The Niskayuna Farmer's Market is back for the 2025 season at a new location and on a new day and…read moretime. Between July 12 - October 18, it will be every Saturday morning between 8:30am - 12:30pm at 1626 Balltown Rd., aka, the Niskayuna High School. The market is in the field closest to Balltown Rd., and parking is conveniently behind it. Right now, the number of businesses is small, but hopefully growing. There's a nice variety, including some food drink, several farm stands, and live music.

No farmer's market at this time/Friday/address:(So sad & I think I am up to my 85 letters.read more

This is a cute roadside market that is tucked away in more of a residential neighborhood. My mom…read morerecommended this place for its amazing cider donuts and it did not disappoint. They also had a huge selection of really cool gourds, apple cider, a wide selection of jams, pumpkins, winter squash and mums. We picked up some jams, which were pretty reasonably priced, and gourds which were also well priced. This place doesn't have the curated atmosphere of larger farms like Indian Ladder but has good quality merchandise, particularly donuts and gourds so this is definitely now added to our rotation of Fall farm stops in the Albany area.

Nice family run "farm stand" or farm store with wonderful smelling homemade baked goods. Beautiful…read moreseasonal produce available. Great find tucked into suburban Niskayuna/Colonie.

This Farmers Market is a hidden gem! All of the vendors are super friendly, the produce is great,…read morethe pastries from Made by Linda are the best I've ever had! The coolest thing about this market is the location though, It's in a covered but open air building so you get the breeze and the outside air without getting a sunburn or getting rained on if the weather is bad. The parking is also in a lot right next to the market so you don't have to worry about street parking blocks away like you would at the Troy Market.

Wow! This is a great farmer's market. I'm not sure if the produce is quite as good as the Troy…read moreplace, but I like the real salt-of-the earth atmosphere here. During the week, it's wholesale only, but on Saturdays they open it up for retail to the public. This doesn't seem to be the place for the academic-type farmers, if you know what I mean. You know, the Michael Pollan reading ones who can recite an entire thesis on the definitions of organic. I love those people too, but most of the farmers here are of a different variety. The ones I saw today are the farmers who have been doing it forever, and who haven't bothered to scrub the soil out of their finger nails before coming to hawk their wares. When I went today, there weren't a whole lot of fruits and veggies, but there were a ton of plants. The plants alone were definitely worth the trip. I restrained myself and only purchased a nice rosemary plant. A great farm near my mother's house - Stanton's - also had a gorgeous array of strawberries. There's nothing like a good early June strawberry. They're smaller than those hulking California ones but the taste is a thousand times better. At 5.75 for a quart, it might seem a bit pricey but I think the quality makes it worth the price. There are also several little craft stands, along with vendors selling nut butters, jams and the like. Oh, and they take credit cards. I can't wait to come back when it's full-on summer.

Good market for a small market. Poor vendors have to hang out in the heat on the macadam, roasting…read more But they were all in good spirits and there is a nice selection. Love to support local!

This market is on 2229 Western Ave,good variety,open air,not as much veggie selection as I would…read morelike,site needs to update address to 2228 Western Ave(unless there is another with the same name?).

These days, I'm making a habit of going to Forts Ferry Farms' pop up markets…read more I was introduced to a new-to-me herb, cilantro-like, from Peru. It is even more punchy than cilantro. I don't remember the name of it. Use sparingly. Heirloom tomatoes - I bought a flat of them so I made gazpacho and a fresh tomato sauce (using Marcella Hazan's recipe). I also ate some raw - still warm with a little salt. Tomatoes define the taste of summer. Peaches - this is the first year FFF is offering their own peaches. I don't know what kind of peach it is. It is smaller, the flesh more delicate with a more pronounced flavor. The memoir, Epitaph for a Peach, by David Mas Matsumoto, came to mind when I tasted it. This peach wasn't grown to be hearty and built to withstand the rigors of transport, it was grown to be flavorful; to be eaten and savored. I'm so glad FFF is here to remind us how produce should taste. I'd almost forgotten.

