Talbot County has two farmers markets. They are not the same outfit in different towns.

Easton Farmers Market: Saturdays year-round, 8 a.m. to noon, municipal lot at 114–126 N. Harrison St., operated by the Avalon Foundation. Live music runs mid-April through late November, then stops — the closest seasonal marker the market has, because the stalls themselves stay open.

St. Michaels Farmers Market: Saturdays 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., April through November, at 206 S. Talbot St. It is producer-only and nonprofit, and has run more than twenty-five years. Confirm the last Saturday of the 2026 season with the market before treating a closing date as fixed.

Producer-only is not fine print. Everything on the table was grown or made by the person selling it — no resellers, no distributors. It is the strictest standard a market can hold and the hardest to staff.

Cottingham Farm on Goldsborough Neck Road in Easton is certified organic. It sells at Easton from April through December and at St. Michaels from April through November, plus an on-farm stand Tuesdays 3 to 6 p.m., Thursdays 4 to 6 p.m., and Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon.

When one of two outlets closes for four months, what happens to a grower's income? Nobody local has reported that answer in full. It sits behind a table on Harrison Street every Saturday morning.

One date: the Talbot Agriculture and Education Center on Hiners Lane holds its Harvest Fair on Sunday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center houses the county fair, FFA, 4-H, and the Farm Bureau — the working infrastructure of agriculture here, not only its retail face.

Go to both. The market is where farming meets the county. The Ag Center is where the work is organized.