Market database
Plan your trip and find the nearest food & farmers’ markets across the globe.
It is being continuously updated. For any additions or reports on broken links contact me on Twitter: @askans or fm@askan.biz
North America
- USA
- Comprehensive database of the USDA
- Comprehensive database from localharvest.org
- Nice lists per state & county with links
- Another nice database of local farmers’ markets from local-farmers-markets.com
- An interactive map from ESRI (a geographical software company)
- Social Media Map for National Farmers Market Week from ESRI
- Canada
- A database on British Columbia farmers’ markets
Africa
- Morocco
- A calendar of souks in the Essaouria region
- South Africa
- A directory of South African markets by thislittlepiggy.co.za
- Selected markets from the Western Cape region (2010)
- Markets in Cape Town from Mother City Living
- Organic markets from South Africa Online Directory
- Senegal
- A small selection of markets in Senegal from au-senegal.com
Asia
- Israel
- A selection of food markets across Israel from myjewishlearning.com
- A presentation of all the dealers at the big Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem by machne.co.il
- Japan – there is no direct listing
- Approach #1: surviving in Japan blog
- Approach #2: accessj.com blog
- Appraoch #3: through the great blog Japan Farmers Markets – needs a bit of search on the site, but every month some are being presented
Europe
- Austria
- Database of gutesvombauernhof.at – covers farms which sell directly as well
- Belgium
- Database from marches-de-belgique.be
- France
- Database from foiresetmarches.com
- Database from marches-reguliers.pagesperso-orange.fr
- And here the one of the French market federation
- Croatia
- A small selection of markets by travel channel
- All the markets in Zagreb with hours of operation etc. from trznice-zg.hr
- Cyprus
- A little list of farmers markets from afroditeskitchen.com (scroll down)
- Germany
- Database with selected municipal food markets handled by the private company marktgilde.de
- Extensive database from wochenmarkt-deutschland.de with opening days and hours. Includes Christmas markets and flea markets
- Ireland
- List of farmers markets from the Irish Food Board
- List of country markets from the Irish Food Board
- Italy
- List of farmers markets in Tuscany
- The markets in Rome
- Luxemburg
- List of markets in Luxemburg – small country but needs a list
- Netherlands
- A list of farmers’ markets across the Netherlands with location maps
- A directory with opening dates of all types of markets by hollandsemarkten.nl – with some translator it will work out
- Norway
- List of farmers’ markets with some details from bondensmarked.no
- Portugal
- Spain
- Comprehensive database with reviews etc. in Spanish, but easy to navigate and understand (hopefully)
- List of Farmers’ Markets on Tenerife Island / Spain
- Switzerland
- UK
- Database from localfoods.org.uk – covers local food stores as well
- Another database which includes farm shops as well from farmers-markets.co.uk
- The National Market Traders Federation offers a search by weekdays
Oceania
- Australia
- From the Australian farmers’ market association
- New Zealand
- From farmersmarkets.org.nz
- And slightly different: organicexplorer.co.nz
- Another one: newzealandfarmersmarkets.co.nz