Every Tuesday: May 28 – October 29, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Location: Worthen Road Practice Field
The LFM is a producer-only market, ensuring that what you find at our market is fresh and local, sustainably raised and carefully crafted. When you visit the summer market, you’ll find a diverse selection of items, with all you need from breakfast to dessert and everything in between. You can learn more about LFM farmers and vendors below!
Application period for the summer market is now closed. Should you wish to be put on a waiting list, send an email including product details and website if applicable. We look forward to hearing from you.
Farmers & Vendors
Black Eyed Susan Sheep Dairy
Black-Eyed Susan Sheep Dairy is New Hampshire’s newest sheep dairy. Located in the small town of Mont Vernon, they have over fifty milking ewes producing gallons of milk to make into delicious cheeses, yogurt, and ice cream. The dairy makes several types of fresh cheese including Feta, Brebis, and Ricotta and several aged cheeses, principally Manchego, Ossau-Iraty, Tomme, and Asiago. The sheep have access to more than thirty acres of pasture and more acres of woodland for shade, and the farm follows organic practices but is not certified. They are open for tours and invite people to meet the sheep and see how they create the food to sell locally and at farmers’ markets. They will be offering their cheeses, as well as duck eggs, goose eggs and lamb.
Bombay Brunch
West Indian vegetarian dishes. Founded in Lexington, MA, Bombay Brunch is a woman-owned online restaurant operating out of Foundation Kitchen in Somerville, MA, serving authentic Western Indian vegetarian cuisine. Aiming to diversify the Indian cuisine experience, they bring centuries-old superfoods, grains, and legume-based recipes to the table. In addition to traditional cuisine, they also offer fun and popular Bombay street food through preorders. For Bombay Brunch, the focus is on healthy, sustainable dietary needs of today’s lifestyle.
Biweekly starting June 4th: June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, August 13, 27, September 10, 24, October 8, 22
Visit the website to place your order for high-quality, delicious Maharashtrian cuisine by Monday night for Tuesday market pickup.
Boston Smoked Fish Co.
The Boston Smoked Fish Company produces the highest quality smoked fish available using sustainably harvested fish, locally sourced ingredients, and all natural preparation. They hand select the freshest fish daily from the docks in Boston, expertly match it with fresh herbs and spices, and gently smoke it in small batches over specific varieties of North American hardwoods. They believe it is important for people to know what they eat, and that is why they use locally-sourced ingredients from the communities in which we work and live.
Biweekly starting May 28th: May 28, June 11, 25, July 9, 23, August 6, 20, September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29
Visit their online store to place your order by Monday at 5:00 PM. During checkout, choose Lexington Farmers’ Market as the pickup location. Prepay online via paypal or credit card.
Bread Obsession
Bread Obsession is a women-owned and operated artisan bread company. They make the best baguettes around, as well as classic European-style ryes, bagels, and naturally leavened crusty sourdoughs. Bread Obsession is deeply committed to crafting bread that will not only fulfill the need for this daily staple but will also bring pleasure and satisfaction. Bread Obsession makes nutritious, beautiful, delicious breads by hand, one loaf at a time.
Busa Farm
Fran and his family have farmed for more than 100 years. A local family-owned farm, over generations the Busa family has expanded and diversified the produce they grow. Busa Farm grows high-quality fruits, vegetables and cut flowers in fields in Lexington, Littleton, Sterling, Harvard and South Chelmsford. In 2022, they added three greenhouses in South Chelmsford, including a hydroponic greenhouse growing specialty herbs and greens!
Butternut Bakehouse
Butternut Bakehouse is a small batch bakery located in Arlington and Belmont that focuses on hand crafted goods and serving charming and rustic pastries. They feature local and seasonally inspired produce, with emphasis on quality ingredients. They love what they do and it shows their products. We hope you will love our food as much as we do.
