Farmers Markets in Virginia

17th Street Farmers' Market

Richmond, VA

One of the country's oldest market sites, at 100 North 17th Street in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom. A public market has stood on this ground since the late 1700s. The restored open-air pavilion now hosts a seasonal farmers market plus community events, with vendors bringing produce, plants, and prepared food a few blocks from the James River.

Alexandria Farmer's Market

City Hall Alexandria, VA

A Saturday-morning market on Market Square at 301 King Street, in front of Alexandria City Hall in Old Town. Running since 1753, it counts among the oldest continuously operating farmers markets in the United States. Growers and makers bring produce, cut flowers, baked goods, meats, and crafts to the brick plaza year-round, early morning through midday.

ALIVE! Del Ray Food Hub

Alexandria, VA

The ALIVE! Del Ray Food Hub gives Alexandria residents a free grocery storefront at 2601 Mount Vernon Avenue, where shoppers pick their own food, personal-care items, and cleaning and school supplies based on household size. It is one of two Community Food Hubs run by the ALIVE! nonprofit. Doors open Tuesday-Thursday 12-6 and Saturday 9-3, closed federal holidays. Call (703) 837-9300 or email [email protected].

ALIVE! West End Food Hub

Alexandria, VA

The ALIVE! West End Food Hub is a free, mini-market-style grocery storefront at 510-F South Van Dorn Street in Alexandria, run by the nonprofit ALIVE!. Neighbors check in for an ALIVE! Food Card, then choose fresh and shelf-stable groceries sized to their household — a family of four typically leaves with meat, produce, eggs, dairy, grains, and bread. Open Tuesday-Thursday 11-6 and Saturday 9-3. Call (703) 837-9300 or email [email protected].

Altavista Farmers' Market

Altavista, VA

The town farmers market for Altavista, held at 1112 Park Street on the Trade Lot, a Campbell County town south of Lynchburg on the Staunton River. Seasonal Virginia markets like this bring produce, eggs, baked goods, and crafts from surrounding farms through the growing months. Exact market days and hours aren't listed here.

Annandale Farmers Market

A Fairfax County market at 6621 Columbia Pike in Annandale, inside the Capital Beltway. Northern Virginia county markets typically run one morning a week from spring into fall, with local growers selling produce, eggs, and baked goods. Specific days and hours aren't included in this listing.

Appomattox Gallery Farmers Market

A farmers market in Appomattox at 1850 Church Street, in the small central-Virginia town best known for the 1865 Civil War surrender nearby. Local produce, baked goods, and crafts turn up at markets like this through the growing season. The listing doesn't specify market days or hours.

Archwood Green Barns Farmers' Markets

The Plains, VA

A seasonal farmers market held at the Archwood Green Barns, 4557 Old Tavern Road in The Plains, out in Fauquier County's horse country west of Washington. The barn venue draws growers and makers selling produce, meats, baked goods, and crafts. Check ahead for the current market schedule, which isn't recorded here.

Arlington Farmers Market

Arlington's Saturday market at 1400 North Courthouse Road, one of the region's long-running producer markets in the Courthouse neighborhood. Vendors bring Virginia produce, meats, eggs, cheese, and flowers, with the market running most of the year. Exact hours aren't listed here.

Ballston FRESHFARM Market

Arlington, VA

A FRESHFARM-run market at Welburn Square, 901 North Taylor Street in Arlington, across from the Ballston Metro. It runs Thursday afternoons year-round, with fruits and vegetables, grass-fed meats, pastured eggs, baked goods, and prepared foods like empanadas and rice bowls. The site doubles as a Market Share CSA pickup and hosts a monthly first-Thursday Mega Market.

BEC Farm Market

A farm market at 1392 Chain Bridge Road in McLean, in Fairfax County near Washington. The listing doesn't detail what BEC stocks or when it's open. Markets in this area usually carry local produce and prepared goods; the operators could confirm specifics.

Bedford Farmers Market

Bedford, VA

Bedford's town farmers market at 220 West Washington Street, in the Blue Ridge foothills between Lynchburg and Roanoke near the Peaks of Otter. Growers from the surrounding county bring produce, eggs, and baked goods through the warm months. Market days and hours aren't specified in this listing.

Bedford VA Farmers' Market

A seasonal open-air market in downtown Bedford, Virginia, on West Washington Street. This is the same central Bedford location where county farmers set up in season with vegetables, fruit, and homemade goods. The two Bedford entries likely point to one market; days and hours aren't recorded here.

Blacksburg Farmers' Market

Blacksburg, VA

A producer-only market at Market Square Park, on the corner of Roanoke Street and Draper Road in downtown Blacksburg. It runs year-round, Saturdays 8am to 2pm and Wednesdays 2pm to 6pm, with every vendor based within 50 miles. Expect seasonal produce, ethically raised meats, cheese, baked goods, and crafts. The market accepts SNAP and Virginia Fresh Match.

Bowling Green Farmers' Market

Bowling Green, VA

The farmers market for Bowling Green, at 211 Main Street in the Caroline County seat between Richmond and Fredericksburg. Small-town Virginia markets like this run seasonally with produce, eggs, baked goods, and crafts from area farms. The listing doesn't note market days or hours.

Brandermill Green Market

A neighborhood market serving Brandermill, a planned community in Midlothian's Chesterfield County, at 3001 East Boundary Terrace near Swift Creek Reservoir. Suburban Richmond green markets like this gather local produce, baked goods, and makers on a seasonal schedule. Days and hours aren't listed here.

Broadway Farmers Market

Broadway's farmers market at 161 South Main Street, in the Shenandoah Valley farm country of Rockingham County. This is a heavily agricultural corner of Virginia, so expect valley-grown produce, eggs, meats, and baked goods in season. Specific market days and hours aren't given in this listing.

Broadway VA Farmers Market

The Broadway farmers market sets up on South Main Street in this Rockingham County town north of Harrisonburg. Broadway sits in the Shenandoah Valley's poultry and produce belt, one of Virginia's densest farming regions. Warm-season markets along this stretch of the Valley usually carry local vegetables, eggs, and baked goods from nearby growers.

Brookland Park Farmers' Market

Richmond, VA

This neighborhood market runs along West Brookland Park Boulevard in Richmond's North Side, part of a historic commercial corridor that local groups have worked to revive. It's a small community market bringing local produce and food vendors to a walkable stretch of shops and restaurants north of downtown.

