Welcome to the Market Day Guides with information about farmers markets, flea markets, arts and crafts shows, trade days, and pick-your-own fruit... around Wimberley and well beyond the Hill Country area (for all you valued visitors from other parts).

Spring is the time to start market day searches in earnest, with some markets that close for the winter now running full steam ahead and the fabulous produce available this time of year in the farmers markets. It's a great time to shop al fresco.

And the Market Vendors and Products Guide is the first place to look for information about that special find you meant to go back to get someday, or just to browse through to visit vendors. Many of the vendors also have online shopping features, making it easy and convenient to order online. 

Whether you're a first-time visitor or have been with us from the first day of the site, a decade ago, you know by now that a primary mission of VisitWimberley.com is environmental responsibility. We see this expanded resource as another way to provide tools to make a significant difference in individual lives and, in small increments, the health of our ever more challenged planet.  Selective shopping at a local flea market can be a way to recycle and have fun, too.

The new Market Day guides include extra tools, more than just markets. For instance, if you're like us, you'd also like to know just how much fossil fuel will be required to get to these tantalizing destinations. With every price hike, it's becoming less and less economical to drive some distance in the hope of a bargain at the end of the journey.

This is why we've added tools like links to a mileage calculator and "Your MPG." Over the next year, we also anticipate adding many more resources and markets to broaden your choices.

Eat locally? For just some of the good reasons why this is the best idea ever for feeding ourselves, check out Why Eat Locally Grown Foods.  Then download the scorecard to keep track of how close you can come to the goals of the challenge.

If you'd like to add your market or product to the list, you are invited to  submit your listing for the new guide. Unlike restrictions on the other guides at VisitWimberley.com limiting listings to businesses and organizations in the immediate area, the geographical limitation for markets and market vendors is expanded to include the continental U.S. We'd like to help get the word out about good options anywhere in the country. Listings will be considered for publication here if we can determine they fit the guidelines; any superlative resource has potential to make the list.

If you're a vendor or organization who'd like a Link Ad on the Vendor & Product guide, please use this form to submit your listing request. All listings, links and resources in this guide are selected to offer information that can help us all, wherever we may live, to eat locally, use renewable resources, recycle, and move toward a greener, more sustainable way of life.

Incidentally, we haven't forgotten about our good friends at Wimberley Market Days. The second largest (non-farmers) market in Texas happens here the first Saturday of most months, made possible by volunteers from the Wimberley Lions Club. Wimberley Market Days are held from spring through December. For year round shopping, visit the wonderful shops in Wimberley. 

Whether you're a vendor, a shopper, a concerned citizen of the earth, or all of the above, welcome to Market Days!