What’s a market?
Farmer’s markets offer fruits, vegetables, flowers, plants, crafts and other goods by multiple producers at a common location, either open-air or an indoor market.
Farm and roadside markets offer a single producer’s fruits, vegetables, and other items for sale, often at the farm where they were grown.
Pick-your-own sites allow people to select and gather their own farm or orchard produce.
With an estimated 1,000 farmer’s markets, farm stands and pick-your-own fields and orchards in Ohio, local-grown produce and foods are easily available.
“Within the past year or two, there have been markets popping up all over,” said Lori Panda of the Ohio Proud program, part of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. “People are interested in supporting their local economy and Ohio farmers. It’s bringing the community together.”
“Buying local” is exploding in popularity as people seek more affordable, chemical-free foods and goods that support their communities. Many markets are expanding to offer cooking demonstrations and educational programs that teach people how to prepare unfamiliar vegetables or grow their own.
“The challenge for the farm markets is it’s starting to get difficult to get vendors, especially on Saturdays, because there’s so many markets and they’re so popular,” Panda said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual survey showed 278 farmer’s markets in Ohio in 2011.
'That community feeling’
One of the state’s oldest markets is Dayton’s PNC
2nd Street Market, a MetroParks facility, whose roughly 45 vendors saw more than 3,800 patrons on the last Saturday in May.
“We started (in the 1980s) as the Wegerzyn Market, open Saturdays on a seasonal basis,” said market manager Jimmy Harless. “Ten years ago, we converted an old freight depot, and we’ve been here ever since. Half our vendors have been here all 10 years.”
The Market is open Thursdays through Sundays, and just opened its seasonal outdoor market featuring local growers.
Harless said a new generation has grown up with recycling and organic foods and is helping to boost local farming and public markets, both as producers and purchasers.
“It’s become sort of like Main Street Dayton,” he said. “It’s that community feeling. And it’s not contrived. It’s the real thing with the real people who made the food.”
A few blocks away, the community spirit is strong at the all-volunteer Garden Station park, which features community gardens, paintings and sculptures by local artists and performance spaces. The site offers the county’s only Sunday farmer’s market, with about five vendors and an average 60 customers per week.
“We’ve added sustainable living workshops and demonstration market gardens to teach and promote more urban agriculture,” said organizer Lisa Helm-Hancock. “It’s about teaching people to take care of themselves. There’s not enough local, organic produce to support local restaurants — they can’t keep up with the demand.”
Farmer’s markets near you
The following farmer’s markets and farm markets are listed on www.ohioproud.org, part of the Ohio Proud agriculture marketing program of the state’s Department of Agriculture:
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Bayer’s Melon Farm Market
9555 W. Third St., Dayton
(937) 835-3323
July through October, 10 a.m. to
6:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays
Centerville Farmer’s Market
892 S. Main St., Centerville
(937) 433-7151, jwilder@centervillefarmersmarket.com
www.centervillefarmersmarket.com
Every Thursday through Oct. 27 in the parking lot of the Centerville Shopping Center located at 892 S. Main St. (near the corner of State Route 48 and Spring Valley Road).
Downtown Miamisburg Farmer’s Market
10 N. First St., Miamisburg
(937) 847-6686, katie.frank@cityof
miamisburg.org
July through October, 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays
Garden Station Sunday Market
509 E. Fourth St., Dayton
(937) 610-3845, DaytonGardenStation@gmail.com
May through early September, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays
Gypsy Chick Egg Farm
12620 Amity Road, Brookville
(937) 833-4341, millardbrady1@aol.com
Daily, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Majestic Nursery and Gardens
2100 N. Preble County Line Road, West Alexandria
(937) 833-5100, info@majestic
nurseryandgardens.com
www.majesticnurseryandgardens.com
September and October, daily
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Miamisburg Farmer’s’ Market
928 E. Central Ave., Miamisburg
(937) 866-3471, pre_ysucc
@hotmail.com
July through October, 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. Saturdays
PNC 2nd Street Public Market
600 E. Second St., Dayton
(937) 228-2088, marketinfo@metroparks.org
www.2ndstreetpublicmarket.com
Year-round, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. to
3 p.m. Saturdays
Stubbs Family Farm
8625 Boomershine Road, Germantown
(937) 855-2632, kathy@stubbs
familyfarm.com
www.stubbsfamilyfarm.com
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 973 Patterson Road, Dayton
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays at Middletown Shopping Center, Middletown
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays at West Third and Williams streets, Dayton
Treadways Garden
10273 Dayton-Lebanon Pike, Centerville
(937) 294-3849, wilson202000@yahoo.com
July through October, daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuken’s Orchard & Farm Market
15725 Eaton Pike, West Alexandria
(937) 687-1540, tukensfarm
market@aol.com
www.tukensfarmmarket.com
Wright Dunbar Farm Market
1105 W. Third St., Dayton
(937) 443-0249
www.wright-dunbar.org
May through October, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays
Yankee Street Market
8487 Yankee St., Centerville
(937) 439-7745, lucasbrosfarm
@yahoo.com
April through October, daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
MIAMI COUNTY
Adams Greenhouse & Produce
