Farmers Markets near Colchester, CT

The Hebron Farmers Market gathers local farmers, bakers, fiber producers, and crafters behind the Church of Hope parking lot on Main Street. Vendors sell produce, baked goods, and handmade wares, with live entertainment on market days. It's a small-town market rather than a regional draw — confirm current hours locally before visiting.

Salem Farmers' Market operates out of 82 Norwich Road (Route 82), one of the smaller weekly markets tracked in Connecticut farmers market directories. Specific hours and vendor details aren't well documented online, so this rural stretch of Route 82 is best confirmed before a special trip.

Chester Sunday Market sets up on Main Street in Chester Center, a few blocks from the Ridge Road location listed separately for the town's summer market. The name and nearby address suggest it may be the same market under an earlier listing, or a second Sunday market in the village center; specifics weren't confirmed.

Chester

Chester Summer Sunday Market runs on Ridge Road in Chester, a small Connecticut River valley town known for its arts scene. As the name suggests, it's a summer-season Sunday market; specific vendor details weren't confirmed in public sources.

Lebanon

Ashlawn Farm hosts one of the largest farmers markets in southeastern Connecticut on its own 110-acre working farm at 78 Bill Hill Road. Bon Appetit has featured the market, which runs Fridays 3-6 p.m. and Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to noon from June through October, selling the farm's own natural beef alongside produce, baked goods, and crafts from other CT Grown vendors. SNAP and EBT are accepted.

Bozrah

Bozrah Farmers Market sets up at Maple Farms Park, 45 Bozrah Street, in this small New London County town. It's a modest, town-scale market; public details on vendors and season dates weren't confirmed beyond the location itself.

Higganum

Wednesdays, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., June through mid-September, the Higganum Village Farmers' Market sets up on the town green in this Haddam village. Vendors sell Connecticut-grown produce, eggs, meat, baked goods, honey, herbs, and cut flowers. It's a community market for the Higganum section of Haddam rather than a countywide draw.

Andover

Andover Farmers' Market sets up at 22 Long Hill Road in this small Tolland County town. Public details on vendors and season are thin online; it appears to run on a smaller, more local scale than the bigger markets in Hartford and New Haven counties.

Coventry

Coventry Farmers Market sets up on the grounds of the Nathan Hale Homestead at 2299 South Street — the boyhood home of the Revolutionary War figure, now a museum property. It's one of the better-known markets in eastern Connecticut, drawing vendors to a genuinely historic backdrop. Current hours and vendor lineup weren't confirmed in public sources at the time of writing.

Saybrook

The Main Street market in Old Saybrook hits its stride in summer, with Saturday mornings from 9 to 12:30 drawing the widest vendor turnout of the June-through-October run. Look for sweet corn, cut flowers, and baked goods alongside the produce tables — all required to be Connecticut grown or made under the market's own rule.

Old Saybrook Farmers' Market runs Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., from late June through late October at 210 Main Street. Every vendor is guaranteed Connecticut grown or made — produce, corn, flowers, pies, and handmade goods — and proceeds from the market help fund the William Childress Scholarship in honor of the family that hosts it.

Windham

CliCK is listed at 41 Club Road in Windham, Connecticut, in the state's Quiet Corner region. No verified details on this location's specific products, vendors, or hours were found online.

Niantic

Niantic Farmers' Market runs Thursdays, 3 to 6 p.m., June through October, in the Methodist Street parking lot, organized by the nonprofit Niantic Main Street. Vendors sell produce, pies, breads, plants, herbs, greens, hummus, pork, and jams. A smaller winter version moves indoors to Smith's Acres Greenhouse on West Main Street once the outdoor season ends.

Manchester

Manchester's Spruce Street market runs Wednesday evenings, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. from June through August, with a rotating mix of Connecticut vendors selling produce, meats, eggs, maple syrup, baked goods, prepared foods, coffee, and vegan items alongside jewelry and bath products. Live music and a food truck are regular fixtures.

Middletown

Middletown Farmers' Market runs Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., from late June through the end of October on Union Green at the corner of Main and Pleasant Street. Several local farms bring produce alongside community organizations and prepared-food vendors, drawing a steady Friday crowd to the city's South Green area.

Cromwell Farmers Market sets up at 1 River Road, near the Connecticut River in this Middlesex County town. Specific vendor lineup and season dates weren't confirmed in public sources.

Manchester

North End Farmers Market has run since 2008 at the corner of Main and Liberty Streets in Middletown, in front of It's Only Natural Market. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June through October, the North End Action Team runs a market that accepts SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP, with market info posted in both English and Spanish.

