Fresh fruits and vegetables. Homemade baked goods. Locally sourced meats. At a farmers’ market, you can connect directly with your local farmers, bakers, and chefs while you check the boxes of your dream grocery list. In Prince George’s, we appreciate the many farms and markets we have — and a trip to any one of them is absolutely worth it. You can visit a market to enjoy the fruits of local farmers’ labor or take time in one of the region’s learning-focused farms to try out these tasks for yourself.

Visit these eight farmers’ markets to bring home the bounty of Prince George’s:

  1. The Bowie Farmers’ Market runs from late May through October every year in the parking lot of the Bowie High School. Visit vendors from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. to bring home fresh fruit and vegetables, homemade baked goods, freshly baked bread, beef and goat meat, and colorful flowers.

  2. Located at Paint Branch Parkway, the College Park Farmer’s Market runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Guests can peruse handmade jewelry, treat themselves to homemade ice cream cones, and shop for their produce all in the same space.

  3. The Riverdale Park Farmers Market was established in 1998 and runs year-round. Visit the market on Thursday afternoon to find locally produced fruits, vegetables, and meats. The group works to preserve local farming and encourage sustainability efforts.

  4. Saturday mornings are bustling at the Hollywood Farmers Market in College Park. Located in the shopping center off Rhode Island Avenue, the market provides space for vendors who serve up miniature churros, freshly baked bread, locally raised meats, and more.

  5. The Greenbelt Farmers Market is committed to providing fresh, nutritious, high-quality food grown and produced in the region. From spring to late fall, visitors can search for fresh produce, homemade food items, and artisan crafts on Sunday mornings at the market.

  6. At the Cheverly Community Center, the Cheverly Community Market hosts vendors who serve up ice cream, honey, eggs, jams, bread, fruits, vegetables, and more. Regular markets run from early May through early November, while holiday markets run from mid-November through early December.

  7. The Dutch Village Farmers Market in Upper Marlboro offers fresh foods, produce, and natural products from farms in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, the market sells candy, prepared foods, locally sourced meats, cheeses, furniture, and more.

  8. The Miller Farms in Clinton began in 1879, and it’s now supporting its sixth generation of farming families. On over 200 acres of land, the farm sells some of its produce at its year-round market on-site. Visitors will be treated to homegrown produce and locally sourced products.

 

Find hands-on experiences at these six local farms:

  1. Visit the Hard Bargain Farm and Ferguson Farmhouse run by the Alice Ferguson Foundation in Accokeek. The Foundation has been bringing science to life for students since 1954, and its real-life farm exhibits are no different. Join in on the farm fun as you milk a cow, make friends with the goats, or take a wagon ride.

  2. A trip to Montpelier Farms in Upper Marlboro is an experience in all kinds of seasonal adventure. In the fall, you can jump into a corn pit, hop on a hayride, and pick pumpkins. In the summer, you can take gorgeous photos as you walk through sunflower fields and take home a bouquet. 

  3. Step into the past of the Piscataway Park region when you visit the free National Colonial Farm run by the Accokeek Foundation. The group has preserved endangered heritage livestock and shares stories of past agricultural lives through its living museum. 

  4. Visit (from afar) the ponies, goats, donkeys, cows, rabbits, chickens, ducks, and llamas at the Old Maryland Farm at the Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro. The park hosts interpretive programs and curriculum, though the farm is not a petting zoo.

  5. Milk a cow, feed the chickens, and hop on a tractor with a ranger at the Oxon Hill Farm in Oxon Cove Park. The farm showcases typical activities for the region, and visitors can follow the land through its journey from a plantation home during the War of 1812 to a hospital farm to the park it is today.

  6. Get fresh produce directly from the fields where it grew at Queen Anne Farm in Mitchellville. You can snag everything from watermelon and cantaloupe to apples and pumpkins right from the farmers who grew them — and you’ll taste the difference.

 

Take your farmers’ market finds and enjoy a picnic in Prince George’s.