Farms Near Boston, MA

Boston Sword & Tuna traces back to 1972, when Paul Scola, a second-generation Sicilian immigrant, started working the Boston Fish Pier at fifteen and eventually built his own seafood business. The company that carries his name today runs a 50,000-square-foot, SQF-certified facility at 10 Codfish Way, supplying swordfish, tuna, salmon, lobster, scallops, and groundfish to restaurants and retailers well beyond Massachusetts. It's a wholesale operation, open weekdays 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Run by the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation, this market sets up at 446 West Broadway on Mondays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., June through November. It brings the same weekly fresh-produce access to Southie that other Boston neighborhoods get through their own markets.

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East Boston

Boston

The Boston Public Market Association runs this outdoor, seasonal counterpart to its indoor Hanover Street market, set up along the Rose Kennedy Greenway near Haymarket station. Both locations require vendors to sell food grown, raised, or produced in New England, no exceptions. It's a walkable stop for produce, seafood, and prepared foods between the North End and downtown.

Winthrop

An all-volunteer committee runs this Sunday market at Ingleside Park, 9am to 1pm, June through late September. Vendors sell organic baked goods, produce, honey, jams, meat, seafood, and crafts, and the market donates proceeds each year to local food pantries and scholarships for graduating Winthrop High seniors.

Boston Medical Center runs its own farmers market out of the Shapiro Café at 725 Albany Street, selling produce grown on the hospital's rooftop farm. It's a short window — Wednesdays, 12 to 1:30 p.m., June through August — and prices are subsidized down to about a dollar an item. The produce sells out fast, so the advice from regulars is simple: show up right at noon.

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Boston

Watch our expert butchers breakdown whole sides of beef, pork, and lamb from scratch on a daily basis. We offer a changing variety of specialty cuts, in-house sausage blends and marinated products.

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Boston

We believe that an emphasis on soil health as well as freshness makes a real difference in the flavor, nutrition, shine, and storage quality of our produce. We collaborate with some of the region’s top chefs to develop our crop varietal selections and harvest techniques. Our goals are to grow some of the nicest produce that you’ve ever seen or tasted; to be active participants in a vibrant local food economy; and to take care of our farmland, staff, and customers to the best of our ability.

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Germination: In 1975, when farm owner Chris Kurth was a mere babe, his family moved to a nineteenth-century Sudbury farmhouse and started settling in. Chris grew up helping tend gardens, fruit trees, and a collage of farm animals his family raised for home consumption. In 1998, after studying biology, philosophy, and environmental studies at Williams College, Farmer Chris started a five-acre CSA farm on his parents’ fields and named it Meadow Brook Farm. After four years of developing Meadow Bro

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Walden Local delivers 100% grass-fed and pasture-raised meat from 30+ small regenerative East Coast family farms to more than 24,000 members — lab-tested for nutrient density with up to 10x higher omega-3s than commodity meat, and paying farmers 333% above commodity prices. Members build their own monthly box or choose a curated mix of beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and wild-caught seafood, hand-delivered to the door.

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Charlestown

Charlestown

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Commonwealth Kitchen is a shared commercial kitchen and food business incubator in Dorchester, not a market itself — it's where many of the small food producers who eventually sell at Boston-area markets get their start. Members get kitchen time, help with co-manufacturing and scaling production, and business mentoring built around equity in the food industry. It functions more like a business accelerator with ovens than a place the public walks in to shop.

Roxbury

This market sets up on Northeastern's campus at 115 Forsyth Street, drawing students and Mission Hill/Fenway neighbors to an indoor space stocked with produce and prepared foods from Boston-area growers. Cash and cards work at every stall; some vendors also take SNAP, EBT, FMNP, and WIC.

Dorchester Winter Farmers' Market is the only winter market in the neighborhood, running Saturdays, 11 to 2, from late January through mid-March at the Great Hall on Norfolk Street. Organized by Codman Square Health Center, BOLD Teens, and the Codman Square Neighborhood Council, it sells farm-fresh produce, baked goods, meat, and specialty foods, and accepts SNAP and HIP.

