Cerritos Farmers Market

Cerritos Farmers Market pairs a year-round Saturday schedule with food-access programs tied to USDA SNAP, giving this weekly stop a practical role that goes beyond a typical produce run. At Park Plaza Drive in Cerritos, the market brings together certified growers, nurseries, flowers, mushrooms, seafood, baked goods, roasted corn, tamales, salsa, coffee, kombucha, and juice in one morning lineup. The result is a market shaped both by farm shopping and by ready-to-eat options, with enough range to cover a household produce stop and a same-morning snack or drink.

Why it matters locally

Harbor Area Farmers Market describes its purpose in terms that connect directly to this Saturday Cerritos market: supporting market communities, encouraging cross-section interaction, helping low-income and oppressed populations, and maintaining small family farms. That mission shows up here in concrete ways. The market runs year-round in Cerritos on Saturdays, giving residents a regular place to buy from California certified farmers. It also participates in SNAP, Market Match, and WIC, which broadens who can use the market and how they can pay for food there. For Cerritos shoppers, that means a weekly market built around both farm sales and food access rather than occasional pop-up scheduling.

What you'll find there

The Cerritos lineup leans heavily toward produce and farm stands, but it does not stop at raw ingredients. The vendor list mixes certified growers with nurseries, flowers, mushrooms, seafood, drinks, baked goods, and hot prepared foods, so the market reads as both shopping trip and breakfast-hour errand.

• -Browse produce from Acevedo Farms.
• -Pick up plants from AJ Nursery.
• -Shop farm goods from Armenta.
• -Find orchids from Aroma Orchids.
• -Look for produce from Asian Market Produce.
• -Bring home mushrooms from Bao Mushrooms.
• -Add farm produce from Bernard Ranch.
• -Explore farm offerings from Beyond Bok Choy Farm.
• -Grab sprouts from Bolanos Sprouts.
• -Buy flowers from David's Flowers.
• -Stir in honey from Energy Bee Farm.
• -Choose fruit from Ha's Apple Farm.
• -Compare mushrooms from Long Beach Mushrooms.
• -Stock up on dates from Fernandez Dates.
• -Take seafood from Sea Angel Fish and Seafood.
• -Spoon up salsa from Acapico Salsa.
• -Order roasted corn from Antonio's Roasted Corn.
• -Sip kombucha from Benevolent Booch.
• -Pour tea from Claritea.
• -Start with coffee from Seven Syllables Coffee.
• -Pack baked goods from Hey Brother Baker!, Old Town Bakery, or Sconeage Bakery.
• -Finish with tamales from The Original Tamales.

The market is listed as a weekly Saturday event in Cerritos, and the same organization also publishes a California crop calendar alongside its market schedule. The strongest thread at Cerritos is the way the vendor roster reflects a distinctly broad food vocabulary. On one pass through the list, you move from Beyond Bok Choy Farm, Asian Market Produce, Bao Mushrooms, and Oriental Farms to Fernandez Dates, Sea Angel Fish and Seafood, Acapico Salsa, Antonio's Roasted Corn, La Jugera, and The Original Tamales. Even the supporting vendors reinforce that range, with orchids, flowers, sprouts, kombucha, tea, coffee, and nursery plants appearing alongside the farm stands. That mix gives the market a specific identity: less a single-cuisine shopping pattern than a Saturday place where many ingredient traditions sit next to each other on the same block of stalls.

Know before you go

No dogs and no restrooms are the two details most likely to change your visit plan. The market runs Saturday mornings from 8 am to 12 pm and is located on Park Plaza Drive in Cerritos, with the listed address given as 17818 Park Plaza Dr and a visitor address of 17870 Park Plaza Drive, so it helps to navigate by Park Plaza Drive in the Market Place area rather than relying on only one number. The organization also notes that an Arts and Crafts Fair is located in the Market Place parking lot near Trader Joes, which is a useful landmark when orienting yourself on arrival. For vendor or hot food questions, market manager Kelli Johnson is the named contact.

Payments & SNAP

Cerritos Farmers Market accepts EBT, Market Match, and WIC, and the organization states that shoppers can access USDA SNAP benefits with an EBT card; in California, SNAP is called Cal Fresh. That makes this market a practical option for shoppers using food-assistance benefits on a weekly Saturday schedule.