Buckland Farm Market

Buckland Farm Market runs as a roadside farm market and garden center on Lee Highway (Route 29) near Warrenton, in Fauquier County's Piedmont horse country. Stops like this along Route 29 typically sell seasonal produce, bedding plants, and fall pumpkins from the surrounding farmland.

Buckroe Beach Farmers Market

Hampton, VA

The Buckroe Beach Farmers Market sets up near the bayfront park in Hampton, a short walk from the public beach and bandstand. It's a warm-season market that runs alongside Buckroe's summer concert and outdoor-movie nights, with local produce and vendors filling the park grounds.

Burke Farmers Market

The Burke Farmers Market is one of the Fairfax County Park Authority's producer-only markets, held on weekend mornings in this Northern Virginia suburb. Producer-only means every vendor grows or makes what they sell, so shoppers find Virginia produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods rather than resold goods.

Byrd House Market

Richmond, VA

Byrd House Market runs on the grounds of the William Byrd Community House, a nonprofit settlement house in Richmond's Oregon Hill neighborhood. The market brings local growers and food vendors together through the warm months as part of the organization's community and youth programming.

Cartersville Farm & Art Market

The Cartersville Farm & Art Market combines local produce with handmade art and crafts in this small Cumberland County community along the James River. Rural central Virginia markets like this one lean on seasonal vegetables, eggs, and the work of nearby makers and artists.

Cascades Farmers Market

The Cascades Farmers Market sets up at the senior center lot in the Cascades area of Sterling, in eastern Loudoun County. Loudoun holds one of Northern Virginia's most active farm belts, so seasonal markets here draw vegetables, orchard fruit, meats, and baked goods from county growers.

Chesapeake Farmers' Market

Chesapeake, VA

This Chesapeake farmers market operates on Reservation Road in the Great Bridge section of the city. Chesapeake keeps more working farmland than most Hampton Roads cities, so its markets tend to carry genuinely local produce along with eggs, honey, and prepared foods from area vendors.

Chesapeake Farmers' Market - Chesapeake City Park

Chesapeake, VA

Held at Chesapeake City Park off Greenbrier Parkway, this market gives the city's northern neighborhoods a weekend produce stop. Vendors bring vegetables, baked goods, and crafts to the park's open grounds during the growing season, drawing on Chesapeake's mix of suburban and farm land.

Chesapeake Farmers Marketplace at City Hall

The Chesapeake Farmers Marketplace runs beside City Hall on Cedar Road in the Great Bridge area, giving downtown workers and nearby residents a midweek produce stop. Expect a compact market with local growers and food vendors during the warm-season months.

Chesapeake Health Department Farmers' Market

Chesapeake's Health Department hosts this farmers market at its Battlefield Boulevard offices, part of a public-health effort to put fresh produce within easy reach. Local vendors bring seasonal vegetables and farm goods to the site during the growing season.

Chesapeake Health Department Wednesday Farmer's Market

Chesapeake, VA

This is the midweek edition of the Chesapeake Health Department's farmers market on North Battlefield Boulevard, running Wednesdays through the season. The department organizes it to make fresh vegetables and local farm goods easy to grab on a weekday.

Chester Farmers' Market

Chester, VA

The Chester Farmers' Market sets up in the village center of Chester, a community in northern Chesterfield County between Richmond and Petersburg. It's a seasonal market with local produce, plants, and food vendors serving the surrounding suburbs.

Chesterfield Berry Farm & Market

Chesterfield Berry Farm grows pick-your-own strawberries in spring and runs a large fall festival each autumn with pumpkins, hayrides, and a corn maze. Its farm market in the Midlothian area sells the farm's own produce alongside seasonal goods. The operation is a longtime Richmond-area agritourism stop for families.

Chilhowie Farmers' Market

The Chilhowie Farmers' Market gathers along Lee Highway in this Smyth County town in far southwest Virginia, near Marion and the Mount Rogers highlands. Mountain-grown vegetables, apples, and homemade goods are typical of markets in this corner of the state.

Chincoteague Island Farmers and Artisans Market

This market pairs farm produce with local artisans on Chincoteague Island, the Eastern Shore barrier community known for its wild ponies and oysters. Eastern Shore growers are known for tomatoes, melons, and sweet corn, and island makers round out the stalls during the summer visitor season.

Chincoteague Island Farmers' Market

Chincoteague, VA

A second Chincoteague market, this one on Church Street in the island's town center. It's a small Eastern Shore market where local produce, baked goods, and handmade items turn up through the warm months, when the barrier island fills with beach and pony-watching visitors.

Christopher Newport University Farmers Market

Held on the Christopher Newport University campus along Avenue of the Arts, this market serves students, staff, and the surrounding Newport News neighborhoods. Campus markets like this one rotate through local produce and food vendors during the academic terms.

City Center Farmers Market Oyster Point

Newport News, VA

This market runs at City Center at Oyster Point, a mixed-use plaza built around a fountain in Newport News. Office workers and nearby residents get a warm-season market with produce, cut flowers, and prepared-food vendors set up around the plaza.

City of Manassas Farmers Market

The City of Manassas Farmers Market sets up under the Harris Pavilion in Old Town Manassas, an open-air structure on the historic downtown square by the train depot. It runs on multiple days through the growing season, with regional produce, meats, cheese, and baked goods.

City of Virginia Beach Farmers Market

The City of Virginia Beach Farmers Market is a permanent, year-round market on Dam Neck Road, built around standing shops and produce stands rather than pop-up tents. Butchers, bakeries, a garden center, and restaurants share the site, and the city runs seasonal events like fall hoedowns there.

Clarendon Farmers' Market

The Clarendon Farmers' Market runs at Clarendon Central Park beside the Metro station in Arlington. It operates as a producer-only market, so vendors sell what they grow or make, bringing Virginia and Chesapeake-region produce, meats, cheese, and baked goods to a busy urban village.

Clifton Forge Farmer's Market

The Clifton Forge Farmers Market gathers on Ridgeway Street in this small railroad town in Alleghany County, set among the Allegheny Mountains near Covington. Mountain-valley growers bring seasonal vegetables, eggs, and homemade goods to the market through the warm months.