Captain Marden’s Seafood
Captain Marden’s is a fourth-generation family owned seafood company. Starting out as a small fish market in West Newton in 1945, they have grown to be a seafood distributor in MA, a fish market and restaurant in Wellesley, and a food truck as well! At the LFM, Captain Marden’s will be featuring a broad selection of prepared foods including soups, chowders, dinners and pates, along with shellfish and more!
Capt. Marden’s offers two ways to preorder:
To pre-order and prepay, visit www.captainmardens.com, create an account (no fee), and see all the offerings. After you select your items, continue to the checkout page and enter “pick up at the Lexington Farmers’ Market” in the box marked Instructions. While you will be required to enter a pickup time, your order will be ready during market hours.
If you prefer to place your order over the phone, visit www.captainmardens.com to see what is currently available at the fish market. Call the store at 781-235-0860 by 5pm on Monday and place your order for pickup at the LFM on Tuesday. You can either pay over the phone or pay at the market when you pick up your order.
Copicut Farms
Copicut Farms is a family-owned, 65-acre livestock farm located in Dartmouth, Mass. They provide the community with pasture-raised poultry, pork, lamb, and eggs while treating their animals and the environment with the utmost respect and care. All of their animals are raised outdoors, and have constant access to chemical-free pastures where they are free to forage for grass, legumes, and insects throughout all but the harshest winter months. In addition, they operate their own state-licensed on-farm poultry slaughtering facility. This allows them to maintain an extremely high level of food safety and ensure that their animals are treated in the most humane manner possible throughout all stages of their lives.
Visit Copicut Farms to see what is available and place your order by Monday evening for Tuesday market pickup.
Del Sur
Del Sur caters Argentine-style empanadas made with passion and using all natural ingredients. Meaning “From the South” in Spanish, Del Sur brings their recipes from the southern part of this continent. Available frozen to bake at home, enjoy a variety of different flavors and dips to delight your guests for a quick, easy meal. It’s always a hit!
Biweekly starting May 28th: May 28, June 11, 25, July 9, 23, August 6, 20, September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29
Preorder Information: Biweekly vendor: Check attendance dates below before placing your order. Visit their online store to place your order. Select “Pickup” and choose “Del Sur at Lexington Farmers’ Market”. Prepay online via paypal or credit card.
Deadline: Monday at Noon for Tuesday market pickup.
SNAP Customers: Email [email protected] with subject line Lexington-SNAP preorder
Del’s Coffee Roasters
Del’s Coffee Roasters offers certified fair trade organic, specialty grade coffee, with beans roasted in Waltham, MA. Del’s grew from a love of coffee and a commitment to discover, roast and enjoy the best coffee the world has to offer. Delivering the freshly roasted beans door to door to friends, family and local community during the pandemic, Del saw just how much the simple pleasure of coffee can bring connect people and lift us up, and brings that passion to every cup. Start your morning with a cup of freshly roasted beans from Del’s Coffee Roasters!
Biweekly starting June 4th: June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, August 13, 27, September 10, 24, October 8, 22
Farmer Dave’s
Farmer Dave’s is a diversified farm north of Boston that responsibly grows a myriad of vegetables and fruits. Along with a CSA offering, Farmer Dave’s operates farm stands in Dracut, Tewksbury and Westford and participates in many local farmers’ markets. At the home farm in Dracut, Farmer Dave’s has an ever-expanding pick your own program as well as school tours to introduce multiple generations to farming in New England. Farmer Dave’s mission is growing healthy food, building strong community and creating lifelong traditions.
After returning from the Peace Corps in 1997, Dave began farming in the Merrimack Valley while continuing to teach and consult farmers in the Republic of Georgia, Ethiopia and Tajikistan. Farmer Dave has worked with many farmers across the globe with the purpose of teaching how to improve soil and crop health as well as irrigation methods.
Customers can call 978-349-1952 between 9 am and 6 pm by Sunday to place preorders for Tuesday pickup at the market.
