Join Us Every Saturday
Wire Park
🕘9:00 AM - 1:00PM
Join us this Saturday from 9:00 AM–1:00 PM at Wire Park. This week you'll find us at our normal location. Look for the tents, friendly faces, and all the fresh, local goodness!
We Want to Hear From You!
Shop Local. Support Local.
Thank you for shopping local and supporting the Oconee Farmers Market. We wish you and your family a safe, joyful, and blessed weekend!
We'll see you at the market!
📍 Wire Park – Watkinsville
🕘 Market Hours: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
See you at the Market!
Carol Gurley
Market Director
Oconee Farmers Market
Farm to Table Dinner – August 16
Tickets are now available for our upcoming Farm to Table Dinner featuring
Chef Jose Zambrano.
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating local food, local farmers, and our community. Guests will enjoy a delicious farm-fresh meal while supporting the Oconee Farmers Market and our local producers.
Featured Menu
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Shrimp & Grits
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Chicken
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Beef with Peach & Bleu Cheese
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Roasted Potatoes
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Green Beans
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Collard Greens
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Salad
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Rolls
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Desserts
General Admission: $65
Vendor Admission: $30
Be sure to scan the QR code or use the code below to reserve your seat. Space is limited and this event typically sells out.
Which vendor are you missing? As our market continues to grow, we'd love to know what products, foods, farms, or artisans you'd like to see join the Oconee Farmers Market. Watch for our upcoming survey and let us know!
Thank you for supporting local farmers, makers, bakers, and small businesses. Every purchase helps strengthen our community and keeps local dollars local.
🌽 Can We Share Something That's Been on Our Hearts? 🌽
One of the comments we hear most often is, "I wish there were more vegetables at the market."
The truth is...we have 7 local produce vendors working hard to feed our community.
But here's the reality.
A farmers market can only grow if the community supports the farmers who are already here.
Every Saturday, our farmers are in the fields before sunrise, harvesting produce at its peak so it's as fresh as possible when it reaches the market. They battle unpredictable weather, rising costs, insects, and yes...the Georgia summer heat. They do it because they love farming and because they believe our community values locally grown food.
Yet too often, they load beautiful vegetables back into their trucks at the end of the day.
Fresh produce isn't something that can be put on pause until next weekend. Vegetables are seasonal. Tomatoes, peaches, squash, cucumbers, beans, sweet corn, blueberries—each has a window when it's at its very best. If we wait until "next week" or "later this summer," that opportunity may be gone.
We all say we want more local farms. More fresh vegetables. More choices.
The way we get there isn't by asking farmers to bring more.
It's by showing up for the farmers who are already showing up for us.
Every basket you fill tells a farmer, "Keep planting. We'll be back." Every purchase helps ensure they'll return next season—and encourages other farmers to join them.
The future of a farmers market isn't decided by its vendors.
It's decided by its community.
If you believe local agriculture matters, if you want your children and grandchildren to have access to fresh, locally grown food, and if you want to see even more farmers at the Oconee Farmers Market, we invite you to make shopping local part of your Saturday routine.
Come while summer's harvest is here. Meet the people who grow your food. Fill your basket with what's in season.
Together, we can build the kind of farmers market our community deserves. ❤️
🐝 Fun Bee Facts
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🌼 One out of every three bites of food we eat depends on pollinators like bees.
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🍯 A single honeybee produces only about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime.
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🌻 Honeybees communicate by dancing! Their famous "waggle dance" tells other bees where to find flowers.
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👑 The queen bee can lay up to 2,000 eggs in one day.
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🌸 Bees can see ultraviolet light, helping them find flowers humans can't see the same way.
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💛 It takes about 2 million flower visits to make one pound of honey.
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🐝 A worker bee visits 50–100 flowers during a single foraging trip.
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🌎 There are more than 20,000 species of bees worldwide, and many are solitary rather than living in hives.
Join Us This Saturday -
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*Vendors*
*This list is subject to change with or without notice
