Bringing good people and good food together since 1995.
Morningside Farmers Market was the first and only farmers market in Atlanta that required all vegetables and fruits to be certified organic. Founded in 1995, we have a long history of serving the community and bringing people and food together each and every week of the year. We’re an intimate market with dedicated customers who enjoy getting to know each vendor and each other.
Join us for our year-round market, operating every Saturday morning from 8am – 11:30am at Morningside Presbyterian Church.
Our roots.
The Morningside Farmers Market has its roots in a former farm cooperative that started with Cynthia Hizer’s herb garden at the old Atlanta Waterworks in the late 1980s. In 1995, Hizer and business partner Ann Brewer, founders of the Georgia Grown Organic Produce, a co-op of 30 farmers, took their co-op in a new direction. While originally designed to serve seasonal produce to local chefs, they had a new idea, and they asked their farmers to bring extra produce for a market to be shared with the public – not just local chefs. By the second week, it was so successful that the farmers wanted to start selling on their own and the Morningside Farmers Market was born. Learn more about our special origin and the history of Atlanta farmers here.
Now, decades later, many of the same farmers and partners are still with us along with a newly forged group of farmers and artisans, all proud to be serving the community with the highest quality in fresh, local, and organic produce.
"The farmers selling their produce are all super friendly, and extremely helpful when it comes to my shopping. They explain what certain fruits or vegetables are if I don't know what they are, and they share fantastic recipes."
— Regular Market Shopper
You have a deep history with the Morningside Farmers Market, tell us about that?
The market is very important to me. I got to meet Ann Brewer, a hero of organic agriculture in Georgia, at Morningside Market. She pointed at me and said I should showcase garlic for my demo; it was a watershed moment to me as a chef. It was the first market I did a cooking demo at when I was building restaurant Eugene. The market taught me about community and really connected me with the farms and artisans of Georgia. Coming to the Morningside Market is coming home.
-Linton Hopkins, Chef and Owner of Hopkins and Company