Coleman Nursery and Farmer's Market

Coleman Nursery on Ironbound Road in Williamsburg pairs a full garden center with a farm market. It stocks annuals, perennials, evergreens, trees, and shrubs, plus fresh produce, honey from a New Kent farm, and non-GMO chicken feed. A longtime local nursery serving the Williamsburg area.

Colonial Heights Farmers Market

The Colonial Heights Farmers Market runs along the Boulevard, the main commercial strip of this small city just north of Petersburg. It's a seasonal market with local produce and vendors serving the Tri-Cities area south of Richmond.

Columbia Pike Farmers Market

The Columbia Pike Farmers Market is one of Arlington's longest-running markets, held on Sunday mornings along Columbia Pike. It operates year-round, with local growers bringing produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods to the Pike's walkable commercial corridor.

Community Farmers Market

This market runs in Old Town Fairfax near Main Street, giving the city center a weekend produce stop. Northern Virginia growers bring vegetables, orchard fruit, and baked goods to the historic downtown through the growing season.

Community Farmers' Market of Blacksburg

The Blacksburg Farmers Market is a producer-only market at Market Square Park in downtown Blacksburg, where every vendor grows or makes what they sell within 50 miles. It runs year-round, Saturdays 8am to 2pm and Wednesdays 2pm to 6pm, with seasonal produce, ethically raised meats, cheese, baked goods, and crafts. The market accepts SNAP and Virginia Fresh Match.

Cornerstone Farm Farmers' Market

Cornerstone Farm hosts a farmers market on Long Meadow Road in Middletown, in the lower Shenandoah Valley near Winchester. Valley farms here grow apples, sweet corn, and seasonal vegetables, and a farm-hosted market like this one typically sells the farm's own crops alongside neighbors' goods.

Cornerstones FREE from Hunger Center

Sterling, VA

Cornerstones runs its FREE from Hunger Center to move surplus pantry staples and fresh produce from donors to families across northern Virginia. The Sterling location on Glenn Drive is one of the nonprofit's food-distribution points; Cornerstones itself is headquartered in Reston. Expect grocery staples and seasonal produce rather than a retail farm stand. The organization coordinates pickups and referrals through its main office.

Covington Farmers Market

West Main Street in downtown Covington hosts this seasonal market, set in an Alleghany County town against the Allegheny Mountains near the West Virginia line. Growers from the surrounding highlands bring produce, baked goods, and handmade items through the warm months. Covington sits close to Douthat State Park and the Jackson River, so the market pulls in both locals and travelers crossing western Virginia's mountain country.

Crozet Farmers Market

Crozet Avenue is the setting for this market in the Albemarle County town of Crozet, at the foot of the Blue Ridge just west of Charlottesville. The area is orchard and vineyard country, and local farms bring seasonal fruit, vegetables, and other goods through the growing season. Crozet has grown fast as a Charlottesville commuter town while keeping its small main street intact.

Culpeper Downtown Farmers Market

This market runs in Culpeper's historic downtown, on South West Street in the Piedmont between the Blue Ridge and the Rappahannock. Culpeper County is working farm country, and area producers sell vegetables, meats, eggs, and baked goods in season. The town's restored railroad-era downtown has become a regional draw, and the market fits into that walkable core of shops and restaurants.

Damascus Farmers' Market

Damascus calls itself Trail Town USA, where the Appalachian Trail and the Virginia Creeper Trail run straight through town, and this market sets up on West Laurel Avenue in far southwest Virginia. Growers from the Mount Rogers highlands bring produce, baked goods, and crafts during the season. The town fills with hikers and cyclists in warmer months, and the market gives them local food beside the trailheads.

Danville Farmers' Market

The Danville market operates on Craghead Street in the city's restored tobacco warehouse district along the Dan River, near the North Carolina border. Southside Virginia farmers bring produce, meats, and baked goods to a city that built its history on bright-leaf tobacco and textiles. The surrounding River District has drawn new restaurants and lofts, and the market anchors that downtown revival.

Daughter of the Stars Farmers Market

The market's name comes from the local legend that translates "Shenandoah" as Daughter of the Stars, and it gathers on 4th Street in the Page County town of Shenandoah. The valley between Massanutten and the Blue Ridge is orchard and cattle country, and area growers bring seasonal produce, eggs, and baked goods. Shenandoah sits near the South Fork of the Shenandoah River and the eastern edge of the national park.

Dayton Farmers' Market

Dayton, VA

John Wayland Highway in Dayton hosts this market in Rockingham County, a Shenandoah Valley community south of Harrisonburg with deep Mennonite and Old Order farming roots. Local growers and food makers bring produce, meats, baked goods, and pantry staples shaped by that agricultural tradition. Dayton anchors some of the most productive farm country in Virginia, and the market reflects the Valley's long history of family agriculture.

Deltaville Farmers' Market

Deltaville, VA

Deltaville sits at the tip of Virginia's Middle Peninsula between the Rappahannock and Piankatank rivers, and this market runs on Jackson Creek Road in a town known for boatbuilding and Chesapeake Bay fishing. Area growers bring produce, eggs, and baked goods through the warm months. The market serves a community of boaters, retirees, and summer visitors who fill the peninsula's marinas and creekside neighborhoods.

Downtown Hampton Farmers Market

This market sets up along Settlers Landing Road in downtown Hampton, on the waterfront where the Hampton River meets Hampton Roads. One of the oldest continuous English-speaking settlements in the country, Hampton pairs its historic harbor with a walkable downtown of shops and museums. Regional farmers bring produce, flowers, and baked goods, and the market draws foot traffic from the nearby carousel, air and space center, and marina.

Downtown South Boston Farmers Market

South Boston's market runs on Broad Street in this Halifax County town near the North Carolina line, in the Southside tobacco belt along the Dan River. Local farmers bring seasonal produce, meats, and baked goods to a historic downtown built on bright-leaf tobacco auctions. The surrounding countryside remains working farm and timber land, and the market gives area growers a Saturday outlet in the town center.

Draper Valley Farmer's Market

The market gathers on Greenbriar Road in Draper, a small New River Valley community in Pulaski County near the New River Trail. Growers from the surrounding Blue Ridge foothills bring produce, eggs, and baked goods through the season. Draper is best known for its restored depot and access to the rail-trail, and the market draws cyclists and locals alike in the warmer months.

