Farmers Markets near Garden Valley, CA

Garden Valley

A small mountain-town market at Garden Valley Park, at the corner of Marshall Grade and Garden Valley roads in the El Dorado foothills. Online details are thin beyond the address and phone number, which fits a market this size and this local — call ahead if you're coming from out of the area.

Garden Valley

Placerville

Placerville

Placerville

Placerville

SOL CFM sets up on the Fox Lot in downtown Placerville and is certified to sell only what comes from El Dorado County farms — no resellers, no imported produce. Vendors bring fruit, vegetables, baked goods, cut flowers, and handmade woodworking through the summer season, all within walking distance of Main Street's shops.

Diamond Springs

Diamond Springs was settled in 1848 as a Gold Rush camp in El Dorado County — miners once pulled a 25-pound gold nugget from the ground here, among the largest ever found in the county. This certified market serves the Sierra foothill community that grew up around the old diggings.

Foresthill

A small-town farmers market on Main Street in Foresthill, a Placer County community in the Sierra foothills and a gateway to Tahoe National Forest.

A family-run market at 3400 Carson Ct. in Camino, in the Apple Hill fruit-growing region of El Dorado County. Owner Doug Alberts sells flowers, vegetables, honey, maple products, and nursery trees, with hours that shift by season — call ahead before driving up the hill.

Auburn

A food hub listing in Auburn, California, in the Sierra foothills' Gold Country farming region. No verified details on this specific hub's growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

Cameron Park

Located at 3185 Auburn-Folsom Rd. in Newcastle, a Sierra foothill town in the fruit belt between Auburn and Folsom. Vendors sell local produce and crafts. No current hours are listed publicly — worth a call before visiting.

El Dorado Hills

A farmers market on Harvard Way in El Dorado Hills, a Sierra foothill community in El Dorado County — Gold Rush country east of Sacramento.

El Dorado Hills

Auburn

Open Saturday mornings, 8 a.m. to noon, spring through fall, at 11665 Lakeshore North inside the Lake of the Pines community near Auburn. Neighbors gather to buy locally grown produce from vendors serving this Nevada County foothill development.

Auburn

This Saturday market runs mornings, 8am to noon, spring through fall, at 10056 Combie Road in Auburn. Vendors bring seasonal produce, handcrafted goods, and other locally made items to the Combie Road corridor near Lake of the Pines, serving Auburn and Nevada County shoppers looking for a smaller, community-run alternative to the bigger valley markets.

Granite Bay

Sunday market in the parking lot of Quarry Ponds Town Center, 5550 Douglas Blvd. in Granite Bay, running May through October. It's part of the PlacerGROWN network, with regular vendors including Pierce's Family Farm, Rice River Ranch, Farm Charm Flowers, Bravo's Produce, Calolea Olive Oil, and Father & Son Farm.

Plymouth

The Amador Farmers Market Association runs certified markets in both Plymouth and Sutter Creek from May through October, and the Plymouth stop sets up at Main Street Park. Vendors sell fresh produce, cut flowers, prepared foods, and handcrafted goods from Amador County growers and makers, with SNAP and WIC accepted at every stall. The Association's motto sums up the pitch: eat fresh, buy local, grow together.

Folsom

A farmers market on Coolidge Drive in Folsom, a Sacramento County city built around Folsom Lake and the American River.

Orangevale

Orangevale Farmers' Market sets up in the Dairy Queen parking lot on Greenback Lane, in a Sacramento County community platted in the 1880s as a citrus colony before frost cycles pushed growers toward other crops. Vendor list and hours aren't confirmed online.

Grass Valley

Nevada County Certified Growers' Market is held at the Historic North Star House on Auburn Road in Grass Valley, a former Gold Rush mining town in the Sierra foothills. Growers from Nevada County's small farms and orchards sell direct at the historic estate grounds.

Roseville

This certified market sets up Tuesdays, year-round, in the parking lot at the Fountains at Roseville, in front of Peet's Coffee and Whole Foods on Galleria Boulevard. PlacerGROWN certifies the market's growers but doesn't run day-to-day operations — that falls to an independent market management team. Expect the usual mix of Placer County produce, cheese, and specialty foods, with shopping-center parking nearby.

A farmers market on Bubbling Wells Road in Grass Valley, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Nevada County — Gold Rush country built around the old Empire Mine.

Grass Valley

Grass Valley

Grass Valley has run a farmers market since 1980, now spread across three weekly slots downtown near Mill and Main: Saturdays, April through November, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, May through September, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Thursday evenings in early summer at Mill Street Plaza with a concert series attached.

RANCHO MURIETA

Rancho Murieta is a gated golf and equestrian community in Sacramento County built around the Cosumnes River. This market runs out of the Rancho Murieta Marketplace shopping center, serving residents of the community and the surrounding Highway 16 corridor rather than drawing traffic from outside the area.

Lincoln

Lincoln's downtown market sets up on F Street in Placer County, in a town built on Gladding, McBean & Co., the terra cotta and pipe works that's operated here since the early 1870s. It's a small Sacramento Valley community market, not a large regional draw.

Rocklin

Rocklin is a fast-growing Placer County suburb east of Sacramento, historically a granite-quarrying town before it became a bedroom community. This market runs at the Blue Oaks Center near RC Willey, a suburban stop for growers from the surrounding foothill farms rather than a downtown or historic market.

Citrus Heights

The Citrus Heights farmers market at Sunrise Mall is part of the I Love My Farmers Market network run by Living Smart, which operates weekly year-round markets rain or shine across the Sacramento region. The markets pair certified farmers and specialty food vendors with cooking demos, canning lessons, gardening tips, and live local music, in support of farmers, small businesses, and youth programs.

Citrus Heights

More than 50 booths set up at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, mixing certified organic growers with specialty food vendors — enough of a following that the market's Facebook page has topped 4,000 followers. It's one of the larger mall-anchored markets in the Sacramento suburbs, with produce vendors selling alongside prepared-food stalls.

Fair Oaks

A farmers market on Sunset Avenue in Fair Oaks, a Sacramento County community along the American River that got its start in the 1890s as a citrus colony.

Rancho Cordova