Elmendorf Baking Supplies & Cafe mills its own flour on-site in Cambridge, sourcing grain from New England farms, then bakes it into the pastries sold at the attached cafe counter. The retail side stocks baking tools and specialty ingredients that are harder to find at a regular grocery store. Barrington coffee runs the espresso side. The shop closes Mondays and opens the rest of the week starting at 8 a.m.

Everett

Everett Farmers' Market sets up on School Street, off Broadway, on the second and fourth Saturday of each month through September, 11 to 3. The city runs an active push each season to recruit local vendors, so the lineup of produce and goods can shift market to market.

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This market sets up at Brigham Circle — the intersection of Huntington Avenue and Tremont Street in Mission Hill — Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., June through December. It's organized through the Mission Hill Health Movement as part of a push to put fresh food within walking distance of a dense, transit-heavy neighborhood.

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Milton

Community Servings' Farmers' Market operates out of the Jamaica Plain nonprofit's Marbury Terrace property, part of an organization built around delivering medically tailored, scratch-cooked meals to people managing critical illness across Massachusetts. Current hours and vendor lineup weren't confirmed online — call the organization directly to check what's running.

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The Boston University Farmer's Market sets up Thursdays on the George Sherman Union Plaza, bringing campus regulars like Ward's Berry Farm produce, Taza Chocolate, Follow the Honey, Danish Pastry House baked goods, and Q's Nuts within walking distance of class. It runs through the summer and into early fall.

Roberchar Apiary is a small beekeeping operation based in Jamaica Plain, in Boston proper rather than out in the suburbs — an example of how much urban beekeeping has grown around the city. Beyond the location and a listed phone line, there's little public detail on what they sell or how to buy from them directly.

Somerville

Somerville

Somerville

Cambridge Winter Farmers Market fills the gymnasium at the Cambridge Community Center on Callender Street every Saturday, 10 to 2, from January through April, when the outdoor markets go quiet. About two dozen New England farmers and food producers set up alongside live music and cooking demonstrations, and SNAP/EBT shoppers get up to $10 matched per market day.

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Mattapan

Mattapan

Mattapan

Legitimate Farms grows microgreens and wheat grass indoors, year-round, using vertical growing systems at its Brookline location on Boylston Street. There's no field, no season to wait out — the CSA runs continuously at $40 per four weeks, with a farm stand open Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same address. James Clark runs the operation as an urban answer to how much fresh food a small footprint can produce.

Somerville's only cold-weather market runs Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., from November through April, inside the Center for Arts at the Armory at 191 Highland Avenue. It fills the gap between the last outdoor market of fall and the first of spring with produce, meat, and prepared foods from regional farms.

Run by the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, this Saturday market sets up at the intersection of Cummins Highway and Fairway Street, near the Church of the Holy Spirit on River Street, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. starting in July. It's part of a broader push to improve food access in a neighborhood that's faced real gaps in it.

Cambridge

The Farmers' Market at Harvard has run on the Science Center Plaza near Oxford and Kirkland streets since 2005, with produce, cheese, baked goods, maple syrup, and live music drawing students and neighbors alike. It doubles the value of SNAP and WIC purchases, up to $15 a week. Its schedule has scaled back recently to a handful of dates each summer rather than a weekly run.

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Harvard

Westward Orchards in Harvard runs a farm stand and pick-your-own operation through the whole season — strawberries and blueberries opening things up in June, apples and a pumpkin patch carrying through October. The farm also runs a CSA share program for customers who want produce delivered on a schedule rather than picked by hand. Vegetables round out the stand between fruit seasons.

Allston

Allston Village Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 11 to 3, May through October at 500 Cambridge Street, organized by the Allston Brighton CDC. Vendors bring eggs, vegetables, fruit, honey, cheese, seafood, and maple products, and the market accepts SNAP and WIC alongside credit cards.

Somerville

Somerville Honey Company keeps its hives in backyards around Davis Square and sells the honey straight from them — porch pickup, no storefront. Beekeeper Dave runs the operation as much for the bees as the honey, framing it as a small stand against colony collapse in a built-up part of Somerville. Order through their online form and arrange pickup near Burnham Street.

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Roslindale