If you moved to Irvine any time before 2024 and still steer toward Great Park Boulevard on a Sunday morning, you have probably driven past a lot of orange construction fencing and no produce tents. The market has not closed. It has moved, and the address it moved to is not one most residents would guess.
The short version: since November 10, 2024, the Certified Farmers Market that lived at the Great Park for years now runs out of Stonegate Elementary at 100 Honors, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Same operator, same vendors, same dogs. A different parking lot.
The address that matters through late 2026
The city's Great Park page confirms the relocation and lists Mary Ann Senske of myoccfm.com as the operator, still reachable at 714-733-3167. Hours held. The move was framed as temporary while the park works through its next construction phase, which means the Stonegate address is the working Sunday coordinate for at least the rest of this year and likely into 2027.
For anyone tracking the market by feel rather than by address, the tell is the crowd. On busy Sundays the school lot fills early, and vendors are set up in the same loose grid arrangement that used to run along the park's edge.
Why the market left the park
Three districts inside the Great Park hit heavy construction at roughly the same time, and the market's old footprint sat in the middle of it. The park board has approved and started work on three major zones simultaneously, which is unusual for a municipal project of this size.
- Cultural Terrace West. A 47-acre arts and culture district that has already been graded and is preparing for utilities work, with partners including Pretend City Children's Museum, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, and Orange County Music & Dance.
- The Bosque. Trails, playground construction, bridges, and the new park monument called The Arc, plus the Bosque Bridge over Great Park Boulevard.
- Heart of the Park. Roughly 210 acres between Cadence and Great Park Boulevard, being graded now for a 10,650-seat amphitheater with hillside seating for 3,500, four cascading lakes covering 22 acres, the Great Meadow, and the Grand Promenade running two miles between Cadence and the Irvine Train Station.
That is a lot of moving earth to route a farmers market through. Stonegate Elementary was the practical answer.
What Sunday at Stonegate actually looks like
The vendor lineup that made the market worth going to has held. Regulars still show up for the Great Park Farm produce, tamales, kettle corn, sourdough, and Eastern Tales Thai tea, which has picked up a following that borders on cult. Bao and dumplings turn over fast. Parking is easier than it was at the park on a busy morning, and the market remains dog-friendly, which is a small detail that decides Sundays for a lot of Irvine households.
A quiet upside of the school-lot arrangement: the footprint is smaller and denser, so a full loop takes less time than the old Great Park layout. If you are trying to be back home for a youth soccer game by noon, the Stonegate version of this market is a more efficient stop than the original ever was.
The Farm + Food Lab, the demonstration garden run with University of California Master Gardeners, still operates from the park itself even while the market has moved off site. That is worth knowing if you are trying to build a Sunday out of two stops rather than one.
The second-weekend layer
If the Stonegate market is the weekly anchor, the second weekend of every month has a second event that most Irvine residents outside of Woodbury do not know is on the calendar. Modern Makers Mart sets up along the palm-lined main street of Woodbury Town Center, with 2026 dates running the second Saturday and Sunday of each month. Summer hours shift to evenings, 3 to 8:30 p.m., through September. Winter dates return to daytime hours.
A juried craft market with a white-tent-only rule and a ban on MLM vendors is doing something specific: curating for shoppers who are tired of scrolling.
For a resident who already lives in Woodbury or the surrounding villages, that combination is quietly useful. Sunday morning at Stonegate for produce, then a walk-through at Woodbury Town Center in the early evening on the same weekend when Modern Makers Mart is up. Ralphs and Trader Joe's already anchor the center, so a grocery run folds into the same trip.
What changes late 2026
The Great Park will get its own retail spine back when The Canopy opens at the corner of Bosque and Great Park Boulevard. The project sits on 12 acres and delivers roughly 90,000 square feet of retail, dining, and daily services, with T&T Supermarket as the grocery anchor and In-N-Out already signed for the first phase. Almquist Development, the group behind Rodeo 39 Public Market in Stanton, is running it.
A separate piece of the same footprint is Hangar 10, a revitalized WWII hangar being converted into commercial space with modern interiors and outdoor seating under tree canopy. It is the city's slice of the retail plan and will connect to The Canopy through a promenade of shops and restaurants. Hangar 244, the 12,000-square-foot building nearby, is slated for retrofit into a food hall on the same axis.
The relevant question for a resident is what The Canopy's arrival means for where the farmers market lives after that. Nothing has been announced. The most likely scenarios are two: the market returns to a permanent home inside the park adjacent to The Canopy, or it stays at Stonegate because the school lot has proven itself as an accessible, parking-abundant Sunday site. Either way, the Stonegate era ends when the park has a defensible new location, and that will not be before The Canopy is open.
A Sunday route worth trying this August
For anyone who has been drifting away from the market because the old address stopped working, here is a workable rebuild for the last stretch of summer:
- 10:15 a.m. Arrive at Stonegate Elementary, 100 Honors. Park in the school lot. Loop the market once with a coffee before committing to purchases.
- 11:00 a.m. Produce and bakery pass. Eastern Tales Thai tea if the line is under six deep.
- 11:30 a.m. Drive five minutes over to the Farm + Food Lab inside the Great Park proper for a walk-through of the demonstration beds. It is a short stop and the kids run it out.
- Evening, second weekend only. Modern Makers Mart at Woodbury Town Center, 6460 Irvine Boulevard, from 3 p.m. Fold in dinner at one of the center's restaurants. August 8 and 9 are the next dates on the 2026 calendar.
That is a routine that works around construction rather than against it, and it uses the fact that Irvine's weekend geography is currently in flux instead of pretending the old map still applies.
The through-line
Residents who wait for The Canopy to open before rebuilding a weekend rhythm are giving up a full year of an interesting transition period. Stonegate Elementary is a temporary answer, but it is a good one, and the market's operator has kept the character intact. The park will eventually reclaim its Sunday morning, and probably improve on it. Until then the coordinate has changed and the produce is still worth the drive.
If a move inside Irvine is on your horizon, and proximity to weekend routines like this one factors into the calculus of which village to target, Molly Mentaberry can walk you through where the market's next likely home tilts value, which Irvine villages sit closest to the Bosque and Cultural Terrace, and what The Canopy's opening will and will not change about daily life on the north end of the city. Get your instant home valuation to start the conversation with a real number.
