Larchmont Village Farmers Market: Two Days, Two Experiences

When does the Larchmont Village Farmers Market open on Sunday?

The posted Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A review on the market's event listing describes arriving at 10 to find some items already sold out. The market's early setup doesn't change its posted opening time.

Larchmont has two farmers market days, Wednesday and Sunday, and each offers a different experience. They serve different rhythms of the week, with a distinct selection and pace on each day.

Two Markets, One Address

Both markets set up at the same spot, 209 N. Larchmont Blvd, just south of Beverly and directly across from the Rite Aid at the city's Lot 694, the parking lot with the clock tower. But the two days function almost like separate institutions.

The Wednesday market is the one built for a household running errands on a weekday afternoon. It's smaller, it moves slower, and it's the only day of the week the market hosts an LA Compost drop-off, so if you've been collecting scraps all week, Wednesday is the day that matters, not Sunday. The Sunday market is the production version: more stalls, more competition for the same boxes of stone fruit, and a crowd that builds fast enough that arriving at the posted opening time already puts you behind.

Knowing which day you're actually walking into changes what you should expect. Sunday is for building a real haul. Wednesday is for the two or three things you forgot, plus the compost bucket.

What's Actually on the Tables Right Now

Late summer is a specific window at this market, and it's worth knowing what's in it before the season tips over. The current mix skews toward peak-summer stone fruit and berries: blueberries, figs, blackberries, pluots, and bubblegum plums, alongside watermelon while it's still around. Pomegranates and fuyu persimmons are starting to show up on vendor lists too, which is the market's own early signal that fall produce, the sugar baby pumpkins, delicata squash, and purple cauliflower that dominate by October, isn't far off.

Beyond produce, the market carries the kind of specialty goods that don't show up at a grocery store: raw honey, duck eggs, goat's milk cheese, fresh-cut roses and sunflowers, and a rotating bakery table with items like peach kolache and gluten-free cornbread. It's a certified farmers market, which in California means the people selling produce are the ones who grew it, not a reseller with a truck from the wholesale terminal downtown.

The Business That Started at a Cheese Counter

The market's real value to this neighborhood isn't only what's on the tables on a given Sunday. It's what the market has helped start.

As Larchmont Buzz reported, David Karp had lived in Larchmont for about fifteen years when he decided to turn his garlic hummus into an actual business. He named it after the neighborhood, made his case to Sergio Boccato at Larchmont Wine and Cheese, and Boccato agreed to start stocking it. From there, Karp's hummus turned up at Hope-Net's Taste of Larchmont, the neighborhood's annual food event, and has since grown into roughly 26 stores. Karp and a part-time cook produce something like 200 to 400 units of garlic, red pepper, and bean hummus a week, and Karp has said he personally spends about ten hours of that week just peeling garlic.

It's a small story, but it's the kind of thing that explains why this stretch of Larchmont functions less like a shopping district and more like a network. A neighborhood cheese shop takes a chance on a neighbor's product, that product gets a stage at a community food event, and a few years later it's on shelves across the city. The market and the businesses around it aren't separate from each other. They're the same infrastructure.

A Proposed Lease for Lot 694

City Parking Lot 694, the lot with the clock tower where both market days set up, was the subject of a proposed land lease that would have changed what the site could be used for. Neighborhood groups, including the Windsor Square Neighborhood Association, the Larchmont Village Neighborhood Association, and the Larchmont United Neighborhood Association, organized against it, working alongside the Larchmont Boulevard Association. In January 2026, the city's Board of Transportation Commissioners formally withdrew the proposal. CD13's Community Development and Planning Director confirmed the withdrawal in an email to more than 400 interested residents, noting that the office had asked the Department of Transportation to close out the item so people would have assurance the plan wasn't moving forward.

The market survived because people who live within walking distance of it showed up to meetings about a parking lot. That's not a footnote. It's the reason the Sunday crowd still has a lot to stand in, the same lot that also hosts the Larchmont Family Fair every October and the Taste of Larchmont every September.

How to Actually Shop It

If you're going to treat this market as part of your week rather than an occasional stop, a few things are worth building into the routine:

• If you want first pick of anything popular, especially stone fruit in late summer, plan to arrive closer to 9 than 10 on Sunday.
• Save Wednesday for the compost drop-off and anything you ran out of midweek. It's a smaller market, and that's the point.
• Bring cash or check for the smaller stalls, though most now take cards.
• Watch the produce lists shift in real time. Persimmons and pomegranates showing up now are your signal that the market's entire personality changes again in about a month.
• If you're stocking a pantry rather than a single meal, the honey, hummus, and cheese counter relationships are where the market rewards repeat visits. Ask what's new. That's how a fifteen-year resident's hummus ends up in 26 stores.

The market on Larchmont Boulevard has a Sunday schedule and a Wednesday counterpart, seasonal produce, and a history that includes a proposed lease for its location and the growth of a local hummus business. Knowing those details adds context to a visit.

If you're curious about what else shapes daily life in Larchmont Village and the neighborhoods around it, or you'd like a longer conversation about this pocket of Los Angeles from someone who works here, Homes by Marlyse would love to connect.

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