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Alabama Farmers Markets

116 Alabama farmers markets in USDA's national directory. Too few file a season as a range for a typical Alabama season to be derived, so each listing stands on its own. Enter a ZIP below for the nearest, with the season and hours each one filed.

Every Alabama season and hours line here is what the market filed with USDA, with the date it filed beside it; current trading status is the market's own to publish
Listings in the directory
116
Seasons readable as a range
5
File weekly hours
5
Rank by listing count
#23
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The Alabama markets nearest a ZIP code

USDA’s directory holds 116 farmers market listings in Alabama, and too few of them file a season as a range for a typical one to be derived. The listings themselves are all here, with the season and hours each one filed.

Seasons and hours as filed with USDA, each with the date it was filed. Many of those dates are years old. A market keeps its own calendar and publishes it in its own window, and every listing here links the directory record and the market for current status.

Every result shows the season and the hours USDA’s directory holds, the date that record was last updated and a link to the record; current status comes from the market.

Distance is printed on every row because it matters: a market 40 miles away describes that town rather than yours. A ZIP near a state line will pull results from both sides, which is correct behaviour rather than a bug.

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The Alabama season

Alabama seasons, listing by listing

USDA's directory holds 116 farmers market listings in Alabama. 5 of them give a season that can be read as a range, too few for a typical Alabama season, so each listing stands on its own. The listings themselves were last touched between June 2020 and March 2023.

5 of Alabama’s 116 listings give a season that can be read as a range, counting both the ones that filed two real dates and the ones that typed a month range into the date field. That is under the 12 needed for a median: below about a dozen filings a median moves by weeks when one listing is added. The listings themselves are all in the tool above with the season and hours each one filed.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectoday
5 Alabama listings give a season that can be read as a range, under the 12 needed for a median, so the strip carries no bar.
NoneMedian opening, as filedunder the 12 readable season threshold
NoneMedian closing, as filedno median published for this state
0Listings that are year roundset aside from the medians
#23Rank by listing countbetween Kansas and Missouri
How good is this data

What Alabama operators actually filled in

What the Alabama listings actually fill in

  • Filed as two real dates00%
  • Typed as a month range54%
  • Written as year round00%
  • Other prose, not readable00%
  • Left blank11196%

The first two rows are the ones this site can read as a range, 5 of 116 or 4 percent, and only those go into the median. A month range is the operator’s own words, so it is read rather than discarded, but it widens the window by up to a month at each end. 5 listings also file weekly hours and 116 carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on. The records themselves were last touched between June 2020 and March 2023.

The Alabama records in this snapshot were last touched between June 2020 and March 2023. That is the caveat on every line of this page: a listing carries whatever the operator typed on the day they typed it, and nothing rolls it forward.

116 of the 116 listings carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on, and 44 give a website. A listing with no website and no hours is still worth having, because the address and the directory record are enough to go and look.

Sweet corn in the husk piled in a plastic crate at a market, with green peppers behind
Sweet corn on a market crate. In Alabama the markets are there and the corn is there; 5 of 116 listings tell the federal directory which weeks of the year to turn up, too few for a median, so the listings stand on their own. “Ears of Corn at Farmers Market” — Alabama Extension (Bruce Dupree) — CC0
The big ones

The largest Alabama markets by the directory’s own vendor counts

USDA’s form asks operators how many vendors they have, and 5 of Alabama’s 116 listings answered. This ranks the ones that answered rather than the state, and the numbers are the operators’ own on the dates their records were last touched.

  1. The Marketplace at Lee Branch, Lee Branch Farmers Market40 vendors
  2. Market in The Park15 vendors
  3. MONTEVALLO FARMERS MARKET14 vendors
  4. Market in The Park - Lavretta Park10 vendors
  5. GLENCOE3 vendors
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Current status

Where to check whether a Alabama market is trading

Where to find out whether a market is trading

Two places, in this order. The market’s own page or noticeboard, which is the only thing that is ever current, and Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, Farmers Market Authority, which is the public body for this in Alabama and keeps its own list. Link verified September 4, 2026.

Alabama is one of the states whose department of agriculture runs the market programme under its own name rather than leaving it to an association, so that link goes straight to the programme.

“The Farmers Market Directory lists markets that feature two or more farm vendors selling agricultural products directly to customers at a common, recurrent physical location.”

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Local Food Directories: National Farmers Market Directory

A federal directory of farmers markets. Operators file and maintain their own listings, so an entry is a claim by the market rather than a check by USDA, and a town with no entry is not a town with no market. That cuts both ways in Alabama: the 116 listings here are markets that filed, and a Alabama town with no listing is a town where nobody filed rather than a town with no market.

Summarised from USDA Local Food Directories, National Farmers Market Directory in our own words.

Common questions

Alabama farmers market FAQ

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Nearby, and the rest of the local food calendar

Other Southeast states

Farmers markets in every stateThe national picture: how old the directory is, how much of it fills in a season, and every state ranked.Pick your ownThe other half of the same Saturday. Typical picking windows for six crops, from USDA census acreage.First and last frost datesThe NOAA normals behind every growing season on this site, state by state.

Farmers markets by state

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Every market on this site comes from USDA’s National Farmers Market Directory, run by the Agricultural Marketing Service under OMB control number 0581-0169, a US Government work in the public domain. Snapshot taken 2026-09-04: 7,067 markets, of which 653 filed a season as two real dates, 664 typed a month range that this site reads as one, and 1,563 file weekly hours. Listings are written and maintained by the markets themselves, so a season is the operator’s statement as of that record’s own date. Farmers markets in every state