Farmers & Vendors
2026 Dates
January 3, 17 and 31, February 14 and 28, March 14 and 28, April 11
Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: The Waldorf School Gymnasium, 739 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA
The LFM is a producer-only market, ensuring that what you find at our market is fresh and local, sustainably raised and carefully crafted. Each winter market, there are up to eleven farmers and vendors on-site, offering items for breakfast to dinner and everything in between. Scroll down to learn more, including preorder information!
2026 Small Yet Mighty Winter Market Farmers & Vendors:
FULL SEASON: Black-Eyed Susan Sheep Dairy, Captain Marden’s Seafood, Casba Food & Pastries, Copicut Farms, Farfalle Italian Market, Farmer Dave’s, My County Mushrooms, Ovenbird Cafe
MONTHLY: Bread Obsession, Forest Road Apiary, Hi-Rise Bread Company, the Silent Seed, Simply Sharp, Small Batch Cookery
GUEST VENDOR: Del’s Coffee Roasters
Blackeyed Susan’s Sheep Dairy
Black-Eyed Susan Sheep Dairy is New Hampshire’s newest sheep dairy. Located in the small town of Mont Vernon, they have over fifty milking ewes producing gallons of milk to make into delicious cheeses, yogurt, and ice cream. The dairy makes several types of fresh cheese including Feta, Brebis, and Ricotta and several aged cheeses, principally Manchego, Ossau-Iraty, Tomme, and Asiago. The sheep have access to more than thirty acres of pasture and more acres of woodland for shade, and the farm follows organic practices but is not certified. They are open for tours and invite people to meet the sheep and see how they create the food to sell locally and at farmers’ markets. They will be offering their cheeses, as well as duck eggs, goose eggs and lamb.
Bread Obsession
Bread Obsession is a Lexington-based artisan bread company. They make the best baguettes around, as well as classic European-style ryes, bagels, and naturally leavened crusty sourdoughs. Bread Obsession is deeply committed to crafting bread that will not only fulfill the need for this daily staple but will also bring pleasure and satisfaction. Bread Obsession makes nutritious, beautiful, delicious breads by hand, one loaf at a time. Come visit them in their shop at 433 Marrett Road!
Monthly: 1/17, 2/14, 3/14, 4/11
Captain Marden’s Seafood
Captain Marden’s is a fourth-generation family owned seafood company. Starting out as a small fish market in West Newton in 1945, they have grown to be a seafood distributor in MA, a fish market and restaurant in Wellesley, and a food truck as well! At the LFM, Captain Marden’s will be featuring a broad selection of fresh seafood and prepared foods including soups, chowders, dinners and pates, along with shellfish and more!
Capt. Marden’s offers two ways to preorder:
To pre-order and prepay, visit www.captainmardens.com, create an account (no fee), and see all the offerings. After you select your items, continue to the checkout page and enter “pick up at the Lexington Farmers’ Market” in the box marked Instructions. While you will be required to enter a pickup time, your order will be ready during market hours.
If you prefer to place your order over the phone, visit www.captainmardens.com to see what is currently available at the fish market. Call the store at 781-235-0860 by 5 pm on Friday and place your order for pickup at the LFM on Saturday. You can either pay over the phone or pay at the market when you pick up your order.
Casba Food & Pastries
Casba Food & Pastries brings you a unique taste of the Mediterranean and Middle East to the LFM. Thjeir homemade meals and pastries are crafted with love and tradition by Chef Fatiha Soufan, a certified culinary expert with deep roots in Moroccan and Lebanese cuisine. Focusing on fresh ingredients, they deliver authentic flavors that transport you straight to the vibrant markets of Morocco and Lebanon.
Copicut Farms
Copicut Farms is a family-owned, 65-acre livestock farm located in Dartmouth, Mass. They provide the community with pasture-raised poultry, pork, lamb, beef and eggs while treating their animals and the environment with the utmost respect and care. All of their animals are raised outdoors, and have constant access to chemical-free pastures where they are free to forage for grass, legumes, and insects throughout all but the harshest winter months. In addition, they operate their own state-licensed on-farm poultry slaughtering facility. This allows them to maintain an extremely high level of food safety and ensure that their animals are treated in the most humane manner possible throughout all stages of their lives.
Del’s Coffee Roasters
Del’s Coffee Roasters offers certified fair trade organic, specialty grade coffee, with beans roasted in Waltham, MA. Del’s grew from a love of coffee and a commitment to discover, roast and enjoy the best coffee the world has to offer. Delivering the freshly roasted beans door to door to friends, family and local community during the pandemic, Del saw just how much the simple pleasure of coffee can bring connect people and lift us up, and brings that passion to every cup. Start your morning with a cup of freshly roasted beans from Del’s Coffee Roasters!
