Belmont Farmers’ Market in the Media

Thanks to many local and regional news outlets for covering the great community event we put on each week! There are stories about POP Club for kids, food assistance, our Food Assistance Information Fair, celebrations during National Farmers Market Week, and more.

The Belmont Voice had a story about cuts to food assistance programs (2025). Other coverage:

Image of the Boston Globe article, featuring a photo of a young girl getting change from a vendor

The Boston Globe had a 2025 article about our first entrepreneur day for kids, Mini Market Makers. Also:

The Belmontonian had a story about our great Market Manager in August 2024 (with video).

Belmont Media Center covered National Farmers Market Week in 2024, featuring State Agriculture Commissioner Ashley Randle.

Belmont Media Center covered our Food Assistance Information Fair in 2023, featuring Congresswoman Katherine Clark. (She starts speaking at the 11:00 mark.) They have covered other BFM stories, too.

A man in a yellow shirt speaking into a microphone

Belmont Citizens Forum had a profile of the Chair of the Farmers’ Market Committee, Hal Shubin (2025).

Belmont Citizens Forum logo: A tree, a house, their name
Text logo for WickedLocal.com — "LOCAL" is blue

Belmont Citizens Forum and WickedLocal.com covered our Covid-19 preparations in 2020

We won Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston for Best Farmers’ Market in 2009, (they loved our events tent!) and tied for second place in 2010 (those were the only years for that category).They included us in 2014’s 15 Farmers’ Markets To Try This Summer.

We won Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston for Best Farmers’ Market in 2009, and tied for second place in 2010.

And then they stopped rating farmers' markets!

WBZ NewsRadio had a story about POP Club in Aug, 2024.