Hi-Rise Bread Company
Rene Becker opened Hi-Rise in 1996 with a crew of six, big ideas, and a simple goal: to make staple homey foods better than home-made. He started with bread — using organic wheat, rye, and corn from independent mills — and soon moved to pastries, incorporating extra-rich European-style butter and local fruits for pies and tarts. In store, they offer soups and sandwiches, dinners sold fresh and frozen, from pot pies and stews to lasagnas with house-made pasta. At the market find their breads, granola, crackers, loaf cakes, pastries, preserves, and tasty frozen meals to bring home.
Kelley Farm
Kelley Farm is a quintessential New England hillside farm located in Shelburne, Massachusetts that has been in continuous operation by the same family for more than one hundred years. Originally operated as a dairy farm, Kelley Farm now specializes in the production of Certified Organic Asian vegetables. The current owners of Kelley Farm, Ernie and Hsiu-li (pronounced “Shoo-lee”) Kelley have many years of growing experience and are passionate about offering a wide variety of Asian and western vegetables of the highest quality, including many varieties that are virtually unavailable elsewhere. They are a small operation that takes pride in maintaining their land in a natural and sustainable manner, so that its bounty may continue to be available to them, to the customers that they serve and to future generations.
Preorder Information: Text or call Hsiu-Li Kelley at 413-687-3059 to place your order. Payments will be made at the market upon pickup.
Deadline: Monday at 6 PM.
SNAP Customers: Same order info as above
Liberty Fish / Boston Sword & Tuna
Liberty Fish is a woman-owned business bringing fresh seafood from Boston Sword & Tuna to the Lexington Farmers’ Market. Boston Sword and Tuna is a fifth generation family-run seafood business whose mission is to provide the best seafood and shellfish to its customers. Knowing which boats to buy from, which boats to not buy from, and establishing long-lasting relationships enables BST to consistently source the best quality products on the market, both locally and around the world.
Preorder Information: Email Elisha at [email protected] with type and amount of fish. Substitutions are helpful in the off chance that your first choice is not available. Payments will be made at the market upon pickup. Please indicate in email if you would like to join her weekly Sunday newsletter sharing fish she will have available for that week.
Deadline: Monday at Noon.
IMPORTANT: Please do not contact or order from Boston Sword & Tuna directly as your order will not be processed. Elisha handles all ordering directly for the LFM. Any questions, call or text (978) 270-3788.
SNAP Customers: Same order info as above.
Magdalane Bakery
Magdalane Bakery is a gluten-free bakery startup based in Concord, MA. Featuring cupcakes, cakes, brownies, donuts, breads and other specialty items, Magdalene Bakery creates delicious baked goods that vegans and people with celiac disease or gluten sensitivities can enjoy. Weekly until August 6th.
Contact Magdalane Bakery at [email protected] to reserve your products no later than Monday at 12pm.
Options to pre-order are:
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, Ginger Molasses Cookies, Mint Brownies, S’mores Blondies, Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes, Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies, Raspberry Macarons, Lemon Macarons, and Bakery Sinks
Mei Mei
Farm focused and woman-owned, Mei Mei’s unconventional dumpling combinations showcase their love for great New England ingredients along with a pursuit of what tastes delicious. They use pasture-raised meat that is sourced from the Northeast and work with small, independent family farms; as a result, they are able to source 70% of their produce from the Northeast across the year.
Biweekly starting May 28th: May 28, June 11, 25, July 9, 23, August 6, 20, September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29
Mind Body Snack
My County Mushrooms
Based in Gardner, MA, My County Mushrooms is a small family company that specializes in growing and selling mushrooms, with varieties including oyster, shiitake, maitake, lion’s mane, white champion, portobello and baby portobello. Their mission is to bring people a first class range of mushrooms that will make customers healthy, active and happy.
