Fredericksburg, VA Farmers Market — Local services in Fredericksburg

A beautiful, albeit windy opening to the 2024 season! The market is downtown in a park with one street block blocked off and remaining vendors along the sidewalk. Arrived around 11:15, a bit late to enjoy a full selection of fresh mushrooms, green onions, asparagus, cut flowers and bread. FB site advertises 30 vendors, but about 20 remaining at our late arrival. Parking a bit tricky unless you have a residential parking permit, but with patience and 5 mins or so, it's doable - a few disabled spots available. Plenty of potted herbs, cut herbs, flower baskets, honey, grass-fed meats, sweets and pastries, fresh lemonades, kambucha, canned items, fermented/pickled items. The potted herbs, flowers and vegetables (including patio varieties) were gorgeous from two or three of the vendors - nothing close to it at HD or Lowes. Fried foods, kettle and specialty popcorn, desserts and drinks available for your stroll past the fountain and tulips. Wanting something healthier and more substantial, we walked to the end of the block to Sedona Taphouse but many more restaurant options available in the newish...

The vendors are awesome. They have everything from fresh baked macarons, muffins, breads etc. to sausages, seafood, and beautiful veggies and fruit. HOWEVER for some reason they make them crowd onto the sidewalk instead of closing one of the streets. It's one of the most popular markets in the region so there's hundreds of people each Saturday trying to get through. Add in the huge strollers and it's a recipe for disaster. I now go solely for the macarons and then I go to one of the other ones in the area that are bigger...

Excellent produce and meat vendors - the majority are local farms, but some of the bigger stalls are distributors - and every few weeks feature craft vendors and other local interest groups. A handful of bakeries and other processed foods, too, which can be hit or miss depending on your tastes, but are largely hits. All take credit cards, but appreciate cash, and there is a market token exchange to reduce the...