REC Mobile Farmers Market - Green Hill Towers

REC Mobile Farmers Market - Green Hill Towers is one stop in a Worcester food-access system run by the Regional Environmental Council, a nonprofit food justice organization with a 53-year history tied to environmental sustainability and social justice in the city. At 27 Mt. Vernon Street in Green Hill Towers, the market brings that broader REC model directly to a Wednesday mobile stop rather than asking shoppers to travel across Worcester. The result is a market page defined less by a single plaza setting than by REC’s larger effort to link community and mobile farmers markets, youth agriculture, and neighborhood food access under one organization.

Why it matters locally

The Regional Environmental Council ties this market to a wider Worcester program that includes Community and Mobile Farmers Markets, Urban Garden Resources of Worcester, and Youth Growing Organics in Worcester, its youth employment and urban agriculture program for teens. That makes the Green Hill Towers stop part of a local food infrastructure shaped by food justice as much as weekly sales.

REC also describes its markets as a place where small and medium-size farms can sell to a diverse array of customers, while specifically encouraging small urban growers and BIPOC growers to apply. In practice, that emphasis shows up in the vendor roster here, where Worcester-area urban farms, youth growers, and farms raising culturally significant crops appear alongside bread bakers, honey producers, dairy, and maple producers.

What you'll find there

The mix here leans strongly toward produce, but not in a narrow way: standard vegetables sit beside herbs, mushrooms, eggs, honey, bread, beef, pork, ice cream, and a notable range of culturally significant crops. Because this is an REC mobile market stop, the lineup also reflects the organization’s interest in supporting urban growers, youth agriculture, and farms serving diverse Worcester neighborhoods.

• -Find pure maple syrup plus maple cream, maple sugar, and maple candies from Bucket List Maple Syrup.
• -Pick up organic produce and fresh eggs from Cotyledon Farm, which also raises layer chickens.
• -Look for herbs, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and other culturally significant crops from Global Village Farms.
• -Sample microgreens from Just For Fun Farms, including sunflower, broccoli, sweet pea, and radish.
• -Shop Misigaro Farms for edible gourds, pumpkin leaves, amaranth greens, jilo, mustard greens, and shell beans.
• -Support REC YouthGROW Farm with vegetables grown through greenhouse and outdoor production.
• -Take home breads and baked goods from Wooden Bakery, made from scratch with organic flours.
• -Sip coffee and add pastries from Daphne’s Tears Bakery Cafe, including traditional Turkish coffee.
• -Browse more than 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables from Harper Farms & Garden.
• -Choose raw, treatment-free honey, pasture-raised eggs, seasonal vegetables, and beeswax candles from Kelly Homestead Apiary.
• -Seek out bitter gourd, hot peppers, 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.
• -Add diversified fruits and vegetables, plus heritage breed pork, from Coolidge Hill Farm.
• -Shop Fay Mountain Farm for fresh produce grown with non-GMO seeds and Integrated Pest Management practices.
• -Pick up tomatoes, peppers, okra, water spinach, sweet potato leaves, gourds, amaranth greens, malabar spinach, and lalu from Juakumbah Farms.
• -Browse source-identified foods from Marty's Local, a locally owned and operated food distributor.
• -Find nutrient-dense food from Rattle Root Farm, which emphasizes sustainable farming practices.
• -Take home Shiitake, Blue Oyster, Golden Oyster, Pink Oyster, and Lion’s Mane mushrooms from the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central MA.

The Green Hill Towers stop is part of REC’s Wednesday Mobile Farmers Markets schedule running June 16 through December 17, with other Wednesday stops including Autumn Woods, Plumley Village, and a downtown Out to Lunch location.

This market’s most distinctive thread is how often the vendor roster names crops that speak to specific food traditions rather than a generic “seasonal produce” mix. Global Village Farms brings herbs, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and other culturally significant crops. Misigaro Farms lists edible gourds, pumpkin leaves, amaranth greens, jilo, mustard greens, and shell beans. Nuestro Huerto Urban Farm adds bitter gourd, long beans, daikon, cilantro, and hot peppers. Juakumbah Farms expands that range with okra, water spinach, sweet potato leaves, malabar spinach, and lalu. Set at Green Hill Towers as a Wednesday mobile stop, that product mix gives the market a clear identity: not just produce brought into the neighborhood, but produce described in the terms growers use when they are serving shoppers looking for particular ingredients.

Know before you go

This Green Hill Towers stop runs for just one hour on Wednesdays, from 9:00am to 10:00am, so timing matters more here than at a longer market. The address is 27 Mt. Vernon Street at Green Hill Towers, one of several apartment-based mobile market stops on REC’s weekly Worcester schedule. The 2026 season runs from June 16 through December 17. Dogs are not allowed, and restrooms are not available on site. If Green Hill Towers does not fit your schedule, REC’s mobile markets also rotate through other Wednesday, Tuesday, and Thursday locations around Worcester.

Payments & SNAP

SNAP/EBT is accepted at this market. REC also states that its markets provide assistance with SNAP and HIP transactions and technical assistance around Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons, which fits the organization’s broader food-access approach across its market system.