Facebook Farmer Market

This market is the most exciting news in the Farmers’ Market world. The market takes place right at Facebook at their main headquarters. You can take a picture with the original giant «like» symbol or visit the nearby Marsh park right next door. The weather has been amazing every time with the sun finding its way to shine through. Highlights of this market are it has front row parking with plenty of space, new and different vendors, and a whole kids area including bouncy houses and activities. It’s nice to see they are going above and beyond to make it feel more like a community event then just a market. It has a great selection and lots of cool events. They are going to be bringing in real snow for their holiday event! It’s also the last market for the season. Can’t wait to watch this market bloom and be huge in the spring. Great addition to the area!

Facebook started opening a section of their parking lot to have/​host a Farmer’s Market. This is relatively new (started in October 2015) and seems pretty sleepy… there’s never a crowd. They are doing some things right though, like:
+ plenty of parking
+ lots of signage to direct you on where to park
+ friendly security
+ tons of porta potty’s
+ very community & kid friendly
+ has a first aid/​sunscreen kiosk
+ this is where I found the BEST jujubes in town!
But this farmer’s market seems like a waste of time & resource. Tons of security with 10 – 20 vendors but there’s hardly anyone here. They’ll have pumpkin patches, a photo booth, free tote bag giveaways, etc but It seems like no one knows about this farmer’s market :/​I hope they publicize this a bit more and get more vendors in … because as of right now, it’s not that worth it to come back to.

I went to the farmers market on 11÷15÷15 and it seemed nice despite the fact that it was super windy, but the food seemed really good and fresh, but a little pricy, the people were really nice and funny I will definitely go every week especially because I live really close within walking distance, the only reason I gave it 4 stars was because, the food was a little pricy and it was a really small market, but that might be because it was super windy

Not a bad start.
I went last weekend and was surprised by it not being so crowded. We got 5 moola bucks from a booth ($ 1 off each vendor) to spend. (Not sure if this will always happen since articles online mentioned it being limited to the first [blank] families.) I absolutely loved that the first aid booth provided free sunscreen!
Tons of vendors to buy fruits, veggies, baked goods, and other goodies from. Tons of free samples! There were two food trucks stationed there last weekend.
There’s also a free bounce house for kids!
Worth a visit. :)

Great Farmers Market. Live music and kid play are plus food trucks. Amazing venders. Great place to spend your Sunday morning shopping outside. Lots of parking available too.

Okay so I have been to every farmers market from Sebastopol Down to San Diego and in between :-)So let’s start off with the good note that the walnut in the shell guy Was nice and those walnuts were amazing/​really tasty fresh and I think the trees are old heirloom because the walnuts were fairly small size with great flavor. The no spray From Fresno I think had great red peppers and some other assorted veggies. Apple guys organic apples were flavorful freshly picked. However without mentioning any names some of the produce did look a little like picked last week. The vegan raw truffle /​Candy was tres bon And that chef is I believe the former chef of Hotel Sofitel. But my favorite was the blown glass was really cool he had nice hearts, Pumpkins which I don’t usually care for and other assorted goodies. Bathrooms were very clean and abundant. Okay so I really hope they move this market to Saturday when downtown Palo Alto closes because I want them to steal that market share. Security was overabundant and kind of ridiculous I mean it’s like I’m used to it because I Sometimes live near chez Zucker Berg… With the 3 to 6 security guards ²⁴⁄₇₇ yes it’s irritating especially because they waste gas when it’s hot and cold running the cars Did I really just write that :-) back to the security I really think they should have Fewer and maybe have them in shorts and a welcome to Facebook T-​shirt, Security guard was saying something to Spanish and Spanish to people that were confused and I think parked in the wrong spot but basically I’m not sure if it was worth going over there but I really do want them to succeed because all the farmers were really sweet. Oh also be forewarned there is only about maybe 10 or 12 farmers and maybe 10 to 12 food/​art vendors. I don’t know I was confused and I thought the people that do San Mateo farmers market were doing this one but I don’t think they are it’s in the different group. Okay so in closing I really do think everyone should visit this market decide for themselves. Also I really do like the Rodriguez’s organic berries tasty