Year-Round

Every other Wednesday, Sonoma County Vintners hands the wine wall at The Matheson over to a rotating cast of winemakers — a low-key, hour-long way to taste alongside the people who actually made the bottle, right in the heart of Healdsburg.

Petaluma's East Side Farmers' Market runs every Tuesday of the year, 9:30am to 1:30pm, in the parking lot at Lucchesi Park on North McDowell Boulevard. Agricultural Community Events manages it, and it is built for regular shopping: local growers with the season's produce and flowers, bakers, artisan cheese, canned goods and hot food, plus handmade goods from soaps to crafts.

It is the town's weekday market, and it keeps going through winter, when many seasonal markets close.

The Sonoma Valley Certified Farmers Market meets every Friday morning, 9am to 12:30pm, all year and rain or shine, in the Arnold Field parking lot at Depot Park, just north of Sonoma's historic Plaza. Local farms anchor it, with valley produce, flowers, eggs, honey, meats and baked goods, plus coffee and hot food for a market breakfast. As a certified market, its farmers sell what they grow.

Glen Ellen's farmers' market is one of the newest in Sonoma Valley: a Sunday market on the campus of Woodland Star Charter School, a public Waldorf school on Dunbar Road at the edge of the village. The school hosts and organizes it, and it is meant as a year-round gathering place for the valley, with local growers, bakers, artisans and food makers setting up from 10am each Sunday. It runs on Sundays only, on school grounds rather than a town street.

Every Sunday of the year, rain or shine, Sebastopol's farmers' market fills the town plaza on Weeks Way from 9am to 1:30pm. It is one of West County's anchors: growers with seasonal produce, fruit, eggs and honey share the plaza with bakers, cheesemakers, fishmongers, spice sellers and preserve makers, plus prepared food for breakfast or lunch. Flowers, nursery plants, candles, skincare and jewelry fill out the rows. As a certified market, the farmers at the produce stalls sell what they grow.

Santa Rosa's Community Farmers' Market runs twice a week, all year: Wednesdays 9am to 1pm and Saturdays 8:30am to 1pm. It has moved back to the parking lot of the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building on Maple Avenue, its home before the pandemic, after Oliver's Market took over its site at Farmers Lane Plaza. The nonprofit Agricultural Community Events runs it, with locally grown produce at the center. Its last day at Farmers Lane was the first Saturday in October.

The Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market is the largest farmers' market in Sonoma County. It sets up in the lot of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts on Mark West Springs Road: Saturdays all year and Wednesdays from March to December, 8:30am to 1pm on both days. Local produce, pasture-raised meats, locally caught fish, goat and cow cheeses, garden starts, flowers and specialty foods fill the rows.