Yorktown Market Days

Each market day at Yorktown Market Days in 331 Water Street Yorktown, Virginia, shoppers can browse stalls from local growers, bakers, and food artisans offering products that reflect the region's seasonal bounty.

Open Sat: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, May 14 - Oct 29, the market welcomes shoppers throughout the season. Schedules may shift around holidays — check ahead.

What makes Yorktown Market Days worth visiting is not just the products available — it is the context those products come with. Each vendor at the market has a story: which farm they operate, how long they have been growing, what they specialize in, and what is coming next week. That knowledge is freely shared at a farmers market in a way that never happens in a conventional grocery setting.

Seasonality shapes everything at Yorktown Market Days. Unlike a supermarket that stocks tomatoes in January, farmers markets are honest about what is actually ripe. What you find at Yorktown Market Days today reflects what the farms in the 331 Water Street Yorktown region are currently producing — nothing more, nothing less. This connection to the actual growing season is something that many regular market shoppers come to value deeply.

Yorktown Market Days also serves as a gathering point for the 331 Water Street Yorktown community. Regular shoppers often describe the market as much a social outing as a grocery run. Familiar faces, known vendors, and the rhythm of a weekly market create a kind of community continuity that is increasingly rare. For many families, a Saturday morning at Yorktown Market Days is as much about being part of the neighborhood as it is about what ends up in the bag.

Yorktown Market Days contributes to 331 Water Street Yorktown's food ecosystem by offering an alternative to large grocery chains — one where shoppers know exactly where their food comes from.

Contact Yorktown Market Days directly to learn about accepted payment methods, including whether SNAP/EBT benefits are accepted.