Woodstock Farmers Market - Waterbury Center, VT

Woodstock Farmers Market
Opened: 2019

Owner: Jack and Patrick Crowl

Previous Tenants: Pete's Greens Farm Market

Cooperative: none

Location: 2802 Waterbury-Stowe Rd, Waterbury Center, VT

Photographed: August 10, 2025

Food is a big draw in this part of Vermont. We're just up the street from the Ben & Jerry's factory, which is itself a tourist attraction where you can tour the plant, and up here in Waterbury Center there's also a Cabot Creamery store where you can sample and buy delicious local cheeses. And if you need some local produce to go with those cheeses and ice cream, you're in luck. Woodstock Farmers Market opened up here in 2019 replacing another farm market. (This 5,000 square foot store is the second Woodstock Farmers Market, with the first -- logically -- being located around 50 miles south in Woodstock.)

This store isn't really a full supermarket, but there's a little of everything here. The produce is in the middle of the store, and a lot of it was locally grown when I visited in the summer. There are a few grocery aisles then to the left and right, along with a coffee counter, prepared foods department, and meat case on the left. Dairy and beverages are on the right, along with the registers.

The selection here angles local and specialty, so there aren't really grocery basics here (Shaw's down the street has that covered). No store brand items that I spotted.

But an abundance of beautiful produce, which is clearly the focus here.

Canadian strawberries might not be exactly local, but they're not from that far away -- we're just about 45 miles from the Canadian border here.

Lots of cheeses, too. Cabot, VT -- where Cabot cheese is made -- is about 20 miles east, and you can see Grafton Village cheeses below, which come from Grafton about 85 miles south.

Tomorrow, we're going to head north to the ski resort town of Stowe!