Lake Oswego's Farmers' Market Closed for the Season. It Comes Back One More Saturday Before Thanksgiving.

The Lake Oswego Farmers' Market finished its 25th regular season at Millennium Plaza Park on Saturday, October 31. Three weeks after that last Saturday, on November 21, the vendors come back for one more market. Thanksgiving falls the following Thursday. The day after Thanksgiving, the same plaza hosts the 62nd Annual Tree Lighting Festival.

November at 200 1st Street works like a planned taper, and it serves the same purpose the market was started for.

A Market Built to Bring People Downtown

According to the Oswego Chronicle, the market launched in 2001, when Millennium Plaza Park and the community center first opened, "as a way to draw residents downtown." Twenty-five seasons later, demand from vendors is well beyond what the plaza can hold. The Chronicle reported a 2026 roster of 220 vendors, with about 120 more applicants turned away. Only 85 to 90 adult vendor booths fit on a typical Saturday. The city's own vendor page uses rounder numbers: more than 225 vendors on the full roster and more than 80 setting up each week.

In other words, the roster is more than twice the size of any single Saturday, so most vendors rotate in and out. The Chronicle story also relayed comments that City Event and Farmers' Market Manager Shelley Burgess gave the Lake Oswego Review in May. She credited the market's long run to its lakeside setting and central downtown spot:

"a community gathering space" for Saturday mornings.

The November calendar keeps that gathering space in use after the harvest season ends.

Three Weeks at 200 1st Street

The Reunion market runs a little later than the regular market, starting at 9 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. instead of 1:30 p.m. The city's Reunion market page pitches it as "Fresh from local farms to your Thanksgiving table!" and lists pumpkins, sweet potatoes and mushrooms, plus live music and local artisans.

What the Reunion Market Adds

The city's 2026 sponsorship deck for the event confirms that "the famous horse-drawn wagon rides will be back." It also lists activities at Kids' Corner and Farm Fresh Kids, and says SNAP shoppers can get a match of up to $20. The deck estimates the event's reach at more than 3,000 visitors.

The wagon rides are the one thing the regular season doesn't have, and they are part of why the event feels like a reunion. Before last year's market, recreation supervisor Emily Liu told the Lake Oswego Review, "I think people like that old time-y feel of riding in a horse-drawn wagon through downtown Lake Oswego."

A 2012 Lake Oswego Review listing called that year's event "the second annual Lake Oswego Farmers' Market reunion market," so the Reunion has run since about 2011. That is roughly a decade after the market itself began.

Who Has Come Back Before

The city says many favorite vendors will return on November 21 but hasn't named them. Past Reunions offer a reasonable guide, and most of their vendors are still on this year's roster.

The 2023 list, which the Lake Oswego Review published under a Thanksgiving-ingredients headline, covers most of a holiday table: mushrooms, beef, orchard fruit, crab and honey. The 2024 preview leaned toward baked goods. It featured Fokattia's sourdough, including a seasonal cranberry-pumpkin loaf, along with High Peak Granola and holiday macarons from Choux. The city's 2025 market newsletter added Souper Natural, La Oveja Negra, Nouriche Broth and Sinful Confections to that year's lineup.

Gribble Creek and Fokattia are the two names that show up in more than one year. All of these vendors are on the 2026 roster or appeared at past Reunions, but none has been confirmed for this year's event. If a turkey-day recipe depends on one particular stall, check the city's vendor page or the market's own channels before you go.

Where the Vegetables Go in the Meantime

Through most of November, the produce that would have been on the plaza moves a few miles south to Luscher Farm. The Chronicle described Wild Geese Farm as one of the market's new 2026 additions. Organizers called it the only farm based in Lake Oswego, growing sustainably produced vegetables at Luscher Farm. The farm is run by Braedon Kwiecien and Sidney Katz.

Wild Geese Farm's CSA page lays out the farm's schedule, and its winter season lines up neatly with the market's off-season.

• Main season: 24 weekly pickups, beginning Thursday, May 21, 2026, and ending October 29
• Winter season: nine pickups every other week, starting Thursday, November 5, and running to February 26, 2027
• Pickup: Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Luscher Farm, set up market-style so members choose their own produce

The first winter pickup is today, November 5, two days before what would have been the first Saturday of November market. The market-style pickup means CSA members still pick out their own vegetables after the plaza has closed. The farm's crop lists include leafy greens, carrots, radishes, turnips, brassicas, squash, potatoes and onions.

The Night After Thanksgiving

Six days after the Reunion market, Millennium Plaza Park hosts the tree lighting. The festival is in its 62nd year, which makes it decades older than the market. The city and the Lake Oswego Chamber of Commerce present it together. The city's festival page lists:

• A holiday marketplace with local food, artists, makers and holiday vendors
• A local winery row
• Photos with Santa and reindeer from Timberview Farm
• Letters to Santa, written with the Lake Oswego Police Department
• Performances by the Lake Oswego High School and Lakeridge High School show choirs
• Music from the Millennium Concert Band
• The Millennium Tree Lighting Ceremony at 5:30 p.m.

The holiday marketplace means local food and makers are back on the plaza six days after the farmers' vendors pack up. The plaza's farmers' market calendar ends with the Reunion market, and downtown carries on into December.

The Reunion market is Saturday, November 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Millennium Plaza Park, 200 1st Street.

Shannon Janssen follows these seasonal routines across Lake Oswego and the Westside because they shape how a neighborhood feels from one week to the next. If you'd like to talk about how a downtown like this fits the life you're planning, Let's Connect.