Durham

For more than a decade, the Durham Farmers' Market has set up on the Town Green at the Route 17/Main Street intersection, selling Connecticut-grown and Connecticut-made vegetables, fruit, honey, maple syrup, meat, cheese, baked goods, and Italian ice alongside handcrafted items and cut flowers. It's a certified farmers market with a winter offshoot at the United Churches on Main Street. Check with the Durham First Selectman's Office for the current season's schedule.

Waterford

Waterford's market runs Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Waterford Community Center on Rope Ferry Road. Its stated mission is to connect local farmers, producers, and artisans directly with shoppers for CT-grown vegetables, fruit, meat, cheese, and baked goods.

Manchester Community Farmer's Market sets up at 161 Hillstown Road on the Manchester Community College campus, Wednesdays 1:30-5:30 p.m. from June through October 31. Vendors sell organic and conventional produce, crafts, and other local goods, and the market accepts Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits.

New London

The same Field of Greens organization behind the L+M Wednesday market also runs a Friday session downtown at Williams Park, Broad and Williams Streets, from 2 to 5 p.m. Both markets share the same mission — walkable access to local produce for New London residents — and both accept WIC and EBT.

Field of Greens runs a Wednesday market, noon to 4 p.m., on the Lawrence + Memorial Hospital campus at 365 Montauk Avenue in New London. It's one stop in the nonprofit's multi-site effort to put a farmers market within walking distance of city neighborhoods, and both WIC and EBT are accepted at the tables.

Vernon

Wethersfield

Wethersfield's market runs Thursdays, 3 to 6 p.m., from late May through early October at 220 Hartford Avenue, with the usual mix of Connecticut-grown produce and prepared foods.

Lisbon

The Lisbon Farmers' Market features a variety of vendors who sell fresh meats, vegetables, fruit, dairy, honey, jams and and jellies, breads, pastries and sweets, and other delicious food items. The market operates from the end of June until the end of September.

South Windsor

Ledyard

Ledyard Farmers' Market runs June through September on the lower Ledyard Town Green at 718 Colonel Ledyard Highway, next to the fairgrounds. A town Farmers Market Committee organizes the weekly lineup of local growers and vendors, and leashed dogs are welcome outside the pavilion. Parking during market hours is at the high school via the new bike path rather than at neighboring businesses.

This is a wholesale produce terminal, not a typical farmers market — 32 acres off I-91 Exit 27 with 144 farmer stalls and more than 185,000 square feet of refrigerated warehouse space. Public retail hours are early: Saturday and Sunday, 6 to 9 a.m., when farmers and wholesalers sell directly off the trucks. Closed weekdays.

Ellington

Saturday mornings from May through October, more than 40 vendors set up at Arbor Park on Main Street selling Connecticut-grown produce, baked goods, and handcrafted wares. A Power of Produce club gets kids shopping with their own tokens, and barnyard animals and live music round out the morning. SNAP benefits are matched, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers are accepted.

Hartford

Set up on Monday afternoons through the summer and fall at the First Presbyterian Church of Hartford, next to the Bushnell theater, this market guarantees everything sold is grown or made in Connecticut. Look for organic and conventional produce, honey, free-range eggs, cut flowers, and homemade jam from a small, rotating group of vendors.

A farmers market on Capitol Avenue in Hartford's West End, near the Bushnell theater and the state Capitol. Confirmed details on vendors, hours, and current season are limited online — check with the City of Hartford for the latest schedule.

Hartford

The Park Street Farmers' Market runs Mondays, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., July through October, in the Walgreens parking lot at Park and Washington Streets. It's one of several markets organized by Hartford Food System, a nonprofit working on food access in the city since 1978. WIC, SNAP, and Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program benefits are all accepted.

Newington

Newington Farmers' Market runs twice a week at Market Square — Thursdays 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. — from late June through October. It sits in the middle of a small shopping center, making it an easy stop for produce and baked goods on either a weekday or weekend errand run.

Billings Forge Farmers Market runs in Hartford's Frog Hollow neighborhood at 563 Broad Street, organized through what's now called Forge City Works — the nonprofit formerly known as Billings Forge Community Works, which also runs a restaurant and grocery focused on food access and job training in the same neighborhood. Reach the organization directly to confirm the market's current season.

Hartford

Forge City Works runs this market year-round at Billings Forge on Broad Street in Hartford, part of a social enterprise pairing food access with job training programs. Stalls carry regional produce and baked goods that shift with the season — summer vegetables give way to root crops and preserves as fall turns to winter.

Ridgefield

The Ridgefield Farmers Market is a friendly, producers-only market on the Jesse Lee Greens — the site of the town's original green on historic Main Street in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Every Saturday from 10 to 1, late June through early October, a curated lineup of growers and makers brings organic farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and specialty items with live music and family activities.

