Farms Near Boston, MA

Boston

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.

Boston

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

Boston

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.

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.

Boston

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.

East Boston

Boston

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.

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.

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.

Boston

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.

Boston

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charlestown

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.

East Boston

Boston

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.

Somerville

Somerville

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.

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.

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

Somerville

Brookline

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.

Somerville

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.

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.

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.

Mattapan

Mattapan

Mattapan

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.

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.

Somerville

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.

Roslindale

Roslindale

Roslindale

Somerville

Cambridge

From the time he opened his fruit and vegetable shop in 1930, Granddad Tofic Saidnawey packed every order with only premium-quality fruit. And, he gave his customers far better service than they were used to receiving. Today, more than 89 years and three generations later, we still maintain Granddad’s unmatched levels of product quality and customer service. Granddad’s fruit and vegetable shop has evolved into today’s Pemberton Marketplace – a unique combination of specialty grocery store, garde

Cambridge

Pemberton Farms Marketplace on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge is a full-line market open every day but Christmas, with departments spanning produce, meat and poultry, seafood, a cheese shop, deli, grocery, beer, wine and spirits, and a garden center in full bloom each spring. Extras include gift baskets, curbside pickup and home delivery, the Cru Crew wine club, and a Too Good To Go partnership fighting food waste.

Johnny D's Fruit and Produce has sold fresh fruit and vegetables on Washington Street in Brighton since 1994, when John Depietro opened the store with two employees. It's stayed a neighborhood produce stand instead of expanding into a full grocery, the kind of place regulars return to for quality and specialty items like sundried tomatoes. Closed Tuesdays; open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. the rest of the week.

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.

Medford

The Medford Farmers Market strengthens our diverse community of Medford, Massachusetts, through access to fresh, healthy, and local food direct from local farmers & producers.

Somerville

Medford

Chestnut Hill

Our growing practices are deeply linked to our role as land stewards and neighbors. We are committed to agricultural practices that prioritize the long term health of our land, employees and customers. We rely on methods that improve soil health to combat weeds, disease, and pests. We use cover crop and we rotate crops. We use natural barriers, beneficial plants and insects, and disease resistant plant varieties. Herbicides and conventional pesticides? Nope. Not in our fields or our greenhouses.

Chestnut Hill

Allandale Farm in Chestnut Hill is Boston's farm in the city, sustainably growing plants and produce from seed to store on land that connects the city to its agricultural roots. The market sells the farm's own vegetables, local eggs, and pantry items along with annuals, perennials, and seedlings; CSA half, full, and egg shares are the surest way to its sustainably grown produce, and summer camp keeps kids busy on the farm.

West Roxbury

A collaboration between Temple Hillel B'nai Torah, Theodore Parker Church, and West Roxbury Main Streets, this market runs Sundays, 11am to 2pm, June 26 through October 30, in the Bank of America lot at Centre and Corey. New England farms bring fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, and seafood, and the market adds live entertainment and food trucks most weeks. WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition benefits accepted.

Arlington

Small, food-focused, farmers' market in Arlington Center. Packed with local growers and food makers bringing the best local food to Arlington MA since 1993.

Newton

Newton Community Farm grows food and community on Newton's last working farm, a nonprofit on Nahanton Street engaging the city in sustainable agriculture and environmental best practices. The farm runs summer programs, workshops, a fruit share, an online store, and events like the annual Ride & Stride for Food.

Melrose

Belmont

Our mission is to provide all members of the community a welcoming, inclusive, and safe place to purchase fresh, local produce and goods directly from farmers and producers in a congenial atmosphere; to provide farmers and producers a direct market for their produce and goods; to support local agriculture and producers; to educate the community about eating healthfully, maintaining a healthy environment, and the importance of sustainable agriculture; to offer food assistance to people facing food insecurity; and to provide a social experience that helps build community and enhances the quality of life in Belmont and surrounding communities

Watertown's Farmers' Market sets up at Saltonstall Park, on the corner of Main Street and Whites Avenue next to City Hall, every Wednesday from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m., June through October. Vendors sell produce and specialty foods alongside live music most weeks. SNAP, HIP, and Farmers' Market Nutrition Coupons are all accepted, in addition to cash and most vendors' credit card readers.