MONTHLY PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Enjoy the rich agricultural roots in our community!
A feast for your senses! Connect with your local farmers and food sources, meet local chefs, watch cooking demonstrations, listen to guest speakers, enjoy an art fair, listen to great music, and celebrate life with your own urban village each week!
View our calendars for upcoming events for Aptos, Monterey, Del Monte and Carmel farmers markets. To stay informed, sign up for our monthly e-newsletter, Edible Paradise or subscribe to the new market events calendar.
MARKET PROGRAMS
From Market to Table
Culinary education at the farmers market! Watch cooking demonstrations by local chefs preparing food with local, seasonal produce and discover how to use unusual ingredients or learn new techniques from a professional. Fun for all ages!
Can You Dig It
The popular garden workshop series, Can You Dig It returns this year to the Aptos Farmers Market and will feature Monterey Bay Master Gardeners and others who will be giving hands-on demonstrations and workshops throughout the year.
LIVE AND LOCAL
KSCO’s Live and Local edition of Food Chain Radio will be broadcasted live from the Aptos Farmers Market featuring host Michael Olson, an award winning broadcast personality, author, and speaker. He has appeared on and/or hosted more than 1,000 TV and radio shows, written award-winning books, and has been published and quoted in hundreds of articles in magazines, newspapers and websites.
Health and Wellness
Live well, eat well — achieve vibrant health through sensible nutrition and healthy living guidelines by Dr. Jeff Lester. Dr. Lester is a local physician who practices integrative medicine, a holistic and natural approach to health care that encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Enjoy his inspirational articles each month!
Monthly Events
Enjoy presentations and book signings by authors and cookbook writers, listen to guest speakers, browse through an art exhibit, meet local visiting artisans each month and get your knives and gardening tools sharpened as you shop by SharpQuick. There’s always something fun to do at the farmers markets!
Music
Tap your toes to the blue grass music of the Farmers Market String Band that performs from spring through fall, weather permitting, or watch The Great Morgani perform while he plays accordion in his outrageous costumes!