Farmers Markets near Oakland, CA

San Leandro

A farm listing in San Leandro, California. The operation's website was still in pre-launch status during research, with crops, hours, and products not yet published.

Castro Valley

Castro Valley Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round at the Castro Valley BART station, rain or shine. Urban Village Farmers' Markets operates it and matches EBT spending dollar for dollar up to $15 on fruits and vegetables, a real discount, not a marketing line. The market also takes WIC and Veggie Rx vouchers.

San Leandro

The Bayfair market has run every Saturday since 1994, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the mall's parking lot at 15555 E. 14th St. The California Farmers' Markets Association runs it, pulling in more than 45 growers and food producers — Brentwood corn, Delta asparagus, Watsonville berries. It draws shoppers from San Leandro, Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, and Hayward, and takes EBT. Its exact spot in the lot shifts through the season.

Saturday market at Hayward City Hall Plaza, 777 B St., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round, rain or shine. Run by Agricultural Institute of Marin organizers, it has grown past 35 regular vendors — nearly 60 during summer — over more than two decades, and sits one block from BART.

San Leandro

San Leandro's downtown market closes off Parrott Street between E. 14th and Washington Wednesdays from April through October, 3 to 7 p.m. It's a smaller, after-work market than the city's Saturday Bayfair market — produce, cut flowers, and baked goods packed into a few downtown blocks instead of a mall parking lot. Exact start and end dates shift year to year, so it's worth checking before the first spring visit.

San Leandro

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this certified market on the Kaiser Permanente San Leandro campus at 2500 Merced Street. Local growers bring fresh, seasonal produce and goods to hospital staff, patients, and San Leandro residents as part of PCFMA's Bay Area network of more than 30 certified markets.

Union City

This certified market runs every Tuesday, 10am to 2pm, year-round and rain or shine, at Kaiser Permanente's medical offices on Whipple Road in Union City. Growers sell fresh California produce, and many — though not all — of the fruits and vegetables are grown without chemical treatment. It's a weekly stop for hospital staff, patients, and neighborhood shoppers looking for fresh food close to home.

Union City

Runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Old Alvarado Park, one of more than 30 certified markets across the Bay Area operated by the nonprofit Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association. Alameda County growers set up stalls along the historic Alvarado townsite in Union City to sell direct to shoppers.

Alameda

Tuesday and Saturday market at 1451 Harbor Bay Pkwy. in Alameda, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall. It's part of the PCFMA (Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association) network, which runs certified markets across the Bay Area sourced directly from grower-vendors.

Oakland

Set inside the Fruitvale Transit Village at 3411 E. 12th St., steps from BART, this market is run by the Unity Council as part of a larger community hub. Vendors sell fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables alongside Latin American food stalls and crafts. Call the Unity Council at 510-535-7178 to confirm the current market day — listings disagree on whether it runs Thursdays or Sundays.

Danville

Danville's certified market runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., organized by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association, which operates more than a dozen certified markets across the East Bay. Every vendor is required to sell only what they personally grow or raise.

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.

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.

Oakland

Fremont

Saturday morning market along Bonde Way in Fremont's Centerville district, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., organized by the Fremont Farmers Market Association. Stalls run a full city block with produce growers, cut flowers, baked goods, and prepared food. The vendor mix leans into the area's large Asian community — look for bok choy, Thai basil, and produce you won't find at a typical suburban stand.

Fremont

Forty-plus growers set up every Saturday, 9am to 1pm, in Niles Town Plaza on Niles Blvd — rain or shine, straight through holidays most markets close for. Alongside produce you'll find local honey, dairy, meats, coffee roasters, bakeries, and fresh-pressed juices, plus live music most weeks. The market takes SNAP/CalFresh and Veggie Rx vouchers, which plenty of certified California markets still don't. It's been a fixture of Fremont's historic Niles district for years.

Oakland

Saturday market at Splash Pad Park, Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue in Oakland, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., year-round. Run by the Agricultural Institute of Marin, it has operated near Lake Merritt since the late 1990s and grew substantially after the park's 2003 redesign by Oakland architect Walter Hood. Expect organic produce, flowers, coffee, and prepared foods like dim sum, with grassy space to eat under the palm trees.

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.

Orinda

Alameda

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association operates a certified market in Alameda's West End near Haight Avenue and Webster Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Alameda is an island city in the East Bay, and the market draws growers from Central Valley and coastal farms who sell direct rather than through wholesale.

Oakland

A food hub listing in Oakland, California. No verified details on growers, products, or hours turned up in current research.

Walnut Creek

Oakland

Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center hosts a certified farmers market on its Broadway campus, running seasonally in spring through fall. Local growers bring fresh produce to the hospital grounds for patients, staff, and the surrounding Pill Hill neighborhood. Confirm this season's exact day and hours before visiting, since Kaiser's hospital-campus markets shift with staffing and season.

Oakland

Fremont

Kaiser Permanente's Fremont Medical Center at 39400 Paseo Padre Parkway hosts a certified farmers market on its campus, giving local growers a spot to sell fresh produce to patients, staff, and nearby residents. It's one of several weekly markets Kaiser hosts on Bay Area hospital grounds.

Oakland

The Freedom Farmers' Market serves as a gathering place that is creating harmony while offering a variety of produce, fruits, and healthy foods grown by Black farmers and other underserved farmers. People come to the Market not only to shop, but to socialize and to reconnect with a history that ties food to land, culture and community building.

Oakland

Oakland

Oakland

Listed in West Oakland near the Mandela Marketplace corridor, part of a cluster of worker- and community-owned food businesses built to bring fresh produce distribution into a neighborhood long underserved by grocery retail. Specific details on this listing's current operations were not independently verified.