I knew nothing about this place when my wife suggested for a surprise lunch on a Saturday…read moreafternoon, and we had to rush over as they have limited hours. It was cold and raining outside and I was happy to get out of it and relax. Sadly, I quickly found out her surprise involved eating outside under a tent in the cold and rain on a November day. Sigh. At least they had blankets on the benches. We ordered in the far tent and the menu board was both helpful (it listed everything in each entree, including onions) and annoying (it indicated no substitutions were allowed, including onions). Not to be deterred, I picked the pepperoni pizza with hot honey, basil and Calabrian chili peppers. My wife ordered the Margherita pizza. Both were ready in about 15 minutes, but upon delivery to our table it became clear that a couple of things were off. First, my wife's pizza was cold and mine was pipping hot. Second, mine had so much basil- which in places was left in 2-3 leaf bunches- that perhaps they just cleaned out the pantry for the last order of the day. The crust in spots were burned, but I could live with that. However, it was so floppy that it couldn't be picked up under any condition. Everything but the outer inch of crust was like a thin wet tortilla. And their plastic cutlery wasn't up to the challenge, ripping the pizza toppings off and turning my pizza into a casserole. That being said, the flavors were wonderful on my pizza. The hot honey made for a really tasty flavor balance, and the copious amounts of curling pepperoni were a nice change of pace from the cheap stuff. The peppers were good too, and I wish I could source some locally. My wife's pizza was okay, though the whole mozzarella clumps reminded of dollops of Ricotta and they were very cold as if they were added after baking. Odd. I don't mind paying for expensive pizza if it is good. I am also not a pizza snob and will gladly eat subpar pizza. But, to overpay ($26 for mine alone) for pizza that is just a mess in a cardboard box rubs me the wrong way. The same goes for buying ($24) a cold pizza. The dessert we ordered was a Paris-Brest, and being a choux fan I absolutely loved it. Delicious with hints of coffee, almonds, nuts, and some flavorings I couldn't place, I would quickly come back here just for that. As for their pizza, I just don't know. On a nice pleasant day it would be fun, but too many mistakes on our pizzas makes me leery of ordering them again for those prices.

I come here for the Colonie Farmer's Market, but The Crossings is so much more! The market…read morecertainly isn't as bit as Troy's, but it does nicely if I don't want to drive all that way. Plus there's all those walking/running/hiking trails, the kids' play areas soccer fields, and scenery. It's a nice escape in the heart of Colonie.

I have a "list" of places I want to go walking/hiking in (not rock-climbing tho!). This one was…read more.. interesting. It's like you took a few football sized fields & linked them all together. Great for walking pets, getting in your "steps", hosting an outdoor family/friends get-together... but you won't encounter any "nature"- which is maybe a good thing sometimes! If I had a dog with WAY too much energy, I'd bring them here. (Oh! And did I mention Bathrooms?!?)

An amazing and whimsical destination. More than a farm center, gardening center, and grocery.read more

Been purchasing all of our plants and shrubbery for more than 15 years and have family traveling…read morefrom Saratoga for their plants. Love their variety and usually high quality plants. But this year I was very disappointed. Bought 2 large hanging plants (about 3:30 on a Saturday) and 2 days later on Monday the flowers were wilted and shriveled. I brought it back to Gade around 2pm Monday that's less than 48hrs. The staff was very pleasant and took the time to look at it. But the explanation given was I must have let it dry out and to remove the dead flowers and it would bounce back. I don't know how that's possible as it was well water when I brought it home and the it rained the entirety of the next day. I had bought 2 baskets of the same flowers and the other was perfectly fine. Just very disappointing because my daughter's prom is in 4 days and I had bought these for the pictures. Now I need to go to another garden center tomorrow for a replacement.

Went to Schenectady Jazz on Jay. Just fantastic! Mellow vibe and great music. Some farmers market…read moreofferings across the street. Do pleasant and an exemplar of what the entire Tri-city should aspire to.

I love this little local farm. We go every year to pick strawberries, blueberries and raspberries…read more It is certainly no frills, but charming. The hours are 9-1 when in season. Some days they are closed for maintenance, which they will notify you of on Facebook. You drive in the gate and park on the dirt path along the berry bushes. There is a small table set up under a canopy. The farm takes payment before or after picking. They accept cash, check, or Venmo. Today, a quart of blueberries cost $8/quart and $5.50/pint. The bushes are marked, and the paths are clear/not overgrown. Two varieties of blueberries were available for the picking.

I found their prices to be high and their customer service to be poor. This is the second bad…read moreexperience I have had there.