Boca Green Market opened its season on September 27, and the Delray Winter GreenMarket followed on October 24. The Boca Farmers Market at BRiC never closed, because it runs all year. Bedner's strawberry U-pick doesn't open until December.
So the produce season around west Boca runs on two clocks. The markets are already open. The strawberry rows open a few weeks from now, and Bedner's farm market stays open all year, including the months after two of the three markets have closed for the summer. Plan around those clocks and you'll get more out of your weekends.
The Sunday market that started on Glades Road
The Boca Farmers Market began close to home. When WPTV covered its launch in April 2025, the market was set to open April 27 at 7900 Glades Road, Sundays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In a launch interview with the Sun Sentinel, the founders called that first site convenient to Glades Road and the Turnpike, with shade and plenty of Sunday parking.
By November 2025, Boca Post was reporting the market at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, 4950 Communication Avenue. It had grown to more than 85 local businesses in its first six months. It's still there, in Parking Lot H at BRiC, and the market's site now lists 90+ vendors.
The Boca Raton Tribune profiled the founders, Jess and Adam Del Vecchio, in August 2026. Before starting the market, the couple launched Raw Milk Boca. The Tribune said the market "started with just over 20 vendors." What a BRiC Sunday offers, according to the market and to the Palm Beach Post's fall market guide:
- Food to take home: local produce, pasture-raised eggs, raw dairy, grass-fed beef, sourdough breads and bagels, microgreens and mushrooms, raw local honey, pickles and local hot sauces
- Food to eat there: wood-fired pizza, breakfast sandwiches, fresh-squeezed lemonade from a yellow lemonade truck, vegan ice cream
- Free activities: yoga, Pilates, face painting and dance classes, announced each week on the market's Instagram
- Logistics: dog friendly, plenty of shade, and the Post describes thousands of parking spaces on site
This matters for the calendar. BRiC is the only market in this set that runs every Sunday of the year.
Two Sunday markets, two different seasons
On a Sunday between now and spring, you have two markets to choose from, and they open and close the same hours. Boca Green Market, which calls itself "The City's Original Downtown Green Market," runs Sundays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the 5th Ave Shops. It lists 65+ local vendors and free admission, and it welcomes families and pets.
What separates the two is how long they run.
Boca Green Market: September 27, 2026 through May 2, 2027. That's 32 Sundays.
Boca Farmers Market at BRiC: every Sunday, all year.
From now until the first weekend of May, you can pick between them each Sunday. Boca Green Market has live music, free parking on site, and a bounce house on the last Sunday of each month. This month that's November 29, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Once Boca Green Market closes on May 2, BRiC is the only Sunday market of the three.
Saturday is Delray's day
Saturday has only one market on this calendar, and it's the oldest. The Delray Beach CRA started the Delray GreenMarket in 1996, and the 31st Winter GreenMarket season opened October 24. It runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Old School Square campus through May 22, 2027. That's 31 Saturdays, and its last market day comes three weeks after Boca Green Market's.
The CRA posts the season's vendor list. It includes 7 Seas Seafood Market, A Kitchen Empanadas with empanadas in 15 flavors, and A Touch of Spain & More. The Palm Beach Post's guide adds that the market is dog friendly and has live music every week. Parking is in a lot next to the grounds, with a free lot a block away at City Hall.
The Delray market goes past the May 22 date in another way, too. The CRA runs it in two seasons, Winter and Summer.
Strawberry rows open after the markets do
The seasonal markets started in the fall. The strawberry rows open a few weeks later. Bedner's Farm Fresh Market at 10066 Lee Road in Boynton Beach is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Its Delray market at 381 NE 3rd Ave. is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. U-pick happens only at the Boynton Beach farm.
The farm's Fall Festival ran October 3 through November 1, with a pumpkin patch, corn maze, sunflower field and tractor rides. The Sun Sentinel covered its opening weekend. With the festival over, the next thing on the farm's calendar is U-pick. Here is Bedner's posted U-pick schedule, in order:
- December: strawberries, grape tomatoes, tomatoes, and green and red peppers come into the U-pick rows.
- January: sunflowers return. They also ran in October.
- March: cucumbers join for a short March-to-April window.
- April: strawberries and grape tomatoes finish.
- May: tomatoes, peppers and sunflowers run through the month.
The petting zoo and tractor rides run on Saturdays and Sundays from fall through spring. Every U-pick crop is closed on Tuesdays. Crops depend on the weather, so check the U-pick page for field status before you go.
The state's harvest calendar lines up with this. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services lists bell peppers, eggplant, radishes and snap beans as starting in November. Strawberries, cabbage, cauliflower, celery and lettuce start in December, and strawberries run through April. Tomatoes are already in season, on a calendar that runs October through June. The state's strawberry window and Bedner's U-pick window are the same December-to-April stretch.
The Girls Strawberry U-Pick at 14466 S. Military Trail in Delray Beach is another farm stop. Its admission page lists $12 for adults 13 and up, $9.95 for seniors 65 and up and for children 3 to 12, and free entry for children 2 and under. The petting zoo closes at 7 p.m., with last admission at 6:30.
Before you load the car
Most of the friction is in the details. Hours vary from stop to stop, and the farm keeps a weekly closed day.
- Tuesdays: Bedner's U-pick rows are closed. The farm market itself is open seven days.
- Late afternoons: U-pick closes an hour before the store, so at the Boynton Beach farm the last picking is before 5 p.m.
- Picking strawberries: Bedner's advises picking only fully red berries, because unripe ones won't ripen after picking. Hold the stem just above the berry and pull with a slight twist. Get the berries into shade quickly instead of leaving them in a hot car.
- Dogs: The Palm Beach Post lists all three markets as dog friendly.
- Closing times: Both Sunday markets end at 1 p.m. Delray's Saturday market runs until 2 p.m.
Here's how the dates line up. Delray opens your weekend on Saturdays from now through May 22. On Sundays you choose between BRiC and the 5th Ave Shops until Boca Green Market's May 2 finale. Bedner's strawberry rows fill in the weekends from December through April.
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