REC Mobile Farmers Market - Coe's Pond Village

REC Mobile Farmers Market - Coe's Pond Village is one stop in Worcester’s mobile market network run by the Regional Environmental Council, a nonprofit food justice organization with a 53-year history of working on environmental sustainability and social justice in the city. At 39 1st Street at Coe's Pond Village Apartments, the market brings the REC’s farmers market program directly to a residential site rather than asking shoppers to travel across Worcester. That setting shapes the visit: a short Tuesday market with produce, eggs, bread, honey, and culturally significant crops offered through the same organization that also runs community and mobile farmers markets and the YouthGROW program.

Why it matters locally

Coe's Pond Village is part of the Regional Environmental Council’s Worcester-based work linking food access, urban agriculture, and youth employment. REC’s programs include Community and Mobile Farmers Markets, Urban Garden Resources of Worcester, and Youth Growing Organics in Worcester, which ties this stop to a broader city effort rather than a standalone market date.

The vendor approach also points to who the market is built to serve. REC describes its markets as opportunities for small and medium-size farms to sell to a diverse array of customers, and it specifically encourages small urban growers and BIPOC growers to participate. That local emphasis shows up in the mix here, where Worcester-linked growers and youth programs sell alongside regional farms, including REC YouthGROW Farm’s vegetables and several vendors focused on culturally significant crops.

What you'll find there

The vendor mix leans heavily toward produce, but it is not limited to standard salad-and-tomato shopping. This stop includes farms growing culturally significant vegetables, a youth-run urban agriculture program, pantry staples like eggs and bread, and a few specialty items that can turn a quick pickup into a fuller grocery run.

• -Pick up pure maple syrup, maple cream, maple sugar, and maple candies from Bucket List Maple Syrup.
• -Find nutrient-dense seasonal produce and fresh eggs from layer chickens at Cotyledon Farm.
• -Shop herbs, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, culturally significant crops, and honey from Global Village Farms.
• -Add sunflower, broccoli, sweet pea, and radish microgreens from Just For Fun Farms.
• -Look for edible gourds, pumpkin leaves, amaranth greens, jilo, mustard greens, and shell beans from Misigaro Farms.
• -Support REC YouthGROW Farm, an urban agriculture youth development and employment program selling greenhouse- and field-grown vegetables.
• -Take home breads and other baked goods made from scratch with organic flours from Wooden Bakery.
• -Stop for pastries and coffee, including traditional Turkish coffee, at Daphne’s Tears Bakery Cafe.
• -Browse more than 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables, including Mirai corn, from Harper Farms & Garden.
• -Choose raw, treatment-free honey, pasture-raised eggs, and beeswax candles from Kelly Homestead Apiary.
• -Cook with bitter gourd, long beans, mustard greens, daikon, cilantro, eggplant, and cucumbers from Nuestro Huerto Urban Farm.
• -Buy grass-fed beef, fruits and vegetables, and award winning ice cream from Rota Spring Farm.
• -Compare diversified fruits and vegetables from Coolidge Hill Farm and fresh produce from Fay Mountain Farm.
• -Seek out tomatoes, peppers, okra, water spinach, sweet potato leaves, gourds, and amaranth greens from Juakumbah Farms.
• -Find source-identified foods through Marty’s Local.
• -Finish with responsibly grown produce from Rattle Root Farm or Shiitake, oyster, and Lion’s Mane mushrooms from the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central MA.

The Coe's Pond Village stop is one of REC’s Tuesday mobile market locations running from June 16 through December 17, 2026. At this stop, the clearest thread is how many vendors center crops and foods that reflect more than one food tradition. Nuestro Huerto Urban Farm brings bitter gourd, long beans, daikon, cilantro, eggplant, and hot peppers. Misigaro Farms grows edible gourds, pumpkin leaves, jilo, mustard greens, shell beans, and amaranth greens. Juakumbah Farms adds okra, water spinach, sweet potato leaves, and gourds. Even the specialty foods widen the picture: Daphne’s Tears Bakery Cafe serves pastries and traditional Turkish coffee, while the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central MA offers Shiitake, Blue Oyster, Golden Oyster, Pink Oyster, and Lion’s Mane mushrooms. Taken together, the market reads less like a generic produce stop and more like a compact weekly route for ingredients that connect directly to the city’s many home kitchens.

Know before you go

This is a short market window: the Coe's Pond Village stop runs on Tuesdays from 4 to 5 p.m., so timing matters more here than at a longer weekend market. The market is held at Coe's Pond Village Apartments, 39 1st Street, as part of REC’s multi-location mobile farmers market schedule. Dogs are not allowed, and restrooms are not available, two details that can shape a quick errand stop.

Because this is one stop in a mobile market system, it helps to approach it as a focused grocery pickup rather than a long stay. The market season runs from June 16 through December 17, 2026.

Payments & SNAP

SNAP/EBT is accepted at this market, an important fit for a mobile market run by REC’s food justice program. REC also provides assistance on running SNAP/HIP transactions and support around Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons in its market system, showing that these benefits are part of how the organization structures access.