Seattle Farmer’s Markets
Seattle is home to one of the oldest and longest-running farmer’s markets, Pike Place. Since August 17, 1907, Seattleites and visitors have bought fresh, local produce, seafood and sundries year-round at Pike Place Market.
That our city grew up around these markets featuring the best from local farmers, it only stands to reason many Seattle neighborhoods would embrace open their own. More than a dozen in-city enclaves are home to their own, weekly farmer’s market (most operate seasonally):
- Ballard
- Broadway/Capitol Hill
- Columbia City
- Fremont
- Georgetown
- Lake City
- Madrona
- Magnolia
- Olympic Sculpture Park
- Phinney Ridge
- University District (year round)
- Wallingford
- West Seattle (year round)
The National Farmers Market Coalition defines a farmers market as one which “operates multiple times per year and is organized for the purpose of facilitating personal connections that create mutual benefits for local farmers, shoppers, and communities. To fulfill that objective farmers markets define the term local, regularly communicate that definition to the public, and implement rules/guidelines of operation that ensure that the farmers market consists principally of farms selling directly to the public products that the farms have produced.”
