City Park Farmers Market — Attraction in Denver

City Park Farmers Market is probably my favorite Denver farmers market right now. They offer SNAP and, now in their second year, Double Up Bucks which helps the market be even more inclusive to people of varying income levels. I'm particularly impressed with how they've trained their staff and onboarded their vendors for these rewarding programs.

This year they've also grown by increasing the number of farmers present each Saturday. It's great to see such a variety there (farm size, location, featured produce, etc).

You can see that the owners work really hard to bring people in from their social media output, thoughtful emails, branding presence (so you know who is with CPFM if you have questions + a tent), yard signs scattered throughout nearby neighborhoods in English and Spanish, and a willingness to help other market products.

My family and I also value the grass seating area in the middle. It helps the market to be less congested in the middle compared to other markets on...

update 2022* returned to this FM and it was bigger than when I went on the last weekend of 2021...its still early season so not much vegetable selection, but if you like fresh, delicious premade meals to eat in the grass, this place is for you! There is a huge variety of food trucks and stalls serving all kinds of ready to eat food!

2021 review First time at this market...parking down there sucks, but I got lucky and wasnt too far away. I havent been to too many since moving to CO, so I can only say it's the biggest one that I have been to here...it had a nice variety of vendors. It seemed though as this one is more towards ready-to-eat foods...very good variety of food trucks, and tents serving hot food now. I did like the vibe here though. Good people, great location... I will...

The market is large and there is a lot of variety. However we bought produce from a variety of venders and were disappointed in everything we bought. The prices were much higher than a super market but the quality was inferior. We paid $7.50 for a bag of mixed greens. We were told there were mizuno mustard greens in the bag, however when we made a salad there was no spicey flavor which is the hallmark of the mizuno strain. Tomatoes tasted no different at $4/lb than the grocery store and the biggest disappointment was the eggplant which had been previously frozen, as evidenced by the thorough brushing on the inside once opened, so much so we had to throw our expensive eggplant away. We have doubts that the produce actually came direct to us...