The Newton Farmers' Market holds its last Saturday of 2026 on Oct. 31, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Newton North High School lot at 352 Lowell Avenue. The Tuesday market at Cold Spring Park, 1189 Beacon Street, ends its season Oct. 27. On a calendar, that looks like the end of the outdoor season. It isn't. Newton's produce season runs three more weeks and closes on Saturday, Nov. 21, back at Cold Spring Park. Between those two dates, Saturday mornings move off Lowell Avenue and into village rooms, one fixed date per weekend.
The real last market morning is Nov. 21
Two things keep fresh produce available after Oct. 31.
The first is the Newton Community Farm stand, in the red shed on the Winchester Street side of the farm. It stays open through Saturday, Nov. 21, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Thursday and Friday hours are 2 to 6 p.m., and the farm says the stand will close at dusk as the days get shorter. Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Parking is on either side of Winchester Street. Along with what the farm grows, the stand sells fruit, vegetables and eggs from partner farms. The stand sometimes closes for extreme heat or thunderstorms, and the farm posts updates on its Instagram and Facebook pages.
The second is a one-day Holiday Harvest Market that Newton Parks & Recreation has on its farmer and vendor registration page. It runs Saturday, Nov. 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Cold Spring Park, the same lot that hosted the Tuesday market all summer.
So the season's real close is a single Saturday morning with two stops. The Holiday Harvest Market opens at 9:30 on Beacon Street, and the farm stand closes for the year at 1 p.m. on Winchester Street. Before that morning come three weekends with no market at all, and the calendar fills them village by village.
Three weekends, five villages
| Date | What | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat., Oct. 31 | Final Newton Farmers' Market Saturday | Newton North High School, 352 Lowell Ave. | 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
| Sun., Nov. 1 | Free Museum Day | Jackson Homestead | 10 a.m.–5 p.m. |
| Sat., Nov. 7 | Friends Annual Book Sale | Druker Auditorium, Newton Free Library | 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. |
| Sat., Nov. 7 | Carroll Center for the Blind 90th Anniversary Open House | Carroll Center for the Blind | 1–4 p.m. |
| Sat., Nov. 14 | Woman's Club of Newton 23rd Annual Craft Fair | Hyde Community Center and Woman's Club Workshop, 90 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands | 10 a.m.–4 p.m. |
| Sun., Nov. 15 | 3rd Annual Newton Children's Book Festival | American Legion Nonantum Post 440, 295 California St. | 11 a.m.–3 p.m. |
| Sat., Nov. 21 | Holiday Harvest Market | Cold Spring Park, 1189 Beacon St. | 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
| Sat., Nov. 21 | Last day of the Newton Community Farm stand | Winchester St. side of the farm | 9 a.m.–1 p.m. |
All summer, the markets ran on a fixed weekly schedule at two set lots. November spreads things out. Each weekend sends people to a different part of the city, and most of these events happen once a year.
Nov. 1 and Nov. 7 start at the museums and the library
Historic Newton offers free admission to the Jackson Homestead and the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds on the first weekend of each month. The two houses keep different days. Durant-Kenrick is open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Jackson Homestead is open Sundays over the same hours. The OurNewton November calendar lists Free Museum Day on Sunday, Nov. 1, which makes it a Jackson Homestead day. The next listing is Sunday, Dec. 6.
The following Saturday is the busiest day in the stretch. The Friends of the Newton Free Library Annual Book Sale runs Nov. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the library's Druker Auditorium. In their OurNewton listing, the Friends describe it as their most anticipated event of the year and promise "a hand-picked selection of only the best books."
That afternoon, the Carroll Center for the Blind holds a free 90th-anniversary open house in Newton from 1 to 4 p.m. The Center's OurNewton calendar listing calls it a chance to "honor our past, celebrate our impact, and look ahead to the future." The two events don't overlap much. The book sale has its strongest hours before lunch, and the open house begins as the sale enters its last two and a half hours.
Nov. 14 and 15 bring Highlands and Nonantum back to back
The middle weekend splits between two villages that the summer market never reached.
On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Woman's Club of Newton's 23rd Annual Craft Fair fills the Hyde Community Center and the Woman's Club Workshop at 90 Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. The club's listing promises handmade goods from a range of craftspeople, plus a Pop-Up Café and face painting.
On Sunday, Nov. 15, the 3rd Annual Newton Children's Book Festival comes to a new home. According to the organizers' April 19, 2026 announcement, the festival has moved to American Legion Nonantum Post 440 at 295 California Street. It runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and expects more than 100 children's book authors and illustrators. Admission is free.
The details that matter for a family afternoon come from the same announcement:
- Books: The Toadstool Bookshops, an independent New England bookstore, sells the titles authors sign.
- Kids: There is a free craft table.
- Lunch: Sweet Tomatoes Pizza will be in the parking lot selling slices, cash or Venmo only.
- Backing: Read Your World, a Newton-based literacy nonprofit, received a Newton Culture Council grant for this year's festival. Sponsors include The Drucker Group and The Village Bank, and the Friends of the Newton Free Library and the New Art Center are among its community partners.
David A. Kelly, author of the Ball Park Mystery series and one of the festival's organizers, said in the announcement that book festivals "give young readers a chance to connect with the authors and illustrators behind their favorite stories and experience books in a whole new way."
Taken together, the two days work as an early holiday-shopping weekend. Handmade goods are in the Highlands on Saturday, and signed books are in Nonantum on Sunday, with more than two weeks still to go before December.
Nov. 21 brings the season back to Cold Spring Park
After three weekends in different villages, the season ends where the Tuesday market spent its summer. The Holiday Harvest Market at 1189 Beacon Street runs three hours, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Newton Community Farm stand opens its last Saturday at 9 a.m. and closes at 1 p.m.
That makes the timing tight. Both stops share roughly the same morning window, and the Saturday after is Thanksgiving weekend. Anyone shopping for the holiday table has one morning to visit both: the city market on Beacon Street and the farm's red shed on Winchester Street. The Thursday and Friday stand hours that week, which end at dusk, are the last weekday chances of the year.
Two openings to watch in Newton Corner and Newton Centre
Restaurant openings in Newton have been slow to arrive this year, so two of them deserve a mark on the calendar with a caveat attached.
CircleBack Kitchen & Bar at 292 Centre Street in Newton Corner is the nearer one. In August, Fig City News reported that it had not opened despite an announced January date and was hiring. A BostonChefs job listing posted Oct. 16 says the restaurant opens "this November." The restaurant's own site still reads "Opening Soon!" with no date.
Lockheart at 70 Union Street in Newton Centre is less certain. Boston.com's Sept. 17 openings roundup gave it an opening date of the week of Sept. 20. Fig City News had reported in August that the restaurant was still waiting on state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission approval and expected to open within weeks of getting it. Check its status before planning a Saturday dinner around it.
If CircleBack keeps its November target, Newton Corner gets a new dinner option the same month the market season ends. And on Nov. 21, the last farm stand morning on Winchester Street wraps up at 1 p.m.
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