wednesday market kick-off + Market bunch begins

wednesday,
april 2nd, 2025

Our mid-week Market is back for the Main Season! Every Wednesday from April 2nd through November 19th, our Wednesday Market is open 3-6pm (3-5pm in November). Our Wednesday Market is a great after-school and after-work stop, with your favorite farmers and some Wednesday-only vendors too.

Every Wednesday Market we offer free kids activities through our Market Bunch program, with activities related to sustainability, local agriculture, arts & crafts, healthy eating, and more.

Main season hours opening day + T-SHIRT DAY

saturday, april 5th, 2025

Celebrate the start of our Saturday Main Season hours (7am - 12pm), which run through the end of October! Shoppers can enjoy our “Mini Museum” of market history in the gazebo, with banners highlighting the market’s history and timeline. We also debut this year’s t-shirts with a unique annual design, just in time for the summer season.

kids seedling day

Saturday, ApriL 19th, 2025

Kick off the spring season with Kids Seedling Day! Kids can get excited to start their own gardens with a free tomato seedling donated by CFM farmers. Kids can plant their seedlings to take home, decorate a label, and then write a thank-you card to the farmer that donated it. Kids Seedling Day also features a raffle, live music, and much more. Kids Seedling Day is sponsored by Carrboro’s Fifth Season Gardening Co.

STRAWBERRY JAMBOREE

Saturday, May 3rd, 2025

The Carrboro Farmers’ Market celebrates all things strawberry with Strawberry Jamboree! Market-goers can pick up strawberry recipes, get information about local you-pick strawberry farms, enjoy samples of strawberry dishes around the market, enter a raffle, enjoy live music, and much more. Visit our many strawberry growers and stock up your freezer and pantry for the year. Many of our prepared foods vendors at the Market also offer strawberry specials.

June in Bloom

Saturday, June 7th, 2025

The Carrboro Farmers’ Market’s June in Bloom celebrates the beauty and bounty of spring flowers in bloom! June in Bloom features make + take art, unique photo opportunities, a raffle, special coloring book prizes for market-goers, vendor specials, live music, and much more.

TOMATO DAY

Saturday, July 12th, 2025

Our biggest signature event of the year is Tomato Day! CFM farmers grow over 70 varieties of tomatoes - like Sun Gold, Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Big Beef, Black Krim, and much more. The Market celebrates tomato season with samples of freshly-sliced tomato samples, local Guest Chefs, a raffle with over 25 prizes from local Carrboro businesses, and much more. Don’t forget to pick up limited-edition merch, like Tomato Day t-shirts and posters.

In 2020, we made a special booklet all about tomatoes called “Tomato Daze: A Sungold-Sized Collection of Stories, Recipes, and Art in Honor of the Tomato Days of Summer,” which includes art, trivia, memories, essays, and recipes all about tomatoes from our vendors as well as our customers. Click here to view a digital flipbook of Tomato Daze!

Photo credit Alicia Bao (2024)

Farmers Market Week

August 3rd - 9th, 2025

Join us in celebrating farmers markets with Farmers Market Week! The Carrboro Farmers’ Market joins other farmers markets across the country in celebrating the vital role that farmers markets play in our food system - they preserve farmland, stimulate local economies, increase access to nutritious food, support healthy communities, promote sustainability, and more. On our market days during this week shoppers can enjoy our “Mini Museum” of market history in the gazebo, with banners highlighting the market’s history and timeline. Our Saturday celebrations will include a raffle to win a basket full of goodies from market vendors, live music, samples of in-season products, and more.

Carrboro Cookout

Saturday, august 30th, 2025

(Labor Day Weekend)

On Labor Day Weekend the Carrboro Farmers Market celebrates Carrboro Cookout - a showcase of local meat from local farmers. Our farmers raise and sell a diverse range of local NC meats, including chicken, duck, pork, beef, lamb, and bison. Shoppers will be able to pick up a list of all of our meat farmers with the products they offer.

vendor halloween costume contest

Saturday, october 25th, 2025

Join us in celebrating the Halloween season with our annual Vendor Halloween Costume Contest. Our vendors, staff, volunteers, and collaborators will all be in costume - we invite you and your family to dress up as well! Stop by the Information Tent to purchase $1 tickets to vote for your favorite vendor costume, and then cast your votes at the jack-o-lanterns at vendor stalls around the market. All proceeds go to our Double Bucks program.

The last Saturday in October is also our last Saturday of Main Season Hours!

Root Fest

Saturday, November 1st, 2025

Join us in celebrating our humble root vegetables in honor of the start of our winter market season. The first Saturday of the market’s winter hours (9am-12pm) is the perfect time to celebrate root vegetables perfect for all of your upcoming Thanksgiving and holiday dishes. Shoppers will be able to enjoy vendor specials that feature root vegetables, an educational display about sweet potatoes (North Carolina’s state vegetable!), samples of recipes that feature root vegetables to inspire your shopping, a raffle with root trivia, and much more.