Home Grown: A Guide to Farmers Markets
The Ultimate Guide to Farmers Markets and Local Fresh Produce.
The Medicine Hat Farmers' Market has been a community tradition for decades and continues to be one of the best places to shop local.
The weekly market runs Saturday mornings from 9 am - 1 pm from May through October in the Cypress Centre feildhouse. It brings together local growers, bakers, artisans, and makers from our local region You'll find fresh seasonal vegetables and fruit, homemade baking, Southern Alberta raised meats and eggs, honey, preserves, fresh roasted coffee, handmade crafts and jewelry, and so much more.
Our Pro Tip: If you like to attend weekly it’s wise to remember that some vendors take a weekend off, especially through the summer. If you've got a favourite, it's worth asking them directly if they've got any weeks off coming up, or if you can order another way in case you miss them.
The market's so much more than just shopping. There's usually live music playing while you browse, and every purchase gets you an entry into the day's draws. Vendors sponsor multiple prizes each Saturday, so it's worth filling out your ballot.
After Market: Other Places to Buy Local Produce
The Farmers' Market is only the beginning. Here are some of our favourite local spots to shop throughout the season.
Our Pro Tip: Shop the farmers stands and farmers market before the grocery store. Crops change and you may find something you weren’t expecting.
Ruben's Veggies
If you've driven around Medicine Hat during the summer, you've probably spotted one of Ruben's bright green self-serve produce stands. Find them at 2360 Division Ave. N and 3158 Dunmore Rd. SE… as well as across southern Alberta
What's on the shelves rotates through the season, think tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, lettuce, carrots, radishes, beans, peas, and garlic, plus free-range eggs and handmade goat milk soap, often harvested and stocked within 24 hours. It's essentially greenhouse shopping right in the city, no drive to the country required. Ruben's also leans on natural growing practices, using bumblebees for pollination and beneficial insects for pest control instead of pesticides.
Homestead Market
1750 Gershaw Dr SW
This locally owned market brings Alberta-made foods, specialty groceries, handcrafted gifts, and preserves together under one roof, with a cozy café for a coffee or treat while you browse. Homestead is a favourite for gifting and discovering a new favourite.
Rolling Acres Greenhouses
1550 S Boundary Rd SW
Located just south of the city, Rolling Acres offers greenhouse-fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and other seasonal vegetables picked at peak freshness. If you live in Southridge or Desert Blume, it's about as close to garden-fresh as it gets without your own backyard. If you’ve ever been to Desert Blume you’ve likely seen their sign right at the intersection of South Boundary and Range Road 61a.
Mike's Meats
1056 Foundry St SE
Fresh vegetables deserve equally fresh local meats. We’re in beef country after all! And Mike’s Meats has long been one of Medicine Hat's favourite trusted butcher shops, offering premium cuts of beef, pork, poultry, deer and other game meats, smoked meats, and homemade sausages.
Big Marble Farms
Big Marble Farms is Alberta's largest greenhouse operation, producing millions of pounds of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, and eggplants every year from a greenhouse spanning more than 70 acres, powered by our region's abundant sunshine.
You can't walk into Big Marble directly and shop… it’s easier than that. Just look for their blue BIG MARBLE sticker on produce at your local grocery store. It's an easy way to back a local company, and it often means fresher produce, since it hasn't travelled thousands of miles to reach the shelf. That’s not to say Big Marble produce doesn’t travel. Did you know Big Marble Farms supply Safeway and Sobeys across Canada with produce grown right here?
Huber's Farm Market (Redcliff)
860 Broadway Ave W, Redcliff
A short (and worth it) drive to Redcliff, Huber's offers fresh fruits and vegetables grown right here in our region, along with a great selection of green house veggies, the tomato-based products, pickles, and salsa and well loved. For many Medicine Hat residents, a trip to Huber's has become a normal drive. For those who live in Redcliff it’s a known benefit to be so close to the greenhouses!
Westland Produce (Redcliff)
22 - 6 Street NW, Redcliff, AB
Family-owned and growing quality produce since 1960, Westland offers fresh greenhouse-grown vegetables right in Redcliff. They're open daily from 7am to 7pm, so it's an easy stop whenever a craving for fresh, local veggies hits.
Why Shopping Local Matters
Money spent with local growers stays in our community. It supports family farms, helps local entrepreneurs grow, and keeps our food travelling a much shorter distance before it reaches your table.
Farming, agriculture, and greenhouses are such a huge part of life in southern Alberta that supporting them isn't just the right thing to do, it's the tastier thing to do too. Produce grown minutes away is genuinely fresher, contains more nutrients, lasts longer, and is better than anything that's spent days in transit.
It's hard to fully appreciate, but most places in the world don't get to simply go to a greenhouse. We do, and that's worth celebrating.
Local Is Part of What Makes Medicine Hat Special
One of the best things about the Farmers' Market is just how much lives under one roof. In a single Saturday morning, you can fill your basket with vegetables picked that week, meat from a local producer, bread baked the night before, and honey, preserves, or coffee roasted right here in the Hat. Then there are the artisans: the potters, woodworkers, jewellery makers, and crafters who turn the market into more than just a grocery stop.
And when the market isnt on? Well, not every city gets to have greenhouses growing tomatoes and cucumbers minutes away, a butcher who raised local meat and cuts it to order, bread still warm from the oven. So next time you're planning your weekend, make the market part of it. Between the produce, the meat, the baking, and the handmade goods, there's genuinely something for everyone, and it changes just enough week to week to always be worth another look.