Farmers & Vendors
2025 Dates: January 4 & 18, February 1 & 15, March 1, 15 & 29, April 12
Time: 11:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: The Waldorf School Gymnasium, 739 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA
The LFM is a producer-only market, ensuring that what you find at our market is fresh and local, sustainably raised and carefully crafted. Each winter market, there are up to eleven farmers and vendors on-site, offering items for breakfast to dinner and everything in between. Check back for updates, and scroll down to learn more, including preorder information!
2025 Small Yet Mighty Winter Market Farmers & Vendors:
FULL SEASON: Black-Eyed Susan Sheep Dairy, Bombay Brunch, Captain Marden’s Seafood, Copicut Farms, Farmer Dave’s, Microgreens by the Sea (2/1, 3/1, 3/15, 3/29, 4/12), My County Mushrooms (full season except 1/4), Ovenbird Cafe, Petsi Pies (full season except 1/4)
GUEST VENDORS: Del’s Coffee Roasters (1/18, 3/15, 4/12), Rascal Relish (2/15, 3/15, 4/12), Venier Forge Knife Sharpening (1/18, 2/15, 3/29)
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.
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 fresh seafood and 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 5 pm on Friday and place your order for pickup at the LFM on Saturday. 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 Friday evening for Saturday winter market pickup.
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!
Winter Market Guest Vendor: January 18, March 15, April 12
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 to place a preorder, with the deadline of Thursday 5 pm to order for the Saturday Small Yet Mighty Winter Market. Payment will be taken over the phone to secure the preorder. What’s available could change week to week, but it will typically be anything that Farmer Dave’s brings to the market. For a more specific list, customers can call the office and ask for the most up to date list.
Microgreens by the Sea
Microgreens By The Sea is an indoor farm located in Winthrop, MA. They cultivate a variety of high quality microgreens, grown indoors in a cozy grow room where it is 80 degrees year round with air humidity just around 40% and free of any kind of pesticide, insect, or pollution. Their goal is to contribute to the health, well-being and sustainability of their local and neighboring communities!
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.
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 Small Yet Mighty Winter Market, Ovenbird will bring croissants, focaccia pizza, cookies, teacakes, chocolates, biscuits (savory and sweet), lemon almond yogurt cake, hand pies, whole pies, iced tea, iced and hot coffee.
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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. In season, all produce is harvested the same day or the day before jamming, a win-win for farmers and Rascal Relish’s customers.
Winter Market Guest Vendor: February 15, March 15, April 12
Venier Forge
Bladesmith Matt Venier knows the importance of a blade that is sharp, making a knife safer, more efficient and easier to use. Bring your knives and tools to the market, and Matt will restore that sharp edge while you shop, applying decades of sword and knifemaking knowledge.
Winter Market guest vendor: January 18, February 15, March 29