Lents International Farmers’ Market

This great little collection of vendors come together every Sunday from 9 AM until 2 PM. This year they’re 2 blocks west of where they previously were located. Lots of street parking. I stopped by yesterday when it was 97 degrees out. These vendors are troopers! Two musicians were playing music they described as Bohemian, Hungarian, Gypsy, etc. It was fun to listen to.
You can buy produce, of course, as well as baked goods, coffee drinks, Mexican /​Central American food, fresh cut flowers, plant starts, and get information about community events and resources. There’s an ATM on-​site. I bought strawberries for $ 3/​basket and asparagus $ 7 for 2 bundles. I ate the strawberries last night and I swear they’re the best I’ve ever tasted. So much better than grocery store variety. I’ll definitely be back many Sundays this summer.
While you’re at the market, be sure to walk 2 blocks northeast and visit the Belmont Goats in their new location! They typically have open hours the same time as the market.

Lents doesn’t know how lucky it is to have a dedicated farmers market. I used to go to this market every week several years ago and because of the management it was a great place. Sarah really knew how to rally the volunteers and throw a party on the lawn (now gravel) lot at the busy corner of 92^nd & Foster Rd. It was a happening place with lively music that came in English, Russian, Hispanic and sometimes Asian. If there wasn’t music there was poetry readings. If there wasn’t dancing there was hoolahooping. Some times it was hotter than that place and there were sprinklers. But always there was fresh veggies, homemade goodies, breads and pastries, tamales, beer and whiskey (in bottles), fresh flowers, and honey, informative reading and taste samplings and always load of fun for the whole family. It didn’t matter if you had cash or those market tokens you were guaranteed a festive atmosphere that lasted long after the canopies were taken down and the field (or gravel lot) was just a memory of your market experience.
Yup, the Lents International Farmers Market of long weekends past was the place to be. I can only hope the new management respects the Lents Neighborhood and the local families with an atmosphere that embraces the diversity of the community with the festivity of the market season.

It’s a Lents-​sized mix of fresh veggie stands, hot food booths, fish slingers & flower sellers.

Love the Lent’s market! It’s easy to park and so much more accessible than some of the bigger markets in town. The vendors are great — some of the vendors always greet me as a regular (which I am!) Prices are competitive, and I like that it’s open until 3 pm – giving me plenty of time on busy weekends to get there. My kiddo loves the Food Scouts program too!

Super cute farmers market with lots of fresh veggies, honey, salts, home-​cooked foods, and ethnically diverse people and products. There wasn’t much selection in fruits when we went, but we did stock up on veggies and raw honey which was exciting! There was live music, plenty of doggies walking around to pet, and we managed to find parking pretty easily. Make sure to bring plenty of cash!

Cute cute cute!
That’s not often a description you hear about anything in the sometimes rough and tumble Lents neighborhood. But leave it to the Lents International Farmers Market to help pretty up the joint.
Note: The market is currently on the corner of Foster and SE 92^nd. Lots of parking around the block. Live music. Plenty of room for two and four-​legged creatures. Definitely not a cluster fuck of humanity like the PSU farmer’s market.
What the Lents market lacks in selection it makes up in tidiness. The focus seems to be non-​conventional kinds of produce — think the veggies more commonly found in Asian cuisine — but for anyone looking for your standard carrots and jam fixes, the humble but productive number of stalls have your back. The hot food choices are very welcome, at least as of the opening weekend. Giant tamales, Japanese curry bowls, and macarons were all for sale. It’s hard not to find something to love and get in your belly.
Also, five to ten dollar floral bouquets. Big, beautiful flowers for ridiculously low prices. I think most flowers are such a waste of money, but I’m half-​convinced I could not blow up my wedding budget if we stock with the flowers from the Sulina & Bays growers. Or we could go with my first cherished idea of making the bridesmaids carry bunches of kale. I think the farmers market has that covered, too.

First off, if you have an oregon trail card, they will double your purchases up to $ 10. Sweet! The summer of 2011 I got most of my food for the week here. There was a Russian guy with super cheap potatoes and greens, and a few Mexican booths with crazy good tomatoes and peppers and herbs. Plus of course Oregon berries and farm fresh eggs and flowers (though I never bought the flowers). It’s not a huge market, but you can mostly find what you need to make it through the week produce-​wise. And I love that it’s in this totally cute reclaimed corner of Lents right by the highway. Go team!

This place is awesome! It has tons of fresh veggies and everyone is more that happy to talk about what they sell
Fresh flowers were on my agenda when I dropped in and I was pleasently surprised. There were two booth that had lots of fresh flowers to choose from and it was prices great. I picked up a bundle for less that 9 $! I got them for my 4 year old daughter and she loved them. She wants to come with me next time I go. Upside: its not flooded with drum circles and foul smelling people or homeless kids.

The Lents International Farmers’ Market is kicking a** this year. N&N Amaro Brothers are back with their delicious specialty herbs and produce, Haus Bakes is serving the finest cupcakes produced in the City of Portland, Pyro Pizza has set up their mobile oven for the season and is selling wood fired bread and pizzas, and other vendors are there selling eggs, meat, honey, fruit, flowers, veggies.
I am so happy to call this my local farmers’ market. But even if I didn’t live in Lents, I would make the trip. It’s a small market, but it’s a mighty market.

Went for the first time last week… Sunny day… No crowds! Yay!
* I got some awesome fresh cut flowers for $ 5 — my girlfriend loved ‘em!
* Great salad mix!
* Tasty Garlic Sprigs!
* Yummy carrots!
* Fresh pizza made in a wood fired mobile oven!
* Salami !!! Yum!

Cute little neighborhood farmers market featuring community contribution booth. Great little farms representin the season’s finest, organic coffee stand, tamale stand, and always fresh flowers.