Welcome to the 2024 growing season! The Orono Farmers’ Market is one of Maine’s larger markets with over twenty-five members offering a wide range of locally produced foods on Saturday mornings and Tuesday afternoons, open rain or shine. As in most other farmers’ markets in Maine, all of the goods offered for sale at the Orono Farmers’ Market must be produced by the vendor’s own effort; we do not allow our members to buy in products for re-sale at the market. Every purchase at the market supports the market’s human-scale producers—you make a real difference each time you support a local farmer. Visit both the SUMMER MARKET (May to November) and the WINTER MARKET (December to April).
The SUMMER MARKET
Saturdays 8 am–Noon
May 4–November 23, 2024
Located at the University of Maine Steam Plant Parking Lot until Thanksgiving
and
Tuesdays 2–5:30 pm
June 25 (4th Tuesday)-October 29, 2024.
Visit the summer Orono Farmers’ Market at the University Steam Plant Parking Lot on College Avenue in Orono, Maine. The market is located between College Avenue and the Stillwater River, less than a mile north of downtown Orono. Each year our summer market is open Saturday mornings from 8 am–Noon from the first Saturday in May until the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and on Tuesday afternoons from 2–5:30 pm from the fourth Tuesday in June until the last Tuesday in October.
During UMaine Homecoming weekend in mid October the market will move to a location to be announced for that day. From December until Commencement in May, the Winter Market location is at the Asa Adams School (behind the Fire Station).
The WINTER MARKET
is held from 9 am–Noon
• In December: every Saturday
• In January to April: on the
2nd & 4th Saturdays
Where? At the Asa Adams School
(behind the fire station),
both in the gym and outside.
For more on exactly when and where the market is happening, see the Market Calendar.
Market Shoppers! Did you know you can now order ahead from many of the market members who are already attending market? Check their individual descriptions on the Members Page.
At the close of most market days, gleaners from the Caring Community Food Cupboard stop by the market to collect food donations for the food pantries in the Old Town area.
Everyone Bring One!
Do you know just one person who would enjoy the experience of shopping at the Orono Farmers Market? We would love to welcome your friend as our newest shopper!
Farmers’ Market WIC checks accepted by many vendors.