Earlysville Farmers Market

Earlysville Road hosts this market in the Albemarle County community of Earlysville, north of Charlottesville near the Rivanna Reservoir. Small farms in the surrounding countryside bring produce, eggs, and baked goods during the growing season. The area is rural and residential, and the market gives Earlysville a neighborhood gathering point without the drive into Charlottesville.

Eastern Orange Farmers Market

This market runs on Constitution Highway, Route 20, in Locust Grove, in the eastern corner of Orange County near Lake of the Woods and the Wilderness battlefield. Farms from the Piedmont countryside bring seasonal produce, eggs, and baked goods. The area sits between Fredericksburg and Orange in Civil War country, and the market serves both the lake community and surrounding rural households.

EcoFriendly Foods, LLC

Moneta, VA

EcoFriendly Foods is listed at Stony Fork Road in Moneta, in Bedford County near Smith Mountain Lake. The name traces to a Virginia pasture-raised meat operation, though its website is no longer active. Given the uncertain status, contact the listing directly before counting on any products or market presence.

Fairfax Community Farmers' Market

Fairfax, VA

Page Avenue in the City of Fairfax hosts this community market, near Van Dyck Park in the Northern Virginia suburbs west of Washington. Regional farms and food makers bring produce, meats, baked goods, and prepared foods to a dense, commuter-heavy area. Fairfax anchors a busy stretch of Northern Virginia, and the market gives residents a direct line to growers from the Piedmont and Valley farms that supply the region.

Fairfax County Farmers Markets

This listing represents the Fairfax County Park Authority's farmers market program, with the address at Green Spring Gardens off Green Spring Road in the Alexandria area. The county runs a network of producer-only markets across Northern Virginia where vendors must grow or make what they sell. Farms from the Piedmont and Valley bring produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods to suburban neighborhoods through the season.

Fairlington Farmers Market

The Fairlington market sets up at the Fairlington Community Center on South Stafford Street in south Arlington, near the Alexandria line. Regional farmers bring produce, eggs, baked goods, and flowers to this dense residential corner of Northern Virginia. Fairlington is a historic garden-apartment district from the World War II era, and the market gives it a weekend gathering spot.

Falls Church Farmers Market

Park Avenue by City Hall hosts the Falls Church Farmers Market, one of the longer-running markets in Northern Virginia and open on Saturdays through much of the year. Producers bring seasonal vegetables, meats, cheeses, baked goods, and plants to this small independent city between Arlington and Fairfax. The market is a fixture of downtown Falls Church and draws steady crowds from the surrounding walkable neighborhoods.

Famers Market in Christiansburg

This market runs on Radford Street in Christiansburg, a Montgomery County town in the New River Valley next to Blacksburg and Virginia Tech. Farms from the surrounding highlands bring produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods through the growing season. Christiansburg sits along the old wagon road west, and the market gives the town and nearby university community a local-food outlet.

Farmers in the Park

Charlottesville, VA

Farmers in the Park features local farmers with seasonal produce & meats, cut and potted flowers, baked goods, and cultural cuisine.

Farmers' Market at Citizen's Square

Rocky Mount, VA

Citizens Square in downtown Rocky Mount hosts this market on Franklin Street, the seat of Franklin County in the Blue Ridge foothills between Roanoke and Smith Mountain Lake. Area growers bring produce, eggs, meats, and baked goods through the season. Rocky Mount sits along the Crooked Road music trail, and the market ties into the town's revived Main Street.

Farmers' Market at City Center

Newport News, VA

This market runs at City Center at Oyster Point on Town Center Drive in Newport News, in the office-and-retail district around the fountain plaza. Regional farmers bring produce, flowers, baked goods, and prepared foods to a Hampton Roads city built around shipbuilding and the James River. The City Center setting draws lunchtime and after-work crowds from the surrounding businesses.

Farmers Market at New Highland Baptist Church

The market sets up at New Highland Baptist Church on New Ashcake Road in Mechanicsville, a Hanover County suburb northeast of Richmond. Local farms bring produce, eggs, and baked goods to this church-hosted market in a fast-growing residential area. Hanover County is known for its tomatoes and truck-farm produce, and the market gives area growers a neighborhood outlet.

Farmers Market @ St. Stephen's

The market fills the grounds of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on Grove Avenue in Richmond's West End, one of the city's busier Saturday markets. Virginia farmers, bakers, and food makers bring produce, meats, cheeses, breads, and prepared dishes to a churchyard setting near Windsor Farms. Steady crowds and a full slate of vendors make it a weekend routine for much of the West End.

Farmville Farmers' Market

Farmville, VA

North Street in downtown Farmville hosts this market in Prince Edward County, a central Virginia college town home to Longwood University and near Hampden-Sydney. Farms from the surrounding Southside countryside bring produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods through the season. Farmville sits along the High Bridge Trail and the Appomattox River, and the market feeds into a walkable downtown of shops and restaurants.

Floyd Farmers Market

South Locust Street hosts the Floyd market in the small mountain town of Floyd, set high on the Blue Ridge Plateau along the Crooked Road music trail. Growers from the surrounding highlands bring produce, herbs, eggs, and baked goods, and the area has a strong organic and homestead farming community. Floyd is known for the Friday Night Jamboree at the country store, and the market fits the town's craft-and-music culture.

Fluvanna Farmers Market

This market gathers at Crofton Plaza in Palmyra, the small county seat of Fluvanna County east of Charlottesville. Farms from the rural Piedmont bring produce, eggs, and baked goods through the growing season. Fluvanna is quiet, wooded country along the Rivanna and James rivers, and the market gives Palmyra and nearby Lake Monticello residents a local-food stop.

Four Mile Run Farmers and Artisans Market

The Four Mile Run market runs on Mount Vernon Avenue in the Arlandria area near the Arlington-Alexandria line, along the Four Mile Run stream. It pairs farm vendors with local artisans, bringing produce, baked goods, and handmade work to a diverse, densely populated corner of Northern Virginia. The nearby Del Ray neighborhood gives the market a steady stream of walk-up customers.

