This is a good sized market with a solid selection of vendors from the surrounding area. You can…read morestock up on locally grown produce, beef, pasta, and artisanal goods such as essential oils, pottery, socks, and more. This marke also features food vendors such as churros, crepes, tamales, that you can purchase and eat there or take home. The location is fantastic, you can ride your bike on the river trail. It's exceptionally clean too and shaded for those hot summer days... and year round sun. It's also a non-profit organization that truly connects and empowers our local community. Their programming continues to evolve and now they have events such as their weekly Taste of the Market and Heirloom Kids as a means to educating the community about food sources. It's awesome. Keep up the great work!

While the produce can be pricey (but often organically grown, local and seasonal!), this market has…read morelots to offer with goods, vegan and gluten free food, plants, dried fruits, and butcher stands as well as multiple delicious coffee stands. Love the new bagel, pasta and prepared food stands like Turkish food, Mediterranean and pupusas! The farmers market info boot also usually has water and sometimes a treat to try!

I love learning new things and trying new foods! I happened to be on a walk and stopped to see the…read morevendors at this market. Lots of great products. I loved my gozleme from Safure's Turkish Kitchen. Mine was either spinach and cheese, light and tasty! Great friendly service and a beautiful day for a walk!

This Sunday morning for the first time in a few months, I went to Saint Phillips Plaza in search of…read moregetting some very specific things. I was definitely looking for strawberries since I pick up a flat when I can there in the past. No luck today. I ended up getting a whole bunch of other things that delighted the eyes. I purchased some really cute pottery that had saguaro's on it and I got some cheesecake and some Alaska Kodiak caught fish that my husband will have for dinner sometime this week. I absolutely enjoyed the live music which they typically have at the farmers market here but just missed some of what I was expecting. There wasn't very much food available and that's probably because Saint Phillips has the REN coffee and also açai bowl place. With it being winter or maybe it's a slow time for the market. We did chat with our familiar mushroom vendor and several of the arts and craft vendors. Overall, it was a fun walk and a lot less crowded than it normally would be. There are restrooms available and as we came at 9:30, some vendors were still setting up.

Heirloom Farmers Market that is at the Green Valley Village on Wednesdays (hours vary depending on…read moredates). More than a simple farmers market-it also offers great things to eat (try the coffees), artisan and crafts available, as well as a local mystery writer with his books for sale. Parking is around the shopping center. My Best Buy was some amazing pistachios from the local farmer!

Nice little farmers market, glad they still have some. I drove almost three hours to get some fresh…read moreveggies and fun cool stuff. Not too many vendors but abiding to most vendors more are coming in the next month. Fresh veggies and jams and pretty jewelry.. handmade home decor and plants! Nice little coffee tent with 2$ cups of coffee. I will be back!

This is a great thing to do on Wednesdays. Easy to park. Easy access and the offerings are great…read morefor veggies, baked goods and personal care items like essential oils. I have also seen ola ts, rugs, chili garlands, knife sharpening and crafts. I always try to bring cash but most vendors take cards. An added bonus are the businesses in this center being open. The whole scene combines to create an environment that lets you get a feel for the community. If you are looking for a fun market to visit this is a nice one.

Great Farmer / Artisam market. Fun for the whole family and chock full of delicious, local produce.read more

I used to love walking around shopping this market before the world changed. Even though it isn't…read morequite as fun to drive through it is definitely convenient and I am just happy to be able to get my produce and support them. There are weeks you can just drive up and make your selection immediately and then there are times you have to wait in a long line and when you get to the front your options are very limited. Either way they post their menu on Facebook every week and the selection is still pretty great. All of the staff are always upbeat and very friendly and helpful. I'm grateful that they are finding a way to continue doing this!

This isn't your see-and-be-seen, park-like, foothills-ambianced market like the one at St…read more Philip's. It's concentrated and a bit gritty, a get-in-&-get-out, "I need my fix" sort of farmers' market. That's not to say there aren't amenities. There's usually a musical group. There's always samples of a recipe featuring produce that's in season. There's often an activity; for example this week (3/10/10) there's the annual seed exchange. Also, they accept credit, debit, and EBT cards, as well as WIC Cash Value Vouchers. The market, located in the caliche lot next door to the School for the Deaf and Blind, features reasonably priced produce grown at the Food Bank's Nuestra Tierra Garden and Marana Farm. But there's also vendors offering their home-growns, a couple of vendors selling eggs and always jams, honey, baked goods, and coffee. Truth is I prefer this market, with it's too-close traffic and bare-bones caliche lot. On Thursday afternoons, when people gather here, it's all about the food -- getting it local, getting it fresh and wholesome, and getting it at a fair price. Now isn't that what a farmers' market should be?

I have been taking Small Batch Masters' Mix Complex Tincture for menopause and it has been a…read morelifesaver. I had horrible brain fog and was exhausted by the middle of the day. One of my friends told me to try Lion's Mane so I found Desert Pearl at the Rincon Farmers Market with the tinctures and thought I would give it a try, and it works amazingly. I feel so much better during the day and my brain fog is so much better. I sound like a commercial reading this but seriously it worked for me. My doctor had me on a antidepressant for the brain fog and it sucked, it changed my sense of taste and as a foodie I was not having that, so yeah this stuff is the best. It does not taste great but it works so well. If you are a woman going through menopause I would suggest giving it a try.

