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Saturday Market: 9am - Noon • Wednesday Market: CLOSED |
Carrboro Farmers' Market, now in our 33rd year, is located on the Carrboro Town Commons next to Carrboro Town Hall at 301 West Main St. in Carrboro.
Open Saturdays year round, we are currently on our winter hours, from 9am-noon. Wednesday Market is closed for the season.
Please note: We love our puppies, but, in accordance with Town Ordinance, dogs are not allowed at the Market during Market hours. We're sorry for any inconvenience.
We are delighted that the newly released New York Times featured book, Serious Eats, lists the Carrboro Farmers' Market as #5 on the list of Best Farmers Markets in the country! Serious Eats highlights food hotspots throughout the country ranging from taco trucks to fine dining and the producers and artisans that make it happen.
Southern Living Magazine also dropped recognition our way and listed the Carrboro Farmers' Market as a source for The South's Top 10 Tastiest Town Awards!
Carrboro Farmers' Market is now accepting applications!
Download the forms here!
Our Farmers
Support the Market: Use our ATM!
Run out of cash at Market? We now have an ATM located right at the Info booth. When you use the ATM, the $2.25 SERVICE FEE GOES DIRECTLY BACK TO THE MARKET, NOT A BANK or CREDIT CARD COMPANY. How great is that?! By using our ATM machine, you are directly supporting our Market and our the events and outreach programs that give back to the community. It's such an easy way to support the Market!
Thank you for your support!
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Year Round Food: A Community Canning Series |
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The Carrboro Farmers' Market began the program "Year Round Food: A Community Canning Series," benefiting local hunger relief, in May, 2011. Twice a month, we introduced a new community food leader to teach workshops on putting up local food - ranging from jamming and brining to fermenting and pickling! Class participants learned hands-on from the expert and walked away with their own finished pint jar and additional canning recipes and coupons from the BALL corporation. Classes cost $10 and all proceeds went to benefit a different local hunger relief shelter. The workshops were open to the public and held at 3:30 and at 5:00pm in the market gazebo. Space was limited, but all community members were invited to observe.
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Our Farmers in the News
Carrboro Farmers' Market farmers and food artisans are featured in Chapel Hill Magazine's Sept/Oct. Foodie Issue.
This issue includes local chefs and Market artisans such as Sam Suchoff, chef and owner of The Pig, as well as some of our farmers including Ayrshire Farm, Elysian Fields Farm, Pine Knot Farm, Sunset Farms and Whitted Bowers Farm.
New Films
The Southern FoodWays Alliance Oral History Documentary on the Carrboro Farmers Market is finished! If you don't know, the Southern FoodWays Alliance is a member-supported organization made up of chefs, academics, and leaders in the food society, that produce documentary films, stages events, publishes compendiums of great writing, and documents our region's culinary bearers through oral history. Basically, the SFA is a roadmap to the South's richest cultural centers for food, ranging from southern fried pies to ham curers, pitmasters, and row crop farmers, to foods you can eat on a stick. I'm a huge fan and thrilled they chose to document the Carrboro Farmers' Market for their oral history project. A much deserved thank you to Amy Evens Streeter, Kate Medley, Ashley Young, and Sara Camp for all their hard work in creating this project.
Some of our Carrboro Farmers' Market farmers have sold at Market since the early days in 1979 and every one of our producers has a story to tell. This documentary also features interviews with a few long-time customers, chefs, and community members who have helped shape the Market over the years. We only wish the documentary could include all the people that make the Market so vibrant. If you haven't checked out some of the stories, please do so. Thank you for building our Market and sharing your stories. We look forward to creating many more!
The Ninth Annual Chefs Event Was Saturday, September 10th!
Each week at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market you can spot many area chefs shopping from local farmers to load up on quality ingredients for their restaurants. Today, five of these local chefs and their helpers did more than just shopping at our Ninth Annual Chefs Event, a celebration of the partnerships between local restaurants and market farmers. On this special occasion, a group of chefs who regularly shop at market took over the market gazebo and gave market goers a FREE taste of what they can do with local ingredients.
This year chefs celebrated our country’s diverse culinary heritage as they served up samples of their own All-American favorites.
Market Manager Sarah Blacklin says, "Long time Market volunteer, Kelly Clark, created the Market's first Chefs Event nine years ago and it's become an annual tradition. With some of the country’s top restaurants right here in the Triangle, it seems only fitting that we highlight some of our most dedicated Carrboro Farmers’ Market customers, shoppers and advocates - our chefs! We look forward to tasting the variety of All-American dishes created by our top chefs and made with local farm-fresh ingredients."
Participating Chefs:
Dishes were: southern-style Peregrine Farms pimento cheese on black pepper crackers from Pazzo; deviled eggs from Watts Grocery; pickled Pine Knot Farms okra from Neal's Deli; tomato bisque and grilled Chapel Hill Creamery cheese sandwiches from Il Palio; pot roast with chow-chow from Acme.
Click here for the slideshow and video
Locally Grown, NATIONALLY Known!
The Carrboro Farmers' Market has been recognized by Everyday Food Summer Special, Martha Stewart Magazine as one of the six "Great Markets" in the country! We are among some excellent company alongside the Ferry Market in San Francisco, the Crescent City Farmers Market in New Orleans, The Green Markets in New York City, the Seattle Farmers Market, and the St. Paul Farmers Market. For us to be recognized with these other national leading markets is a tribute to those who have supported the Market for 33 years and to all our amazing farmers, bakers, growers, and vendors who continue to provide truly local products for our community all year long. You can pick up a copy of the Martha Stewart Magazine in your local grocery store.
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