Maine's winter farmers' markets and CSA shares offer storage crops, such as these carrots and beets (found at the Common Ground Country Fair Farmers' Market) – and much more, including fresh greenhouse-grown vegetables, meat, milk, bread... basically, enough healthful food to nourish our population all year. English photo.

Keep Local Food Flowing All Winter

By Melissa White Pillsbury

Maine's local food movement is supporting a growing number of outlets for winter purchases – at farmers' markets and through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms. Many farmers' markets that don't stay open all winter do run well into the fall now, some until Thanksgiving.

Winter Farmers' Markets

Click here to go to our list of winter farmers’ markets.

Our Directory of Maine CSAs

Click here to go to our full CSA directory.

Winter Storage

For basic information on storing vegetables through winter, see MOFGA's fact sheet, "Storing Garden Vegetables," available at www.mofga.org under "Publications."