The Sonora 2024 Certified Farmers’ Market
The scheduled opening day for the Sonora Farmers’ Market will be Saturday, May 18th, 2024 and will run through October 12th, 2024. So join us for another exciting year. The Farmer’s Market is open to the public every Saturday morning from 7:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. We ask that vendors and customers comply with current COVID-19 related restrictions in place at the time the market opens.
Vendors who make handcrafted items, sell fresh Ag. (certified) produce and on-site (and commercial kitchen) food items are welcome to apply. Don’t hesitate to get on our waiting list if spaces are not available. We use this list to fill spaces as they open up.
If you are interested in joining the Farmers’ Market as a vendor, please contact the Market Manager at [email protected] and submit your application using the forms below.
All Applications for the 2024 Farmers Market Season can be found below:
2024 FM Certified Agriculture Producer Application
2024 Artisan & Food Purveyors Application
Fire Regulations for Portable Exterior Festival Cooking Booths
This is berry season/cherry/apricot season and it comes and goes quickly. Blueberries are here for a short time. NOW is the time to make that jelly/jam your friends and family will enjoy as gifts. Lots of other fruits are here for longer periods. Peaches, plums, nectarines. Great 4th of July cobblers, parfaits, pie making and more right here fresh picked daily for you to taste and enjoy.
Don’t let these pass you up!
Still lots of fresh baked gourmet foods and coffees, cheese and honey.
Top Ten Reasons Why Shopping at a Farmers’ Market is Better
1. A Healthy Lifestyle
Farmers present large colorful displays of just-picked, vine-ripened, and best-tasting produce for thousands of health-minded shoppers every week.
2. Friendly Community
At farmers’ markets, you always see people talking to one another. They enjoy visiting with others–farmers, friends, and new acquaintances–and having a good time. Markets bring community elements together including fishermen, farmers, bakers, and families.
3. Freshness
With few exceptions, produce is brought to market the same day or within a day of picking. That’s fresh! Fresh products are crisp, have good texture, and taste better.
4. Flavor
Fruits like peaches, and produce like strawberries and tomatoes are picked when ripe, not before. Ripened on the tree or vine adds significantly to flavor.
5. Variety
Farmers bring many different varieties of just about every product. Several examples of the variety found the farmers’ market are: Spitzenberg and Braeburn are among the 70 plus apple varieties, Tuscan and Russian are a couple of the different kinds of kale, and lemon and Thai are two of two of the basil types. Variety provides a great healthy way to enrich ones life.
6. Flowers
You simply can not compare the volume, variety, quality, and freshness of flowers at the farmers’ markets with what grocery stores offer. With the exception of greenhouse roses, the types of flowers at the market vary with the season. For example, in February-March there are fantastic tulips, and during the summer there are tuberose, sunflowers, zinnias, and many more.
7. Meet the Farmers
This is really an advantage. Since the person you buy the product from is the farmer, or his/her employee, you can ask anything about the product, for example, where it was grown, what variety it is, if the product was sprayed, and cooking suggestions.
8. Support Family-operated Small Farms
Each stall space is used by a different farm. By shopping at farmers’ markets, you are supporting these family operated small farms.
9. Reduce the Carbon Footprint
Distance produce travels from farm to you via a grocery store is often greater than 1000 miles. Transport to and storage at the store often requires refrigeration, and these result in carbon dioxide emissions. At our farmers’ markets average distance traveled is less than 50 miles and there is no refrigeration or storage. Buying at a farmers’ market results in less carbon dioxide emissions.
10. California Grown
At the farmers’ market you know that all produce sold at our farmers’ markets is grown in California, not Mexico, not China, nor anywhere else in the world.
Keep in touch with us by email [email protected] or call 209-532-3508 Ext. #2, with any questions, suggestions or concerns. See you at the Market! We welcome new vendors too.
The Sonora Farmer’s Market is located on Theall and Stewart Street and is one block off of Washington St/HWY 49. Click here to see map of location
