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About Farmers Market Atlas

A complete, free index of American farmers markets — built on public data, kept honest about what it doesn't know.

The problem

The USDA publishes a national directory of farmers markets. It is the most complete list that exists, and it is close to unusable: one market per search, no filtering worth the name, and a bulk export shaped for researchers rather than for someone deciding where to buy tomatoes on Saturday morning.

Meanwhile the results you get from searching for a market in your town are a mix of dead Facebook events, listings for markets that closed in 2019, and aggregator pages built from the same stale scrape.

What this is

Farmers Market Atlas takes the USDA dataset — 7,006 markets — adds 288 more that OpenStreetMap has and the federal directory missed, and turns the lot into something you can actually use: searchable, sortable by distance, filtered by SNAP/EBT and organic status, with opening hours, what each market sells, and a page per market and per city across 52 states and territories.

Locations are checked against the US Census Bureau's geocoder rather than taken on trust. Hours, seasons, product lists and websites are pulled from each market's own listing page, which carries far more than the bulk export does. The full method, including the parts that failed, is on the data page.

What it isn't

  • It is not affiliated with the USDA, and no government body endorses it.
  • It is not a live schedule. Farmers markets are seasonal and volunteer-run; hours change without anyone updating a federal database. Where we don't have hours, the page says so instead of inventing a plausible Saturday morning.
  • It is not pay-to-rank. Every market in the USDA directory is listed on equal terms whether or not anyone pays us.

How it stays free

Advertising, and paid upgrades for market operators who want to add hours, photos and a link to their listing. Neither changes the ranking or the facts on a page. If that ever changes, it will be written here first.

Corrections

If a listing is wrong — a market that has closed, a moved location, missing hours — tell us. Corrections are free and are applied to the site rather than held behind a paywall.