Four Seasons Farmers Market

South Main Street in Amherst hosts the Four Seasons market in Amherst County, in the Blue Ridge foothills just north of Lynchburg. Local farms bring produce, meats, eggs, and baked goods to this small county-seat town. The surrounding countryside runs to orchards, cattle, and timber, and the market gives Amherst growers a place to sell close to home.

Franklin Farmers Market

South Main Street in downtown Franklin hosts this market in Western Tidewater's Southampton County, a town on the Blackwater River near the North Carolina line. Farms from the surrounding peanut-and-cotton country bring produce, eggs, and baked goods through the season. Franklin grew up around the river and a large paper mill, and the market anchors a compact downtown of brick storefronts.

Franklin's Market on Main

Franklin, VA

Market on Main brings vendors to the 200 block of South Main Street in downtown Franklin, part of the town's push to keep its historic core active. Set in Southampton County along the Blackwater River, the market gathers area growers and makers selling produce, baked goods, and crafts. Franklin's downtown of early-1900s storefronts gives the market a compact, walkable setting a short drive from the North Carolina border.

Fredericksburg Farmers Market - Mary Washington Healthcare

Fredericksburg, VA

This market runs at the Mary Washington Healthcare campus on Sam Perry Boulevard in Fredericksburg, tied to the hospital system's community-health work. Area farmers bring produce, eggs, and baked goods to staff, patients, and neighbors in a historic city on the Rappahannock between Washington and Richmond. Fredericksburg pairs a preserved colonial-era downtown with fast suburban growth, and the hospital market gives the north end of the city a seasonal produce stop.

Fredericksburg, VA Farmers Market

Fredericksburg, VA

The Fredericksburg Farmers Market sets up at 900 Prince Edward Street, a few blocks from the historic downtown and the Rappahannock River, roughly midway between Washington and Richmond on the I-95 corridor. Growers from the surrounding Piedmont and Northern Virginia bring seasonal produce, eggs, and baked goods through the warm months. Fredericksburg's compact old-town grid makes the market an easy stop for shoppers already walking Caroline Street.

Freight Station Farmers Market

Winchester's Freight Station Farmers Market runs beside the old rail freight depot at 315 West Boscawen Street, a short walk from the Old Town pedestrian mall. Vendors draw on the Shenandoah Valley's orchards and farms; Frederick County is apple country, so seasonal fruit shows up alongside vegetables and homemade goods. It is one of several markets serving the northern end of the Valley.

FRESHFARM Arlington Market

Arlington, VA

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.

FRESHFARM Ballston Market

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.

FRESHFARM Mosaic (Sunday)

Fairfax, VA

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.

FRESHFARM Oakton

Oakton, VA

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.

FRESHFARM Reston

Reston, VA

FRESHFARM is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, that works to create a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food future. For 25 years, we have operated producer-only farmers markets in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Our farmers market network is the third-largest in the country and the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region, providing economic opportunity to a network of 250 Mid-Atlantic farmers and producers and a community space to restore the vital connections in our local food systems.

FRESHFARM Rosslyn Farmers Market

Arlington, VA

FRESHFARM runs this Wednesday market at Central Place Plaza, 1800 N Lynn Street in Rosslyn, from early May through late October, 2 to 6 p.m. Around seven producers set up each week with conventional and certified-organic produce, pasture-raised meat, breads, fresh flowers, popsicles, ferments, and pickles. FRESHFARM operates a network of producer-only markets across the Washington DC region.

Fries Farmers' Market

The Fries Farmers' Market serves the small New River town of Fries in Grayson County, where the New River Trail State Park follows the old railroad grade through the mill village. This corner of far southwest Virginia sits in the Blue Ridge highlands, and local growers bring warm-season produce and homemade goods. Nearby Galax anchors the region's old-time and bluegrass music tradition.

Front Royal Farmers Market

Front Royal's farmers market gathers downtown near 220 North Commerce Avenue, at the northern gateway to Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park. Growers from Warren County and the surrounding Shenandoah Valley bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, and homemade items through the warmer months. The two forks of the Shenandoah River meet just outside town.

Galax Farmers Market

Galax, VA

The Galax Farmers Market sets up along North Main Street in downtown Galax, the Blue Ridge city known for the Old Fiddlers' Convention and its place on Virginia's Crooked Road music trail. Growers from Grayson and Carroll counties bring mountain-grown produce, eggs, and homemade goods in season. The elevation here keeps summers cooler than the lowlands to the east.

Game's Farmers Market

Game's Farmers Market operates at 503 Harpersville Road in Newport News, on Virginia's Peninsula within the Hampton Roads region. Neighborhood markets like this one carry seasonal produce, eggs, and homemade goods sourced from Tidewater growers through the warm months.

Ghent Farmers' Market

The Ghent Farmers' Market serves Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood, a historic district of early-1900s homes near the Elizabeth River. Set near 730 Spotswood Avenue, it draws produce and prepared goods from Tidewater and Eastern Shore growers during the season. Ghent has long been one of Norfolk's most walkable, close-knit corners.

Great Falls Farmers Market

The Great Falls Farmers Market runs every Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., year-round in the Walker Road parking lot in Great Falls, a semi-rural, affluent corner of Fairfax County near the Potomac. The outdoor market brings together regional growers and food producers each week. Its name nods to the falls of the Potomac at nearby Great Falls Park.

Green Bay Open-Air Market

Green Bay, VA

The Green Bay Open-Air Market serves the small Prince Edward County community of Green Bay in Southside Virginia, off Route 460 southwest of Farmville. Open-air markets here move farm goods from nearby growers, including seasonal vegetables, eggs, and homemade items. This is rural, agricultural country in the old tobacco belt between the James River and the Blue Ridge foothills.

Greene Farmers Market

The Greene Farmers Market gathers at 40 Celt Road in Stanardsville, the county seat of Greene County in the Blue Ridge foothills north of Charlottesville. Growers from the surrounding orchards and farms bring seasonal produce, eggs, and homemade goods, with apples and fall crops arriving as the season turns. Shenandoah National Park rises just to the west.

Greene Farmers Market at Greene Commons

Stanardsville, VA

Greene Commons at 40 Celt Road in Stanardsville is home of the Greene Farmers Market — an outdoor pavilion and stage in the heart of Greene County, Virginia, with plenty of country smiles.

