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Farmers Market Grilling Guide

July 2, 2026

Visit Foodwise farmers markets this summer for all your peak-season barbecue needs, from organic stone fruit and vegetables to pasture-raised meat and plant-based proteins. Keep your cookouts fresh, simple, and sustainable by supporting local farmers and ranchers. We’ve gathered some grilling tips, farmers market picks, and recipes to inspire your outdoor summer feasts!

Grilling Tips

While your grill is hot, you’ll want throw on lots of peak-season fruits and vegetables from the farmers market, such as freshly picked sweet corn, peppers, green onions (cebollitas), and other summer favorites. How about avocados and stone fruit while you’re at it? Check out Prospect Chef Pam Mazzola’s fruit and vegetable grilling tips for inspiration.

If you’re grilling meat, whenever possible choose grass-fed, humanely raised, and organic meat from pastured animals, raised without antibiotics or hormones, and by ranchers using regenerative management practices that give back to the land. The money saved by using less meat can help to purchase better quality. See our animal welfare guide for labels to look for, as well as the list of local ranchers at our farmers markets below.

Farmers Market Proteins and Goodies for the Grill

Allstar Organics offers an organic apple wood smoked salt as a smokey treat that ramps up the authentic flavor of a wood fire on all cuts of meat, and on roasted vegetables like potatoes and corn. It’s also a delicious addition to slow-cooked and baked beans. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

Devil’s Gulch Ranch has grass-fed lamb, heritage pork, and rabbit raised in Nicasio. Pork offerings include chops, spare ribs, tenderloin, shoulder roasts, and ground. They also have ground lamb for lamb burgers and lamb leg roasts, as well as smoked and fully cooked and uncooked sausages. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

Far West Fungi grows certified organic Portobello, King Trumpet, and other gourmet specialty mushrooms to provide savory meat alternatives for skewers and veggie burgers. Mission (Thursday), Ferry Plaza & Alemany (Saturday).

Farmer Joy offers pasture-raised duck and chicken eggs, along with ground beef and pork from her family’s sixth-generation farm in West Marin County’s Chileno Valley. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

H & H Fresh Fish Co. and The Little Fish Company provide fresh, locally caught seafood such as halibut and seabass. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

Hodo has GMO-free organic tofu for skewers and tofu veggie burgers (organic, vegan, gluten-free, and highly grillable). Check out Hodo’s recipe for tofu satay. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

Hog Island Oyster Co. farms oysters in Tomales Bay, ready for slurping fresh with Hog Island’s Hogwash or throwing on the BBQ. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

Massa Organics has sustainably and humanely raised heritage pork from their organic farm, including juicy pork chops and sausages. As alternatives to hot dogs, try their linguica, bratwurst, Polish, or Italian sausages on your grill. And if making hamburgers, farmer Greg Massa recommends using a half-and-half mix of pork and beef. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

On Mountain Ranch, Norman and Aimee Gunsell raise chickens, cattle, and heritage turkeys. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

Root Down Farm’s Dede Boies, a first-generation rancher, offers poultry and pork from from heritage breeds, humanely raised on pasture in Pescadero. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.

At Stemple Creek Ranch in Tomales, the Poncia family and their team raise grass-fed and grass-finished beef, pork, and lamb.

For sweet treats to complete your summer feasts, find pies and other baked desserts at Delightful Foods (Mission, Thursday & Ferry Plaza, Saturday) and Three Babes Bakeshop. Ferry Plaza, Saturday.