I'm from a small town where mushrooms were limited to two options, white or brown button mushrooms…read moreor portabella mushrooms. The first time I discovered DPM I was shocked a place in town sold gourmet mushrooms to the general public at an affordable price. If you go to Whole Foods and compare the price and freshness, you can't compare at all! What's ever better is their local to Tucson and some really awesome people behind the table. They aren't pushy for your money and have so much knowledge for their customers who are curious, and like me never had access to mushrooms that aren't normally located in our grocery store. They also are at all the heirloom markets in town so they are always accessible during the week! If you are into exploring gourmet mushrooms to spice up your cooking game, seriously check them out!

The firt time I went, it was great. The volunteers were kind. They saw I was struggling due to…read moreinfirmity and they let my sister pull the vehicle up close and helped us load everything in. The second time I had to do it all myself, for both me and my sister, and I got told I was being greedy for buying two load,s, even though we were sharing with other family members, too. They shamed me, patently refused to give me some of what they gave the people ahead of me double amounts of and which they gave to some people behind me in line, too. Told me I was greedy and selfish. I got mocked for crying and was told that I should have known better than to be so selfish and they laughed when some of my food got stolen. The veggies were mostly okay, though. The grapes were all rotten. The third time I went, years later, I got one load and they gave me most of the things they gave other people but the volunteer handing out the paper towels literally threw them at me and said "I guess you have to get every free thing you can!" They gave me several boxes of dates. The veggies were good. The fourth time everything was rotten except a few only semi okay veggies. Less than 7 lbs total. I would have gotten a better deal from the grocery store. They were definitely playing favorites among both known people and for other reasons. The fifth and last time I went we ordered ahead and they were just going to load us up. They only loaded up for one family but three of us came. Then, after a lot of arguing, they grudgingly gave us three rolls of paper towels and two boxes of dates and called it good. I hear very good things about this organization. So, I am thinking it is more about the volunteers they happen to get in certain neighborhoods. The first time we went, we drove pretty far out of our way and it was great. The other times were all in the Sacred Heart Parking lot except one time when it was nearer to this area of town but not quite that close.

Cheap Veggies!!!! I love Borderland's amazing produce rescue program. On a Saturday schedule at…read morevarious community organizations in Tucson and Phoenix volunteers coordinate the veggie pickups. You pay $10 cash and take your own box, crate, or some grocery bags and load up 60 pounds of fruits and vegetables. Each Saturday they have a different assortment of vegetables which is posted on their Facebook and website. Usually between 7am and 10am. Program runs during produce season, November through August. Produce available, from my understanding, is whatever they couldn't market and is tagged to be trashed. Perfectly good stuff, some of the peppers may be funny shapes with a few blemishes, and some things may be closer to their spoiling point, but for the most part it's perfect. This weekend we went to the pickup at St. Francis in the Foothills church on Swan and East River. For $10 you were allowed to take 37 Roma tomatoes, 4 butternut squash, 11 pickling cucumbers, 3 mini watermelons, 11 yellow bell peppers, 11 orange bell peppers, 11 yellow squash, and 1 bag mini sweet bell peppers. The variety and amount of each veggie you can take always changes, but it always equals about 60 pounds. We almost always split our box with a friend because it is too much for our household of two. Totally worth it if you can get yourself up and out of the house early on a Saturday.

Heirloom farmer's markets -- Oro Valley It's a fun place…read morewith a real diversity of vendors. It's a great place to hold a farmer's market, plenty of open area so if you have some kids, can blow off some steam...the bathrooms are clean as well. There's also a museum there with lots of great history. It's called the Steam Pump Ranch. Some of the docents are really a type of living history. One of them was the former mayor in Oro Valley. In the past I have met family members who grew up on the ranch as docents, The museum still has a history of the ranch as a focus in one area and they focus on the 250 year history of the USA with an Arizona emphasis on another. Lots of dogs and some of them are quite friendly...you still have to be dog smart.. The vendors were friendly and helpful with information about their products... There is a wide variety of fresh products for sale. They have a website that lists a lot of the vendors. They have several locations around they have fresh hot food vendors, grocery food vendors,a couple of bakeries, health and wellness vendors,and artisans. It's always fun to enjoy the fresh smells from roasting chili's to pupusas, homemade burritos, Korean Barbecue, baked goods and homemade soups! Click on their website through Yelp to get details about vendors and artisans available at each farmers market.

It's refreshing to find a truly legitimate farmers market offering freshly grown vegetables,…read morefruits, and even a nice selection of mushrooms. They also carry chicken, quail, and duck eggs, along with a variety of pickled vegetables and handmade soaps from local goat farms. It's everything you'd hope for in an authentic market. Most "farmers markets" in Tucson tend to be more like flea markets, with vendors mainly selling homemade trinkets rather than actual farm-grown goods, so this one is a welcome change. The atmosphere is friendly, the vendors are knowledgeable, and there's a wide variety of options to explore. Overall, it's a great spot if you're looking for genuine local produce and a warm community vibe.