Harrisonburg Farmers Market — Attraction in Harrisonburg

Will not be buying from Ryan’s Fruit vendor! I’m surprised Harrisonburg Farmers Market allows “farmer” venders such as Ryan’s Fruit. Knowing their strict rules on who’s allowed to sell there, I’m genuinely surprised. I bought peaches from Ryan’s Fruit and they were either previously frozen or had a sign of long refrigeration. The flesh had a particular texture of long refrigeration or freezing with brown dark floppy flesh around the pit! They tasted disgusting! I have also seen boxes of packed fruits under their tables, and those are the identical boxes to the ones you get from local Shenandoah Valley Produce Auction. He is clearly reselling fruit, and charging premium prices for fruit that were refrigerated or nearly frozen for awhile. And that’s considered okay?? I thought HFM only allowed farmer vendors who grow their own produce! What am I...

This is a wonderful idea to provide to the farmers to display their fresh produce for customers who are desirous of eating fresh and pocket friendly prices. It's a marvelous place for both farmers and customers. It's actually a meeting place village farms and the citizens of cities. The more we attend these make-shift arrangements of such markets the more we will know each other, the more we exchange, ideas, know more about nature's, real gifts for us Thereby we fill the gap between our people. We come close one and other which is the real essence of life. God less farmers, they are special for us for their toiled results thru veges, other cereals and seeds of oil, lentises, and life saving products. Thank them all with...

Lots of options. I love that they have a program for SNAP/food stamps holders. If you go to the counter in the middle of the pavillion, you can use your EBT card to get tokens (physical wooden chips) that you can then use to buy food from any of the vendors. If I recall, there's red and blue tokens. If I pay $10 of my SNAP money, I get 10 red tokens. But, they have an assistance program, so you also get 10 blue tokens. So that's like $20 worth of spending money for only $10 of your EBT dollars. You can use the red tokens to buy almost anything, but the blue tokens can only be used to by fruits and vegetables (no...