Farmers Markets near Fairfield, CA

Held Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon, year-round, near Main and Davis Streets in downtown Vacaville. The market mixes certified farm stands with prepared-food vendors, artisans, and local wineries and breweries. New sellers can sign on as annual, seasonal, or week-to-week vendors.

VACAVILLE

Nut Tree Certified Farmers Market sets up at Nut Tree Plaza on East Monte Vista Avenue in Vacaville, the retail center built on the site of a roadside walnut stand that grew from a 1920s orchard fruit stand into a Northern California landmark before its redevelopment. Vendor list and hours aren't confirmed online.

Downtown Napa's certified farmers market runs Saturdays year-round, 8 a.m. to noon, with an added Tuesday market during the growing season (April through December). Regional growers sell produce and flowers alongside vendors offering specialty foods and artisan goods. It operates in a city lot in downtown Napa, in wine country, but produce and flowers are the actual draw.

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American Canyon

American Canyon's Sunday farmers market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 100 Benton Way, next to the community center and Donaldson Way Elementary. The American Canyon Parks Foundation helped bring the market to the city, working with PCFMA to book local growers selling seasonal fruit, vegetables, and artisan cheese. Call for vendor or sponsorship questions.

Vallejo

This certified market runs every Friday, 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine, on the Kaiser Permanente campus at 975 Sereno Drive in Vallejo. Local growers bring fresh, California-grown produce to hospital patients, staff, and the surrounding neighborhood every week, with no seasonal closures.

Vallejo

Runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Georgia and Marin Streets in downtown Vallejo, one of the Bay Area markets operated by the nonprofit Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association. Solano County growers sell produce a few blocks from the waterfront along the Carquinez Strait.

Benicia

A certified farmers market serving the Solano and Napa County area, where Central Valley and North Bay growers sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers.

Benicia's Thursday market has run along the Historic Waterfront since 1993, making it the largest independent certified farmers market in Solano County. Peak-season hours run 4 to 8 p.m. through late August, then shift to 4 to 7 p.m. through October as daylight shortens. Beyond produce, tables cover specialty foods, artisan goods, and live music most weeks. Benicia Main Street runs it.

Crockett

Crockett is a small Carquinez Strait town built around the C&H Sugar refinery, which still operates as C&H's headquarters today, though it now processes imported raw sugar rather than the Hawaiian cane it ran on for most of the 20th century. This market serves Crockett and neighboring Port Costa, two of Contra Costa County's smallest communities.

Martinez

Martinez Farmers' Market takes over Main Street Plaza at Main and Estudillo Streets in downtown Martinez, the Contra Costa County seat on the Carquinez Strait. It's a walkable downtown market serving the East Bay's northern edge.

Concord

Fresh Approach is a Concord nonprofit that runs mobile farmers markets across the Bay Area with 50% off produce for CalFresh and EBT shoppers. Its VeggieRx program pairs fresh produce with nutrition coaching, and its Community Ambassador Program trains local residents for food-system jobs. The group also tends community gardens, including one in East Palo Alto, and has worked in food access since 2008.

Martinez

The Martinez farmers' market sets up Sundays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 2500 Alhambra Avenue under the Contra Costa Certified Farmers Market program. Tables carry fresh produce, meat, and dairy from local farms alongside goods from area artisans. It draws a loyal following, the market's Facebook page has grown to nearly 4,700 followers.

Concord

Concord runs two farmers markets a week under the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Thursdays 4 to 8 p.m., both in Todos Santos Plaza downtown. PCFMA is a longtime certified-market operator across the Bay Area, meaning every stall is required to sell only what the vendor actually grows or raises — no resellers.

Pittsburg

Old Town Pittsburg's certified market sets up on Railroad Avenue at East 6th Street, Saturdays from roughly 9am to 1pm, May through October. Shoppers find the usual seasonal produce mix plus cheese, honey, and eggs from Northern California growers, in a stretch of downtown that's walkable from the historic depot area. It's seasonal — it doesn't run through winter.

Pleasant Hill

Pleasant Hill Farmers' Market sets up on Trelany Road in this Contra Costa County suburb east of Walnut Creek. Vendor list, market day, and hours aren't confirmed online.

