Fresno Farmers' Market

I was looking forward to moving to Fresno partially because of the hope for farmers' markets and cheap avocados. The downtown farmers' market certainly does not disappoint.I've visited a few of the farmers' markets in Fresno, and this is my favorite. I've also been to River Park and Vineyard (Shaw & Blackstone). I drove by Tower (Olive & Van Ness) one day and there were literally two vendors. I still want to try Perrin & Champlain and Kaiser (Fresno btwen Herndon & Alluvial). Anyway, the downtown market is open multiple days (Tues, Thurs, Sat 2-7), is very cheap, and has this awesome guy who grows and sells watermelon just so he can afford to eat it all the time. He's super friendly and is watermelon is awesome. The other vendors are cool too. There's a huge variety of fruits, an okay selection of vegetables, and some nuts and spices. And cheap ass avocados (around 25 cents each). The fruit is usually pretty fresh and ripe.It's pretty low-key and down-to-earth; most vendors don't have signs announcing their farm name like they do in Washington, and some don't have signs for prices, so it makes you approach them and talk to them, which is good.The only problem for me is that there's basically no organic food. The other farmers' markets have a little bit of organic produce, but there's not that much compared to Washington and it's expensive. And this market is hot because it's dusty and there's not much shade.At the downtown market, I've seen one or two vendors only seem to speak only Spanish so it's incentive to work on my Spanish :)This market, and most of the others, are year round! Sweet.

This is one of two of my favorite farmer's markets in Fresno. The produce is inexpensive and there's some good locally grown vegetables. Not all of the vegetables are locally grown (some from Mexico and other places long ways away), so buy at own discretion. And just because its local, doesn't mean pesticides are sparsely used or organic.This used to be located at Fulton & San Joaquin, but now is at Broadway & Tuolumne.

Great source for unique verges ESP. from Hmong farmers. There are two downtown, one at Kern & G and this one behind the old Security Bank Building. Great fresh food.

Fresno has many excellent Farmers Markets- but the Tower District one isn't one of them. I took my daughter this morning hoping to find fresh fruit, what i saw was shriveling vegetables and bruised fruit. Makes me wonder where it really came from, and the person working there assumed I spoke Spanish and when he saw that I don't he quickly turned cold, not a great time.