The Olympia Farmers Market is one of the only vendor-operated farmers markets in The State of Washington. The market is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of member-vendors and is funded primarily through vendor fees.
The Olympia Farmers Market promotes several food access programs such as Supplemental Nutrition Assitance Program (SNAP or EBT), SNAP Women, Infants, Children (WIC), Senior & Wic Farmers Market Nutrition Program, and SNAP Market Match. Access to healthy and nutritious food is a fundamental value that brings our customers and our vendors together to exchange goods and ideas. We feel that it is critical to provide education and access to all members of our community and we are proud to continue to grow in these efforts.
With over 100 vendors, an estimated 400,000 visitors per year, The Olympia Farmers Market is a bustling marketplace. Truly local, our vendors grow, make or produce their items, hailing from Thurston, Mason, Lewis and Grays Harbor Counties. We have three distinct seasons, progressing from one day per week in January to four days per week during the height of our season. The market is open year-round, more than 150 days per year, rain or shine!
The Olympia Farmers Market found its current home in 1996 when the City of Olympia and The Port Olympia came together to secure the site, but the Market has had a lively history of locations in downtown Olympia in the past 50+ years. In 1975 the Farmers Market was reborn after Olympia’s previous farmers market closed in the early 1940s. The revival of the Market was led by a generation of community activists who remembered the original Market by the waterfront on Legion Way. The Market has created a community gathering place, sustained in large part by the gratifying relationship between the vendors and shoppers who have bonded over the exchange of quality local goods for over five decades.
