Santa Barbara Farmers Market - Santa Barbara - Restaurants, Cafes & Food Reviews

There are just so many samples to try at the Farmers Market: not only fruits and vegetables but many other things like organic cheese, olive oil, fruit juices, honey, dried fruits, all sorts of sprouts, nuts. The list is endless really. The good thing about the market is that the produce comes from local farms and the apples look like real apples not like the wax looking ones I see so often at grocery stores and usually these are flown in from some far away place.

I also like the community atmosphere that the Farmers Market creates with the local produce sellers, musicians, street performers or some activist group that shows either their approval or disapproval of a current issue.

When I went there today at around 4.00, it was packed. So, if you don't like that sort of thing you might want to wait until later on in the day since the market is open until 6.30 during the summer.

This is the schedule for the Santa Barbara Farmers Market as well as the farmers markets in Goleta, Montecito, Carpinteria and Solvang :

Saturday
DOWNTOWN SANTA BARBARA
8:30AM- 12:30PM YEAR ROUND
Corner of Santa Barbara & Cota Streets

Sunday
CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE
10:00AM- 2PM YEAR ROUND
In Goleta - corner of Storke & Hollister

Tuesday
OLD TOWN SANTA BARBARA
4:00- 7:30PM SUMMER HOURS
3:00- 6:30PM WINTER HOURS
500 & 600 Blocks of State Street

Wednesday
LA CUMBRE PLAZA
Inside the La Cumbre Plaza Shopping Center
2- 6PM SUMMER HOURS
1:00- 5PM WINTER HOURS

SOLVANG VILLAGE
Copenhagen Drive & 1st Street
2:30- 6:30PM SUMMER HOURS
2:30- 6PM WINTER HOURS

Thursday
GOLETA - CALLE REAL CENTER
5700 Block of Calle Real
3:00- 6PM YEAR ROUND

CARPINTERIA
800 Block of Linden Avenue.
4:00- 7PM SUMMER HOURS
3:00- 6PM WINTER HOURS

Friday
MONTECITO - COAST VILLAGE ROAD
1100 & 1200 Block of Coast Village Rd.
8:00- 11:15AM YEAR ROUND