Farmers Markets near Townsend, MA

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.

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.

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.

Lancaster

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Bedford

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shrewsbury

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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].

Wayland

Framingham

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.

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!

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.

Billerica

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.

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Lexington

Petersham

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.

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.

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.

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