We offer the following services to make your shopping experience more accessible, relaxing, memorable, and enjoyable!

Market information Booth

If you are new to shopping at farmers markets or have questions, our market staff and volunteers are happy to help.

You can find us at the Market Information Booth under the yellow canopy during market hours to learn more about vendors, events, activities, purchase market merchandise or tokens, and more!

Waste Reduction at the Markets

Portland Farmers Market (PFM) is dedicated to reducing the ecological footprint of our five markets and inspiring community change. We encourage waste reduction at our farmers markets in the following ways:

• Durable Dining Program

  Durable Dining is PFM’s initiative to encourage more reuse and less waste at the markets by having hot food vendors at select markets serve their goods exclusively on reusable dishware.

  Our market operations team worked with vendors to switch from disposable to durable dishware when the City of Portland changed its commercial composting rules to disallow non-food waste.

  Hot food vendors at the Portland State University, Shemanski Park and King Farmers Markets have replaced compostable dishware with durable, reusable bowls, plates, cold cups and flatware.

  How does Durable Dining work?
  After enjoying a meal, shoppers return their used dishware to the vendor or a conveniently located dish return station throughout the markets.
  Customers can also find recycling & waste receptacles and drinking and hand-washing water stations.
  Our market staff sorts dishes throughout the day and returns to vendors weekly for washing, sanitizing and service at the next market.

  Is Durable Dining more environmentally friendly?
  Landfill output at the PSU Farmers Market was reduced significantly, from an average of 25 garbage bags per market to nine.

  The market staff works hard to ensure that the compost stream is clean and free of nonorganic matter.

  While the resources used to clean the dishes have an environmental footprint, the City of Portland’s Sustainability at Work website shows that the cost benefits of durable dishes triumph over disposables after as few as 17 reuses.

• Water Bottle Fill Stations

  PFM does not allow the sale of disposable water bottles. Shoppers are encouraged to bring their reusable bottles or cups and use our water bottle fill stations at our markets.

• Reusable Shopping Totes and Produce Bags

  PFM encourages shoppers to bring reusable shopping bags and totes to the farmers market. If you forgot your bags, we have totes and bags available for purchase at the market information booth.

Market Merchandise

Visit the market information booth to purchase t-shirts, tote bags, cookbooks, produce bags, and tea towels.

Guided Market Tours

We offer guided tours of our farmers markets. Market tours are a fun and educational way for small groups of students, civic groups, and community members to learn about how food is produced, why it is essential to make good food choices and have a chance to meet the farmers and artisan food producers from our market community.

Learn more and submit an interest form here.

If you would like to host a self-guided tour at one of our markets, please email us at contact@portlandfarmersmarket.org so we can help you plan your tour accordingly.