Farmers Markets near Southington, CT

Southington

The Southington Community YMCA runs this Friday market on the Town Green from 3 to 6 p.m., July through October. It's a CT Grown market, meaning vendors are required to sell what they actually farm or produce in Connecticut rather than resell.

Plainville

Plainville Farmers' Market runs spring through fall at 47 Robert Holcomb Way, with vendors selling fresh produce, dairy, and handmade goods. Listings describe hours spread across multiple days a week rather than a single Saturday morning slot, so it's worth checking current listings before planning a special trip.

Berlin Farmers Market operates out of Hungerford Park at 191 Farmington Avenue, on the west side of town. Like many central Connecticut town markets, it runs seasonally with a rotating slate of local growers and food vendors; specific hours and current vendor list weren't publicly confirmed.

Ridgefield

The Ridgefield Farmers Market is a friendly, producers-only market on the Jesse Lee Greens — the site of the town's original green on historic Main Street in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Every Saturday from 10 to 1, late June through early October, a curated lineup of growers and makers brings organic farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and specialty items with live music and family activities.

Bristol

Bristol Farmers' Market runs downtown at the corner of North Main Street and Riverside Avenue, in the area locally known as "The Patch." Specific season dates and current vendor lineup weren't confirmed beyond the location.

New Britain

New Britain Farmers' Market runs Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., July through October, at 109 North Street. Shoppers find organic food, produce, and crafts from Connecticut growers, and the city runs a separate Main Street Market on Wednesdays at Central Park June through October as well.

About 25 vendors set up on the Hill-Stead Museum's 152-acre grounds at 35 Mountain Road in Farmington, selling organic and heirloom vegetables, naturally raised beef, pork, lamb, and poultry, Connecticut-landed seafood, farmstead cheese, bread, and jam. The museum itself is a Colonial Revival estate with an Impressionist art collection — combine the market with a walk through the grounds.

Wallingford

Wallingford's market sets up on the Railroad Station Green at the junction of Routes 5 and 150, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, July through September.

Newington

Newington Farmers' Market runs twice a week at Market Square — Thursdays 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. — from late June through October. It sits in the middle of a small shopping center, making it an easy stop for produce and baked goods on either a weekday or weekend errand run.

Waterbury

Brass City Market on Field operates at 359 Mill Street in Waterbury, a nod in name to the city's brass manufacturing history. Specific vendor and season details weren't confirmed in public sources; it reads as a neighborhood-scale market rather than a large regional one.

Waterbury

Brass City Regional Food Hub is located on Mill Street in Waterbury, a city built on 19th-century brass manufacturing that still carries the nickname today. No verified details on this location's specific products, vendors, or hours were found online.

West Hartford

West Hartford has run a Saturday farmers market at LaSalle Road and Arapahoe Road since 1992, open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from May through December. Road construction on LaSalle in recent seasons has shifted the market to the Town Hall parking lot at 50 South Main Street. Vendors sell cheeses, coffee, microgreens, soups, salsas, fresh cider, pastries, honey, eggs, and yogurt.

North End Farmers Market has run since 2008 at the corner of Main and Liberty Streets in Middletown, in front of It's Only Natural Market. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June through October, the North End Action Team runs a market that accepts SNAP, WIC, and Senior FMNP, with market info posted in both English and Spanish.

Cromwell Farmers Market sets up at 1 River Road, near the Connecticut River in this Middlesex County town. Specific vendor lineup and season dates weren't confirmed in public sources.

Hamden

Fridays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., June through October, the Hamden Farmers' Market sets up at Town Center Park on Dixwell Avenue. Vendors sell fruit, vegetables, baked goods, and crafts, with roughly half the lineup rotating out partway through the season to bring in new offerings. Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program benefits are accepted.

Naugatuck

Naugatuck Farmers' Market gathers on the Green off Church Street every Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October. It's a straightforward open-air market of local produce and goods on the town green, with updates posted through the market's Facebook page rather than a standalone website.

Middletown

Middletown Farmers' Market runs Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., from late June through the end of October on Union Green at the corner of Main and Pleasant Street. Several local farms bring produce alongside community organizations and prepared-food vendors, drawing a steady Friday crowd to the city's South Green area.

Collinsville

Thomaston

Thomaston's market sets up in Seth Thomas Park on South Main Street every Thursday, 2:30 to 6 p.m., from July through October, with local produce and goods from Connecticut farms and makers.

Hartford

The West End Farmers' Market sets up at Clemens Place Green on Farmington Avenue every Tuesday, 4 to 7 p.m., June through October. It's built around getting fresh, healthy food into Hartford's West End and Asylum Hill neighborhoods through partnerships with local farms and nonprofits, with live music most weeks.

Wethersfield

Wethersfield's market runs Thursdays, 3 to 6 p.m., from late May through early October at 220 Hartford Avenue, with the usual mix of Connecticut-grown produce and prepared foods.

