Martintown Farmers Market 2026: Sundays by the Raisin River

Local produce and handmade goods on the grounds of an 1846 stone grist mill

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Local growers set up right on the banks of the Raisin River, next to a working 1846 grist mill that’s been carefully preserved as a museum and community gathering spot for the village of Martintown.

🥕 Local produce 🏛️ Historic mill setting 🎨 Rotating art gallery 🌊 Riverside setting

💡 The mill itself is open the same weekend hours as the market, so it’s easy to browse produce outside and then step inside to see the current art exhibit or the mill’s milling history displays.

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✨ Why This Market Is Worth the Drive

Martintown is a small village in South Glengarry, tucked into the eastern edge of Ontario near the Quebec border, and its farmers market is the kind of low-key, genuinely local event that doesn’t try to be anything more than what it is — a weekly gathering of area growers set against one of the more strikingly preserved pieces of Ontario’s milling history.

The setting is what separates this from a standard parking-lot market. The Martintown Mill was built in 1846 by Alexander McMartin, powered originally by the Raisin River’s waterfall, and it operated as a working flour mill for over a century before commercial milling ended in 1947. Rather than let it fall apart, the Martintown Mill Preservation Society took it over in 1997 and spent years stabilizing the fieldstone structure, reopening it to the public in 2004. Today it stands as a museum and community hub, and the farmers market sets up right outside it on the riverbank.

Visitors who’ve been describe it as a genuinely charming stop — one review calls the mill “adorable and beautifully kept,” and notes the market runs “every Sunday” with occasional concerts thrown in as a bonus. It’s not a huge production, and that’s exactly the appeal: a slower-paced, small-town Sunday with fresh local food and four storeys of 19th-century milling history to explore afterward.

🕐 Market Hours

The market runs a steady schedule across the summer season — no need to track down special dates, since it’s every Sunday within the window below.

🛍️ What You’ll Find

Expect a modest, locally rooted vendor lineup that shifts with the season — this is a small-village market, not a large-scale production, and that’s part of its charm.

Seasonal produce Local meat Baked goods Farm-fresh eggs Handmade crafts

Since it’s a working farmers market rather than an artisan pop-up, the exact roster of who’s selling what depends on the week and what’s in season — expect more greens and early vegetables in June, and a fuller table of produce as summer moves toward September.

🏛️ More Than Just a Market

The Martintown Mill runs its own weekend programming alongside the outdoor market, so a Sunday trip can easily turn into a longer visit. Inside the four-storey fieldstone building, a rotating art gallery showcases the work of local artists — the lineup changes on a regular basis, and visitors have a chance to meet the featured artists in person during market hours.

The mill also hosts occasional extras through the season — concerts, author events, and even the odd evening ghost-tour investigation, since the building has more than 200 years of local history behind it (the mill site itself dates back to 1783, with the current stone structure completed in 1846). None of this is guaranteed on any given Sunday, so it’s worth a quick check of the mill’s Facebook page before you go if you’re hoping to catch a specific event.

Local ghost stories are part of the fun too — visitors who’ve joined the mill’s occasional evening investigations mention a child spirit nicknamed Jacob said to linger around the old milling equipment. Whether or not that sways you, it’s a fun bit of local colour to ask about if you strike up a conversation with the volunteers on site, who tend to know the building’s history inside and out.

📋 Essentials

🚗 Getting There & Parking

Martintown sits in South Glengarry, roughly 20 minutes southwest of Cornwall, with the mill located right in the centre of the village on the north bank of the Raisin River, just off the bridge on Dundas Street.

Parking: Free on-site parking is available at the mill grounds — this is a small rural venue with no need to worry about paid lots or permits.

💡 A Few Things Worth Knowing Before You Go

🥕 Go early for the best selection. This is a small market with a limited vendor count, so the freshest produce and baked goods tend to go quickly.

💵 Bring cash. Small rural vendors don’t always have card readers on hand — cash keeps things simple.

🏛️ Pair it with the mill. Since the museum and art gallery run the same hours, plan extra time to step inside and see the current exhibit — it’s a genuinely worthwhile stop on its own.

🌊 Bring a camera. The riverside setting next to the old stone mill is one of the more photogenic small-town market backdrops in Eastern Ontario.

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