Green Mills Market at Potomac

Green Mills Market sets up at Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge, in the parking area of the Potomac Mills outlet mall in Prince William County. Markets in these high-traffic commercial lots bring produce, prepared foods, and vendor goods to suburban shoppers along the Northern Virginia I-95 corridor.

Harrisonburg Farmers Market

The Harrisonburg Farmers Market is producer-only, so everything sold is homegrown, homemade, or handmade by the vendor. It runs Tuesdays and Saturdays 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. from April through November at 228 South Liberty Street, then Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. December through March. Harrisonburg anchors the central Shenandoah Valley and is home to James Madison University.

Haymarket Farmers' Market

Haymarket, VA

The Haymarket Farmers' Market runs on Washington Street in the small historic town of Haymarket, at the western edge of Prince William County below the Bull Run Mountains. Growers from the Piedmont around Gainesville and Bull Run bring seasonal produce, meats, and homemade goods. Haymarket sits along the old Warrenton Turnpike near Interstate 66.

Haymarket Thursday Afternoon Market

Broad Run, VA

This Thursday-afternoon market meets at 16015 John Marshall Highway in Broad Run, just west of Haymarket in Prince William County. A midweek companion to the town's weekend market, it gives Piedmont growers a second selling day for produce, eggs, and prepared foods along Route 55 near the Fauquier County line.

Heart of Virginia Farmers Market

The Heart of Virginia Farmers Market serves Farmville, the Prince Edward County town home to Longwood University and the High Bridge Trail State Park. Set on Buffalo Heights Road, it draws Southside growers with seasonal vegetables, fruit, and homemade goods. Farmville sits on the Appomattox River in the rolling farm country between Richmond and Lynchburg.

Herndon Farmers Market

The Herndon Farmers Market sets up on Lynn Street beside the town's historic train depot and red caboose, along the Washington & Old Dominion Trail in Fairfax County. Regional growers bring produce, meats, breads, and flowers through the season. Herndon's old rail corridor is now one of Northern Virginia's busiest cycling and walking paths.

Hillsboro Farmers Market

Hillsboro, VA

The Hillsboro Farmers Market gathers along Charles Town Pike (Route 9) in Hillsboro, a tiny stone-built village in western Loudoun County near the Blue Ridge and the county's wineries and orchards. Growers from the surrounding farms bring seasonal produce and homemade goods. Hillsboro is one of Virginia's smallest incorporated towns, known for its 18th-century stone houses.

Historic Manassas Farmers' Market

Manassas, VA

The Historic Manassas Farmers Market sets up in Old Town Manassas near the Center Street train depot and Harris Pavilion, in the Prince William County city known for the Civil War battles at nearby Bull Run. Regional growers bring seasonal produce, meats, baked goods, and flowers. Old Town's brick streets center on the restored railroad depot.

Historic Roanoke City Market

Open since 1882, the Historic Roanoke City Market is one of Virginia's oldest continuously operating open-air markets, on Market Street SE in downtown Roanoke. Stalls run seven days a week year-round, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., though most farm vendors set up Friday and Saturday mornings. Expect local produce, flowers and plants, meats, cheeses, baked goods, and handmade crafts.

Hopewell's Third Thursday Marketplace

HOPEWELL, VA

Hopewell's Third Thursday Marketplace is a monthly evening market on East Broadway Avenue in downtown Hopewell, the small industrial city where the Appomattox River meets the James east of Petersburg. Third-Thursday markets bundle local produce and food vendors with sidewalk activity to draw people downtown. Nearby City Point served as Ulysses Grant's headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg.

Isle of Wight & Smithfield Farmers' Markets

Smithfield, VA

These markets serve Smithfield and surrounding Isle of Wight County, with a downtown site at 115 Main Street in historic Smithfield on the Pagan River. Smithfield is the home of the country's ham trade and Smithfield Foods. Local growers and food makers bring produce, eggs, and homemade goods during the season, a short drive from the James River near Hampton Roads.

J&E Farmer’s Market

Victoria, VA

Located in beautiful Lunenburg County, Virginia we provide resources and opportunities to farmers and our community! From the generational farmers to the homesteaders to the back porch gardeners we believe that J&E Farmer’s Market has a place for everyone!

KelRae Farm Food Hub

Toano, VA

KelRae Farm grows fresh greens, vegetables, melons, sunflowers, and free-range eggs on its land in Toano, then sells them alongside 40-plus local partners through its on-site Food Hub marketplace — seafood, baked goods, and flowers included. Randy and Michelle Gulden have farmed here since 2001 and run a seasonal CSA. The farm takes SNAP/EBT and doubles it through Virginia Fresh Match. The market opens Tuesday and Thursday 9-6 and Saturday 9-1.

Kenbridge Farmers Market

The Kenbridge Farmers Market serves the small town of Kenbridge in Lunenburg County, part of the rural Southside Virginia tobacco belt southwest of Petersburg. Local growers bring warm-season produce, eggs, and homemade goods to markets like this one. The surrounding countryside is farmland and pine, well off the interstate routes.

Kingstowne Farmers Market

The Kingstowne Farmers Market sets up at Kingstowne Towne Center off Kingstowne Boulevard, serving the planned Kingstowne community in the Franconia area of Fairfax County near Alexandria. Regional producers bring seasonal produce, breads, meats, and prepared foods to shoppers in this dense Northern Virginia suburb south of the Beltway.

KQCD Farmers Market

The KQCD Farmers Market operates on White Marsh Lane in Walkerton, a small community on the Mattaponi River in King and Queen County on Virginia's Middle Peninsula. This is quiet, rural tidewater farm country between Richmond and the Chesapeake Bay, where local growers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods to market.

Lakeside Farmers Market

The Lakeside Farmers Market serves the Lakeside area of Henrico County just north of Richmond, near Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Central Virginia growers bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, bedding plants, and homemade goods, with garden starts a draw in spring. The neighborhood grew up around the former Lakeside amusement park along Lakeside Avenue.

La Plaza Market

Richmond, VA

La Plaza Market sits on Hull Street Road in South Richmond, an area with a strong Latino community along the Route 360 corridor. Markets like La Plaza pair fresh produce with Latin American groceries, meats, and prepared foods aimed at nearby households. It is on the city's Southside, south of the James River.

