REC Mobile Farmers Market - Lincoln Village

REC Mobile Farmers Market - Lincoln Village is part of a Worcester market network run by the Regional Environmental Council, a nonprofit food justice organization with a 53-year history of environmental sustainability and social justice work in the city. This stop brings that work into a mobile market format, with a weekly market season running from mid-June to mid-December at Lincoln Village in Worcester. The market’s vendor mix points toward fresh produce, culturally significant crops, bread, mushrooms, eggs, honey, and other farm goods rather than a single narrow specialty.

Why it matters locally

The Regional Environmental Council ties this market to a broader Worcester food justice effort that includes Community and Mobile Farmers Markets, Urban Garden Resources of Worcester, and Youth Growing Organics in Worcester. That makes the Lincoln Village stop more than a standalone shopping hour: it sits inside a city-based nonprofit program built around food access, community gardening, and youth agriculture work in Worcester.

REC also positions its markets as a selling opportunity for small and medium-size farms, small urban growers, and BIPOC growers, while providing assistance with Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons and SNAP/HIP transactions. At this location, that mission shows up in the presence of vendors growing culturally significant crops alongside Worcester youth-grown produce and local farm staples.

What you'll find there

The strongest thread here is produce with range: standard vegetables sit alongside mushrooms, microgreens, maple goods, baked items, dairy, and meats, with several farms emphasizing culturally significant crops. The list also includes growers using specific production practices such as OMRI-certified inputs, Integrated Pest Management, and sustainable soil-focused methods.

• -Pick up pure maple syrup, maple cream, maple sugar, and maple candies from Bucket List Maple Syrup.
• -Find nutrient-dense produce and fresh eggs from Cotyledon Farm, which uses OMRI-certified soil amendments and fertilizers.
• -Look for herbs, culturally significant crops, honey, and salves from Global Village Farms.
• -Try sunflower, broccoli, sweet pea, and radish microgreens from Just For Fun Farms.
• -Shop edible gourds, pumpkin leaves, amaranth greens, jilo, mustard greens, and shell beans from Misigaro Farms.
• -Support REC YouthGROW Farm for tomatoes, arugula, spinach, jilo, aji dulce, and pigeon pea grown through its youth development and employment program.
• -Take home scratch-made breads and baked goods from Wooden Bakery, made 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, including fresh Mirai corn.
• -Choose raw honey, pasture-raised eggs, seasonal vegetables, beeswax candles, and skincare products from Kelly Homestead Apiary.
• -Seek out bitter gourd, hot peppers, long beans, mustard greens, daikon, cilantro, eggplant, and cucumbers from Nuestro Huerto Urban Farm.
• -Add grass-fed beef, fruits and vegetables, and award-winning ice cream from Rota Spring Farm.
• -Buy diversified fruits and vegetables plus heritage breed pork from Coolidge Hill Farm.
• -Stock up on produce from Fay Mountain Farm, grown with non-GMO seeds and IPM practices.
• -Cook with tomatoes, peppers, okra, water spinach, sweet potato leaves, gourds, amaranth greens, malabar spinach, and lalu from Juakumbah Farms.
• -Shop source-identified foods from Marty's Local.
• -Find nutrient-dense food from Rattle Root Farm, which focuses on healthy soil and biodiversity.
• -Bring home Shiitake, Blue Oyster, Golden Oyster, Pink Oyster, and Lion’s Mane mushrooms from the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central MA.

The mobile market season runs across multiple Worcester locations from June 16 to December 17, with Lincoln Village included on the Thursday route. One defining thread at Lincoln Village is how often the vendor lineup names crops that reflect specific food traditions rather than flattening everything into generic “produce.” Misigaro Farms lists edible gourds, pumpkin leaves, amaranth greens, jilo, mustard greens, and shell beans. Nuestro Huerto Urban Farm brings bitter gourd, hot peppers, long beans, mustard greens, daikon, cilantro, eggplant, and cucumbers. Juakumbah Farms adds water spinach, sweet potato leaves, malabar spinach, and lalu to its harvest list. REC YouthGROW Farm also includes culturally relevant crops such as jilo, aji dulce, and pigeon pea in what it grows. Taken together, that gives this mobile stop a distinctive shape: shoppers can find everyday vegetables, but the market language itself makes room for ingredients tied to many home kitchens in Worcester.

Know before you go

The first planning detail is the short shopping window: this Lincoln Village stop runs for one hour, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm on Tuesdays during the June 16 to December 17 season. The market is listed at 40 Pleasant Valley Drive in Worcester.

This market is part of REC’s mobile market schedule, which serves multiple Worcester sites on different days rather than operating as a single fixed-location market. Dogs are not allowed, and restrooms are not available on site. If you are choosing this stop specifically, plan around the mobile format and the brief service window.

Payments & SNAP

SNAP/EBT is accepted at REC Mobile Farmers Market - Lincoln Village. REC also states that its markets provide assistance with SNAP/HIP transactions and with Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons for vendors participating in the market system.