This is the best of the locals farmers markets, sweet people who know what they're growing and can…read moregive good advice.

It is a great place wonderful produce. I especially like the artist who display their artwork…read more One in particular who I have purchased several paintings of local landmarks. It is a lot of fun!

After escaping from "The Crush" (L.A./Orange Co.) a little over a year and a half ago, I have been…read morevery diligent in seeking out as many places that carry local produce and other foods as I can...and I have found many. Among these places are packing houses, fruit stands and farmer's markets. I have discovered that there is a Farmer's Market almost every day of the week, at several locations throughout the Central Coast...even on Sundays. I have been to almost all of them, from Cambria to Nipomo to Paso Robles, and I have even 'suffered' the Orange County-like atmosphere of the Old Town SLO Farmer's Market. That being said, my question is, has everyone forgotten the Nipomo Farmer's Market? Including the farmers? In spite of a very prime location that is easily accessable by car, foot, bike or horsecart, with plenty of free parking very near, and easily gotten to, the Nipomo Farmers Market is, in the very heart of Trilogy is, to be kind, just pitiful...thats all, just... On a good day, during the warmer months, there may be as many as 6 vendors, and, like today, as few as 2 or 3. In spite of its very sweet location very near to Black Lake and other very good neighborhoods, there seems to be few things lacking, i.e. customers, vendors, variety, to name a few. I see a few of the local Trilogians there, but generally its a ghost town, or rather ghost market. I find myself driving past it on my regular Sunday run to the Garcia Bros. packing house in Oceano, and/or the Hayashi Bros. stand in Arroyo Grande, because its not even worth my while, or gas, to stop at the Nipomo 'farmer's Market'. I don't know, but I suspect that there MUST be some sort of association of local growers that kinda oversees the farmers markets. I wonder if they know? I wonder if anything can be done to infuse this particular location with more vendors and variety, and then add some advertising. That would make the Nipomo location a REAL fun place, indeed!!

I bought a red bell pepper, strawberries, a medley of cherry tomatoes, and nectarines. Very…read morereasonably priced. Just absolutely delicious. Just look at the pictures! I wish I lived closer to this cute stand and not 3 hours away!

It's a really great farm stand with more produce behind the store front. Just walk in further to…read moreexplore! I am not sure why Yelp noted that this offers validated parking. You just park in the dirt so it's free to park! We were passing by and wanted to pick up some fresh strawberries. They were the best strawberries that I've had this summer season! I also saw that they had cherries but they were ripe and ready and I didn't know if we would eat them in time. We also enjoyed a bag of kettle corn for the road.

We had no idea this market existed but found it on YELP. What a sweet produce market with fair…read moreprices. I made some wonderful green salad from the lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, carrots, snd broccoli. We also got some sweet corn that was really great. The workers provided helpful service. The atmosphere is sort of fairyland with all the green growing stuff. We love that it's open three days a week and has free parking!

Finding this space was happenstance as I received a gift certificate to shop here. Wanting fresh…read moreberries to top our chia pudding, my cronies and I ventured out to the fruitful farm stand on an early Friday afternoon before I had a train to catch outta town. . We walked the strawberry field and picked our own baskets, then we shopped all the fruit inside. They even offer larger wicker baskets for holding your items. They were busy, but still attentive and efficient. . For all four of us, all of our totals were $30 or less. This will definitely be a regular produce spot now that I've found them! If you're tired of being gouged by grocery store prices, check out these local farmstands you will not be disappointed!

