Portland Farmers Market - Shemanski Park — Local services in Portland

Wow! What a calm and colorful place! I happened to come here because I live in hotel nearby and was impressed to realize that there are Farmer’s Market just around the corner. The market is hosted in the beautiful very relaxing park nearby. You can find here many vendors selling fruits and vegetables, bread and pastry, salami and nuts. Many stands with fresh flowers add a certain beauty and vibe. I was very happy to find red currants here. The variety of fruits and berries is splendid.

This market runs on Mondays to Wednesdays till 2:00 pm. And then vendors start to pack, so if you still come at 2:10pm you can find a good deal here. There are also few stations of cooked food vendors nearby, so you can enjoy having a tasty meal sitting one one of plenty of wooden benches in the park. Park is wide and have two alleys with many benches to sit on. The shade is provided by crowns of very leafy and tall trees. I also happened to witness a wedding this afternoon, that was a very romantic touch!

All the busy life in this oasis was accompanied by a gorgeous saxophone music done by Edward English!

I’d definitely recommend you to stop by the Portland Farmer’s Market and...

It's great to have this lively market downtown on Wednesdays! My friends and I are using it a meeting place to reconnect with our community, coming as we do from multiple workplaces. We enjoy lunch from the market, or from home on a shaded nearby bench. You can get great produce from several small farmers, as well as flowers, mushrooms, fabulous chocolates and other desserts, frozen meals, cured meats, and other interesting discoveries.

A recent addition are musical buskers who add an even more festive feeling to the market. On the down side, they are often too close to the lunch vendors such that the loudness of the music can be too much for me as I wait in line.

I'm only giving the Market 4 stars because of its smaller size and almost dangerous crowding. The uneven surfaces of the area mean you have to watch your feet even as you attempt to look at the goods - while dodging others doing the...

This is my favorite downtown-area market. it’s small but the park is beautiful and shady, the vendors very nice, the cooking food smells are wonderful. The prices, of course, are twice what they are at Safeway, whose produce is always excellent, too. If I didn’t get produce vouchers and food stamps I wouldn’t be able to afford it any farmers markets. I do recommend, no matter what, the nectarines/peaches stand in the middle. They’ve been heavenly for at least the past three years. The smaller vendors often have nice things as well,...