Farmers Markets near Romney, WV

Romney

Romney's farmers market meets on Heritage Circle in the oldest chartered town in West Virginia, seat of Hampshire County in the South Branch Potomac valley. The fertile bottomlands here have grown crops for generations, and area farmers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods to market through the growing season. It sits in the Eastern Panhandle's Potomac Highlands.

Keyser

Mineral County's farmers market meets along US 220 at the Keyser Assembly of God, just outside Keyser, the county seat on the North Branch of the Potomac. This is Potomac Highlands country near the Maryland line and Cumberland. Area growers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods to a market that runs through the warmer months.

Keyser

LaVale

LaVale Farmers' Market operates seasonally at 1262 Vocke Road in the Cumberland area of Allegany County, offering local produce, baked goods, and handcrafted items typical of western Maryland roadside markets. Confirm current vendor lineup and open days directly with the market before visiting.

Cumberland

Canal Place Farmers Market runs Thursday mornings, roughly 9:30 to 1, at the historic canal basin in downtown Cumberland — one stop on the Allegany Farmers Market Association's weekly rotation that also covers the college campus and Frostburg. Produce, herbs, bedding plants, cut flowers, and baked goods fill most of the tables, May through October.

Cumberland

Allegany College Farmers Market is the Allegany Farmers Market Association's stand at the Allegany College of Maryland campus in Cumberland, open Saturday mornings alongside the group's other stops in Canal Place and Frostburg. Expect a smaller, curated lineup of area farmers and food makers rather than a sprawling market — seasonal fruit, vegetables, and baked goods, spring through fall.

Cumberland

Downtown Cumberland's market takes over Baltimore Street Thursdays, roughly 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., from May through October. Regulars include Mountain Valley Orchard and Rice's Orchard alongside smaller growers from both Maryland and just across the West Virginia line, selling produce, herbs, plants, flowers, and home-baked goods. Its Facebook page has built up nearly 4,000 followers over the years — modest but steady for a small-city market.

Allegany Mountain Fresh sets up on Baltimore Street in downtown Cumberland every Saturday morning, roughly 9:30 to 1, with produce, baked goods, flowers, and artisan crafts from area vendors. It accepts SNAP and EBT, which matters in a city where the closest grocery store isn't always walkable. Part of the same Allegany Farmers Market Association network that runs the Canal Place and college markets.

Frostburg

Frostburg's market splits its year: Fridays, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at City Place on Water Street from May through October, then a scaled-back winter version at Mountain City Traditional Arts on Main Street, first and third Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It's part of the Allegany Mountain Fresh Farmers Markets network, selling locally grown fruit, vegetables, flowers, meat, baked goods, coffee, and soap.

Lost City

This producers' market gathers in the Lost River valley of Hardy County, on Mill Gap Road near Lost River State Park in the Eastern Panhandle mountains. It's a small rural market serving a scenic, thinly settled corner of the Potomac Highlands. Local growers and makers show up on market days through the growing season, roughly late spring into fall.

A seven-day-a-week farm market on John Marshall Highway (Route 55) in Strasburg, in the northern Shenandoah Valley. Shelves carry hanging baskets, herbs, perennials, and vegetable plants through the growing season, alongside fresh produce and bakery items. It sits just off I-66 and I-81, an easy stop for gardeners and travelers moving through the valley. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Marker Miller Orchards works 325 acres of apples and 15 acres of peaches on Cedar Creek Grade southwest of Winchester, plus harder-to-find Virginia fruit like damsons and apricots. The farm market stocks its own produce alongside a bakery known for apple cider donuts and pies, fudge, and hand-dipped ice cream. Pick-your-own runs for blackberries, raspberries, and cut flowers.