Farmers Markets near Tacoma, WA

Tacoma

Run by the nonprofit Tacoma Farmers Market, this small neighborhood market operated Tuesday afternoons each summer at 6th and Pine in Tacoma's 6th Avenue Art District. It opened in 2008 with local produce, prepared food, live music, and handmade goods. The organization later announced this location's closure; its Broadway and Proctor markets still run. Check the Tacoma Farmers Market website for current market days and locations.

The Broadway Farmers Market is Tacoma's original and longest-running market, started in 1990 and marking its 36th year in 2026. It runs Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., April through September, on Broadway between 9th and 11th streets downtown. More than 40 vendors bring Washington produce, specialty foods, hot food, and crafts, with live music each week. It accepts EBT/SNAP, WIC, and senior vouchers.

Tacoma

Tacoma's oldest and longest-running farmers market, going since 1990, held Thursdays 10am to 2pm from April through September at 925 Broadway between 9th and 11th downtown. More than 40 vendors bring local produce, specialty foods, hot meals, and handmade goods, with live music each week. Run by the nonprofit Tacoma Farmers Market, it accepts EBT/SNAP, WIC, senior vouchers, and SNAP Market Match.

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Tacoma

Tacoma's only year-round farmers market, the Proctor Farmers Market runs Saturdays 10am to 1pm at North 27th and Proctor in the walkable Proctor District, shifting to the 2nd and 4th Saturdays in the winter months. More than 70 vendors sell farm produce, pastured meats, wild-caught fish, cheese, bread, honey, and eggs, with weekly music and seasonal cooking demos. SNAP Market Match and WIC food-access programs run on site.

Tacoma

Sets up Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June through September, at the MetroParks STAR Center, 3873 S. 66th Street in Tacoma. Shoppers find local fruit, vegetables, flowers, meats, mushrooms, and bakery goods, while kids use the adjacent playground and spray park. Run by Tacoma Farmers Market, it accepts EBT/SNAP, WIC, and senior vouchers and offers a Fresh Bucks match.

A neighborhood farmers market in University Place, near 3715 Bridgeport Way West in the Tacoma suburbs. Local vendors sell produce and other goods from the surrounding area, and most take cash and cards, with some accepting SNAP, EBT, and WIC. Check the market's Facebook page for the current season's dates and hours.

Fife

Held at Dacca Park, 2820 54th Avenue E in Fife, through the summer from June to August, with a playground on site for kids. Vendors bring local vegetables, fruit and berries, cut flowers, eggs, milk, baked goods, and handcrafted items. It's a small Pierce County neighborhood market between Tacoma and the Puyallup River delta.

Lakewood

The City of Lakewood runs this Tuesday market at Fort Steilacoom Park, 2 to 7pm from early June through early September. Alongside farm produce, it leans into a community-event feel with food trucks, lawn games, and live music, and vendors accept SNAP/EBT. Lakewood sits in Pierce County southwest of Tacoma, and the park setting gives the market more room than its earlier Towne Center location.

Gig Harbor

Gig Harbor

Saturdays 10am to 3pm at 5503 Wollochet Drive NW in Gig Harbor, at the former Peninsula Gardens site, which gives the market indoor space. Also known as the Peninsula Marketplace, it offers cut flowers, produce, plants, baked goods, prepared food, and handmade crafts, with master gardeners on hand, a kids' tent, and live entertainment. Admission is free.

Saturdays 9am to 2pm, May through late September, on S 316th Street between Town Square Park and the Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center. Vendors sell produce direct from the farmer plus cut flowers, nursery plants, bakery goods, honey, coffee, and local crafts, with covered eating areas and live music. It runs rain or shine and accepts several food-assistance programs.

Puyallup

Vashon

Saturdays 10am to 2pm, June through September, at 22307 Dock Street on the Des Moines waterfront, with views across Puget Sound to the Olympics. A nonprofit founded in 2006, it brings produce, cut flowers, cheese, meat and fish, baked goods, and several food trucks each week, plus live music and a picnic area. It accepts EBT/SNAP with Fresh Bucks matching, WIC, and senior FMNP vouchers.

Burien

The Burien Farmers Market runs Thursdays year-round at Burien Town Square Park — 10 to 6 May through October and 10 to 4 through the winter, closing only two weeks at year's end. The market is a direct outlet for farmers and food processors selling fresh fruits, vegetables, and original crafts to the public.

Auburn

Graham

Kent

Founded in 1974 by the Kent Lions, the Kent Farmers Market is the oldest market in King County. It runs Saturdays from mid-June through mid-October, 10am to 3pm, at Town Square Plaza on West Smith Street in downtown Kent. Vendors sell USDA-certified organic produce, local crafts, and prepared food, with live music on market days. It accepts SNAP/EBT, WIC, FMNP, and Market Match, and now operates as a project of Living Well Kent.

Seattle

Tukwila

Seattle

Seattle

The Rainier Beach Action Coalition runs a food hub and farm stand in southeast Seattle, on Martin Luther King Jr Way S. It grew out of the Rainier Beach neighborhood's work on local food access and ties into the nearby Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands. The stand sells fresh produce and connects area growers with residents. Confirm stand days seasonally.

