Farmers Markets near Vacaville, CA

Held Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon, year-round, near Main and Davis Streets in downtown Vacaville. The market mixes certified farm stands with prepared-food vendors, artisans, and local wineries and breweries. New sellers can sign on as annual, seasonal, or week-to-week vendors.

VACAVILLE

Nut Tree Certified Farmers Market sets up at Nut Tree Plaza on East Monte Vista Avenue in Vacaville, the retail center built on the site of a roadside walnut stand that grew from a 1920s orchard fruit stand into a Northern California landmark before its redevelopment. Vendor list and hours aren't confirmed online.

Downtown Napa's certified farmers market runs Saturdays year-round, 8 a.m. to noon, with an added Tuesday market during the growing season (April through December). Regional growers sell produce and flowers alongside vendors offering specialty foods and artisan goods. It operates in a city lot in downtown Napa, in wine country, but produce and flowers are the actual draw.

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Esparto

Davis

Spork Food Hub is a farmer-owned produce distributor in Davis that buys from California family farms and delivers wholesale to schools, hospitals, and institutions including UC Davis and Meals on Wheels. It handles pre-cut, ready-to-serve vegetables alongside whole produce and promises 2-3 day turnaround with full farm-to-table traceability. Its salad bar takeover program swaps in peak-season vegetables for institutional kitchens.

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.

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

Woodland

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.

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Benicia

Concord

Fresh Approach is a Concord nonprofit that runs mobile farmers markets across the Bay Area with 50% off produce for CalFresh and EBT shoppers. Its VeggieRx program pairs fresh produce with nutrition coaching, and its Community Ambassador Program trains local residents for food-system jobs. The group also tends community gardens, including one in East Palo Alto, and has worked in food access since 2008.

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.

Benicia's Thursday market has run along the Historic Waterfront since 1993, making it the largest independent certified farmers market in Solano County. Peak-season hours run 4 to 8 p.m. through late August, then shift to 4 to 7 p.m. through October as daylight shortens. Beyond produce, tables cover specialty foods, artisan goods, and live music most weeks. Benicia Main Street runs it.

Pittsburg

Old Town Pittsburg's certified market sets up on Railroad Avenue at East 6th Street, Saturdays from roughly 9am to 1pm, May through October. Shoppers find the usual seasonal produce mix plus cheese, honey, and eggs from Northern California growers, in a stretch of downtown that's walkable from the historic depot area. It's seasonal — it doesn't run through winter.

Martinez

Martinez Farmers' Market takes over Main Street Plaza at Main and Estudillo Streets in downtown Martinez, the Contra Costa County seat on the Carquinez Strait. It's a walkable downtown market serving the East Bay's northern edge.

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.

Rio Vista

A Market Advisory Committee under the Rio Vista Downtown Association runs this certified market on Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd, in the small Sacramento River Delta town of Rio Vista. It's built as much as a community meeting point as a shopping trip — locally grown produce sold direct by the farmers who grew it, county-certified and approved by the agricultural commissioner.

Martinez

The Martinez farmers' market sets up Sundays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 2500 Alhambra Avenue under the Contra Costa Certified Farmers Market program. Tables carry fresh produce, meat, and dairy from local farms alongside goods from area artisans. It draws a loyal following, the market's Facebook page has grown to nearly 4,700 followers.

Concord

Concord runs two farmers markets a week under the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Thursdays 4 to 8 p.m., both in Todos Santos Plaza downtown. PCFMA is a longtime certified-market operator across the Bay Area, meaning every stall is required to sell only what the vendor actually grows or raises — no resellers.

Boyes Hot Springs

Backyard Basics operates as a small farm market and stand at 35265 Willow Avenue in Clarksburg, in the Sacramento River Delta region known for its pumpkin patches, u-pick produce, and delta pear and grape growers. Beyond the address, little independent detail on hours or current vendors turned up online — worth a call ahead before making the drive out from Sacramento or Davis.