Out in the "sticks" in the countryside of the Arroyo Grande & Edna Valley area, one can find…read moreseveral little farm stands on the back roads. This is one of several, and this one focuses on local AG produce, that is grown by the Bautista Family in Arroyo Grande itself. One cannot get more local, nor fresher than the produce here. The Bautista's grow a few dozen types of vegetables and they are invariably fresh and delicious. No matter who helps you, they are all super nice, friendly, and helpful. The Bautista's are really hard working locals who go to several of SLO county Farmers Markets, such as the one's in AG, Madonna/ SLO, and other cities/towns. It is nice to also have a Farm stand option for the hours that they are not at a FM. In all cases, the offering is fresh, right from the farm. It is fun diversion from the typical Farmers Market dynamic, which while nice, is rather urban. This is also a nice excuse to take a drive more out to see the countryside. This road then continues on to either Lopez Lake, or even to the more remote little village of Huasna. The road also later intersects with Orcutt Road, which then takes one to a whole slew of nice Vineyards [i.e. Wolff & Chamisal], and then back to SLO-town itself via the "secret" scenic back-way. Regardless of Farmers Market, Farm Stand, or other ways to get local produce, in general, it is often better than what one gets in many supermarkets. Places like this are a part of what makes living in the Pismo Beach area so fantastic. While tourists think that staying here [or even living here] could be all about the beach, or the wine... living here is actually far more appealing than just the typical tourist attractions. Of course, it takes several years of exploring to really get a good feel of this amazing area of CA. In any case, it is wonderful to have the Bautista Family working so hard to provide the locals, and a few lucky tourists who happen to drive by, with some fresh locally grow produce. Thanks!

Great produce!! They are friendly, and it is very…read moreconvenient. Love the salad mix and carrots.

This is a huge Swapmeet. We didn't have time to see it all, because we needed to leave to use the…read morerestroom. All they have are porta-toilets which I can't manage. They have good vegetable and fruit produce for sale and fun food options (my husband loved the BBQ ribs). It was $25 for a combo plate but they gave him a lot of food. We bought some large avocados, 3 for $5. We also bought some mini bananas, apricots, and fried pork rinds. I found some cute Hello Kitty items to use as gifts and some glittery heart shaped earrings for $5. This swap meet has vendors selling retail items originating from China or Mexico. Items such as clothing, jewelry, toys, and toiletries. There are also second hand vendors selling used household items and tools. There are not vendors selling handmade crafts like at a farmers market. It costs $4 to park and it was a zoo trying to find a spot. We lucked out and found a space in the handicapped parking. It was a fun thing to do on a Sunday in July 2025

Another drive by and it always looked good from the freeway. since we were headed to the Santa…read moreMaria airport "with plenty of time" we stopped to check it out. In our favor was the late time we were headed in at 2ish. No line in to the parking area, four dollars cash was easy enough. I headed to an area closest figuring the early folks had already left...ta da. There was a great spot under a tree. No charge to walk in, great! So we strolled up one isle and down the other so we cover the entire ground. Initially I was not impressed, my first thought was that a ship from China dropped a couple of containers and that was the show. There were quite a few duplicate vendors a few too many. I was hoping for the days gone by when sellers brought everything in their garage, that wasn't the case here. I did find a couple of garage re-resellers but I rent so I don't need the gardening stuff. We bought some waters and had a seat at one of the vendors fold up table, the tables and chairs were filthy dirty as was the case for nearly every food vendor with tables and chairs set up. I thought to myself you could sell alot of cleaner doing a demo show of cleaning 'em. I picked up some fruit and some kitchen tool items but other than that it was a nice walk about. Folks were friendly the weather was perfect, a good adventure. Thanks Foodguy-Martin

You can find some great items here at the best price. I have definitely found some great treasures…read morein the special aisle. My lower score is for some of the employees that work there. I was there today shopping and one of the employees had their large cart in the way . I had my cart far over to the side so people can get through. Some lady needed way more space but the workers cart was in the way. Instead of the worker moving her cart back she told me to move. I was busy shopping at the time. The lady behind me decided to push my cart down the aisle. Honestly the worker should have been more alert and moved her cart so people could easily get through the aisle. Not once did the employee apologize. Another employee walked right into my daughter and looked at her with a blank stare! Aldi do better with. your employees.

Customer service is terrible, I told the cashier there was a product I didn't need and she looked…read moreat me so confused I would and had like she could not be bothered I would of put it away but the store was closed. There is something interesting products here that are cute, some of their freezer section wasn't fully stocked and it was hard to find some of their items.