USDA’s Local Food Portal is the canonical US farmers-market dataset, but the raw feed is rough: truncated names, stale records, a state= filter that substring-matches state names (querying “WA” returns Delaware rows), and thousands of missing websites/hours.
I cleaned and enriched it: deduplicated to 8,863 real markets (record-level), backfilled website coverage to ~50% from the live API + state sources, and added season/SNAP/organic fields. It’s CC-BY 4.0 as CSV/JSON.
Archived with DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21360372
Disclosure: I run harvestlymarkets.com, the directory built on this data — full methodology and the same downloads live at https://harvestlymarkets.com/data-sources/. Personal contact names/emails are stripped from the redistributable; business fields come from USDA’s public feed.
Happy to answer questions about the data-quality issues — the state-filter substring bug was a fun one to find.
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