Lebanon Farmers Market

Lebanon, VA

The Lebanon Farmers Market serves the town of Lebanon, the seat of Russell County in far southwest Virginia's Appalachian highlands near the Clinch River. Growers from the surrounding mountain farms bring seasonal produce, eggs, and homemade goods. This is coalfields-edge country, where cooler elevations shape a shorter but productive growing season.

Leesburg Farmers' Market

Leesburg, VA

The Leesburg Saturday Farmers Market runs year-round at the Virginia Village Shopping Center on Catoctin Circle SE, with summer hours of 8 a.m. to noon from May through October. More than 50 vendors bring grass-fed meat, goat cheese and milk, fresh produce and berries, artisan bread, honey and maple syrup, plants and flowers, and prepared foods from empanadas to pho. Loudoun Valley HomeGrown Markets operates it.

LF Market

LF Market operates on Knotts Neck Road in Suffolk, the sprawling Hampton Roads city long tied to Virginia's peanut trade; Suffolk is where Planters built its Mr. Peanut brand. Northern Suffolk sits along the Nansemond River in Tidewater farm country, where local growers bring produce and homemade goods to neighborhood markets.

Local APX Market

Local APX Market sets up on Church Street in Appomattox, the Southside Virginia town whose name marks the 1865 surrender that ended much of the Civil War. "APX" is the local shorthand for Appomattox. Like most small-county markets in this part of the state, it gathers area growers and food makers on a seasonal schedule for the surrounding rural community.

Local Environmental Agriculture Project (LEAP)

Roanoke, VA

LEAP (Local Environmental Agriculture Project) is a Roanoke nonprofit that connects local farmers with shoppers across the city. It runs the West End Farmers Market on Tuesdays (3-6), the Grandin Village Market on Saturdays (8-12), a roving LEAP Mobile Market, a community store, and farm-share and food-hub programs. SNAP, WIC, Virginia Fresh Match, and Market Bucks stretch benefit dollars on fresh produce. Call (540) 632-1360; find them at 1027 Patterson Ave SW.

Long Family Markets

Long Family Markets operates off Fresh Water Drive on the Stafford County side of Fredericksburg, in the 22405 area north of the Rappahannock River. The name points to a family-run produce operation rather than a large civic market. This stretch of the Fredericksburg region grows sweet corn, tomatoes, and summer vegetables that roadside stands and small markets sell through the warm months.

Long Family Markets - Stafford

Stafford, VA

Long Family Markets is a locally owned and operated farmers market organization offering thoughtfully curated weekly markets in Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Woodbridge, Virginia. All markets are proudly producer-only and feature participating businesses located within 125 miles, supporting fresh food access, small businesses, and meaningful community connections.

Long Family Markets - Woodbridge

Woodbridge, VA

Long Family Markets is a locally owned and operated farmers market organization offering thoughtfully curated weekly markets in Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Woodbridge, Virginia. All markets are proudly producer-only and feature participating businesses located within 125 miles, supporting fresh food access, small businesses, and meaningful community connections.

Loudoun Station Saturday Farmers Market

This Saturday market runs at Loudoun Station, the mixed-use development beside the Ashburn Metro stop at the end of the Silver Line. Central Station Drive sits in eastern Loudoun County, one of the fastest-growing corners of Northern Virginia. Vendors bring produce and prepared food to the plaza during the warmer months for the surrounding apartment and office crowd.

Louisa Farmers' Market

Louisa, VA

The Louisa Farmers' Market runs on East Main Street in the Louisa County seat, roughly halfway between Charlottesville and Richmond in the central Virginia piedmont. Growers from the surrounding rural county bring seasonal vegetables, eggs, and baked goods. Louisa is farm country, so summer sweet corn and tomatoes anchor the tables once the season gets going.

Lovettsville Farmers Market

Lovettsville's market sits on South Berlin Pike in far northern Loudoun County, the old "German Settlement" between the Potomac and the Maryland and West Virginia lines. Farms here work the rolling land above the river. The seasonal market draws area growers and small food producers to this small town north of Route 7, near the Point of Rocks bridge.

Manassas Farmers Market

Historic Manassas has run this producer market downtown since 1987, drawing farms, nurseries, bakeries, and specialty food makers to Old Town Manassas. The Saturday market fills a downtown lot from April into November, and it takes SNAP plus Virginia Fresh Match matching dollars. Virginia Living readers named it Best in Northern Virginia in 2023 and 2024.

Manassas Farmers Market (Thursday)

This is the Thursday edition of the Historic Manassas market, held under the Harris Pavilion on Center Street in Old Town Manassas from April through late October, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The same nonprofit organizes both days, gathering local farms, bakers, and specialty food producers. It accepts SNAP and Virginia Fresh Match matching dollars for shoppers.

Marion Regional Farmers Market

Marion, VA

The Marion Regional Farmers Market runs on East Cherry Street in Marion, the Smyth County seat in far southwest Virginia near Hungry Mother State Park and the Mount Rogers highlands. Growers from the surrounding mountain counties bring vegetables, meats, and baked goods through the season. It serves as one of the main gathering markets for the Middle Fork Holston River valley.

Marker Miller Orchards Farm Market and Bakery

Marker Miller Orchards works 325 acres of apples and 15 acres of peaches on Cedar Creek Grade southwest of Winchester, plus harder-to-find Virginia fruit like damsons and apricots. The farm market stocks its own produce alongside a bakery known for apple cider donuts and pies, fudge, and hand-dipped ice cream. Pick-your-own runs for blackberries, raspberries, and cut flowers.

Market at La Grange

Haymarket, VA

The Market at La Grange sets up at the Winery at La Grange on Antioch Road in Haymarket, in western Prince William County below the Bull Run Mountains. Holding a market on winery grounds pairs local growers and makers with the tasting-room crowd. Expect seasonal produce and artisan goods on market days at this rural edge of the county.

Marshall Farmer's Market

Marshall's market runs along West Main Street in this Fauquier County village, once a stop on the old Manassas Gap Railroad in Virginia's piedmont hunt country. Farms across northern Fauquier bring seasonal vegetables, meats, and baked goods. The small town sits just off I-66 west of Warrenton, surrounded by grazing land and vineyards.