Set on the grounds of the Dudley Farm Museum, a working farm preserved as it looked in 1900, this is the second-oldest continuously run farmers market in Connecticut. Saturday mornings bring local meat, honey, maple syrup, jam, baked goods, and handcrafts, with vendors set up among the museum's farm animals and outbuildings. A smaller winter market runs on alternating Saturdays from February through April.

Hartford

The West End Farmers' Market sets up at Clemens Place Green on Farmington Avenue every Tuesday, 4 to 7 p.m., June through October. It's built around getting fresh, healthy food into Hartford's West End and Asylum Hill neighborhoods through partnerships with local farms and nonprofits, with live music most weeks.

Hartford

The Chrysalis Center runs this Wednesday market at 255 Homestead Avenue, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., June through October. Produce comes from Urban Roots and other Hartford community farmers, with baked goods from La Cocina when available. SNAP/EBT, WIC/FMNP, and Urban Dollars are all accepted, keeping fresh food within reach in a neighborhood with limited grocery access.

Hartford

Chrysalis Center's Food Hub grows produce year-round in its Urban Roots hydroponic center and Railway Gardens raised beds, then channels it into meals and groceries for North Hartford, where an estimated 40,000 children face food insecurity. Its Freshplace program serves up to 100 families. The Hub also runs the Homestead Farmers' Market seasonally, June through October, at 255 Homestead Ave.

Bishop's Orchards has farmed the same land on Boston Post Road in Guilford for generations, and the retail market now sells its own cider, wine, baked pies, and pick-your-own fruit alongside a working creamery and winery tasting room. Pick-your-own runs from strawberries in June through pumpkins in October, and the farm also operates a CSA-style Farm Share program. Call the farm store at 203-453-2338 or the pick-your-own line at 203-458-PICK.

Hartford Food System operates this Wednesday market outside the North End Senior Center at 80 Coventry Street, 9 a.m. to noon, late June through late October. SNAP shoppers get matching incentives on top of their benefits. It's part of a Hartford Food System network that has run food-access programs in the city since 1978.

Berlin Farmers Market operates out of Hungerford Park at 191 Farmington Avenue, on the west side of town. Like many central Connecticut town markets, it runs seasonally with a rotating slate of local growers and food vendors; specific hours and current vendor list weren't publicly confirmed.

New Britain

New Britain Farmers' Market runs Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., July through October, at 109 North Street. Shoppers find organic food, produce, and crafts from Connecticut growers, and the city runs a separate Main Street Market on Wednesdays at Central Park June through October as well.

West Hartford

West Hartford has run a Saturday farmers market at LaSalle Road and Arapahoe Road since 1992, open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from May through December. Road construction on LaSalle in recent seasons has shifted the market to the Town Hall parking lot at 50 South Main Street. Vendors sell cheeses, coffee, microgreens, soups, salsas, fresh cider, pastries, honey, eggs, and yogurt.

Mystic

Mystic-Denison Farmers' Market sets up Sundays, noon to 3 p.m., June through fall, at the Denison Homestead Museum on Pequotsepos Road, across from the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center. The market has run for more than two decades with a strict house rule: everything sold has to be grown or made directly on the vendor's own farm.

Mystic

The Denison Farmers Market sets up Sundays, noon to 3 p.m., June through October, across from the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center at 120 Pequotsepos Road in Mystic. Vendors sell Connecticut-grown fruits and vegetables, baked goods, hemp products, and handmade crafts. The market has run for more than two decades and has become part of Mystic's Sunday routine — a nature center walk pairs naturally with a stop at the stalls.

Plainfield

Plainfield Farmers Market sets up at the Early Learning Center on Route 12 (Norwich Road), running June through October with fruit, vegetables, meat, baked goods, honey, plants, and crafts from area growers. Days and hours shift by season, so check the market's Facebook presence under Northeast CT Farmers Market before heading over.

Wallingford

Wallingford's market sets up on the Railroad Station Green at the junction of Routes 5 and 150, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, July through September.

About 25 vendors set up on the Hill-Stead Museum's 152-acre grounds at 35 Mountain Road in Farmington, selling organic and heirloom vegetables, naturally raised beef, pork, lamb, and poultry, Connecticut-landed seafood, farmstead cheese, bread, and jam. The museum itself is a Colonial Revival estate with an Impressionist art collection — combine the market with a walk through the grounds.

Voluntown

Plainville

Plainville Farmers' Market runs spring through fall at 47 Robert Holcomb Way, with vendors selling fresh produce, dairy, and handmade goods. Listings describe hours spread across multiple days a week rather than a single Saturday morning slot, so it's worth checking current listings before planning a special trip.

Southington

The Southington Community YMCA runs this Friday market on the Town Green from 3 to 6 p.m., July through October. It's a CT Grown market, meaning vendors are required to sell what they actually farm or produce in Connecticut rather than resell.

Westerly