Niemi’s Apiary
Based in Athol, MA, Niemi’s Apiary brings products from their own beehives including honey, bee pollen, beeswax candles, and honeycomb.
Biweekly starting June 4th: June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, August 13, 27, September 10, 24, October 8, 22
Olive World
Ovenbird Cafe
Ovenbird Cafe is a Belmont MA bakeshop and cafe that features seasonal scratch made baked goods, cafe beverages, breakfast and lunch counter service, as well as prepared foods customers can take home to enjoy. At the LFM, Ovenbird will bring seasonal pies and hand pies, tea cakes, biscuits, cookies, prepared sandwiches and salads, coffee and iced beverages made in house https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/06/lifestyle/ovenbird-caf-belmont-staple-soars-even-higher/
Petsi Pies
Petsi Pies (pronounced “peet-see”) is an independent, community-minded bakery serving up scratch made pies and pastries in Somerville, Massachusetts since 2003. Everything in the shop is baked fresh daily by using all-natural ingredients. Petsi Pies offers a regular selection of sweet pies year-round in a variety of sizes, like Classic Apple, Blueberry, Cherry Crumb, and the famous Chocolate Bourbon Pecan and Mississippi Mud Pies. Petsi Pies was the Regional Winner, United States of Pie in 2022 and named Best of Boston in 2021.
Rascal Relish
Rascal Relish features freshly picked produce transformed into delicious and all-purpose condiments, including Spiced Tomato Spread, Smoky Spiced Tomato Spread, BBQ Pickled Relish and Pickled Carrots. All of Rascal Relish’s products are as sustainable and low-waste as possible, using fruits directly from farmers that don’t meet the aesthetic or structural standards to be sold at full price to consumers or restaurants. All produce is harvested the same day or the day before jamming, a win-win for farmers and Rascal Relish’s customers!
Guest Vendor: May 28, June 25, September 3, 18, October 1, 15, 29
River Rock Farm
River Rock Farm raises beef cattle on pasture with room to roam freely, where they graze on fresh grass with free access to hay in the winter. The animals are raised without the use of hormones or antibiotics and have access to fresh water pumped from the well through an underground plumbing system. River Rock finishes their animals on a limited amount of GMO-free corn which cattle are able to eat as they choose, while still kept in pasture and provided grass as the bulk of their diet. All of their cuts are dry-aged for approximately thirty days for unparalleled flavor and tenderness. This creates the best tasting, well-marbled beef possible. Following the wisdom of Temple Grandin, River Rock cattle are given the most humane treatment and a happy, healthy life. Make sure to check out their bone broth, a nutritious broth carefully created from their farm animals.
Preorder Information: Use their online Market Pre-Order Form to place your order or email [email protected]. A current list of cuts can be found on their Menu.
Deadline: Monday before noon.
SNAP Customers: Use the preorder form above and indicate you will be paying with SNAP coupons upon pick-up.
Stillman’s Farm
Stillman’s Farm is a family-owned and operated farm, conscientiously growing for over 30 years. Stillman’s provides local grown fruits and veggies from their hundreds of acres located in New Braintree, everything from apples to zucchini and more. Stillman’s offers a 16 week CSA program with weekly shares from mid June through mid October.
Preorder Information: $30 Grab and Go Produce Bag which includes a seasonal produce bag + $10 of prepaid produce of your choice added to your bag at the market. The seasonal bag will include a lovely assortment of produce grown at Stillman’s Farm, New Braintree, MA. At the market, they will have other options in an effort to continue offering some customization. Visit their online store to place your order. Prepay online via credit card.
Deadline: 10 PM on Sunday
SNAP Customers: Same order info as above. During checkout, select that you will be paying by check and include “SNAP Pay At Market” in the order notes.
Stormalong Cider
Stormalong Cider was founded in 2014 by Shannon Edgar with the desire to showcase the virtues of cider made with the right apples. Cider is a complex and nuanced beverage, and apple selection and blends are paramount.
