Central Square Farmers Market

The Central Square Farmers Market is a lively outdoor market in Cambridge featuring more than 20 Massachusetts farmers and food producers. Shoppers find fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, seafood, bread and baked goods, prepared foods and other local products. Vendors for 2026 include Dick’s Market Garden, Kimball Fruit Farm, certified organic Hutchins Farm, Hi-Rise Bread Co., Livingstone Mycology mushrooms, Far From the Tree cider and SamosaMan prepared samosas.

The market sets up on Norfolk Street between Mass Ave and Bishop Allen Drive, near H-Mart and Graffiti Alley, and it is accessible from the Central stop on the Red Line. It is managed by Mass Farmers Markets, a nonprofit founded in 1978 that supports more than 200 farmers markets statewide. The market also hosts vendors from a BIPOC incubator initiative and runs a free POP Club program for adults 65 and older.

What to Know

• The market accepts cash, cards, mobile payment, WIC and senior coupons, and EBT.
• SNAP shoppers get a weekly SNAP Match and are automatically enrolled in the Healthy Incentives Program, which returns qualifying produce spending to their EBT card.
• The season runs from late spring into the fall.
• Market updates are shared through a newsletter, a text alert list and social media.