Seattle

Port Orchard

Renton

"Local Farmers, Fresh Food, Friendly People" At the Renton Farmers Market you will find Washington grown seasonally available produce, meat, cheese, honey, beer, wine, ciders and flowers in addition to locally made baked goods, spices, teas, crafted goods and ready to eat food. Enjoy live music, kid's activities, Master Gardeners and more each week. Tuesdays June through September, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Piazza in Downtown Renton. FREE and easy parking at the City Center Parking Garage (655 S 2nd St) - enter off S 2nd between Logan and Burnett Ave S.

Yelm

Bremerton

An offshoot of Seattle's Pike Place Market, this Tuesday market brings Pike Place farmers to City Hall Plaza at 600 4th Avenue downtown, 10am to 2pm. Up to 14 farmers sell fruit, vegetables, flowers, honey, and value-added goods, with no resellers or prepared-food stalls allowed, so everything comes straight from the grower. The setting is smaller and more neighborhood-like than the main Market. SNAP and FMNP benefits are accepted.

Bainbridge Island

This Thursday market plants Pike Place Market farmers in the middle of South Lake Union at Van Vorst Plaza, 410 Terry Avenue North, 10am to 2pm. Run as an extension of Seattle's Pike Place Market, it brings fresh, seasonal vegetables, fruit, flowers, honey, and value-added products to downtown workers and residents. It's a compact grower-focused market rather than a full public market. SNAP and FMNP are accepted.

A weekday market in Seattle's South Lake Union (Cascade) neighborhood, two blocks from the flagship REI at 301 Minor Avenue North. It runs Thursday afternoons through summer, bringing local produce, flowers, and prepared foods to nearby residents and office workers. The market has since expanded under the South Lake Union name, so confirm the current day and hours before heading over.

A vermiculture farm at 14741 Lawrence Lake Road SE in Yelm, in business since 1991, raising red worms and producing worm castings, worm tea, and its own Barefoot Soil potting mixes. The property also hosts a small market where local vendors sell handmade and garden goods, with live art demos and book signings.

Seattle

Seattle

A floating market that set up aboard the historic 125-foot steamship Virginia V at Lake Union Park in Seattle, letting island and Seattle-area farms sell produce, specialty foods, and crafts on the water, a nod to how food once moved by boat. It also ran as a maritime-heritage program. Reporting indicates the Lake Union market was forced to close after a legal dispute, so treat it as inactive.

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Seattle

Mercer Island

Belfair

Held Saturdays 9am to 2pm, May through September, on the grounds of Belfair Elementary School in the Hood Canal area of Mason County. Vendors bring local produce, farm-fresh eggs, and seasonal flowers alongside handcrafted goods, art, and prepared foods. Many take SNAP, EBT, WIC, and FMNP vouchers. The market gives the small Belfair community a weekly place to buy from nearby growers near the head of Hood Canal.

Seattle

Seattle

Seattle

Seattle

Seattle

The University District Farmers Market is Seattle's largest and oldest farm-and-food-only market, founded in 1993 and regularly ranked among the best in the US — over 80 booths at peak on "The Ave" between 50th and 52nd, Saturdays 9 to 2, year-round. SNAP shoppers get unlimited dollar-for-dollar Market Match, chefs come hunting rare ingredients, and a buy-some/share-some program feeds local food banks.

Bellevue

Thursdays from mid-May through early October, 3pm to 7:30pm, in the parking lot of Bellevue Presbyterian Church at 1717 Bellevue Way NE. Vendors sell seasonal produce, sustainably raised meats and seafood, cut flowers, artisan foods, and ready-to-eat cuisine from Washington farms and makers. Free on-site parking, ADA access, and SNAP/EBT with Market Match up to $25 a day make it easy to get to and shop.

Maple Valley

The Maple Valley Farmers' Market operates each Saturday 9 AM to 2 PM from May through October at the Maple Valley Legacy Site. Shop local and regionally-farmed produce, gourmet and specialty foods, and artisan crafted handmade goods. Live music at 11 AM, free parking, good dogs on a leash welcome.

Maple Valley

Silverdale

The Silverdale Farmers Market has run for over 17 years on the Kitsap Peninsula, setting up Tuesdays 10am to 3pm from April through September in the Silverdale antique-store lot on Ridgetop Boulevard. Local farmers and artists sell produce and handmade goods, with some vendors accepting SNAP and WIC. It's a small weekday market serving the Silverdale and greater Bremerton area west of Seattle across Puget Sound.

Enumclaw

Bellevue

Tuesdays from noon to 6pm, June through September, in the east parking lot of Crossroads Shopping Center at 15600 NE 8th Street, next to Bellevue's 34-acre Crossroads Park. Vendors sell freshly harvested produce, plants, honey, baked goods, ready-to-eat food, and crafts. Live music, food trucks, and kids' activities run through the season, and the market welcomes leashed pets.

Olympia

A neighborhood Saturday market at the West Central Park project, 1919 Harrison Avenue NW in west Olympia. It runs Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., roughly May through September, with local produce, prepared foods, baked goods, flowers, plant starts, and crafts. Food trucks, live music, and kids' activities round out the day.

Tumwater

Running since 2006, this market sets up Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., mid-April through September, in the Parks and Recreation lot at the southwest corner of Capitol Boulevard and Israel Road SW in Tumwater. Shoppers find fruit, vegetables, flowers, plants, baked goods, and prepared foods geared toward lunchtime. It also goes by the Tumwater Town Center Farmers Market.