Hartford

Forge City Works runs this market year-round at Billings Forge on Broad Street in Hartford, part of a social enterprise pairing food access with job training programs. Stalls carry regional produce and baked goods that shift with the season — summer vegetables give way to root crops and preserves as fall turns to winter.

Billings Forge Farmers Market runs in Hartford's Frog Hollow neighborhood at 563 Broad Street, organized through what's now called Forge City Works — the nonprofit formerly known as Billings Forge Community Works, which also runs a restaurant and grocery focused on food access and job training in the same neighborhood. Reach the organization directly to confirm the market's current season.

Hartford

The Park Street Farmers' Market runs Mondays, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., July through October, in the Walgreens parking lot at Park and Washington Streets. It's one of several markets organized by Hartford Food System, a nonprofit working on food access in the city since 1978. WIC, SNAP, and Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program benefits are all accepted.

Hartford

Chrysalis Center's Food Hub grows produce year-round in its Urban Roots hydroponic center and Railway Gardens raised beds, then channels it into meals and groceries for North Hartford, where an estimated 40,000 children face food insecurity. Its Freshplace program serves up to 100 families. The Hub also runs the Homestead Farmers' Market seasonally, June through October, at 255 Homestead Ave.

Hartford

The Chrysalis Center runs this Wednesday market at 255 Homestead Avenue, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., June through October. Produce comes from Urban Roots and other Hartford community farmers, with baked goods from La Cocina when available. SNAP/EBT, WIC/FMNP, and Urban Dollars are all accepted, keeping fresh food within reach in a neighborhood with limited grocery access.

A farmers market on Capitol Avenue in Hartford's West End, near the Bushnell theater and the state Capitol. Confirmed details on vendors, hours, and current season are limited online — check with the City of Hartford for the latest schedule.

Hartford

Set up on Monday afternoons through the summer and fall at the First Presbyterian Church of Hartford, next to the Bushnell theater, this market guarantees everything sold is grown or made in Connecticut. Look for organic and conventional produce, honey, free-range eggs, cut flowers, and homemade jam from a small, rotating group of vendors.

Durham

For more than a decade, the Durham Farmers' Market has set up on the Town Green at the Route 17/Main Street intersection, selling Connecticut-grown and Connecticut-made vegetables, fruit, honey, maple syrup, meat, cheese, baked goods, and Italian ice alongside handcrafted items and cut flowers. It's a certified farmers market with a winter offshoot at the United Churches on Main Street. Check with the Durham First Selectman's Office for the current season's schedule.

Watertown

Watertown's Saturday market runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., July through September, at 470 Main Street near the library. Vendors sell produce, meats, baked goods, and crafts, and the market notes that many, though not all, of its fruits and vegetables are grown without chemicals.

This is a wholesale produce terminal, not a typical farmers market — 32 acres off I-91 Exit 27 with 144 farmer stalls and more than 185,000 square feet of refrigerated warehouse space. Public retail hours are early: Saturday and Sunday, 6 to 9 a.m., when farmers and wholesalers sell directly off the trucks. Closed weekdays.

Hartford Food System operates this Wednesday market outside the North End Senior Center at 80 Coventry Street, 9 a.m. to noon, late June through late October. SNAP shoppers get matching incentives on top of their benefits. It's part of a Hartford Food System network that has run food-access programs in the city since 1978.

Simsbury Farmers Market runs Thursdays, 3 to 6 p.m., from late June through early October at Simsmore Square on Hopmeadow Street. Beyond the produce and pasture-raised meat vendors, the market adds live music and on-site massage some weeks, giving it more of a community-event feel than a quick produce run.

Set on the grounds of the Dudley Farm Museum, a working farm preserved as it looked in 1900, this is the second-oldest continuously run farmers market in Connecticut. Saturday mornings bring local meat, honey, maple syrup, jam, baked goods, and handcrafts, with vendors set up among the museum's farm animals and outbuildings. A smaller winter market runs on alternating Saturdays from February through April.

New Haven

New Haven's Upper State Street market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., spring through fall, at the corner of State Street and Mechanic Street with locally sourced produce and artisan goods.

New Haven

New Haven

CitySeed's Edgewood Park market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through November, at the corner of Whalley and West Rock Avenues. More than 50 Connecticut farms and food producers sell produce, dairy, baked goods, and prepared food, with live music and cooking demonstrations most weeks. SNAP and WIC benefits are doubled on fruits, vegetables, and seedlings.

New Haven

CitySeed is a New Haven-based non-profit organization, working to bring fresh, and local, produce to New Haven residents.

Seymour

Seymour Farmers' Market has run since 1995, started originally to support the town's downtown revitalization effort. It sets up at the Seymour Community Center on Pine Street with an open-air lineup of fruit, vegetables, honey, eggs, beef, pork, chicken, and crafts from local vendors, spring through fall.

New Haven

CitySeed runs this market on the New Haven Green at Temple and Chapel Streets, in front of City Hall, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekly from June 18 through October 29. More than 50 Connecticut farms, bakers, cheesemakers, and specialty producers sell alongside prepared-food vendors. SNAP and WIC are accepted, and CitySeed matches SNAP spending up to $10 a day toward fresh produce and seedlings.