6373 U.S. 36, Covington
(937) 416-5533, kenny@adamsgreenhouse.com
www.adamsgreenhouse.com
April through December, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays
Crossway Farms
182 W. Miami-Shelby Road, Piqua
(937) 773-1442, jfrantom@
safe-t.net
www.crosswayfarms.com
June through October, 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays
Downtown Troy Farmer’s Market
405 Public Square SW, Suite 205, Troy
(937) 339-5455, susan@troymainstreet.org
www.troymainstreet.org
June 23 through Sept. 15, 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays
Fulton Farms Market
2393 Ohio 202, Troy
(937) 335-6983, joyce@
fultonfarms.com
www.fultonfarms.com
May through August, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays
September through December,
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays
Miami County Farmer’s Market
Ohio 41 and Experiment Farm Road, Troy
(937) 773-8999, ctrisel@woh.rr.com
May through October, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays
Piqua Community Farmer’s Market
326 N. Main St., Piqua
(937) 773-9355, info@piqua
farmersmarket.com
May 26 through Sept. 15, 2 to 6 p.m. Thursdays
www.piquafarmersmarket.com
Tippecanoe Farmer’s Market
4th and Main streets, Tipp City
(937) 974-3535, tippfarm@gmail.com
www.tippecanoefarmersmarket.com
9 a.m. to noon Saturdays
GREENE COUNTY
Anderson Farm Market
1240 Clifton Road, Xenia
(937) 767-7626
May through October, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays
Apple Country Farm Market
2323 U.S. 42, Spring Valley
(937) 862-4376, applecountryfarm@woh.rr.com
www.applecountryfarm.com
June through December, 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays
Bath Church Farmer’s Market
4624 Bath Road, Dayton
(937) 233-9085, jtway@earthlink.net
www.bathchurch.org
Mid-June through September, 4 to 6:30 p.m. Thursdays
Berryhill Farm
330 and 127 Krepps Road, Xenia
(937) 374-8747
June through September, days and hours vary
Breezy Acres Fruit Farm
3470 Waynesville-Jamestown Road, Xenia
(937) 372-2436, galebreezy
acres@aol.com
www.breezyacresfruitfarm.com
July through December, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays
Fairborn Farmer’s Market
Main Street and Grand Avenue, Fairborn
(937) 754-3090, pete.bales@ci.
fairborn.oh.us
www.ci.fairborn.oh.us
Open April through November,
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays
Friendly Knoll Farm
770 Ohio 72 South, Jamestown
(937) 675-2464
April through October, call for hours
Jackson’s Farm Market
2931 U.S. 68 South, Xenia
(937) 376-1778
May through October, 9 a.m. to
7 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, noon to 6 p.m. Sundays
Katie’s Pumpkin Barn
2128 New Germany Trebein Road, Beavercreek
(937) 217-7656, farmer2128@gmail.com
www.katiespumpkinbarn.com
Sept. 12 through Oct. 31
Kings Yard Marketplace
228 Xenia Ave, Yellow Springs
(937) 324-8548, cc2thee@
aol.com
May through October, 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays
Peifer Orchards
4590 U.S. 68 North, Yellow Springs
(937) 767-2208, john@peiferorchards.com
www.peiferorchards.com
July through December, Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m.
Shockey’s Farm Market
4265 W. Enon Road, Fairborn
(937) 767-1026
June through October, Mondays through Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to
6:30 p.m.
Spitler’s Orchard
5689 U.S. 35 East, Jamestown
(937) 675-2852
June through November, daily 24 hours
Sugarcreek Twp. Farmer’s’ Market
4333 Feedwire Road, Bellbrook
(937) 848-8426, ctilford@
sugarcreektownship.com
www.sugarcreektownship.com/fw/main/Farmers-Market-220.html
Third week of May through last week of October, 3 to 7 p.m. Fridays
November through April, 3 to 5 p.m. third Fridays
Timothy’s Farmer’s’ Market
East Xenia and Maysville streets, Bowersville
(937) 453-2223, wayfaring
stranger@att.net
June through August, 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. second and fourth Thursdays
Xenia Towne Square Farmers’ Market
2-6 p.m. Tuesdays, Xenia Towne Square, in the lot near Kmart
(937) 376-7232
www.ci.xenia.oh.us
Through September
2-6 p.m. Tuesdays
Yellow Springs Farmer’s Market
228 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs
(937) 767-7448, camperchick228@yahoo.com
www.yellowspringsfarmersmarket.com
April through November, 7 a.m. to noon Saturdays; January through April, 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays
WARREN COUNTY
Barn-’N-Bunk Farm Market
3677 Wayne-Madison Road, Trenton
(513) 988-9211, barnbunk@
sbcglobal.net
www.barnnbunk.com
April to December, 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Burwinkel Farms Main Site
4421 Hamilton-Cleves Road, Hamilton
Also multiple roadside markets.
(513) 738-1145, karen_eb@hotmail.com
www.burwinkelfarms.com
June through October, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Garver Family Farm Market
6716 Hamilton-Lebanon Road, Middletown
(513) 539-6366
June through October, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays
Hamilton Farmer’s Market
610 Dayton St., historic downtown Hamilton
(513) 317-3706, s_miller@zoomtown.com
May through October, 7 a.m. to noon Saturdays
Jungle Jim’s International Farmer’s Market
5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield
(513) 829-1919, jungle@one.com
www.junglejims.com
Year-round, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily
Main Street Marketplace
409 Main St., Hamilton
(513) 868-6551 ext. 2,
marketplace@richardspizza.com
June through October, 3 to 7 p.m. Thursdays
West Chester Twp. Farmer’s and Art Market
The Square, West Chester
(513) 779-1190, jrosselot2@cinic.rr.com
June through October, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays; monthly November through May.
Walther Farms
2931 Ross-Millville Road, Hamilton
(513) 805-6020, Waltherfarms@gmail.com
July through September, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.
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