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Fairfax County Park Authority

Also known as: FCPA, Fairfax Parks

The Northern Virginia parks-and-recreation agency that operates 5+ producer-only farmers markets across Fairfax County, VA — Burke, Herndon, Kingstowne, Lorton, McLean, and others. Part of the broader Fairfax County government, with parks, recreation centers, and historic sites alongside the farmers-market program. The producer-only standard at FCPA-operated markets is enforced county-wide, making the FCPA network one of the largest single-agency farmers-market systems in the DC metro region.

What they do

The Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) is the parks-and-recreation agency of Fairfax County, Virginia — Northern Virginia, DC’s inner suburbs. Among its many programs is a network of producer-only farmers markets across the county.

Markets in the directory

  • [[burke-farmers-market]] — Burke
  • [[herndon-farmers-market]] — Herndon
  • [[kingstowne-farmers-market]] — Kingstowne / Alexandria
  • [[lorton-farmers-market]] — Lorton
  • [[mclean-farmers-market]] — McLean

(Additional FCPA markets exist across the county; [[directory|the directory]] will add them as individual entries are created.)

Producer-only standard

All FCPA-operated markets enforce a county-wide producer-only standard — vendors must be the growers or makers of what they sell. This is unusual for a county-government farmers-market system; most county-run markets accept mixed-vendor models. FCPA’s producer-only commitment is one of [[directory|the directory]]-relevant editorial signals.

Why it’s listed

A county-government parks agency that operates 5+ producer-only farmers markets is institutional food-system infrastructure that [[directory|the directory]]‘s knowledge-care tier exists to recognize. [[directory|The directory]] tracks FCPA at the organization level so individual markets can reference it via operated-by relations rather than recapitulating the county-government context in each entry.

Bioregional fit

Fairfax County sits in Northern Virginia — inner suburbs of DC, inside the [[chesapeake-tidewater]] watershed.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Shares approach with: [[farmers-market]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]
  • Contained by: [[chesapeake-tidewater]]
  • Operates: [[burke-farmers-market]] · [[herndon-farmers-market]] · [[kingstowne-farmers-market]] · [[lorton-farmers-market]] · [[mclean-farmers-market]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farmers-market]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[chesapeake-tidewater]] in [[directory|the directory]].

What links here, and how

Inbound connections from across the wiki, grouped by lens and by relationship. These appear automatically — every entity page declares what it links to, and that data populates here on the targets.

Practical

operated by

  • Burke Farmers Market operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority — Northern Virginia county parks-and-recreation agency running 5+ producer-only farmers markets across Fairfax County
  • Herndon Farmers Market operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority — Northern Virginia county parks-and-recreation agency running 5+ producer-only farmers markets across Fairfax County
  • Kingstowne Farmers Market operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority — Northern Virginia county parks-and-recreation agency running 5+ producer-only farmers markets across Fairfax County
  • Lorton Farmers Market operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority — Northern Virginia county parks-and-recreation agency running 5+ producer-only farmers markets across Fairfax County
  • McLean Farmers Market operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority — Northern Virginia county parks-and-recreation agency running 5+ producer-only farmers markets across Fairfax County

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