The Brighton Farmers Market holds its last outdoor Sunday of 2026 on November 22 in the lot at the Golisano Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship, 150 Sawgrass Drive. Seven days later, on November 29, it reopens indoors at 1435 Westfall Road. The new hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., so the market opens an hour later than it has all summer.
The summer market ran at a borrowed site this year, and its 2027 summer home depends on when the athletic fields project at Brighton High School moves from soil testing to construction. That makes the barn on Westfall Road, which the Town restored for winter use, the one location in the market's calendar that hasn't moved.
The Summer Site Was the Borrowed One
For years the main season belonged to the Brighton High School parking lot at 1150 Winton Road South. CITY Magazine's guide to local food sources listed that lot as the market's spring-through-fall address and the Westfall Road barn as its winter one.
This spring, construction at the high school pushed the outdoor market off its usual lot. When the season opened at the Golisano Institute, WHEC reported that vendors set up their tents at the temporary site, Wamba Africa played opening day, and Town Supervisor Bill Moehle described the scene.
"All of our vendors are selling locally produced produce, vegetables, baked goods, and the like. Then we have the music... We've got food trucks, community groups, so it's really, it's a happening, a happening on Sunday mornings."
Speaking to WHEC that day, Moehle also called it the only farmers market in town that runs year-round. In 2026, the year-round schedule has depended on two addresses, and only one of them was built for the market.
The Calendar From Here to the Holidays
The Town's 2026 vendor application sets the main season as April 26 through November 22 and the late season as November 29 through December 20. It also says vendors will be told if the planned schedule or locations change. Starting on publication day, here are the Sundays still to come this year:
| Sunday | Location | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| November 15 | Golisano Institute, 150 Sawgrass Drive | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| November 22 | Golisano Institute, 150 Sawgrass Drive | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| November 29 | Winter Market barn, 1435 Westfall Road | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| December 6 | Winter Market barn, 1435 Westfall Road | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| December 13 | Winter Market barn, 1435 Westfall Road | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| December 20 | Winter Market barn, 1435 Westfall Road | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
November 29 is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, so the first indoor market falls on a holiday weekend. December 20 is the last date on the Town's late-season schedule. The Town keeps its market page at brightonny.gov, and the market sends weekly newsletters from brightonfarmersmarket.org and posts on Facebook and Instagram.
The Barn the Town Built for This
The Westfall Road building is less than three years old as a market space. The Town held an open house and ribbon cutting on December 3, 2023, and that morning was the first market held inside. WROC described it as a new space designed specifically to house the winter market, with the same vendors shoppers already knew in a more comfortable setting.
The Town's Spring 2024 newsletter gives the building's history. It stands on former farmland owned by the Town of Brighton. To house the winter market, the Town restored an old barn on the property and built an addition onto it. The newsletter described the project as a way to honor the agricultural history of the Town and that property while supporting local farmers today.
The same newsletter called 2024 "a big year" because the market was returning to a year-round schedule, with the winter season opening in the new barn. So the barn is what made the year-round calendar possible. That year the hand-off ran the same way it does now: the outdoor season closed at the high school lot on November 17, and the market moved back to the Westfall barn on November 24.
Two years on, the summer lot has been the location in question and the barn has stayed put. Whatever happens on Winton Road, the winter market already has a Town-owned building made for it.
What Moves Indoors With It
The barn holds the same market under the same rules. In CITY's feature, the market traces back to the Green Brighton Task Force, set up in 2007. Market manager Sue Gardner Smith described its purpose this way:
"Its mission from the beginning has been to support a stronger local food system and to bring people together around the shared experience of enjoying local sustainably-produced food."
The standards behind that mission go indoors with the vendors. According to CITY:
- The market is producer-only, so vendors must grow or make what they sell.
- Farmers must use sustainable or organic methods.
- Bakers and food vendors are asked to prioritize local ingredients.
- At the time of that feature, all 45 vendors were located within 100 miles of Brighton.
Fewer of the market's signature events fit inside a barn. CITY listed a Bike Rodeo, Pride Day, Public Safety Day, a Juneteenth celebration, and the Eco Fair sponsored by Color Brighton Green as features of the market year. Those events belong to the outdoor months. Indoors, from late November into the holidays, the draw is the vendors themselves.
Some farms build their winter business around the barn. Park View Farm runs a "Brighton Winter Market" pickup location for online orders, with Sunday pickups from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and ordering closing the Friday before. The farm also delivers to homes in Rochester on its own schedule.
The market has long accepted SNAP and WIC. In 2024 the Town explained that SNAP customers can buy tokens with their benefits card at the Market tent and receive FreshConnect bonus checks. Current program terms are posted at the market tent and on the Town's market page.
The 2027 Summer Address Runs Through the High School
The outdoor season's 2027 home depends on the athletic fields project at Brighton High School. In an October 23 update, Superintendent Kevin McGowan said the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had approved the plans needed before construction could resume. The work starting the following week was soil sampling and testing, and the district stated plainly that it was "not the start of any actual construction."
The district said construction could begin within the next several weeks, depending on test results and any required approvals. It is also holding a community forum at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17, at the Administration Building, 2035 Monroe Avenue. Representatives from NYSDEC and Terracon, the district's environmental consultant, will answer questions there.
That forum falls between the last two outdoor Sundays at Sawgrass Drive. Twelve days later the market will be inside the barn on Westfall Road, open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. through December 20.
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