On Saturday afternoon, October 17, the Larry P. Abraham Agri-Nature Center at 4920 Rio Grande Blvd NW will press apples into cider, roast chile and set out pumpkins for carving. The Fall Festival is free and runs from 2 to 6 p.m. Four weeks later, on November 14, the Growers' Market and the Art Market both hold their last weekly Saturday of 2026.
After those two dates, the village's farm calendar shifts from weekly to monthly, part of the work moves to weeknight classes, and the farm at the center of it all is in the middle of a master-planning process. For a Los Ranchos resident, the off-season is when the village decides what its farm will look like when the markets come back.
The same last day for both markets, different hours
The Growers' Market is in its 34th regular season. It has run every Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. since May 2. The Los Ranchos Art Market opened that same day and keeps an hour longer, 8 a.m. to noon. Both wrap up their weekly seasons on November 14.
After that, they split. The Growers' Market moves to the second Saturday of each month from December through April, 10 a.m. to noon. The first winter date on the Village calendar is December 12, at Hartnett Park, 6718 Rio Grande Blvd NW. The Art Market adds holiday weekends of its own before settling into the same second-Saturday winter pattern.
Here is the stretch from now until the winter routine begins:
- Saturday, October 17: Agri-Nature Center Fall Festival, 2 to 6 p.m.
- Saturday, November 14: Last weekly Growers' Market and Art Market of 2026
- Saturday, December 5, and Sunday, December 6: Art Market holiday markets, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Saturday, December 12: Growers & Art Markets at Hartnett Park, 10 a.m. to noon
- Saturday, December 19: Final Art Market holiday market, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
One caution for anyone who keeps a bookmarked page. The Village's Art Market page still lists last year's December 13 and 20 holiday dates. The current dates above come from the Los Ranchos Art Market's own schedule page. The Village is also launching a new website on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, and has asked for patience during the transition.
What the Fall Festival harvests
The Village frames the afternoon around the farm's own harvest:
"Celebrate the season's bounty with the Agri-Nature Center at our FREE annual Fall Festival! Enjoy market produce from the Ag Center and local farmers!"
The full lineup on the Village's workshops page includes apple cider pressing, chile roasting, pumpkin carving, local food trucks, beer and wine, arts and crafts, and music.
The Village describes the Agri-Nature Center as a regenerative agriculture site of more than 40 acres. It focuses on soil health, wildlife and pollinator habitat, and on growing and saving native, heirloom and climate-adapted seeds. The center runs 30 community garden plots and a medicinal-plant Healers Garden. It also has a fiber program built around churro sheep and trials crop varieties that include landrace chiles.
If you'd rather walk the farm than read about it, the center's Edible Trail has demonstration stops for the orchard, lavender, cover crops, honeybees, compost, raised beds, the vineyard, hops, the community garden, livestock, heritage grains and acequias. A 2026 community garden bed measures 35 by 3 feet and costs $60 for the season.
The farm is being redrawn while you're there
The Village is writing a master plan for the Agri-Nature Center. The plan is meant to bring the center's current programs, projects and infrastructure into one long-term vision for sustainable growth, community wellness and environmental stewardship. Once finished, the Board of Trustees will adopt it as an official policy document that guides current and future teams at the center.
Surroundings Studio, a New Mexico landscape architecture and design firm, is preparing the plan. A Master Plan Advisory Committee and Village staff are supporting the work. The first community open house took place at the center on Saturday, September 19, 2026. If you missed it, the Village is still taking input through an online survey linked from the master plan page.
The page promises updates and more chances for public input as the process goes on. The October 17 festival takes place at the same site while the survey is still open.
The program moves to weeknights
When the Saturday markets thin out, the center's calendar doesn't empty. It shifts to evenings. Two classes are on the schedule for the end of October:
- Healers Garden: Spiritual & Magical Uses of Plants, Tuesday, October 27, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Participants meet plants such as mugwort, then use plants harvested from the Healers Garden to make a dream bundle to take home.
- Sheep to Shawl: Sweater Repair, Wednesday, October 28, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A visible-mending class billed as the final session of the series, meant to keep favorite knitwear going another winter.
Both classes connect to programs described earlier. The Healers Garden and the churro sheep fiber program are standing parts of the center, so these classes are where the growing season's harvest turns into something people take home. Registration links for both are on the Agri Workshops page.
Across the road, the menu follows the same calendar
Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm sits on the same stretch of Rio Grande Boulevard, and its fall itinerary describes the same seasonal turn. Late-season tomatoes and squash give way to cool-season greens and root crops. Campo's seasonal menu moves toward winter squash, roots and hearty greens.
For anyone used to picking up a Saturday-morning pastry at the market, the Los Poblanos Farm Shop at 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW stays open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. It sells the estate's lavender products, Farm Foods pantry items, bakery goods and food from Campo's kitchen. Its bakery and coffee counter runs daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with pastries, breads, espresso drinks and sandwiches.
The estate's dated fall events cluster on weekends:
- Afternoon tea at La Quinta, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sundays, October 18 and 25 and November 15, 22 and 29, with seasonal sweet and savory bites and optional short docent-led tours
- A Kermit Lynch wine dinner, five courses built around the autumn farm, at La Quinta on Friday, November 6, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Details and reservations are on the Los Poblanos events page.
The Thursday chore that outlasts the market
One of the longer-running items on the village's late-fall calendar takes place on Thursdays. The Village green-waste drop-off at 8610 Rio Grande Blvd NW accepts limbs, leaves, grass clippings and other green waste from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Thursday through December 17, 2026, except holidays. It runs five weeks past the last weekly market and closes the week after the first winter Growers' Market at Hartnett Park.
If you're weighing a garden plot at the Agri-Nature Center, a pasture or an orchard of your own, or what the center's master plan could mean for your stretch of Rio Grande Boulevard, Origins Realty Group knows the North Valley's agricultural rhythm well. We're glad to talk through it any time, market day or not.