Pinole

The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this Saturday market, 9am to 1pm, year-round, at Fernandez Avenue. It's one of more than 30 certified markets PCFMA operates across the Bay Area, all built around the same rule — vendors have to grow or make what they're selling, no resellers. A steady, no-frills produce market rather than a festival-style event.

Walnut Creek

Diablo Valley's certified market operates in the Shadelands area of Walnut Creek, run by the California Farmers' Markets Association — the nonprofit behind 15 certified markets across the Bay Area, all restricted to vendors selling what they personally grow or raise.

Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek

Set up outside the cafeteria at Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek Medical Center on South Main Street, this certified market runs every Tuesday, 10am to 2pm, year-round. Local growers bring fresh produce, organic items, and crafts to the campus grounds, drawing hospital staff and East Bay shoppers to a weekly stop between Main Street and the medical center.

Boyes Hot Springs

Orinda

Walnut Creek

This one comes with a catch most markets don't have: it's open only to Rossmoor residents and their families, run out of the Gateway parking lot near Golden Rain Road and Tice Valley Road every Friday, May through October, 9:30am to 1pm. Fifteen-plus local farmers sell produce and flowers alongside prepackaged and hot food. Non-residents get pointed to the Saturday Diablo Valley Farmers' Market in Walnut Creek instead.

Richmond

Urban Tilth runs North Richmond Farm, a 10-acre urban agriculture site that anchors the group's food justice work in Richmond, California. The nonprofit sells CSA shares, gives away produce at free farm stands, hands out fruit trees through its Orchard for ALL program, and grows native plants at its own nursery. It also trains and hires local residents to do the growing, treating job creation as part of the food-access mission.

Richmond

Richmond's certified market sets up at 24th Street and Barrett Avenue in the city's Iron Triangle neighborhood, an East Bay refinery and shipping town more associated with industry than farmland. Growers from the surrounding Bay Area counties sell direct here rather than through wholesale channels.

El Cerrito

A weekly farmers market at El Cerrito Plaza, a Contra Costa County shopping center next to the El Cerrito Plaza BART station.

Alamo

Alamo is an unincorporated, affluent Contra Costa County community along Interstate 680. This certified market sets up in the Bank of America parking lot on Alamo Plaza, a small local stop for growers from the surrounding East Bay farmland rather than a large regional market.

Richmond

Richmond Main Street Initiative, a nonprofit working to bring foot traffic back to downtown Richmond, runs this Wednesday market, 10am to 2pm, at Nevin Plaza near Nevin Avenue and 13th Street. Fresh seasonal produce shares the plaza with live music, artisan vendors, baked goods, and kettle corn — part farmers market, part weekly gathering point for a neighborhood in the middle of a comeback.

Rio Vista

A Market Advisory Committee under the Rio Vista Downtown Association runs this certified market on Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd, in the small Sacramento River Delta town of Rio Vista. It's built as much as a community meeting point as a shopping trip — locally grown produce sold direct by the farmers who grew it, county-certified and approved by the agricultural commissioner.

Berkeley

Esparto

Berkeley

Davis

Spork Food Hub is a farmer-owned produce distributor in Davis that buys from California family farms and delivers wholesale to schools, hospitals, and institutions including UC Davis and Meals on Wheels. It handles pre-cut, ready-to-serve vegetables alongside whole produce and promises 2-3 day turnaround with full farm-to-table traceability. Its salad bar takeover program swaps in peak-season vegetables for institutional kitchens.

Novato

Novato

The City of Novato runs this one on Tuesdays, May through October, on Sherman Avenue next to City Hall's lawn — 4 to 8pm through summer, trimming to 4 to 7pm as the season winds down in October. Local growers set up alongside prepared-food stalls, live music, and kids' activities, making the grassy setting as much a weeknight hangout as a produce run. It's seasonal, not year-round.

San Rafael

Marinwood Community Farmers' Market operates on Marinwood Avenue in the Marinwood neighborhood of San Rafael. Marin County is home to some of the Bay Area's best-known organic and small-scale farms, and this market serves the community north of downtown San Rafael.

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Petaluma

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