fresh fish, cheese, honey, pickles, and jam. The lot is reserved for the market during those hours, and organizers welcome neighbors who want to help with setup or cleanup.

San Francisco

A weekly farm stand market on UC San Francisco's Parnassus Heights medical campus. Vendors set up to serve students, hospital staff, and Inner Sunset neighbors a short walk from Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco

The Crocker Galleria farmers market sets up under the glass dome at 50 Post St in San Francisco's Financial District every Thursday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It's a lunch-hour market built for downtown office workers — organic produce next to ready-to-eat bolani, tamales, smoked seafood, and chocolate. Shoppers note prices run a notch below the Ferry Building market a few blocks away, which is part of why the line moves fast at noon.

San Francisco

San Francisco's only independent, farmer-run nonprofit market, operating since 1981. It spent decades at UN Plaza before relocating to Fulton Plaza in 2024, and still draws roughly 55 farmers on Wednesdays and Sundays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., year-round — one of the few markets in the city open every week, including holidays.

El Cerrito

A weekly farmers market at El Cerrito Plaza, a Contra Costa County shopping center next to the El Cerrito Plaza BART station.

Petaluma

San Francisco

Farm stands line 24th Street between Sanchez and Vicksburg every Saturday, 8am to 1pm, in the middle of Noe Valley's commercial strip. It's a certified California market — every vendor grows what they sell, no resellers. Expect seasonal produce and cut flowers from a rotating cast of Bay Area farms, rather than the packaged-food sprawl some city markets lean into. Vendors and prospective farmers can reach the market office directly by phone or email.

San Francisco

Mission Food Hub formed in May 2020 to get culturally appropriate groceries to San Francisco's Latino families, and it still runs a grocery distribution every Friday at 701 Alabama Street. Volunteers add extra distributions around Thanksgiving and Christmas. The hub grew out of Mission District mutual aid during the pandemic and has stayed focused on food equity in the neighborhood since.

San Francisco

San Francisco

Mission Bay Farmers' Market operates on Gene Friend Way between 3rd and 4th Streets in San Francisco's Mission Bay district, near UCSF's Mission Bay campus. It serves a fast-growing neighborhood of offices, labs, and new residential towers built largely since the 2000s.

Open every Sunday, year-round, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., this Westside market has run since 2009 and pulls in more than 70 vendors — enough that SF Weekly named it the city's best family-oriented farmers market. The produce lineup leans into the neighborhood's mix, with specialty Asian vegetables alongside the usual stone fruit and greens, plus a solid prepared-food lineup for anyone shopping on the way to the beach. Run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, which operates nine Bay Area markets.

San Francisco

San Francisco State's Associated Students runs a campus farmers market every Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., stocked with fresh and organic produce aimed at students trying to eat well on a budget. The market takes EBT, and campus parking runs $10 for shoppers driving in rather than walking from the dorms. Questions go to the Associated Students office by email.

San Francisco

Berkeley

San Francisco

Alemany opened in 1943 as California's first farmers market and still runs every Saturday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 100 Alemany Boulevard in Bernal Heights. Locals call it "the People's Market" for its low stall fees and mix of home cooks and restaurant buyers. Since 2026 the nonprofit Foodwise has operated the market with the City of San Francisco, working with dozens of small family farms on seasonal produce. Free parking on site, and CalFresh and WIC are accepted.

Vallejo

Runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Georgia and Marin Streets in downtown Vallejo, one of the Bay Area markets operated by the nonprofit Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association. Solano County growers sell produce a few blocks from the waterfront along the Carquinez Strait.

Emeryville

This market's address places it at the Bay Street shopping center at 5616 Bay Street in Emeryville, though a check of Bay Street's own site turned up no active farmers market listing — Emeryville's Saturday market now runs instead at the Public Market on Shellmound Street. Confirm before visiting; the listing may be outdated or the market may have relocated.

