California Farmers Markets List - Farmer's Market Postings in Calif

California Farmer's Markets - Certified Farmers Markets

California Certified Farmers' Markets are "the real thing," places where genuine California farmers sell their fresh picked crops directly to the public in over 350 communities throughout the state. If you are interested in supporting safe and responsible agriculture in California, then you will want to be a patron of a Certified Farmers' Markets. If you want the freshest fruits and vegetables available, then you need to shop at a Certified Farmers' Market. At a CFM you are buying directly from California farmers. Click the letters from A to Z below to find a farmer's market in the city of your choice.

What's so fantastic about the California Certified Farmers Market program is the broad range of produce and providers. Many travel a statewide circuit and sell daily throughout California. Others focus on regional sales in the areas where their farms and orchards are located. Often the Certified Farmers Market is held in conjunction with an artists' fair in which handmade items are sold.

Alphabetical Listing by City of California Certified Farmer's Markets A to Z

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

strawberries from oxnard

Wouldn't it be nice if you could bypass the middle man and go right to the source of good foods? In California, you can actually visit nearly any city and discover that such a concept exists--at Farmers Markets. Our site lists at least several hundred of these weekly events.

If you're looking for fresh strawberries, you can go to Costco and purchase the Mexican-grown berries. Blueberries come from Peru and all points south, too. So why not buy local? Go to a farmer's market (certified) in California and get strawberries grown in Oxnard shown above. Or avocados from Fallbrook are mighty tasty.

Need apples or almonds? The growers send salespeople and sometimes they come, themselves, between seasons, and sell you their farm-fresh California grown products and foods. If you have a choice to shop local, it usually allows you to buy things a bit fresher than the items crossing borders.

On a recent press trip, one publisher whose focus is the Hollywood scene, told me she has a routine, visiting the Santa Monica Farmer's Market near her home each week. She practically lives off the vegetables and herbs she purchases at this outdoor market. Riding in a van with her on a long road trip to Yosemite National Park, she went on for 20 minutes, talking in fevered passion about the foods sold there. She discussed her olives, her greens, and so many things. My head was swimming as she described the foods and virtues of the products sold at her favorite shopping event of the week.

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