Farmers Markets near Cumberland, ME

Portland

Portland Winter Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., December through April, moving indoors once the outdoor summer market at Deering Oaks Park closes for the season. It's run by the same organization behind Portland's warm-weather market, with a newsletter and social accounts for weekly vendor updates.

Portland

Cultivating Community runs two farms supporting 60 families and manages community garden plots where more than 485 people grow their own food each year in the Portland area. The nonprofit paid 50 young people through leadership internships and brought garden-based lessons to about 3,000 elementary students. In 2024 it delivered $190,000 worth of culturally specific crops to food pantries and matched $187,000 in SNAP/EBT and WIC benefits through its food access programs.

Westbrook

Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods distributes to commercial kitchens across Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, stocking more than 3,000 products sourced from over 140 local farms and outside suppliers. Restaurants order through a B2B portal or mobile app, with deliveries running five days a week out of the Westbrook warehouse. A curbside pickup arm, Native Maine Direct, serves smaller orders that don't need a full delivery route.

South Portland

Preble Street is Portland's longtime anti-hunger and anti-poverty nonprofit, running soup kitchen, shelter, and resource programs across the city. This listing is for its Food Security Hub site on Darling Avenue in South Portland, part of the same food-industry corridor as Fork Food Lab next door.

South Portland

Fork Food Lab rents commercial kitchen space and processing equipment to food entrepreneurs who aren't ready to build their own facility. The South Portland space runs over 30,000 square feet and currently supports more than 80 member businesses, from bakers to sauce makers, at different membership tiers. It's Maine's only nonprofit food business incubator of its kind, built to get small food businesses past the commercial-kitchen bottleneck.

Gorham

Greater Gorham Farmers' Market sets up Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., May through October, in the small park between the library and the Gorham Times office on South Street.

Scarborough

Scarborough Farmers' Market sets up along US Route 1, one of several markets strung along that stretch of coastal Cumberland County. No vendor roster or schedule was available online at the time of research.

Auburn

Harvesting Good freezes vegetables at peak ripeness and distributes them to grocery stores, schools, hospitals, and senior centers across the Northeast. It runs as a subsidiary of Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine, built to give regional farmers a processing outlet when their harvest outpaces the fresh market. The operation fills a gap most small Northeast farms hit every year: too much produce, too short a fresh-sale window.

Poland Farmers Market sets up on Maine Street in this Androscoggin County town, best known as the home of Poland Spring water. No independently verifiable schedule or vendor details turned up online beyond the address on file.

Lewiston

Casco Farmers' Market meets at 940 Meadow Road in this Lakes Region town. No independently verifiable schedule, vendor list, or contact details turned up online beyond the address on file.

Brunswick

Saco

Saco River Market sits on Main Street in downtown Saco, a separate listing from the open-air Farmers' and Artisans' Market held across town at the Saco Valley Shopping Center. No vendor list, products, or hours turned up in a search.

Saco

Saco Farmers' and Artisans' Market sets up in the Saco Valley Shopping Center lot on Route 1, pairing produce vendors with local craftspeople rather than running as a produce-only market — the split focus is built right into the name. It's part of southern Maine's seasonal market circuit, running through the growing season rather than staying open year-round.

Bridgton Farmers' Market sets up Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon, on Depot Street from May through October. Bridgton anchors Maine's Lakes Region, and the market's May-to-October run lines up with the area's peak lake-and-camp tourist season.