Berkeley

Petaluma

FEED Sonoma is a farmer- and employee-owned food hub in Petaluma that aggregates produce from more than 60 North Bay farms into one supply chain. It sells FEED Bin multi-farm boxes direct to households and moves wholesale volume to restaurants, retailers, school districts, and corporate kitchens across Sonoma and Marin counties. The cooperative structure means the growers filling the boxes also own a stake in the business selling them.

Dow Village

Royal Food Hub appears in local food directories as a small organic provider based in Dow Village. Beyond that listing, no website, hours, or product details could be verified — worth a call before visiting if you're in the area.

Berkeley

Boyes Hot Springs

Vallejo

This certified market runs every Friday, 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine, on the Kaiser Permanente campus at 975 Sereno Drive in Vallejo. Local growers bring fresh, California-grown produce to hospital patients, staff, and the surrounding neighborhood every week, with no seasonal closures.

Oakland

Listed in West Oakland near the Mandela Marketplace corridor, part of a cluster of worker- and community-owned food businesses built to bring fresh produce distribution into a neighborhood long underserved by grocery retail. Specific details on this listing's current operations were not independently verified.

Oakland

Crockett

Crockett is a small Carquinez Strait town built around the C&H Sugar refinery, which still operates as C&H's headquarters today, though it now processes imported raw sugar rather than the Hawaiian cane it ran on for most of the 20th century. This market serves Crockett and neighboring Port Costa, two of Contra Costa County's smallest communities.

American Canyon

American Canyon's Sunday farmers market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 100 Benton Way, next to the community center and Donaldson Way Elementary. The American Canyon Parks Foundation helped bring the market to the city, working with PCFMA to book local growers selling seasonal fruit, vegetables, and artisan cheese. Call for vendor or sponsorship questions.

Oakland

Oakland

The Freedom Farmers' Market serves as a gathering place that is creating harmony while offering a variety of produce, fruits, and healthy foods grown by Black farmers and other underserved farmers. People come to the Market not only to shop, but to socialize and to reconnect with a history that ties food to land, culture and community building.

A certified farmers market serving the Solano and Napa County area, where Central Valley and North Bay growers sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers.

Oakland

Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center hosts a certified farmers market on its Broadway campus, running seasonally in spring through fall. Local growers bring fresh produce to the hospital grounds for patients, staff, and the surrounding Pill Hill neighborhood. Confirm this season's exact day and hours before visiting, since Kaiser's hospital-campus markets shift with staffing and season.

Oakland

Oakland

A food hub listing in Oakland, California. No verified details on growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

Daly City

This certified market runs Thursdays and Saturdays in the Serramonte Center parking lot, operated by the California Farmers' Markets Association — the nonprofit behind 15 certified markets across the Bay Area. Certification means every stall belongs to the grower, not a reseller.

Brisbane

The Brisbane Community Farmers' Market has run every Thursday at Brisbane Community Park since it launched in April 2012, with hours shifting from 3 to 7 p.m. in summer to 2 to 6 p.m. once daylight shortens. The West Coast Farmers Market Association organizes it, bringing in regional growers for seasonal produce, fruit, baked goods, and artisan goods just off Old County Road.

Alameda

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association operates a certified market in Alameda's West End near Haight Avenue and Webster Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Alameda is an island city in the East Bay, and the market draws growers from Central Valley and coastal farms who sell direct rather than through wholesale.

Oakland

Saturday market at Splash Pad Park, Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue in Oakland, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., year-round. Run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, it has operated near Lake Merritt since the late 1990s and grew substantially after the park's 2003 redesign by Oakland architect Walter Hood. Expect organic produce, flowers, coffee, and prepared foods like dim sum, with grassy space to eat under the palm trees.

South San Francisco

This stand operates on the Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco medical campus at 1200 El Camino Real, serving hospital staff and patients with fresh produce on-site. It follows the same onsite-market model Kaiser uses across its Bay Area facilities.

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