Healdsburg's Farmers Market Now Runs Into December. Here's How the Holiday Season Fits Around It
October 29, 2026
October 29, 2026
The Healdsburg Farmers Market's posted schedule now runs Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon through December 19, 2026, under the roof of the Foley Family Community Pavilion on North Street. That puts a covered market on every Saturday morning from the Halloween Pumpkin Festival to the last weekend before Christmas.
The rest of the season fits around those mornings. The city's tree lighting gets one Friday night on the Plaza. A new holiday maker's market takes over a second old fruit building on Grant Street for two weekends. The museum reopens with a holiday show. Then December 19 brings it all together: the market's final Saturday, the Bazaar's second weekend and a jazz Nutcracker at the Raven, all on the same day downtown.
In March, the Press Democrat reported that the market would open April 11 and run through the end of November. It added that Market Manager Janet Ciel had no plans for a winter market as of press time, even though many locals, Lou Preston among them, had asked for a year-round schedule.
The market's own site now lists the Saturday season as April 11 through December 19, 2026. That is three more Saturdays than the spring plan, all of them in December. It also lists a Fall/Holiday Craft Market running from October through December. Tuesday markets ended with the September 29 session.
The building makes the longer season possible. The same Press Democrat story quoted Ciel on what the shelter changes: "On bad weather days we can squeeze a few more vendors onto the platform, so we can have as many vendors as possible attend. This means customers are protected too, obviously, and even on stormy or blazing days we will have good-sized markets worth attending." A December market in Sonoma County depends on that.
Counting from Halloween, eight Saturday markets are left. The market has posted a musician for six of them.
If you haven't been since the move, the details are on the market's visitor page. The pavilion is at 3 North Street, and North Street is closed directly in front of it on market days. There is free parking in the lot across the street, which you can enter from Matheson Street or North Street. More parking is on Grove Street and in the City Hall lot.
The pavilion was a working agricultural building long before it was a market. The Press Democrat describes it as the circa-1922 Cerri building, a former cannery and warehouse near City Hall that was set to be torn down for a parking lot for years. Former market manager Mary Kelley pushed to save it. The rebuild cost $10.4 million. The Foley Family Charitable Foundation gave $7.5 million and the City of Healdsburg covered the other $2.5 million. Construction started in 2024, and the pavilion officially opened in December 2025.
The market started in 1978, and this is its first permanent home. Before this it moved around town, from an abandoned prune drying plant at Haydon and East streets to the lot behind Hotel Healdsburg, where it had operated since the late 1990s. The new building has a stage and sound system. It holds 8,000 people on paper, and the paper calls it one of the largest covered public spaces north of Santa Rosa.
The second building is the Grant Street Pavilion at 55 W. Grant Street. It started out in 1916 as the Miller Fruit Company and has about 14,000 square feet inside. This December it hosts the first Healdsburg Bazaar, which brings in a maker's-market brand that has run in Portland since 2011. More than 50 makers, artists and small businesses from Sonoma County, Marin and the Bay Area will be there December 12–13 and 19–20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry is free and all ages are welcome.
The two schedules overlap. On both Bazaar Saturdays, the market closes at noon, an hour after the Bazaar opens, so you can do both in one morning.
The Plaza still has its big night. Merry Healdsburg runs Friday, December 4, from 5 to 9 p.m. It is free and hosted by the City's Community Services department with the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce. The city's posted program:
The Healdsburg Tribune lists Merry Healdsburg as the next city event on the Plaza after Día de Muertos, which ran October 25. So the Plaza hosts one city holiday night, and the regular weekend activity sits a few streets away. Bob Culbertson plays the market the next morning, December 5.
On Saturday, December 19, three events overlap downtown:
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m.–noon | Final Farmers Market of 2026 | Foley Family Community Pavilion, 3 North St. |
| 11 a.m.–4 p.m. | Healdsburg Bazaar, second weekend | Grant Street Pavilion, 55 W. Grant St. |
| 7 p.m., doors at 6 | Healdsburg Jazz's Harlem Nutcracker Suite | Raven Performing Arts Theater, 115 North St. |
The Marcus Shelby Orchestra plays the Harlem Nutcracker Suite with guest vocalists Tiffany Austin and Enid Pickett, and the night doubles as a toy drive. The Raven is on North Street, the same street as the market pavilion, so the day starts and ends there.
The busy stretch begins the night before. The Christmas Jug Band and Shana Morrison play the Raven on Friday, December 18, at 7:30 p.m., with doors at 6:30. On Sunday, December 20, the Bazaar's last day closes out the weekend. If you're hosting out-of-town family that weekend, you can fill all three days without leaving downtown. Plan for parking to be tighter than on a usual December Saturday.
The Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society at 221 Matheson Street is closed from October 26 through November 19 to install its next exhibit. That exhibit, "A Very Boomer Holiday," opens Friday, November 20, at 11 a.m. and runs through Sunday, January 10, 2027. It follows "Healdsburg in the 1970s," which marked the museum's 50th anniversary and closed October 25. The opening is the day before the November 21 market, when Shivan Luca plays.
The museum runs to January 10, so it stays open after the market's last Saturday. Through the end of the year, though, most of the season's weekend events happen in two converted fruit buildings and a theater on North Street, and the Plaza hosts its big holiday night on December 4.
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