Eight Dallas-Fort Worth markets name honey in their own product listings or vendor rules, and three more reach it through a published vendor list. That is eleven of the 22 markets we researched first hand. The other eleven say nothing either way, which is not the same as having none.
Here is the sourced list, then how to find honey at a market that publishes nothing, and what the words on the jar do not tell you.
## Markets that name honey themselves
- Coppell Farmers Market, Saturday 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Honey appears as a shopping category, "Meat, Eggs & Honey," and in its vendor rules, which cover "raw, unprocessed products... to include honey." - Dallas Farmers Market (The Shed), Saturday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, year round. It publishes a category called "Honey & Preserves," described as "Local raw honey... from Texas producers." - Saint Michael's Farmers Market in Dallas, Saturday 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, mid-April to early September. Honey is named among its accepted specialty foods. - McKinney Farmers Market at Chestnut Square, Saturday, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM April through December and 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM January through March. Honey is listed under Food Specialties in its rules. See the McKinney city page. - Keller Farmers Market, Saturday 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Honey appears in the market's own description. - Rockwall Farmers Market, Saturday 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, May through September. Its homepage names honey among the specialty foods it is known for. - Frisco Rotary Farmers Market, Saturday, with the market's site stating 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Its homepage opens with "fresh local produce, local honey, pasture raised meat and eggs." - Wylie Urban Farm & Market, a year-round retail market open Friday and Saturday 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Sunday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and weekdays. Its product index carries three honey lines, including a raw wildflower honey from a named farm.
## Three more, through a vendor list
White Rock Farmers Market (Saturday 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM), Fair Park Farmers Market (Sunday 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM) and Tietze Park Farmers Market (Sunday 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM) share an operator, Good Local Markets, and a single vendor list. That list names a Dallas beekeeper selling "Honey, Bee pollen, and more," and a farm selling "eggs and honey."
A vendor list is a snapshot of who signed up rather than a standing category, so it is weaker evidence. It is still the market's own page.
Two further cases are weaker still, and we flag rather than count them. Cowtown Farmers Market publishes a dedicated honey page in its own site map, but we did not read that page. Saginaw Farmers Market at Switchyard lists two vendors with honey in their business names and names no honey category.
## How to find honey at a market that publishes nothing
Most DFW markets publish no vendor list, and many publish no product categories. In order of effort:
1. Message the market's own social page and ask whether a honey vendor is booked. Small markets answer quickly, and the person answering often assigns the stalls. 2. Go to the information booth first. Any market running a token or SNAP program staffs one, and that person knows every vendor on the lot. 3. Walk the whole market before buying. Honey sits with jams and preserves rather than produce, often one table at the end of a row. 4. Go early. Beekeepers often bring a fixed number of jars from one extraction and do not restock.
## What raw and local do not tell you
**Raw.** None of the 22 markets publishes a definition of raw honey, and none requires a vendor to meet one. The word carries whatever the seller means by it, which makes it a question, not a label: was it heated, was it filtered, and how finely.
**Local.** Markets publish sourcing radii, not hive locations. Several use a 150-mile radius, Keller requires product grown or produced within Texas, and the Dallas Farmers Market describes producers coming "from within 400 miles away." Honey sold under any of those rules is compliant and can still come from hives a long drive away. If proximity is the point, ask where the hives are, not whether the honey is local.
**Sold by the beekeeper.** Not always, and some markets say so in writing. Frisco Rotary's vendor page states vendors "may sell produce, meat and other products from other sources, but the product must come straight from the farm or location where it is made." McKinney allows up to 40% of farm-raised product to be acquired from other local farms, with the source named on booth signage. At a producer-only market such as Cowtown, which states "No re-selling allowed at our market at all," the person behind the jars keeps the bees.
We are not going to tell you what local honey does for your body. The market sites we read make no such claim, so neither will we.
Four questions cover it at the table: are these your hives, where are they, what is in bloom near them, and did you heat this. Browse markets by day, city and season in the full DFW market directory, and check what is in season.