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Montana Farmers Markets

38 Montana farmers markets in USDA's national directory. Too few file a season as a range for a typical Montana 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 Montana 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
38
Seasons readable as a range
7
File weekly hours
8
Rank by listing count
#43
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The Montana markets nearest a ZIP code

USDA’s directory holds 38 farmers market listings in Montana, 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 Montana season

Montana seasons, listing by listing

USDA's directory holds 38 farmers market listings in Montana. 7 of them give a season that can be read as a range, too few for a typical Montana season, so each listing stands on its own. The listings themselves were last touched between September 2020 and April 2026.

7 of Montana’s 38 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.

1 Montana listing is year round, either written that way or filed as a range that wraps the new year. Those are excluded from the median above and counted here instead, because a year round market says nothing about when a season opens.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectoday
7 Montana 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
1Listings that are year roundset aside from the medians
#43Rank by listing countbetween Idaho and Rhode Island
How good is this data

What Montana operators actually filled in

What the Montana listings actually fill in

  • Filed as two real dates38%
  • Typed as a month range411%
  • Written as year round13%
  • Other prose, not readable00%
  • Left blank3079%

The first two rows are the ones this site can read as a range, 7 of 38 or 18 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. 8 listings also file weekly hours and 38 carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on. The records themselves were last touched between September 2020 and April 2026.

The Montana records in this snapshot were last touched between September 2020 and April 2026. 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.

38 of the 38 listings carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on, and 17 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 Montana the markets are there and the corn is there; 7 of 38 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 Montana markets by the directory’s own vendor counts

USDA’s form asks operators how many vendors they have, and 8 of Montana’s 38 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. Livingston Farmers Market90 vendors
  2. Farmers Market at Libby50 vendors
  3. Stevensville Harvest Valley Farmers Market26 vendors
  4. Butte Farmers Market20 vendors
  5. Anaconda Community Market18 vendors

What Montana listings say they belong to

  • 1 listing names Libby Area Chamber of Commerce

These come from the directory’s own affiliated organisation field, which is the operator’s statement about its own market. They are membership organisations rather than public bodies, named here rather than quoted, and a market’s membership is the operator’s own statement.

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Current status

Where to check whether a Montana 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 Montana Department of Agriculture, which is the public body for this in Montana and keeps its own list. Link verified September 4, 2026.

A state farmers market association, where one exists, is nearly always a membership nonprofit rather than a public body, so the department of agriculture is the public body linked here.

“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 Montana: the 38 listings here are markets that filed, and a Montana 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

Montana farmers market FAQ

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Other Rockies states

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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