About
It’s a celebration of local food culture!
Why Lake Chapala Farmers Market?
At LCFM you get to know those of us who cultivate and make your food. You can find fresh local produce, artisan food created locally and many regional unique entrepreneurial projects that share our mission and values with a good selection of gluten free, keto, and vegan options. LCFM offers:
- Fresh Produce & Food: Produce comes directly from nearby farms, so you get food at its peak and prepared food is cooked specifically for our market. Buy directly from organic farmers.
- Less Waste: Buying directly from farmers and producers helps prevent waste in the delivery process and carbon footprint. The fewer people handling the product and the shorter distance it travels, the less likely produce is discarded along the way.
- More Taste: You can get the whole vegetables — carrots and beets with their tops, flavorful greens and juicy tomatoes!
- Real Ingredients: Know your food and how it is made! Products at LCFM do not contain high fructose corn sugar, bleached white sugars, MSG (monosodium glutamate).
- Natural Cosmetics & Herbal Medicine: Paraben Free, chemical free, locally made, infused or distilled.
- Mexican folklore clothing: Artisan and local clothes made by indigenous communities around México, fine textiles and embroider work.
Do you know that ALL the farms and kitchens at our farmers market are carefully reviewed and vetted by our committee to bring the highest quality of food to you? We have a rigorous entry process.
We are non-profit.
A brief history
LCFM started with 4 producers and 37 customers on a Tuesday morning of March 2010 in the yard of Carol Kindschi, in West Ajijic from a desire to buy organic produce in the area. They started to make calls to local farmers with organic practices, neighbors and friends, and the rest is history!
11 years later, LCFM has 64 vendors and offers regional produce, prepared food, natural cosmetic, homeopathic medicine and so much more!
We are grateful to our founding members: Joshanna Bush, Marya Fischel, Enaj L’Hommedieu, Carol Kindschi, Rebecca Lane, and Louraisha Shaw.
Our founders’ vision, love, and hard work to sustain through the years, our beloved farmers market, will remain their legacy and gift to this community!
As of Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2020, our farmers market is entirely vendor led, which when facing the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic was a huge advantage to many other farmers market.
We have been the only farmers market to remain open every single week since the pandemic started in our state -March 24th, 2020 (and we venture on saying maybe every else, as well!).
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