Stormalong treats cider making as an artistic endeavor, a renaissance of sorts. Using a blend of culinary and rare heirloom varieties, they ferment and age their ciders with traditional and modern techniques showcasing the unique characteristics of these diverse apples. They respect the apple, the ingredients, and the process, and aim to increase awareness of the diversity of apple cultivars, some of which have been around since the country was founded, while continuing to innovate and explore in the pursuit of cider’s full potential.
Biweekly starting May 28th: May 28, June 11, 25, July 9, 23, August 6, 20, September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29
Sueños Chocolates
Sueños Artisanal Chocolates is a direct importer of organic, shade-grown cacao from the Nueva Esperanza Organic Farmers Cooperative in Puerto Quito, Ecuador. They use Nueva Esperanza Cacao to make small-batch vegan dark chocolate bars with a variety of dried fruits, nuts and seeds. Nueva Esperanza farms are committed to growing only Ecuador’s finest ‘Nacional’ variety heirloom cacao trees, which are world-renowned for their exceptional aromas and flavors, and lack of bitterness.
Guest Vendor: September 10, 24, October 8, 22
Preorder Information: Check attendance dates below before placing your order. Pre-orders with pre-payment can be done via a custom listing on their Etsy site.
Deadline: Monday at 1pm.
SNAP Customers: Guests who wish to pre-order and pay with SNAP should email [email protected].
Tex Mex Eats
Tex Mex Eats uses locally sourced products when possible to bring you the freshest bites of the season. They are committed to local and quality ingredients that complement their Mexican spices, bringing Massachusetts ingredients to life in the style of Texas in a big way. Tex Mex Eats will have tamales (fresh and frozen), red and green sauces, and cooked chili beans. It’s Texachusetts cuisine – Texas flavors, with as many local ingredients as possible! Tamales are all gluten free with vegetarian options.
Biweekly starting June 4th: June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, August 13, 27, September 10, 24, October 8, 22— plus add-on date Oct 29th
The Roasted Granola
The Roasted Granola is a family run granola baking company based in Arlington, MA. They make all of their own granola and granola based products in small batches baked in their own oven. Their granola stands out because every batch is made by hand and checked for quality. The Roasted Granola carefully sources all of their ingredients paying strict attention to freshness and depth of flavor. Their granola is not too sweet, contains healthy nuts and seeds, and is made with Greek olive oil. They are constantly working to ensure the homemade, small batch taste is in every bite of their products including their granola bars, energy bars and bites, and maple glazed pecans.
Preorder Information: Visit their online store to place your order. Pre-pay online via credit card.
SNAP Customers: Order online and use discount code SNAP to pay at the market.
Deadline: Monday at 5 PM
Triple Allium Flower Farm
Triple Allium Flower Farm is a micro backyard farm growing flowers in Burlington and Needham. Using sustainable farming methods, they offer a variety of blooming flowers to the local community while embracing organic growing practices. Triple Allium focuses on cultivating exquisite blooms which are unique treasures not often found in large scale stores.
Biweekly starting May 28th: May 28, June 11, 25, July 9, 23, August 6, 20, September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29
Venier Forge
Bladesmith Matt Venier knows the importance of a blade that is sharp, making a knife safer, more efficient and easier to use. The LFM is happy to welcome Matt to the market, applying his decades of sword and knifemaking knowledge to sharpen shoppers knives and tools.
Biweekly beginning July 9th (July 9, 23, August 6, 20, September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29)
Wicked Bess Shrubs
Wicked Bess shrubs are a carefully blended mix of ripened fruit, select vinegars and pure cane sugar, letting you craft complex, balanced bar-quality drinks in the comfort of your home. More than just a mixer and made with the freshest local ingredients, Wicked Bess shrubs make you an at-home mixologist for simple and effortless cocktails or mocktails, with no tools required!
Guest Vendor: June 25, July 30, August 27, September 24, October 29