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Ferry Plaza
Farmers Market

Operated by Foodwise (formerly CUESA) · Est. 1993
SATURDAY
8 AM – 2 PM
100+ vendors · full market
TUE & THU
10 AM – 2 PM
15–35 vendors · weekday
YEAR-ROUND CALFRESH / EBT MARKET MATCH CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED FREE COOKING DEMOS SAT VEGGIE VALET
↗ OPEN IN MAPS · 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco
FEATURED VENDORS · SATURDAY MARKET
Frog Hollow Farm
Legendary stone fruit · Brentwood, CA · 280 acres
CCOF ORGANIC ▼
Al Courchesne — "Farmer Al" — planted his first peaches on 13 acres in Brentwood in 1976 after a teaching career in Hawaii. He went fully organic in 1989, one of the first large-scale farms in California to do so, and has been growing certified organic stone fruit ever since. The farm now covers 280 acres with nearly 100 varieties of stone and tree fruit. Chez Panisse has been a customer for over 40 years. Farmer Al's Cal Red peach — a high-Brix, deep-flavor variety he planted in 1978 — is the most anticipated fruit of the summer. The fruit is picked tree-ripe, not road-ripe. This is the difference between a peach that tastes like a peach and one that tastes like packaging.
WHAT THEY BRING
☀ Peaches (Jun–Sep) ☀ Nectarines (Jun–Sep) ☀ Cherries (May–Jun) ☀ Apricots (May–Jun) 🍂 Pears (Sep–Jan) 🍂 Pluots (Jul–Sep) Conserves & Jams Pastries Dried Fruit Olive Oil
Location: Brentwood, Contra Costa County
Certifications: CCOF Organic since 1989
Also at: Ferry Building café (year-round), Berkeley markets
Web: froghollow.com
SAT TUE THU
Blue House Farm
Mixed vegetables & flowers · Pescadero, CA
CERTIFIED ORGANIC ▼
Blue House Farm sits on the San Mateo Coast in Pescadero, one of the last stretches of working farmland between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. The farm grows a diverse rotation of certified organic vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers — the kind of mixed production that requires intimate knowledge of a specific piece of land. Blue House has been at the Ferry Plaza market for years and is known for bringing unusual and heirloom varieties that don't survive commercial distribution.
WHAT THEY BRING
Salad Greens Heirloom Tomatoes Herbs Root Vegetables Cut Flowers Winter Squash
Location: Pescadero, San Mateo County
Certifications: Certified Organic
SAT TUE THU
Dirty Girl Produce
Dry-farmed tomatoes · Santa Cruz, CA
CERTIFIED ORGANIC ▼
Dirty Girl is best known for its dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes — a technique that withholds irrigation to stress the plants, concentrating sugars and producing smaller, intensely flavored fruit. Dry farming is rare because it requires precise timing and produces lower yields than irrigated farming. The tomatoes are impossible to find in any grocery store. The season is short — late summer into fall — which is part of why people line up for them.
WHAT THEY BRING
☀ Dry-farmed Early Girls (Aug–Oct) ☀ Heirloom Tomatoes (Aug–Oct) Mixed Vegetables Winter Squash Peppers
Location: Santa Cruz County
Technique: Dry-farmed tomatoes — no irrigation after transplant
SAT TUE THU
Acme Bread Company
Artisan sourdough · Berkeley, CA · Est. 1983
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Steve Sullivan founded Acme in 1983 after working as a busboy at Chez Panisse and becoming obsessed with the bread Alice Waters was sourcing from a small bakery in France. He taught himself to bake, opened Acme in Berkeley, and helped start the American artisan bread movement. Acme uses a natural levain (sourdough starter), high-quality flour, and long fermentation. The bread has no commercial yeast, no dough conditioners, no preservatives. It goes stale in two days, which is a feature, not a bug.
WHAT THEY BRING
Levain Loaves Sourdough Baguettes Walnut Levain Pain de Mie Semolina Bread Focaccia
Location: Berkeley, CA
Founded: 1983 by Steve Sullivan
Method: Natural levain, long fermentation, no commercial yeast
