The Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market is a project of Bastrop Sustainable Agricultural Community (BSAC), a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation.

Our mission includes operating the Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market  to provide Bastrop and the surrounding region with locally grown foods and farm products  in direct farm-to-consumer marketing that serves a  diverse population, preserves and promotes our local agriculture and improves the quality of life in the greater Bastrop County area.

Our Market Hours: Tuesday from 2-6pm and Saturday from 10am-2pm from October through May. During our Summer hours, June through September, Tuesday 2-6pm and Saturday Market starts one hour earlier, 9am until 1pm.

 We provide a market designed for farmers and artisans, including those who are economically disadvantaged, to sell their farm and ranch products,  artisan  goods, prepared foods and other handmade products.

The Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market improves access to local, healthy, affordable food for children and adults while assisting family farmers and ranchers to create a local, sustainable agricultural economy.  We accept the Texas Lone Star Card for food purchases.

We feature regular food/cooking demonstrations to provide information on preparing fresh foods and maintains a library of free recipes and gardening handouts.

Our market also helps to ensure that the needy have access to the healthy food, through our Demonstration & Giving Garden, harvested by the Bastrop Food Pantry and with cash donations from our Spare Change Campaign.

Last year (2011) the market vendors with help from the community built new raised beds to increase our ability to grow more food for the hungry. We built 3 raised beds in April of 2011, planting them with many spring crops donating several hundred dollars worth of food to the Bastrop Emergency food Pantry. In November, we built 3 more beds, filling them with fall crops such as collards, spinach, broccoli and lettuce. In March and April of this year alone our donations of fresh food to the Pantry exceeded $200.

We regularly sponsor visits from the Friends of the Bastrop County Animal Shelter for their Doggie Adoption Events, on average 3-4 times a year. Our customers really enjoy meeting these loving dogs and usually a couple of dogs find new forever homes at each event.

• The Market regularly showcases our locally available fresh foods with cooking events featuring samples and recipe handouts. 
  
• Change for Food, a project of the Market, to raise money for the Bastrop Food Pantry. Just donate your extra change! Through a relationship with the Austin Area Food Bank, 11 cents buys a pound of food for the hungry.
• Free recipe and gardening information handouts available at the Hospitality table.
• Book Exchange at the Hospitality Table - take a book home to read, return it and bring more paperbacks to share.
• Drop off site for the Bastrop Food Pantry - bring in non-perishable canned goods to help feed the hungry.
• Drop off site for plastic bottles & aluminum cans.
• Drop off site for recycling egg cartons and nursery pots.