The Longwood Farmers Market Moved to Saturday. The City's Own Website Didn't Get the Memo.

If you walked down to Reiter Park on a Sunday morning this fall expecting tents, produce boxes, and the smell of kettle corn, you found an empty pavilion. The Longwood Farmers Market has been running on Saturdays for months now, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., according to the city's own live event calendar. Several other pages on that same city website still tell you it's every Sunday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Neither page is fake. Neither is malicious. The city calendar pages list different schedules for the market; check a dated live calendar entry before planning a visit.

Two pages, two answers

Here's what the record actually shows as of this September:

Both sets of pages carry the city seal. Both look current. Only one matches what's actually posted at the pavilion on a given weekend this fall. If you're planning around the market rather than just stumbling into it, the live calendar entries with actual September dates are the ones worth trusting over the generic recurring listings.

This isn't a market that's struggling to find its footing. Reiter Park is the busiest it's been in years. The city put more than $5 million into rebuilding the park before its 2019 grand opening, and that investment turned a plain patch of green into the anchor for most of what happens in Longwood's Historic District: the weekly market, Movie in the Park nights, seasonal car shows, and the Freedom and Fireworks event each July. The park's calendar reflects the range of activity in the district, from weekly markets to seasonal events.

Different counts for the festival's anniversary

Reiter Park sits inside the same six or so walkable blocks as the annual Longwood Arts and Crafts Festival, and published listings give different anniversary counts for the event.

The city's own "Why Longwood" page states plainly that the festival "will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2026." Meanwhile, the festival's promotional listings for the same stretch of years count differently. One recent city calendar entry called it the 48th Annual Longwood Arts & Crafts Festival. A festival-tracking site lists last year's event as the 49th annual. Another organizer's page describes 2026 as the 50th.

The differing counts don't change the festival's practical details: it's held the weekend before Thanksgiving along the tree-lined streets of the Historic District, admission and parking are free, and it typically draws more than 150 vendors selling handmade goods, jewelry, and seasonal decor, with food, beer, wine, and music mixed in. Whether you call it the 50th or the 60th, the weekend itself hasn't moved.

What's actually within a five-minute walk

Reiter Park doesn't sit in isolation. It's part of a compact historic core built when Longwood grew up as a stop on the South Florida Railroad, and the buildings from that era are still standing, still in use, and still close enough to fold into the same Saturday morning trip:

• The Bradlee-McIntyre House, an 1885 Queen Anne cottage moved to the district in 1973 and now open for tours on Wednesdays and Sundays
• The 1873 Inside-Outside House, a prefabricated New England structure shipped to Florida by schooner, now home to a business called Culinary Cottage
• Christ Episcopal Church, built in 1879
• The Longwood SunRail station, a block from the park, with direct rail access toward Winter Park and downtown Orlando

The old Longwood Hotel, dating to the district's original rail-stop era, went through a million-dollar restoration in 1986 and now runs as professional office suites rather than lodging. It's still one of the visual anchors of the district even though its function changed decades ago, which tracks with the rest of downtown Longwood: the buildings stay put, the uses shift underneath them.

Why this is worth knowing if you already live here

None of this changes what the weekend actually offers. The market is real, the vendors show up, the festival happens every November like it has for decades. What it changes is how you plan around it. A resident checking a city page for "when is the farmers market" may encounter outdated information, while the festival's anniversary count varies by promotional page.

Downtown Longwood in late 2026 is a Historic District that's more active than it's been in years, anchored by a park that got a real capital investment and now hosts something most weekends, sitting inside a cluster of historic buildings. Market schedules and festival anniversary counts vary across listings, so it's worth checking a dated entry when planning a visit.

If you're mapping out a Saturday, start at the pavilion, not the search result. Walk the loop past the Bradlee-McIntyre House and the Inside-Outside House while the market's still open, catch the SunRail platform on your way back, and treat any listed day or anniversary number as a starting point rather than a fact carved in stone.

For a closer look at what makes this part of Seminole County distinct beyond a single weekend, the Longwood neighborhood guide from Corcoran Premier Realty keeps a running picture of the area worth bookmarking if you're the kind of resident who likes knowing what's actually happening around the corner.