SAT TUE THU
Allstar Organics
Mixed organic vegetables · Novato, CA
CCOF ORGANIC ▼
Janet Brown and Marty Jacobson have farmed in Marin County for over 25 years, growing a rotating mix of certified organic vegetables with a focus on unusual and heirloom varieties. Janet has been a visible advocate for market access programs — she was among the farmers who traveled to Sacramento to defend Market Match, the CalFresh matching program that doubles EBT benefits at farmers markets. The farm is small, the production is diverse, and the varieties change with the season.
WHAT THEY BRING
Salad Mix Specialty Greens Heirloom Vegetables Herbs Edible Flowers
Location: Novato, Marin County
Certifications: CCOF Organic
Farmers: Janet Brown & Marty Jacobson
SAT TUE THU
Bisou Chocolate
Bean-to-bar chocolate · San Francisco, CA
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Bisou is a small-batch bean-to-bar chocolate maker based in San Francisco. Bean-to-bar means they source cacao directly from farms, roast it themselves, and control every step from raw bean to finished bar. This is the opposite of how mass-market chocolate is made — where commodity cacao is processed industrially and flavored to a consistent profile. Bisou's bars taste different because the cacao tastes different, and they preserve that difference instead of engineering it away.
WHAT THEY BRING
Single-origin dark chocolate Flavored bars Drinking chocolate Truffles
Location: San Francisco, CA
Method: Bean-to-bar, direct cacao sourcing
SAT TUE THU
Blossom Bluff Orchards
Stone fruit · Parlier, Fresno County
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The Kraus family has farmed stone fruit in the San Joaquin Valley for three generations. They grow an unusually wide range of peach, nectarine, plum, and apricot varieties — many of them heirloom or specialty types selected for flavor rather than shelf life. The fruit travels 200 miles to reach the Ferry Plaza market, which makes it more perishable than supermarket stone fruit, and more flavorful for exactly the same reason.
WHAT THEY BRING
☀ Peaches (Jun–Sep) ☀ Nectarines (Jun–Sep) ☀ Plums & Pluots (Jul–Sep) ☀ Apricots (May–Jun) 🍂 Pomegranates (Oct–Nov)
Location: Parlier, Fresno County
Farming: Third-generation family farm
SAT TUE THU
Canteen Meats
Whole animal butchery & charcuterie · Bay Area
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Canteen Meats practices whole-animal butchery — sourcing from farms they know personally and using every part of the animal. Charcuterie, sausages, cured meats, and fresh cuts made in-house with transparency about where the animals came from and how they were raised. This is the counterpoint to the Applegate Farms acquisition story: meat where you can ask the person selling it exactly which farm raised it.
WHAT THEY BRING
Charcuterie Sausages Cured Meats Fresh Cuts Pâtés
Method: Whole-animal, direct farm sourcing
Butcher: John Ginanni
SAT TUE THU
WHAT'S IN SEASON · BAY AREA · FEBRUARY–MARCH
NOW
Citrus · Meyer lemons · Blood oranges · Mandarins · Root vegetables · Kale & chard · Artichokes · Leeks
COMING SOON
Strawberries (Apr) · Asparagus (Mar–May) · Fava beans (Mar–Apr) · Spring onions · Peas
ABOUT THIS MARKET

The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market opened in 1993 at the San Francisco Ferry Building, founded after the Loma Prieta earthquake by people who wanted to rebuild a public gathering space centered on local food. It is operated by Foodwise (formerly CUESA), a nonprofit whose mission is to cultivate a sustainable food system through farmers markets and education.

The Saturday market draws over 100 vendors and is one of the most visited farmers markets in the United States. Foodwise offers CalFresh EBT acceptance and Market Match — a program that doubles the value of EBT benefits spent at the market, making locally grown food financially accessible. Free cooking demos run every Saturday at the Foodwise Classroom tent.