Martinsville Uptown Farmers' Market

Martinsville, VA

The Martinsville Uptown Farmers' Market gathers on West Main Street in the district locals call Uptown, the historic center of this Southside Virginia city near the North Carolina line. Growers from Henry County and the surrounding foothills bring produce, meats, and baked goods in season. Martinsville built its name on furniture and textiles and still hosts NASCAR at nearby Martinsville Speedway.

Marymount Farmers Market

The Marymount Farmers Market runs at Marymount University on North Glebe Road in north Arlington, serving the Ballston-to-Cherrydale corridor of inner Northern Virginia. Campus-hosted markets like this one bring produce, bread, and prepared foods to students and nearby residents on market days during the warmer months, a pocket of local farming in a dense urban county.

Mary Washington Hospital Farmer's Market

This market sets up on the Mary Washington Hospital campus at 1001 Sam Perry Boulevard in Fredericksburg, one of several hospital-hosted markets that give staff, patients, and neighbors access to fresh local food. Area farms bring seasonal produce and other goods on market days through the growing season, an easy stop for the healthcare workers and visitors on site.

McCutcheon/Mount Vernon Farmers' Market

Alexandria, VA

Fairfax County runs this Wednesday market at Sherwood Regional Library on Sherwood Hall Lane in the Mount Vernon area south of Alexandria, roughly late April through November, 8 a.m. to noon. It is producer-only: every vendor sells what they grow or make from scratch within 125 miles. Expect produce, meats, cheese, bread, and cut flowers.

McLean Farmers Market

Fairfax County's McLean market fills the lot at Lewinsville Park on Chain Bridge Road on Friday mornings, roughly May through October, 8 a.m. to noon. Every vendor is producer-only, selling produce, meat, cheese, bread, or flowers grown or made within 125 miles. It is one of the steadier stops on the county's market circuit in McLean.

Middleburg Community Farmers Market

Middleburg's market runs on West Federal Street in the Loudoun County town at the center of Virginia's horse-and-wine country. Farms and vineyards ring the surrounding hunt country, so market tables carry produce, meats, baked goods, and other local products in season. The community center anchors this walkable stretch of the historic village along Route 50.

Midlothian Mines Farmers Market

This market meets at Midlothian Mines Park on North Woolridge Road in Chesterfield County, on the grounds of one of America's earliest commercial coal-mining operations, worked since the 1700s. The park setting west of Richmond draws area growers with seasonal produce, along with bakers and other food vendors on market days through the warmer months.

Mineral Farmer's Market

Mineral, VA

The Mineral Farmer's Market runs on Louisa Avenue in the small Louisa County railroad town named for the mines that once worked the area. It sits near Lake Anna, a draw for the surrounding piedmont. Local growers bring seasonal vegetables, eggs, and baked goods to this stretch of central Virginia through the warm months.

Mineral Farmer's Market

Mineral, VA

Our farmers grow what they sell, know what they grow, and are proud of their food. Fresh, locally grown produce is our game, and our veggies are grown thousands of miles closer than some competitors. These same small farms also supply us with pork, chicken, beef, eggs and honey; there are gorgeous flowers and plants available as well as offerings from our talented local bakers. SNAP accepted and matched. Leashed dogs welcome!

Montross Market Days

Montross, VA

Montross Market Days gathers at Courthouse Square in the Westmoreland County seat, on the Northern Neck peninsula between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. This is the corner of Virginia that produced the Washingtons and Lees, with Stratford Hall and George Washington's birthplace nearby. Area farms and the surrounding tidewater country bring produce and local goods to the square on market days.

Narrows Farmers Market

Narrows, VA

Narrows' market sits on Monroe Street in the Giles County town named for the gap where the New River cuts through the Appalachian ridges of far southwest Virginia. Growers from the New River valley bring mountain vegetables, meats, and baked goods in season. The town is a stop for anglers and paddlers working one of the continent's oldest rivers.

New Highland Baptist Farmers' Market

Mechanicsville, VA

New Highland Baptist Church hosts this market on New Ashcake Road in Mechanicsville, in Hanover County just north of Richmond. Hanover is tomato country, home of the prized Hanover tomato, so summer produce leads the tables. Church-grounds markets like this one give nearby growers a weekly spot to sell vegetables, baked goods, and other local food.

New Market Farmers' Market

New Market, VA

New Market's market runs on West Old Cross Road in this Shenandoah County town, best known for the 1864 Civil War battle where VMI cadets fought. Valley farms bring produce, meats, and baked goods in season. The surrounding countryside is prime apple, poultry, and cattle land along the I-81 corridor in the Shenandoah Valley.

Nokesville Farmers Market

Nokesville's market runs on Fitzwater Drive in the rural southwestern corner of Prince William County, the county's last real stretch of farm country. Growers and livestock producers from the surrounding land bring seasonal vegetables, eggs, meats, and baked goods. The market anchors a small agricultural community that has held onto its fields as suburbs filled in around it.

North Garden Farmers Market

This market meets on Rural Ridge Lane in North Garden, the rural stretch of Albemarle County along Route 29 south of Charlottesville. Farms and vineyards fill this part of the piedmont below the Blue Ridge. Area growers bring seasonal produce and other local goods to the market through the growing season, drawing shoppers from the southern Charlottesville area.

Norton Friends and Farmer's Market

SW Norton, VA

The Norton Friends and Farmers Market runs on Park Avenue in Norton, the small independent city set in Virginia's far southwest coalfields near High Knob and the Wise County line. Growers from the surrounding mountain communities bring vegetables, meats, and baked goods in season. Markets like this one matter in the coalfields, where fresh local food can be hard to find.

Oak Marr Farmers Market

Fairfax County runs this Wednesday market at the Oak Marr RECenter on Jermantown Road near Oakton and Vienna, roughly May through October, 8 a.m. to noon. Every vendor is producer-only, selling produce, meat, cheese, bread, or flowers grown or made within 125 miles of the county. It is a steady midweek stop on the county market circuit.

Oakton Farmers Market

Oakton, VA

The Oakton Farmers Market sets up on Hunter Mill Road in Oakton, just outside Vienna in Fairfax County. It draws Northern Virginia growers and food makers with seasonal produce, bread, and prepared foods on market days during the warmer months. Hunter Mill Road runs through one of the greener, lower-density pockets of an otherwise built-up county.