Every farmers market on the Westside runs one day a week. Beaverton takes Saturdays, downtown Tigard takes Sundays, Hillsboro splits Tuesdays and Saturdays across two locations. The market at the foot of Bull Mountain does something none of them do: it opens both weekend mornings, 9 to 2, Saturday and Sunday, from the first weekend of May through the end of October.
That one scheduling decision changes how a Bull Mountain household should use the place. It is not a Saturday destination you either make or miss. It is a rotating pantry stop at 14389 SW Pacific Hwy, roughly ten minutes downhill from most of the ridge, that quietly runs sixty-odd mornings a season. Most of the neighborhood still treats it like a once-a-week errand and drives to Beaverton instead. The vendor list, the produce calendar, and the Sunday overlap all argue for a different habit.
The two-day difference
The market opened its 2026 season on Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3 and is now in its tenth year at the base of the mountain. That doubled weekend is the thing to internalize before anything else about vendors or produce. If Saturday's soccer game runs long, the tomatoes are still there on Sunday. If Sunday brunch is at the coast, you catch the same stall Saturday. Compare the neighborhood's realistic options:
- Bull Mountain Farmers Market, 14389 SW Pacific Hwy, Saturdays and Sundays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through October.
- Tigard Farmers Market on Main Street downtown, Sundays only, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., May 3 through October 25, 2026.
- Beaverton Farmers Market, Saturdays only, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Bull Mountain is the only one on the Westside that gives you a second try. For a household planning around kids' schedules or a Saturday-morning long run, that redundancy is the whole point.
The short list of vendors worth knowing by name
The market is small enough that ten minutes of walking gets you past every stall, which is a feature, not a limitation. A few operators show up week after week and are the reason to come.
Debbie the Olive Lady has been at the market since it opened. Her stall sells gourmet olives that pull customers in from well outside Tigard. Buy them for a cheese board you were going to assemble anyway, and buy more than you think you need, because she is not at the grocery store on Wednesday.
Bees Company Honey carries raw honey from multiple parts of Oregon, along with bee pollen and honey stix. The multi-varietal angle matters if you have ever tried to explain to someone why blackberry honey tastes nothing like meadowfoam.
Martinez Family Farm is the one to visit for a yellow watermelon, which is the produce item most reliably called out by market regulars. If you have never had one, the flesh is paler, milder, and less sugary than the standard red, which sounds like a downgrade until you eat it on a 92-degree afternoon.
Big Jalm sells jams that share table space with La Provence baked goods and bread. This is your Sunday-morning-toast supply chain in a single walk.
Jensen Mini Farm, a four-acre operation on SW Hazelbrook Road in Tualatin, brings pasture-raised beef, pork, poultry, and eggs. Jeff and Lory Jensen added Bull Mountain to their rotation in 2023 and profiled their operation in Tigard Life the following year. If you have been buying grass-fed beef at the chain grocery on Pacific Hwy without ever asking where it came from, this is the version where you can ask, get an answer, and walk the fence line yourself if you feel like driving to Tualatin.
There is also a tamale food truck on most weekends and, per longtime shoppers, a rotation of small craft and jewelry vendors. Music and kid activities are built into the format.
What's actually in the stalls in mid-July
Tualatin Valley market season pacing is predictable once you have watched a couple of years of it. Early May and June lean on strawberries, flowers, and starts. By mid-summer, which is where the calendar sits right now, the tables shift to blueberries, apricots, peaches, cucumbers, and tomatoes. By September and October, expect apples, onions, gourds, walnuts, and hazelnuts.
That progression is useful for planning what to actually cook. If you show up in the third week of July looking for pie apples, you are two months early. If you show up in late September expecting peaches, you are three weeks late. The market rewards showing up in season and shopping the peak, not arriving with a fixed grocery list.
One detail that does not appear on the portals: the market participates in Double Up Food Bucks Oregon and accepts Farm Direct Checks through the Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District. For households using SNAP, the produce dollars stretch further here than at any grocery store on Pacific Hwy.
Stacking the market into the rest of a Bull Mountain summer weekend
The morning market is the first block in a weekend that most residents assemble piece by piece without realizing the whole thing exists inside a five-mile radius.
Wednesday evenings in August, Tigard Concerts in the Park takes over Cook Family Park at 17005 SW 92nd Ave, running 5 to 8:30 p.m. with music starting at 6:30. It is free. The 2026 season includes Hit Machine, a five-piece dance-covers band led by Bart Hafeman, and the food vendor list on any given night reads like a mid-summer market extension: RB Wok & Grill, Asona Cuisine, Laura's Specialty Banana Bread, Kona Ice, Jonesin' for Azucar, Frutas Y Antojitos Diana's, Arrow Coffee & Desserts, and Cooper Mountain Ale Works. The Tigard Parks calendar carries the full lineup.
Thursdays in July and August, Music in the Plaza runs 5 to 7 p.m. at Universal Plaza in downtown Tigard, also free, also regional acts.
Once a summer, the Tigard Festival of Balloons turns Cook Family Park into a three-day event. The 2026 edition ran June 26 through 28 with a $17 three-day pass covering three morning launches, two Night Glow performances, seven concerts, the Landmark Ford Festival of Cars, a Stickmen Brewing beverage area, and a 5K in partnership with Tigard Parks and Recreation. On-site parking runs $15 per day, though pedestrian pathways from the surrounding neighborhoods make the walk-in option genuinely faster on Saturday morning.
Pull those pieces together and a Bull Mountain summer week has a market on Saturday, another shot at the same market on Sunday, plaza music on Thursday, and a park concert on Wednesday, all within a fifteen-minute drive of the ridge. The Portland trip becomes a choice rather than a default.
Practical notes
- Address: 14389 SW Pacific Hwy, Tigard. It reads as a parking-lot market from the road, which is exactly what it is. Regulars describe the setting as unpretentious and worth the stop; new visitors sometimes drive past twice before spotting it.
- Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., through the last weekend of October.
- Payment: Cash is easiest with individual vendors. The market participates in Double Up Food Bucks and the Farm Direct Check program.
- Best window: Arriving between 9 and 10:30 gets you the widest produce selection. Coming after noon gets you the best bakery discounts and a quieter walk.
- Parking: On-site, private lot. Peak times get crowded because the market shares its block with other businesses on Pacific Hwy.
The market has been at the base of Bull Mountain for a decade. Its main problem is not visibility. Its main problem is that most of us who live directly above it think of the weekend market as a Saturday commitment, forget about it by 11 a.m., and end up at Fred Meyer by default. Give it a Sunday instead. Buy the yellow watermelon. Ask Jeff and Lory Jensen what came off the pasture last week. Bring the olives to whatever you are doing that night.
If you are thinking further ahead than dinner, and considering a move within Bull Mountain or the surrounding Westside, Julie Williams is happy to talk through what daily life on the ridge actually looks like across the seasons, not just what a listing photograph promises. Schedule a consultation.
