In the Heart of Eastsound Village on North Beach Road.

The OIFM has *two* seasons. The Summer Market is outdoors from the first weekend in May to the last weekend in September, 10:00am to 2:00pm on the Village Green in Eastsound. The Fall Market is indoors from the first weekend in October to the weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday, 10:00am to 2:00pm at the Orcas Island Public School Cafeteria. First 2025 Market day is May 3, 2025 – see you there!

Are you an artisan, farmer, producer, crafter, or chef living in the San Juan Islands and interested in joining our vibrant market? The 2025 Orcas Island Farmers Market Application (for Summer & Fall) is available online HERE. Please review our vendor requirements and information, as there may be new information: click How to Vend – ***UPDATED WITH INSURANCE INFORMATION***.

2025 FALL MARKET SEASON IS HERE!

• If you are a current registered vendor, please contact the Market Manager at orcasislandfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
• If you are a new vendor, CLICK HERE!

Orcas Creative Kids Co-Op Booth a WILD success!

Children are the future of our artisans and farmers. In 2021 we experimented with the idea of providing a space for local children to try their hand at running a business without the overarching financial burden of running their own booth and all the legal processes involved. The Orcas Island Farmers Market Association is proud to sponsor a dedicated booth with tables provided for kids to learn and grow their businesses on a drop-in basis. After filling out the OIFM 2025 Vendor Application, parents can reach out to our Market Manager for more information, guidelines, and to sign up for their chosen Saturdays.

OIFM Music in the Market Program Continues

Our islands are teeming with talent – and in music there is no exception. In 2022 we applied for and were awarded a small grant via the San Juan County LTAC Fund to hire local talent to perform midday during our Saturday Markets in the Summer. The response has been overwhelming, both from the enthusiastic cries for more from the community and also from the generosity and absolute magic that many of our local musicians have graced the Village Green Stage and Music Tent every summer since. We believe in supporting the arts and we are so grateful to the LTAC Committee for granting our request each year. In Fall of 2024, we tapped into our own funds to bring more musicans into our Fall Markets in the OISD School Cafeteria, and our efforts to expand paid off – This year we have been approved a grant request that will fund not only the Summer Music program but will fund our Fall Music offerings as well.

SNAP/EBT Comes to the Farmers Market

At last estimate, approximately 1,945 individuals are being served by the Orcas Island Food Bank. Some of those individuals may have to make hard decisions between basic needs, such as housing and medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods for themselves or their families. Basic Food benefits, or SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program), work to alleviate this need. Increasing access to nutritionally beneficial homegrown foods is one of the most important things we can do to help our community members in need.

We at the Orcas Island Farmers Market are thrilled to announce that we are approved to take SNAP benefits via EBT and P-EBT dollars at our farmers market! Families and individuals enrolled in these programs can not only use their dollars at the Farmers Market this summer, they will actually double those dollars with the added Market Match program that we also are participating in for BOTH EBT and P-EBT.

How it works:

· Find the OIFM Market Manager / SNAP EBT Information Booth at the farmers market from 10:00am to 2:00pm each Saturday.
· Swipe your EBT and/or your P-EBT card for the amount you want to spend out of your benefits accounts.
· You will receive that amount in EBT tokens and the same amount again in SNAP Market Match dollars. Both EBT and P-EBT dollars will be matched!
· Use both currencies to shop for: fresh vegetables, fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh herbs, and plants that produce food.
· Participating vendors will be reimbursed for the full amount, including the match dollars, by our programs.