Ohio Farmers Markets

Name: USDA National Farmers Market Directory listings in Ohio
Creator: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

63 Ohio farmers markets in USDA's national directory. The middle of the 14 whose season can be read as a range runs May 3 to October 25. Enter a ZIP below for the nearest, with the season and hours each one filed and the date it filed them.

Every Ohio 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

Seasons readable as a range

File weekly hours

Rank by listing count

#33

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The Ohio markets nearest a ZIP code

USDA’s directory holds 63 farmers market listings in Ohio. The middle of the 14 readable seasons runs May 3 to October 25. Today falls inside that window, which is a statement about the median of the filings and about nothing else.

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.

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.

The Ohio season

The middle Ohio listing runs May 3 to October 25

USDA's directory holds 63 farmers market listings in Ohio. 16 of them give a season this site can read as a range, 25 percent, and the middle of those runs May 3 to October 25. The listings themselves were last touched between June 2020 and April 2026.

That range is a median across the 14 Ohio seasons in USDA’s directory this site can read as a range, with the year each operator filed under thrown away so a 2019 filing and a 2024 filing sit on the same axis. 3 of them came from a month range the operator typed into the date field rather than a filed date pair, which widens the window by up to a month at each end. Half of Ohio’s markets open later than the median by construction. Today falls inside the window, which is a statement about the median of the filings and about nothing else.

6 Ohio listings are 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.

The middle of the 14 Ohio seasons in USDA's directory that can be read as a range: May 3 to October 25. 3 of them came from a month range the operator typed rather than a filed date pair. Half of these markets open later than the median by construction, and it is a description of what operators filed rather than a schedule any market keeps.

May 3Median opening, as filedacross 14 readable Ohio seasons

October 25Median closing, as filedabout 25 weeks of season

6Listings that are year roundset aside from the medians

#33Rank by listing countbetween Louisiana and West Virginia

How good is this data

What Ohio operators actually filled in

What the Ohio listings actually fill in

Filed as two real dates1321%
Typed as a month range35%
Written as year round35%
Other prose, not readable12%
Left blank4368%

The first two rows are the ones this site can read as a range, 16 of 63 or 25 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. 18 listings also file weekly hours and 63 carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on. The records themselves were last touched between June 2020 and April 2026.

The Ohio records in this snapshot were last touched between June 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.

63 of the 63 listings carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on, and 34 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.

Cabbages, cauliflower and yellow onions on a market table with handwritten price cards — Cabbage at seventy five cents a pound, priced on a card somebody wrote that morning. Of Ohio's 63 listings, 16 tell you which weeks of the year to expect this and 18 tell you which morning. “Cauliflower, winter cabbage, and yellow onions” — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lance Cheung — Public domain

The big ones

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

USDA’s form asks operators how many vendors they have, and 20 of Ohio’s 63 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.

Heart of Ohio Farmers Market100 vendors
Worthington Farmers Market90 vendors
Lettuce Eat Well60 vendors
Cuyahoga Valley Summer Farmers Market55 vendors
Main Street Portsmouth In Bloom Farmers Market40 vendors

What Ohio listings say they belong to

2 listings name Farmers Market Coalition
2 listings name Main Street Kent, Kent Area Chamber of Commerce
2 listings name Ohio Farmers Market Network
2 listings name OHIO FARMERS MARKET NETWORK

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.

Current status

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

Ohio 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 Ohio: the 63 listings here are markets that filed, and a Ohio 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

Ohio farmers market FAQ

Is a farmers market open in Ohio today?

When does the Ohio farmers market season usually run?

Across the 14 Ohio seasons in USDA's directory that can be read as a range, the middle one opens around May 3 and closes around October 25, about 25 weeks. 3 of those were a month range the operator typed rather than a filed date pair, which widens it by up to a month at each end. It is a median of what operators filed, not a schedule: half of them open later than that by construction, and 6 Ohio listings are year round and excluded from it entirely.

How good is the Ohio data?

Which Ohio markets are the biggest?

Do Ohio farmers markets take SNAP?

Who runs farmers markets in Ohio?

The markets themselves do, almost always as independent nonprofits, town committees or vendor cooperatives. The public body is Ohio Department of Agriculture, Markets Division, which keeps the state's own market list. The directory also records what listings say about themselves: 2 name Farmers Market Coalition and 2 name Main Street Kent, Kent Area Chamber of Commerce. Those are membership organisations rather than public bodies, named here rather than quoted.

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Farmers markets by state

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