Santa Teresa Farmers' Market — Local services in San Jose

I’ve been to a lot of different farmers markets: campbell, mountain view, palo alto…but I’m so happy with this one in my backyard. It is smaller in size but offers enough variety for my needs: all the produce are fresh and high quality. I especially like the fruit stand at the end, everything I’ve bought is very sweet and flavorful, and they are always generous with their samples. There are multiple stands with seasonal Asian vegetables. I was very happy to find different types of gourds, including the white butter melon, which is so much rarer than the green kind! My other favorite is the Littke Sky Bakery stand. The staff is friendly and everything is delicious: the nutella challah is decadent. the empanada is larger than my face and stuff with cheese and veggie, it took my husband and I 2 meals to finish it. I’m always happy to go there on the weekends and implement whatever I cannot grow in my own garden. I use these purchases for a big fresh brunch and...

Been to different farmer market but Love Love Santa Teresa Farmers's Market. It has great vendors with great produce and reasonable prices: from the sweetest organic strawberries, good varieties of vegetables (including some Asian vegetables ) and yummy fruits , popcorn, eggs, bread, fish, plants, succulents, cooked Thai food, ...Not all vendors are there every week though. This farmer's market is located in Kaiser Hospital so it was closed for a few years during covid. I was so sad and finally it opened again in summer 2023. Vendors and customers were so happy to find each other again like meeting old friends. It was a great reunion. I try to go and support farmers whenever I...

As much as I love Ruby's tamales, it's getting a bit frustrating that they continually run out of their potato/vegetable tamales, frequently before 11:30am. Maybe it's bad timing on my part, but they did 3 of the last 4 times I went. I would hope they would learn and either make more or bring more supplies! Minus two stars because of that and their being a bit slow. Great...