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The Harvest is Here!
Autumn is here and that means harvest time on the north coast! The fall is perhaps our most bountiful season, and you can see that bounty reflected at our farmers' markets. Tables are overflowing with the finest Humboldt County produce. As the season for summer sweets such as corn, tomatoes and peaches starts to wind down, a huge diversity of wonderful fall fruits and vegetables are coming on to take their place. Come see for yourself the wide variety of produce our farmers have to offer. As always you can visit the managers booth to ask where you can find your favorites, or to ask for advise and recipes for cooking some of the new things you've yet to try. Our weekday markets will run through the end of October. You can continue to shop at the Saturday market all the way through November 19. That means you can stock up on all kinds of goodies for the Thanksgiving holiday and to save through the winter months. As always we feature live music and locally produced foods for you to enjoy while shopping at the market. Come to the market and take in the harvest!
 
About the NCGA
Some history and an overview of NCGA and our farmers markets:

The North Coast Growers’ Association Farmers’ Market was established in 1978 by a handful of farmers. They began selling from the back of their trucks in the vacant lot at the foot of F and 7th Streets in Arcata. This is our 33rd Season and now we have over 100 members. Membership in the NCGA is open to residents of Humboldt County.

NCGA was one of the 1st four Certified Farmers’ Markets in the State of California, and is now the longest continuously running Certified Market in the State. Certified markets were established to promote direct marketing (from the field to the consumer without a middleman). Farmers can only sell that which they have grown and the person selling must be the grower or an employee of the farm. Certified Markets are helping to bring back the small family farm by giving the farmer an opportunity to sell direct to the consumer at fair market value. It also ensures that what the consumer buys is a local product and not picked green and shipped thousands of miles from all over the world. The consumer is getting the freshest, vine ripened fruits, vegetables, local honey, Arcata Bay oysters, mushrooms, cheese, flowers, herbs, trees, and bedding plants direct from the producer. We also have local certified organic wine, local grassfed beef, lamb, and poultry.

 

What you’ll find at these markets: Eggs, dried and fresh cut flowers, carrots, beets, radishes, lettuce, greens, and salad mixes, tomatoes, corn, green beans, squash, artichokes, berries, peaches, dried and fresh herbs, mushrooms, oysters, grassfed beef, lamb, goat, rabbit, cactus, house and ornamental plants, bedding plants, shrubs, trees, bamboo, and flowering rhododendrons.

The market is full throughout the year with plant starts. Even the starts do better in the garden when they are raised in Humboldt County. The farmers select only the varieties that are hearty in our climate and the consumer is purchasing the same starts that the farmers themselves will be planting on their farms.

Along with farm fresh products, the Saturday Market is a weekly celebration with music and special events. There’s something for everyone.

Saturday Market

Arcata open April - November:

  • Our Saturday market is open April 9th and goes through November 19th, from 9-2pm on the Arcata Plaza. Live music starts at 10am.

Weekday Markets open June – October:

Eureka

  • Tuesdays in Old Town 10 – 1pm
  • Thursdays at Henderson Center 10 – 1pm

Arcata

  • Tuesdays at 7th and G Streets in the Pacific Outfitters parking lot 3:30 – 6:30pm.

McKinleyville

*Thursdays in the McKinleyville Shopping Center at the totem pole 3:30-6:30pm