After the Last Saturday Market, Boulder's Local Food Runs on Wednesday Afternoons

Two Saturdays are left on 13th Street, November 14 and 21. The Boulder County Farmers Markets schedule shows the Boulder Saturday market running April 4 through November 21, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. between Canyon and Arapahoe. After that, the farms move to a weekday schedule. You can still buy local all winter, but most of it now happens Wednesday afternoon, with a pickup window, and usually after you've already paid.

The Wednesday market closed weeks ago, on October 7. Even so, Wednesday afternoon is when Boulder's winter food week fills up.

The week, mapped by pickup window

Here is every winter option close to Boulder, sorted by the day you'd actually show up.

Four of those rows are Wednesday. Only two of the four are inside city limits: the curbside line at Nude Foods and the self-pack share at Cure on Valmont. The other two are drives north, toward Niwot and Longmont.

Why Wednesday at Nude Foods is the closest thing to the market

The one option on that chart that works the way the Saturday market does is the BCFM online market. You pick from many vendors in one place, and it isn't a subscription. BCFM says it runs a "year-round online market that's stocked with local foods sourced from our markets' great farmers, ranchers, and producers," and calls it "perfect for the winter months or busy weeks." You order at shop.bcfm.org and pick up in Boulder on Wednesdays between 4:30 and 6 p.m. at Nude Foods, 3233 Walnut St. Longmont's pickup is Thursdays at the BCFM Food Hub on Lefthand Circle, and Lafayette's is Thursdays at The District.

The store you pick up at also stocks local food on its own shelves. Nude Foods says it buys as much produce locally as it can, and that local producers supply items such as tortilla chips, pasta, bread, broth, granola and microgreens. By the store's count, those local products take up more than 40% of its shelves. Croft Family Farm's eggs are also sold at Nude Foods and through BCFM Curbside in the offseason. So one stop on Walnut Street covers a pre-ordered market haul, a local grocery run and a carton of pasture-raised eggs, all on the same Wednesday afternoon.

The vegetable shares, and what they cost per pickup

Fresh winter vegetables mostly come through CSA shares, and their prices make more sense once you break them down per pickup.

Red Wagon Farm runs the longest vegetable season on the chart. Its 2026/27 Winter CSA runs October 28, 2026 through January 28, 2027. A weekly share is $663 for 13 pickups and a biweekly share is $357 for seven, with mushroom and coffee add-ons. Both work out to $51 a pickup. Going biweekly gets you fewer boxes, not cheaper ones. The farm's list of possible crops includes apples and pears, greens, onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, potatoes, carrots, beets, cabbage, chiles, squash, pumpkins, herbs, rutabagas, celeriac, winter radishes, turnips and kohlrabi. You can pick up Wednesdays near Niwot or Thursdays at Thomas Open Space in Lafayette.

Ollin Farms charges $36 a week, or $288 for its eight-week fall season. Each week you choose six items from eight produce options, and pickup is Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at the farm on North 95th Street. The listed crops run from greens and roots to storage vegetables, squash, peppers and tomatoes. Ollin's farmstand on the same property is listed as open Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in November. For a Saturday-morning farm run after the 13th Street market closes, Ollin is the nearby stand with posted hours this month.

Cure Organic Farm is the only vegetable share on Boulder's own Valmont Road. Its 2026 Winter Share runs eight weeks, from late October to mid-December, with pickup at the farm, 7416 Valmont Road. It includes winter squash, onions, potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, shallots, salad and cooking greens from the tunnels and fields, broccolini, and Western Slope apples and pears. Egg shares are available as an add-on. Boulder pickup is Wednesdays from noon to 6 p.m. Members pack their own shares at the farm, so bring bags. When the weather turns, Cure pre-packs shares for grab-and-go. Cure also accepts SNAP and EBT for traditional CSA shares, CSA Card memberships and farm stand purchases.

Mid-December is when the week thins out

The chart is fullest right now. Several of these shares end on dates already printed on the farms' sites:

• Ollin Farms fall CSA: ends December 9
• Cure Organic Farm Winter Share: ends mid-December
• Red Wagon Farm Winter CSA: ends January 28, 2027
• Croft Family Farm eggs: run through April 27
• Jodar Farms meat-and-egg CSA: runs December 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027

After mid-December, the vegetable shares on the chart drop to Red Wagon alone. What's left through deep winter is mostly protein and eggs, on Tuesdays and every other Saturday.

Eggs on Tuesday

Croft Family Farm charges $9 a dozen for subscribers, which the farm says is a dollar below its market price. Pickup is Tuesdays from 3 to 8 p.m. at two Boulder points, Alpine Avenue at Eighth Street and Ithaca Drive at Table Mesa Drive, from November 3 through April 27. Each subscription is one dozen a week, and you can stack as many as you need.

Meat every other Saturday

Jodar Farms sells its winter meat-and-egg membership as credit you spend in its online store on custom orders. The tiers are $240, $345, $455 and $675, plus a $15 membership fee. Pickup is every other Saturday. The Boulder stop is the Navei Kodesh parking lot from 10 to 11 a.m., an hour after the Longmont stop at the Airborne Gym lot. The farm notes that pickup sites can change with notice. Buckner Family Ranch also takes online orders year-round for grass-fed lamb and beef, pastured pork and chicken, and wild Alaskan seafood, with pickup at its Longmont warehouse Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 2 to 6 p.m.

Stands that never close

Two farm stands in the county are listed as open year-round. 7th Generation Farm, 1536 Courtesy Road in Louisville, is open Fridays noon to 5 and Saturdays 9 to 4, selling meat, eggs, honey and seasonal produce. The Bee Hugger Farm, 12590 Ute Highway in Longmont, is listed as open daily from 8 a.m. until dark for raw honey, eggs and other bee products.

Two weekends that still feel like market days

There are two exceptions to the weekday pattern before the year ends.

The first is this weekend. The Firefly Handmade Holiday Market brings more than 80 artists, makers and designers to the Pearl Street Mall on November 14 and 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, and there's food and live music from Colorado artists. Saturday the 14th is also the second-to-last 13th Street farmers market. The two events are a few blocks apart and overlap until the farmers market closes at 2.

The second is the BCFM Winter Market, December 5 and 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road in Longmont. It brings together 150 local farmers, ranchers, food producers and artisans. BCFM says the question it hears most is what local food is available in winter. Its answer for this market is storage crops such as winter squash, carrots, radishes, potatoes, onions and apples, plus hothouse tomatoes, microgreens and mushrooms. A food court will have market food trucks, cocktails, cider, coffee and pastries. BCFM also says many vendors depend on the Boulder and Longmont markets to stay afloat, and that Winter Market sales help them get through the slow months. It's the last time this year that most of these farms are in one room, and the last chance to stock up on storage crops before the mid-December shares end.

If you're stocking a winter pantry, the bigger hauls fall on December 5 and 6. The weekly shopping happens on Wednesdays.

Settling into Boulder often starts with small routines like where to get eggs on a Tuesday and which farm stand opens on a Friday. If you're new here, or helping someone get settled, Rachel Weinberg is glad to share the local details that make a new neighborhood feel familiar faster. Schedule a Free Consultation and bring your questions.