Farmers Markets near Waynesville, NC

Waynesville

The Waynesville Tailgate Market sets up at 171 Legion Drive behind the American Legion in Waynesville, the Haywood County seat in the western North Carolina mountains. Growers from the surrounding high country sell seasonal produce and homemade goods straight from their tailgates. Exact days and hours aren't confirmed online.

Waynesville

Established in 2008, Haywood's Historic Farmers Market is a producer-only market, featuring produce sourced from Haywood or an adjacent county, meats, fish, eggs, honey, dairy, flowers, nursery plants, preserves, baked goods, heritage crafts, and much more.

Waynesville

A food hub on Old River Road in Waynesville, Haywood County, in the mountains west of Asheville. Hubs like this gather produce, meat, and other goods from area farms and channel them to buyers and community members. No website or schedule is posted that I could verify, so contact the hub directly for how to order or take part.

Cullowhee

Sylva

WNC Farm to Table is a regional food hub in Western North Carolina that connects small farms with wholesale, retail, and community markets. It provides local fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, and value-added products, supporting farm viability and sustainable agriculture. The hub strengthens direct farm-to-consumer and farm-to-business sales, improves access to fresh, local food, and fosters education and community engagement around healthy, regional food systems.

Sylva

The Sylva Farmers Market in downtown Sylva, NC, connects small, local farms with the community, offering seasonal fruits, vegetables, eggs, dairy, meats, and value-added products. The market supports sustainable and heritage farming, fosters direct farm-to-consumer sales, and promotes food access programs like HOP and FarmsSHARE. Educational events and vendor interactions strengthen local food knowledge while helping small farmers thrive.

Cullowhee

Candler

The Enka-Candler Tailgate Market promotes local agriculture and heritage crafts in Western North Carolina, providing the community with fresh local produce and quality products. Run by the non-profit Asheville Farmstead School, it is held at the A-B Tech Enka Campus on Sand Hill Road in Candler.

Brevard

The Transylvania Farmers' Market gathers makers, growers, and producers from within 100 miles of Brevard every Saturday in the downtown mountain town. It runs 9am to noon May through October and 10am to noon in the off-season, and leashed dogs are welcome. Brevard sits in the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina near Pisgah National Forest.

Asheville

The West Asheville Tailgate Market runs Tuesdays from 3:30 to 6:30pm, April through Christmas, at 718 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Vendors sell fruits and vegetables, bread and baked goods, eggs, cheese, milk, meat, poultry, and fish, plus plant starts, herbal medicine, and local art. It accepts SNAP EBT and cards, with live music and free children's activities each week.

Asheville

A food hub at 50 S. French Broad Avenue in downtown Asheville, Buncombe County. The location sits near the city's Southside neighborhood, and hubs like this connect area farms with residents through aggregation and distribution of local food. No website or posted hours are listed that I could verify, so contact the hub directly for details.

Asheville

This midweek tailgate market sets up around the French Broad Food Co-op on Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville, gathering growers from the surrounding mountains. The co-op has anchored Asheville's downtown natural-foods scene for decades. Western North Carolina's tailgate markets are a regional institution, and a Wednesday market gives shoppers a stop between the busier weekend ones.

Behind the Community Center overlooking Lake Louise Weaverville

The Weaverville Tailgate Market gathers behind the Community Center overlooking Lake Louise on Lakeshore Drive in Weaverville, just north of Asheville in Buncombe County. Growers and makers from the surrounding mountains sell seasonal produce and local goods at the small tailgate market. Days and hours aren't confirmed online.

Asheville

A neighborhood tailgate market in the Oakley area of East Asheville, set up in the Oakley United Methodist Church parking lot on Fairview Road. Growers from the Southern Appalachian mountains bring seasonal produce, and small tailgate markets like this are common across the Asheville area. It draws the surrounding East Asheville community.