Flower Mound Has Two Farmers Markets Now, and They Are Not the Same One

A neighbor mentioned over the fence that she'd swung by Parker Square on a Saturday morning expecting the farmers market and found the gazebo empty except for a jogger stretching against a lamppost. Another neighbor, two streets over, said he'd been showing up at the River Walk every Sunday for months and had no idea Parker Square had a market again at all. Both of them were right. Both of them were also missing half the picture.

Flower Mound didn't lose its farmers market. It grew a second one. If you're trying to plan a weekend around fresh produce, honey, or a folding table of handmade soap, which day and which parking lot you show up to now depends on what you're actually looking for.

What happened in 2024, and why it still confuses people

For nearly nine years, Parker Square was the address everyone in town associated with the Flower Mound Farmers Market. Then, on October 9, 2024, the shopping center's ownership ended that arrangement. The market's own Facebook post at the time called the decision "devastated," describing it as a blow to the vendors, many of whom were Flower Mound residents themselves, who had built their small businesses around that weekly foot traffic.

What most people don't remember, because it happened fast, is that the market didn't sit homeless for long. According to reporting from the Cross Timbers Gazette, the market announced its move to the River Walk just one day after the Parker Square news broke. That's the market most residents know today: Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 4203 River Walk Drive, run by Four Seasons Markets.

That should have been the end of the story. It wasn't.

The gazebo didn't stay empty

Sixteen months later, Parker Square brought a farmers market back to its own green space. Starting March 7, 2026, a new market began meeting at the historic gazebo on the first Saturday of each month, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. This isn't a comeback of the old market. It's a different operation entirely, run in-house by the shopping center rather than by an outside market company.

Jordan Payton, Parker Square's community relations manager, told Community Impact that the new market leans toward small businesses and curated goods rather than a weekly produce run. In her words, bringing the market back in-house allows the center "to thoughtfully curate vendors and create an experience that supports local businesses while giving families a place to gather."

That single design choice, monthly instead of weekly, curated instead of open, explains almost everything else about how these two markets now function.

Two markets, side by side

Nobody flagged that they share a name

Here's the detail that trips people up even after they know both markets exist. Parker Square's own website invites vendors to apply for a booth at "the Flower Mound Farmers Market, first Saturday, 9AM to 2PM." That's the exact name the River Walk market has used the entire time it's operated on Sundays. Two different operators, two different schedules, two different locations, and the same name on both sets of signage and social posts.

If a neighbor tells you they go to "the Flower Mound Farmers Market," that sentence alone doesn't tell you which day to show up. It's worth asking a follow-up question before you plan your Saturday, or your Sunday, around it.

Why the split actually makes sense

Once you separate the two by purpose instead of by name, the split stops looking like confusion and starts looking like specialization.

The River Walk market fills the role the original Parker Square market used to play: a weekly stop for produce, eggs, honey, bread, and jam, the kind of market you build a Sunday routine around because it's there every single week without fail.

Parker Square's version isn't trying to compete with that. A monthly cadence means it can't be your weekly grocery stop, and Payton's comments suggest that was never the goal. Instead it functions more like a monthly showcase, timed to a single Saturday so shoppers can pair it with everything else already on the square: the independent restaurants, the boutiques, the barber shop that's been there for years. Parker Square has also hosted the market's original home since a 2001 revitalization built around the town's oldest landmark, the 1854 Flower Mound Presbyterian Church just down the road. A monthly market fits that identity better than a weekly one would.

Dates worth putting on the calendar

• September 5: next first-Saturday market at the Parker Square gazebo
• October 3: first-Saturday market, timed to overlap with the debut of Purpose Pumpkins, a seasonal pumpkin display at Parker Square running through November 3
• November 7: first-Saturday market
• Every Sunday, year-round: the River Walk market continues on its normal 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. schedule
• April through November: Parker Square's monthly car shows continue to fill the same gazebo green space on separate weekends, so check which event is on the calendar before you head over

Which one earns a spot in your weekend

If you want the weekly rhythm, eggs and bread and produce you can count on every Sunday, the River Walk is your market. If you're the kind of shopper who'd rather make one trip a month count, paired with a walk through Parker Square's shops and a coffee afterward, the first Saturday is worth building a morning around.

Either way, the town didn't lose anything in 2024. It just ended up with two versions of the same tradition, running on different days, for different reasons, under the same name. Worth knowing before you plan next weekend around the wrong one.

Flower Mound keeps finding new ways to reinvent its own gathering spaces, and that kind of local texture is exactly what makes a neighborhood feel like home long before any moving truck shows up. If you're curious what a specific street or section of town is actually like to live in day to day, that's a conversation Mikel Porter Real Estate Group has with Flower Mound families all the time. Reach out anytime you want a local's read on a neighborhood, no obligation attached.