Farmers Markets near Ruskin, FL

Apollo Beach

Apollo Beach Outdoor Market sets up on North US Highway 41 in Apollo Beach, part of a small network of community farmers markets across the Tampa Bay area. Vendors bring seasonal produce and specialty goods, and the draw is as much about meeting the growers as buying from them. Check current hours before heading out, since the schedule shifts by season.

Palmetto

Selling tomatoes since 1920, Sunripe Certified Brands is a multi-generation family business dedicated to providing top quality produce to the community.

Tampa Downtown Partnership runs this Sunday market at 300 Madison Street, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. seasonally, with produce, artisan foods, and handcrafted goods from area vendors. The same block hosts a Third Thursday Street Food Fest each month — food trucks, live music, and two hours of free parking at Grand Central at Kennedy.

Saint Petersburg

Set on Southwest Boulevard North in St. Petersburg, this market brings a small rotation of produce and vendor stalls to the surrounding neighborhood.

This listing covers the same Ybor City Saturday market at the 8th Avenue and 19th Street corner of Centennial Park in Tampa, running every Saturday since 2000. Stalls carry produce, prepared foods, baked bread, and plants alongside cigars, jewelry, and artwork, with picnic tables and public restrooms on-site for the crowds that come through rain or shine.

Tampa

Every Saturday, year-round, rain or shine, vendors fill Centennial Park at 1800 E. 8th Ave. in historic Ybor City. Running since 2000, it's the largest continually operating outdoor market in the Tampa Bay area, selling produce, gourmet foods and sauces, fresh bread, herbs and plants, honey, and fine cigars. Hours shorten during the summer months, May through September.

Tampa

Operating since 2000, the Ybor City Saturday Market is the largest continually operating outdoor market in the Tampa Bay area, set in the heart of Tampa's Historic District. Shoppers meet artists selling one-of-a-kind pieces made right in their booths alongside locally produced gourmet foods, jams, baked goods, and fresh lemonade.

Tampa

Held the second Sunday of every month at American Legion Post 111 on North Florida Avenue, this Tampa market has run since 2010 and draws 60-plus vendors for produce, plants, baked goods, jams, and local art, plus a lunch counter and live music. Free parking, dog-friendly, with a Kids Market for young vendors on-site.

Gulfport

Every Tuesday, year-round, more than 50 vendors line both sidewalks of Beach Boulevard in Gulfport's Waterfront District for this market, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. October through May and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in summer. Expect locally grown and hydroponic produce, raw honey, Gulf seafood, grass-fed beef, and prepared foods, with free parking and walking access to the district's galleries and beach.

Tampa

Sanwa Farmer's Market in Tampa is a warehouse-club-style market open to the public with no membership fees, run by Sanwa Food Group. It carries a huge selection of multicultural foods and flavors plus top national brands, sold by the piece, case, or pallet, with a multilingual staff and service seven days a week.

Set on USF's Tampa campus at East Fowler Avenue, this market runs weekdays during spring and fall, drawing students, faculty, and neighboring residents for fresh, locally grown produce and handmade goods.

Sarasota

Madeira Beach

Mid-Week Madeira Beach Market runs Wednesdays, typically 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., seasonally from spring through fall, at 15004 Madeira Way. Vendors bring fresh produce and local food products to this beach-town stop, a smaller midweek counterpart to the area's weekend markets. Confirm current season dates before visiting, since Gulf Coast markets often pause in summer heat.

Lemon Avenue and Main Street Sarasota

More than 70 vendors set up at Main Street and Lemon Avenue every Saturday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round — produce, local seafood, orchids and citrus, artisan foods, and handmade crafts. The market has run downtown since 1979 and adds live music most weeks. Street parking is free nearby.

Oldsmar Downtown Fresh Market sets up Saturdays, spring through fall, next to City Hall on State Street West. Vendors bring local produce and food goods to the market, which functions as Oldsmar's answer to the larger Tampa Bay-area weekend markets. Confirm current season dates before visiting.

Plant City State Farmers' Market is one of Florida's state-operated wholesale markets, run by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services at 1305 West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Like its sister state markets in Pompano Beach and Palatka, its job is moving farm products from growers to buyers through wholesale facilities rather than retail stalls.

Market In The Park is a Saturday community market in Largo, offering fresh produce, plants, and gourmet foods from local growers and vendors. It functions as a neighborhood market rather than a wholesale market, and the vendor lineup shifts with the seasons. Beyond that, there's little verified information about it online.

Old Miakka Farmer's Market is held at the Old Miakka United Methodist Church on Myakka Road, in the rural Old Miakka community east of Sarasota. It's a small, church-hosted market serving a farming community rather than the city itself. Specific vendor and schedule details weren't confirmable online.

Central Sarasota Farmers Market operates on South Beneva Road in Sarasota, apart from the city's better-known downtown Saturday market on Lemon Avenue. It gives shoppers on Sarasota's central corridor a closer option than the waterfront district.

Indian Shores

Indian Shores Sunday Morning Market runs Sundays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 19305 Gulf Boulevard between Indian Rocks Beach and Indian Shores. Organizers bill it as a boutique open-air market: gourmet foods, local specialty items, hydroponic produce, and fine art and crafts rather than a standard produce stand lineup. It's listed with the Florida Department of Agriculture as a certified community farmers market.

Plant City Farmers Market operates on West Sam Allen Road in Plant City, the self-described Winter Strawberry Capital of the World. It's a separate, smaller market from the city's state-run wholesale farmers market across town. Specific current vendor and schedule details weren't confirmable online.

Clearwater Gateway Farmers Market operates on Franklin Street, a separate stop from the city's larger Cleveland Street market a few blocks away in downtown Clearwater.

Clearwater

Downtown Clearwater Farmers' Market is the city's flagship market on Cleveland Street, Clearwater's historic downtown corridor a short walk from Coachman Park and the waterfront.

Clearwater

Clearwater Downtown Farmers' Market sets up on the 500 block of Cleveland Street, the main commercial strip through downtown Clearwater a few blocks in from the waterfront.