McCarren Park Farmers Market

Love coming here on Saturday and picking up some food to cook for the weekend. There is a good mix of stuff to buy and so far the quality of what I have gotten has been much better than what I can get in the C-​Town by me. Yes it is a little more expensive but you can taste it and that makes it worth it.

It’s a small farmers market but has a good variety of products.
The parking is actually difficult but not impossible.
I love the organic stall. I come here for their organic golden beets. It’s my favorite. Yes there is a difference in taste. The organic stuff is sweeter.
I wish the farmers market was open all weekend, but unfortunately it’s not. You have to visit this farmers market on Saturdays before 1:30 pm or you’ll miss it. They usually start to pack up about 2pm-​ish.

Great little farmers market with a little bit of everything you need like Bread, fresh seafood, Meat, and yes fresh veggies. I look forward every weekend walking to the market, and taking the pooch to the dog run. my favorite little stand is Treleaven wines they have this awesome apple wine called Apple Mystique a must try. I also like the grass fed meats from Arcadian pastures plus they sell fresh eggs as well. On my cheat days i go straight to barker’s bounty and marry it with B&B jams and count the calories away… Ha heaven!

Excellent farmers market and they will take your veggie only compost! If you don’t have a home compost bin, this is super. We freeze the veg scrapings in a brown paper bag and bring a bundle every week!
Nice selection of greens, fruit, root veg. eclectic spot and you will rub elbows with famous authors and musicians buying apples. Good stuff!

Great way to spend sometime outside.
A little smaller than i wouldve liked but sweet and had a variety of vegetables, fruit and peppers .
Loved walking around outside great day.

Pretty solid, finally a reason for all the ridiculous breaks in this park.

I’ve come to expect crowds in farmers markets around brooklyn … But as crowds go this one is relatively polite. Everyone has children and/​or dogs and usually both. It’s kind of lovely — all these brooklyn families buying produce and locally sourced meats on a sunny-​ish day. Aspirational for sure.

I would probably not listen to the one star review, though it is one of the most amusing I have read…
Do you like smiling at cute dogs? Do you like vegetables, turkey burgers, honey, cacti and flowers? Ok, you will probably enjoy this place.
The place at the end (or beginning depending on how to look at it I guess) is the best one. Fresh produce, lowest prices. It’s the largest stand.

Wow, a place to buy vegetables and be seen by other identical hipster uniformed parentally subsidized kidults from Wiscoillinoisakota. Another hipster invention. They’re always the first ones to discover things that were discovered already aren’t they?
Look it’s a guy named Reid who looks like the Spin Doctors singer selling «hive to jar» honey harvested from the roof of an abandoned Bushwick type writer factory for only $ 25 a jar!
Look it’s doughy Megan with a ‘unique’ star tattoo on her wrist selling bacon flavored granola!
Look it’s Caleb and Stephonica who sustainably peddled all that wilted kale from Upper Mid West Bushwick to Lower South Greenpoint on their rusty vintage Schwinn’s.
Look it’s Mason Nasalbee making local wine by stomping on organic grapes with his filthy, moldy, Converse sneakers.
Look, it’s Logan of Suburbia blowing all that healthy American Spirit smoke all over the scallions (that resemble his arms) that you’re about to buy for $ 6.00 a bunch.
What a joke… I’ll be in Key Food buying my pesticide sprayed, affordable fruit delivered by 18-​Wheeler. See ya.

What’s not to like? Lot’s of awesome locally made/​grown products to purchase and browse? This is where my boyfriend and I pick up our Farm Share. Lots of organic grown vegetables that taste out of this world good! There are also tents for meats, raw honey and other things like that. A fun way to spend a Saturday morning. And what’s not to like about Williamsburg?!

Even though it was freezing cold, I really enjoyed my ramble through the market. There was meat, eggs, fruits, veggies, and a guy who takes your compost off your hands.
The apples we got were AMAZING!
If you want eggs, get there early. Hens slow down their laying in the winter.

More of these farmers markets should pop up around the greater NYC area. We have one in Queens in Jackson Heights but this really needs to be expanded so that local growers can get their crops out to the public which means healthier fresher salads and everything wonderful. Support local growers and buy from Farmers Markets

It’s small (or growing, rather) but has a handful of everything you need. It is a great source of organic meat, which is greatly lacking in the Williamsburg area. The guy who sells the Turkey meat — it’s the best I’ve ever tasted!
Fun family atmosphere, lots of goings on in neighboring McCarren Park and on Bedford Ave!

Sort of on the small side and didn’t seem like it offered too much. Needs more food stalls and maybe it was the heat but most of the produce looked rather wilted and sad. I might have just been there on an off day, but I see a lot of potential here…

I like checking out farmer’s markets, but I never seem to buy anything from them. I always get hang up on the price versus how much it costs at a supermarket.
On second thought, I’m actually 2 for 2 at Brooklyn farmer’s markets. I picked up a huge rosemary plant at this one (and a bag of farro at Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza a while ago). I’m always tempted to buy new things (purple potatoes and other produce), but I never want to carry it around with me all day.
This farmers market is small with a one row gauntlet of vendors, but it had live music and wasn’t lacking anything that is normally at markets.

This isn’t the largest Farmers’ market… but it’s got all the meat, milk, eggs, veggies, fruit, herbs and flowers that I need.
Also. I love getting over to Williamsburg Proper for brunch.

Small but proud. I try to make it out every Saturday.
Excellent hot apple cider, cheeses and baked goods. Prices are so-​so but the quality is certainly better than any grocery store.

Best produce I’ve found in Brooklyn by far. They’ve got everything you need and more and it saves you from having to go all the way to Union Square (I don’t know about you — but carrying home tote bags full of apples and potatoes from Union Square to Bushwick isn’t ideal).
My only qualm is that it’s not open every day…

This is a great market with a pretty decent amount of variety.
It’s also worth noting that they have an awesome program that allows you to use your EBT card at the information booth to get tokens to use at the rest of the market.

Get the eggs sold at the stand next to Ronnybrook. They will change your life. I spent 31 years of my life not knowing what real eggs taste like and sometimes, it’s all I think about all day. Like when they’re out of eggs or the eggs are only for members of the CSA and I start to think bad thoughts about how I could just follow them home and shank them and steal the eggs.
…I really like the eggs.