Farmers Market

Join us under the old oak trees in downtown Savannah's Forsyth Park every Saturday. We are located at the south end of Forsyth Park at the intersection of Bull Street and Park Avenue. 

Saturdays,  9:00am until 1:00pm

January - December

Open virtually year around. 

 

Features

Savannah's food-only, producer-only market where ~30 vendors on a given Saturday offer fresh produce, pastured meats, local honey, artisan dairy and cheeses, craft breads and baked goods and a wide variety of prepared foods. All vendors come within a 200 mile radius of Savannah. Read about our vendors here. 

 

Payment

Cash, credit, debit, and SNAP/EBT.

All vendors accept cash. A few vendors also accept debit/credit cards. FFM offers a token-exchange system to accommodate those without cash. 

 

Token system

The main market table on Saturday accepts debit, credit, and SNAP/EBT in exchange for non-refundable tokens that do not expire. We also double SNAP/EBT dollars. Find out more information here. 

 

Locate Us! 

 

EVENTS 

Ana & Billy, @billysbotanicals will be taking over the FFM Instagram tomorrow! Tune in with our stories to follow them around and see the inner workings of an aquaponic farm.
Did you know: SNAP currently helps over 40 million Americans avoid hunger: 49% of SNAP recipients are children and 52% are households that include children (meaning that a total of 76% of all SNAP benefits go to households with children) -SNAPtoHealth
Some regard the right to food as a noble deception, as purely aspirational. They say it’s a right that is not a legitimate entitlement. This view gives us the opportunity to not seriously assign corresponding obligations to ensure this right is met, nor hold anyone accountable. Onora O’Neill in The Dark Side of Human Rights explains that under the aspirational interpretation of human rights, if a right is left unmet then there is no breach of obligation, nobody at fault, nobody who can be held to account, nobody who owes redress (430). There is no one or no thing to be blamed for nearly 800 million undernourished people in a world of plenty.
Heads up! The farmers market will be closed next Saturday, March 17th for St. Patrick's Day. Plan to get your fill of greens, cabbage, and other weekly necessities this Saturday from 9am-1pm. We'll also be doing free SNAP enrollment and renewals at the information booth. Bring required documents!
#ThursdayThoughts In 1948, the United Nations recognized the right to food as a human right with the Declaration of Human Rights. In the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 160 countries recognized the right to food and pledged by ratification to respect, protect, and fulfill this right. Yet, according to USDA Economic Research Service in its annual report for 2016 on food security – nationally 41.2 million people live in households that are food insecure. The same year, 108 million people faced severe food insecurity worldwide (FAO).
#ThursdayThoughts "If whoever makes a mess receives the benefits and does not pay the costs, not only does he have no incentive to avoid making messes as he likes, but he is also unfair to whoever does pay the costs. He is inflicting costs upon other people, contrary to their interests and, presumably, without their consent. By making himself better off in ways that make others worse off, he is creating an expanding inequality." -Henry Shue
It's a wonderful day to stroll through the park and shop with some of your favorite vendors. Join us from 9-1pm in Forsyth Park.
Castra Rota's products are truly special. Handmade bread, cheese, pasta, sweets, gift baskets, dates, and cookies -- all reminiscent of the foodways of ancient and historic Europe. Come see them this Saturday.
#ThursdayThoughts on agricultural education brought to us by Kingsolver. "The baby boom psyche embraces a powerful presumption that education is a key to moving away from manual labor and dirt -- two undeniable ingredients of farming. It's good enough for us that somebody, somewhere, knows food production well enough to serve the rest of us with all we need to eat, each day of our lives... Is the story of bread, from tilled ground to our table, less relevant to our lives than the history of the thirteen colonies? ... Isn't ignorance of our food sources causing problems as diverse as over dependence on petroleum, and an epidemic of diet-related diseases?" -Kingsolver BTW, this isn't to say history is not important. There is much to learn from our pasts.
@SwampyAppleseed will take over the IG this Wednesday. Follow our stories tomorrow to see ongoing projects from the mushroom farmer, forager, and enthusiast. You can connect with him through messenger, too!
Chris, a local Savannah grower, will give a brief educational talk on "Preparing Your Garden for Spring Planting" this Saturday at the farmers market @ 10am. A Q&A will follow. Please come join us!
"Honey is the gift that keeps on giving," says Emma. She, along with Read and Tyler, are passionate about communicating to the community the value bees add to our society and the threats faced with decimating bee populations. Since 2007, an average of 30% of all colonies have died every winter in the United States (Marla Spivak). This group is answering the call to bee informed and raise public awareness of human impact on nature.