The Lavender Sisterhood, a group of lively ladies from the Mid-County Senior Center, will be joining the Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College on Saturday, November 5 during market hours, 8 a.m. until 12 p.m. They will be selling a wide variety of handcrafted lavender items including eye pillows, potpourri, sachets, fragrant lavender wands, small...Read More

This Saturday, a Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) representative will be at the Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College to assist seniors over 60 in obtaining an SFMNP check booklet at the information booth. The Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program is a federally funded program administered nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food...Read More

If anyone would ask you what Steve Jobs and Sandra Ward of New Natives have in common, the odds are pretty decent you’d be hard pressed to guess the answer, which is: they both started their businesses in their garages. “I began growing wheatgrass in my garage around 1980 or so,” Sandra recalled with a...Read More

Terry Beech, known to many as “the knife sharpening guy,” crossed the rainbow bridge last month at the age of 79. As is often the case, many of us expressed disbelief and shock. When I first watched Terry roll into the Aptos Farmers Market in his primo VW bus, I was bemused to watch as...Read More

July 2022 marks the 46th anniversary of the Monterey Bay Certified Farmers Market. To put it in perspective, the year was 1976; leisure suits and disco music were the rage, the internet didn’t exist, “Google” was still a noun, and many married couples that frequent our markets hadn’t even met yet. Even though farmers markets...Read More

It’s hard to believe, but our farmers market organization is 46 years old this July! Last year, our 45th-anniversary celebration was postponed due to the pandemic — so this year, we are celebrating! What began as a small, grassroots effort by a few local farmers 46 years ago, the Aptos Farmers Market has blossomed into...Read More