Dublin

A weekly farmers market at Emerald Glen Park in Dublin, an Alameda County city in the Tri-Valley area east of Oakland.

Berkeley

Dow Village

Royal Food Hub appears in local food directories as a small organic provider based in Dow Village. Beyond that listing, no website, hours, or product details could be verified — worth a call before visiting if you're in the area.

Fremont

Fremont's Irvington district hosts this certified market every Sunday, 9am to 2pm, year-round, at Bay Street and Trimboli Way. Regional growers bring strawberries, corn, tomatoes, peppers, peaches, and specialty greens alongside kettle corn, fresh bread, honey, and fish. The market accepts CalFresh EBT and Market Match, doubling produce dollars for shoppers who qualify. Street parking runs along Trimboli, Bay Street, and Irvington Avenue — the Monument Shopping Center lot is off-limits.

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.

A farmers market on Foster City Boulevard in Foster City, a San Mateo County community built on filled bay marshland starting in the 1960s.

Emeryville

This market's address places it at the Bay Street shopping center at 5616 Bay Street in Emeryville, though a check of Bay Street's own site turned up no active farmers market listing — Emeryville's Saturday market now runs instead at the Public Market on Shellmound Street. Confirm before visiting; the listing may be outdated or the market may have relocated.

Berkeley

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.

Berkeley

Located on the Kaiser Permanente Redwood City medical campus at 1150 Veterans Boulevard, this market brings produce vendors onto hospital grounds for patients, staff, and nearby residents. Bay Area Kaiser campuses have run these onsite markets for years as part of member wellness programs.

Redwood City

West Coast Farmers Markets, which has run weekly certified markets across San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties since 2011, operates this market on the Kaiser Permanente Redwood City campus at 1150 Veterans Boulevard. Certified organic growers and local artisans set up for hospital staff, patients, and Redwood City residents. Free parking for the market is available in the garage at 1250 Veterans Boulevard, at Maple Street.

Redwood City

The Redwood City Kiwanis Farmers Market is a certified farmers market run by the local Kiwanis volunteer organization, offering produce to the community every Saturday from 8 AM until noon, April through November. Seasonal features include local honey drinks, small-batch pet treats, gluten-free baked goods, face painting, and community booths like the Peninsula Rose Society.

Belmont

PCFMA's Belmont Farmers' Market runs every Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round at 1201 El Camino Real, near the O'Neill Street intersection. Like the association's other Peninsula markets, stalls sell California-grown produce and accept CalFresh and WIC, with Market Match stretching food-assistance dollars further on fresh fruit and vegetables. Shoppers can check pcfma.org for the current week's vendor roster before heading over.

Redwood City

The Kiwanis Club of Redwood City runs this certified market on Arguello Street, a civic-club-sponsored market rather than one operated by a farmers' market association. Redwood City sits on the San Francisco Peninsula, and the market draws growers from the coastal and valley farms within a short drive.

An award-winning evening market, this one runs Thursdays, 4 to 8pm, May through September, on the 700 block of Laurel Street between Cherry and Olive. The San Carlos Chamber of Commerce runs it, and downtown businesses extend their hours on market nights to catch the crowd it pulls in. Beyond organic produce and flowers, expect live music and local artists set up along the street.

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.

San Mateo

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs this certified market on 25th Avenue in San Mateo every Tuesday from 3 to 7 p.m., timed for the after-work and after-school crowd. It's one of more than thirty PCFMA markets across the Bay Area, stocked with growers from the Central Valley and coastal farms who sell direct rather than through distributors.

Menlo Park

El Cerrito

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

A nonprofit that operates more than a dozen certified farmers markets across the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay, including Stanford, Foster City, Brisbane, Gilroy, and Carmel Valley. Locations run on different weekday and weekend schedules, connecting Northern California growers directly with shoppers, hospital campuses, and community centers.

San Mateo

The San Mateo Farmers' Market, run by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association, is held Saturdays from 9 AM to 1 PM year-round at 1700 W Hillsdale Boulevard, connecting Peninsula shoppers with California farmers and their seasonal harvests.

Burlingame

Burlingame Fresh Market opens every Sunday from May through December, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., along Park Road at Burlingame Avenue. The Burlingame Chamber of Commerce runs it, and beyond produce and flowers the food stalls lean international, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, and American vendors sit side by side. Live music and a balloon artist round it out for families.

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.

San Francisco

Palo Alto

The California Avenue Farmers' Market in Palo Alto runs Sundays from 9 AM to 1 PM year-round, rain or shine, on California Avenue at El Camino. Operated by the Urban Village Farmers' Market Association, the market accepts EBT and WIC with a dollar-for-dollar Market Match up to $15 for fruits and vegetables, and hosts knife sharpening every first Sunday.

San Francisco

Mission Bay Farmers' Market operates on Gene Friend Way between 3rd and 4th Streets in San Francisco's Mission Bay district, near UCSF's Mission Bay campus. It serves a fast-growing neighborhood of offices, labs, and new residential towers built largely since the 2000s.

Brisbane

The Brisbane Community Farmers' Market has run every Thursday at Brisbane Community Park since it launched in April 2012, with hours shifting from 3 to 7 p.m. in summer to 2 to 6 p.m. once daylight shortens. The West Coast Farmers Market Association organizes it, bringing in regional growers for seasonal produce, fruit, baked goods, and artisan goods just off Old County Road.

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.

Held Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the grounds of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System at 3801 Miranda Avenue. The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association runs the stalls, giving veterans, hospital staff, and Santa Clara County neighbors a direct line to local growers without leaving the medical campus.