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Find Farmers Markets Across the Appalachian Highlands

Farmers markets connect communities with local growers, food producers, artisans, and the people behind the products they sell. But finding accurate information on where and when markets operate isn’t always easy.

Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine created the Farmers Market Guide to make that information easier to find.

The interactive Guide brings market locations, schedules, payment information, food-access programs, and other useful details together in one searchable resource covering communities throughout the Appalachian Highlands.


The image of the Elizabethton Farmers Market from a distance

Find the Farmers Market That Fits Your Plans

Use the Guide to explore markets on an interactive map or browse the directory. Search by location, then narrow results with filters for market days, geography, market type, and available benefits.

Each listing may include:

  • Market location and directions
  • Days and hours of operation
  • Seasonal schedules
  • Special market dates and events
  • SNAP/EBT and other payment information
  • Double Up Food Bucks, WIC FMNP and Senior FMNP participation
  • Other local food-access and health programs
  • Official market or government source links
  • Verification information and the date we last checked the listing

Built for More Than a List of Addresses

Market information changes. Seasons begin and end. Holiday markets appear. Hours change. Programs gain or lose funding. Some annual markets announce their dates only a few weeks or months before they take place.

That is why the Farmers Market Guide uses a living database rather than a static directory.

Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine researches market information, reviews sources, and updates listings as new information becomes available. When we approve an update, the change can appear directly in the public Guide.


Coverage Is Growing

The Farmers Market Guide is a work in progress by design.

We are starting with markets we have researched and reviewed, then expanding coverage throughout the Appalachian Highlands. A market that does not appear in the Guide may simply be waiting for research or verification.

Some annual markets may also appear as Date Pending when we know the market operates, but organizers have not yet announced the next event date.

We would rather tell readers that a date remains uncertain than guess.


The Kingsport Farmers market

Helping Readers Find Local Food

The Guide supports one of the central missions of Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine: helping people discover the farms, growers, producers, markets and food systems in their own communities.

Buying through local markets keeps more food dollars circulating close to home while giving shoppers a chance to learn where their food comes from and who produces it.

The Guide also makes food-access programs easier to discover. When reliable information is available, listings identify programs that can help eligible shoppers use benefits to purchase fresh, locally produced food.


Know a Farmers Market We Should Add?

We are continuing to research farmers markets, farm markets, and recurring community markets throughout the region.

If you manage a market, sell at one, or know of a market we should include, we want to hear about it.


Start Exploring

Whether you are looking for Saturday morning produce, a weekday market close to home, a seasonal holiday market, or a market that accepts a particular food benefit, start with the Appalachian Highlands Farmers Market Guide.