New Haven

A summer farmers market in New Haven's Wooster Square area, held at Conte West Middle School on Chapel Street, separate from the neighborhood's regular Saturday market at Russo Park.

New Haven Farmers Market II is listed at 224 College Street, one of several seasonal markets tracked in Connecticut farmers market directories. Beyond the address and a general description as a source of seasonal local produce, published details are thin — check directory listings for current-year hours before making the trip.

New Haven

CitySeed, the New Haven nonprofit that runs the city's farmers markets, hosts this one at Russo Park on the corner of Chapel Street and DePalma Court in Wooster Square, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., April through November. CitySeed's stated mission is expanding access to the local food system from field to shelf.

CitySeed runs New Haven's year-round farmers markets as producer-only events — everything sold has to be grown or made by the vendor selling it, no resale. The winter market moves indoors for the cold months while sister markets at Wooster Square, Dixwell, and Edgewood Park run outdoors the rest of the year. CitySeed doubles SNAP and Connecticut Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits at all of its markets.

New Haven

CitySeed's Hill Market sets up Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., July through October, at the corner of Park and South Streets outside the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Vendors sell fruit, vegetables, dairy, baked goods, honey, maple syrup, and handcrafts, and WIC benefits are accepted. It sits blocks from Yale-New Haven Hospital, drawing hospital staff at lunch alongside Hill neighborhood residents.

Torrington

Torrington runs its market twice a week during the season: Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays 3 to 6 p.m. Connecticut farms and food vendors sell produce, baked goods, and prepared foods to a steady local crowd.

The East Haven Farmer's Market sets up on the Town Green on Main Street on Sunday mornings, running June through October. It's organized independently under a market master rather than run directly by the town, connecting residents with growers and artisans selling seasonal produce. Vendor and schedule questions go through the Mayor's Office.

Higganum

Wednesdays, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., June through mid-September, the Higganum Village Farmers' Market sets up on the town green in this Haddam village. Vendors sell Connecticut-grown produce, eggs, meat, baked goods, honey, herbs, and cut flowers. It's a community market for the Higganum section of Haddam rather than a countywide draw.

Torrington

The Northwest Connecticut Regional Food Hub aggregates produce from farms across the region and delivers it to schools, grocery stores, and restaurants, operating out of Torrington since 2017 as a program of Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities. Rather than a single farm stand, it functions as a wholesale marketplace connecting area growers with institutional buyers.

Morris

A newer Sunday market at SouthFarms on Higbie Road, running 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. from June through November. It was built around the idea of farmers helping other area farmers and local artisans connect directly with buyers rather than through a middleman market operator.

West Haven

Manchester Community Farmer's Market sets up at 161 Hillstown Road on the Manchester Community College campus, Wednesdays 1:30-5:30 p.m. from June through October 31. Vendors sell organic and conventional produce, crafts, and other local goods, and the market accepts Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits.

Bishop's Orchards has farmed the same land on Boston Post Road in Guilford for generations, and the retail market now sells its own cider, wine, baked pies, and pick-your-own fruit alongside a working creamery and winery tasting room. Pick-your-own runs from strawberries in June through pumpkins in October, and the farm also operates a CSA-style Farm Share program. Call the farm store at 203-453-2338 or the pick-your-own line at 203-458-PICK.

Orange

Connecticut Valley Farmers Market I sets up at 18 Hartford Avenue in Granby, near the Massachusetts border in the Farmington Valley. Specific vendor lineup and season dates weren't confirmed in public sources.

Litchfield

Litchfield Hills Farm-Fresh Market started in 2007 with fifteen local vendors and has grown into one of the region's longest-running markets, once named among the fifty best farmers' markets by Cooking Light. Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October, it sets up in the parking lot next to the Litchfield Firehouse at 125 West Street with vendors like Anderson Acres Farm, Brookside Farm, Clover Meadows Farm, and Crosswick Farm selling produce grown largely without chemicals.

Granby

Wednesday afternoons at the East Granby Public Library, this market gathers local farmers, bakers, and makers for produce, baked goods, and handmade crafts. Live entertainment and a kids' activity zone run alongside the stalls, and shoppers can earn rewards through a market loyalty card. It's organized with area nonprofits, which get a rotating spotlight table each week.

A seasonal farmers market on Park Place in Winsted, Connecticut.

Litchfield

The same Litchfield market keeps running past October by moving indoors. Summer Saturdays, June through October, are at 125 West Street; once the weather turns, the market shifts to the Litchfield Community Center at 421 Bantam Road for a biweekly Saturday winter season through early June. Both sessions run 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and carry the market's usual mix of locally grown produce, handcrafted foods, and gifts.

Southbury

This producer-only market sets up at Southbury Town Hall every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m., June through November. Everything on the tables is grown or made by the vendor selling it: plants, vegetables, fruit, honey, jam, maple syrup, olive oil, baked goods, and Connecticut wines. No resellers, no middlemen.