Guest vendor: 1/17
Farfalle Italian Market
Located in the heart of Concord, Farfalle Italian Market makes Italian-inspired dishes: think comfort food, small plates, fine wines, coffee and desserts. At the LFM, owner-operator Gina Nasson and Chef Benjamin Peacock offer delicious filled buns, fresh pasta, sauces and soups available for your culinary pleasure.
Farmer Dave’s
Farmer Dave’s is a diversified farm north of Boston that responsibly grows a myriad of vegetables and fruits. Along with a CSA offering, Farmer Dave’s operates farm stands in Dracut, Tewksbury and Westford and participates in many local farmers’ markets. At the home farm in Dracut, Farmer Dave’s has an ever-expanding pick your own program as well as school tours to introduce multiple generations to farming in New England. Farmer Dave’s mission is growing healthy food, building strong community and creating lifelong traditions.
After returning from the Peace Corps in 1997, Dave began farming in the Merrimack Valley while continuing to teach and consult farmers in the Republic of Georgia, Ethiopia and Tajikistan. Farmer Dave has worked with many farmers across the globe with the purpose of teaching how to improve soil and crop health as well as irrigation methods.
Customers can call 978-349-1952 between 9 am and 6 pm to place a preorder, with the deadline of Thursday 5 pm to order for the Saturday Small Yet Mighty Winter Market. Payment will be taken over the phone to secure the preorder. What’s available could change week to week, but it will typically be anything that Farmer Dave’s brings to the market. For a more specific list, customers can call the office and ask for the most up to date list.
Forest Road Apiary
Forest Road Apiary is a small-scale, sustainable beekeeping operation based in Brimfield, MA. They are dedicated to promoting honey bee health and well being in a natural and organic fashion. Providing raw bottled honey, wax creations, and natural health products, they hope to pass along this top-down approach of health and happiness to you.
Monthly: 1/17, 2/14, 3/14, 4/11
Hi-Rise Bread Company
Rene Becker opened Hi-Rise in 1996 with a crew of six, big ideas, and a simple goal: to make staple homey foods better than home-made. He started with bread — using organic wheat, rye, and corn from independent mills — and soon moved to pastries, incorporating extra-rich European-style butter and local fruits for pies and tarts. In store, they offer soups and sandwiches, dinners sold fresh and frozen, from pot pies and stews to lasagnas with house-made pasta. At the market find their breads, granola, crackers, loaf cakes, pastries, preserves, and tasty frozen meals to bring home.
Monthly: 1/3, 1/31, 2/28, 3/28
My County Mushrooms
Based in Gardner, MA, My County Mushrooms is a small family company that specializes in growing and selling mushrooms, with varieties including oyster, shiitake, maitake, lion’s mane, white champion, portobello and baby portobello. Their mission is to bring people a first class range of mushrooms that will make customers healthy, active and happy.
Their all-new website now includes the option for patrons to pre-purchase their products and pick them up at the LFM.
Full-season except for 1/3
Ovenbird Cafe
Ovenbird Cafe is a bakeshop and cafe in Belmont that features seasonal, scratch-made baked goods, cafe beverages, breakfast and lunch counter service, as well as prepared foods customers can take home to enjoy. At the LFM, Ovenbird brings croissants, focaccia pizza, cookies, teacakes, chocolates, biscuits (savory and sweet), lemon almond yogurt cake, hand pies, whole pies, iced tea, iced and hot coffee.
Read about Ovenbird in the Boston Globe!
Simply Sharp
Simply Sharp brings new life to all your knives, scissors and tools. They specialize in sharpening by hand on whetstones.
Monthly: 1/3, 1/31, 2/28, 3/28
Small Batch Cookery
The Small Batch Cookery makes delicious gluten-free cookies and macarons. You’d never know that they’re gluten-free! Their flavors respond to the seasons, and they are always interested in how they can collaborate with other vendors to make the farmers’ market that much more special! Available for custom orders and deliveries as well!
Monthly: 1/3, 1/31, 2/28, 3/28
The Silent Seed
Jude Haverington of the Silent Seed grows unique and unusual tropical plants, and does his own growing and propagating in his plant house in Newburyport. He uses zero chemicals and exclusively recycled/natural materials.
Monthly: 1/17, 2/14, 3/14, 4/11