Fruit
Fruit and berries are always a favorite at a farmer’s market. Blueberry, strawberry, blackberry etc are all popular seasonal berries that customers love to buy fresh. If you are in an area where fruit is grown then that is another possibility to sell. Friends of mine had some wonderful peach orchards and would sell them by the bucket or case. Depending on your climate you can sell fruit successfully at the farmers
Vegetables
Most people at some stage will have a vegetable garden. Some people grow vegetables that are surplus to their needs. Many other people don’t like to garden or have limited space at their homes or apartments but will still enjoy buying and eating local fresh vegetables. Over the years I have seen many local farmers sell thousands of dollars’ worth of vegetables at local farmers market. These farmers will bring as much produce as they can and often sell it all. A friend of mine used to bring a large enclosed trailer full of tray after tray and box after box of tomatoes, squash, watermelon, peppers and so much more he would usually go home with nothing left except a pocketful of cash. He was one of the biggest vendors at the market and people respected that he had a good product and they would line-up to buy from him.
While that particular farmer was very versatile, he grew a large variety of produce, other farmers specialized. One of the specialist farmers I saw at the farmers market brought chest freezers on the back of a trailer full of gallon and quart bags of frozen shells this farmer grew nothing but peas, had a pea sheller that he would run through the week bag and freeze the fresh peas. These were purple hull peas mainly and he would bring the whole big chest freezer to market and sell them as a frozen quart bag.
Another specialist farmer brought only corn. The corn was not husked, and it was exceptionally good. Customers lined up early to get the corn from that vendor.
Other smaller farmers would just grow a few tomatoes, squash, peas etc and bring whatever was surplus to their own family’s needs to market. Whichever fresh produce vendor you are there is no doubt that you can be successful selling vegetables at the farmers market.