St. Andrews Country Club's Sunday Secret Isn't Behind Boca West's Gates

By 9:30 on a Sunday morning, a stretch of asphalt in Parking Lot H at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus has already turned into something else entirely. Yoga mats go down first, laid out for a free community class before the vendor tents even finish opening. By the time the mats roll back up, the smell of wood-fired pizza and fresh sourdough has taken over, a coffee trailer is running its first line of the day, and a musician is setting up somewhere near the produce stalls. Nobody at the gate checked a membership number to get in.

That last detail matters more than it sounds like it should, because a few miles away, one of West Boca's most exclusive addresses pays a company to build the exact same kind of morning, minus the part where anyone can just show up.

The Market That Outgrew Its Own Parking Lot

The Boca Farmers Market started small and in a different spot. It debuted on April 27, 2025 at 7900 Glades Road, tucked behind the Hilton Suites at the southeast corner of Glades Road and the Florida Turnpike, built around the idea that a city Boca Raton's size didn't actually have a proper year-round Sunday market. Early write-ups described the original lineup as fresh produce, microgreens, raw milk, baked goods, plants, a coffee trailer, and a lemonade truck.

It didn't stay there long. By October 19, 2025, the market announced a move to the Boca Raton Innovation Campus at 4950 Communication Avenue, framing the relocation in plain terms: it had outgrown its old spot. The new site brought more shade, more parking, and a vendor count that had already climbed past 75. A few weeks later, a local news write-up put the number at more than 85 small businesses, just six months after launch. The market's own site now describes the roster as having grown to 90-plus curated vendors, calling itself one of the premier farmers markets in Palm Beach County, and it runs every single Sunday, all year, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

That growth curve, roughly doubling in six months and continuing to climb into 2026, is the kind of thing that tends to attract attention from people who run private clubs.

What's Actually There Every Sunday

The current lineup, based on what the market itself lists and what recent coverage has described on site, includes:

• Organic coffee and cold-pressed juice
• Mushrooms and microgreens
• Organic sourdough bread and breakfast sandwiches
• Specialty items like grape pies and wood-fired pizza
• Raw dairy, grass-fed meats, and local honey
• Handcrafted skincare, along with vegan, gluten-free, and seed-oil-free options across the board
• Free 9:30 a.m. community yoga and live music through the morning

It's family and pet friendly, parking is free, and there's no cover charge to walk through. None of this is a pop-up experiment. It's a full Sunday format that repeats every week of the year.

The Same Operator Runs a Private Version, Just Not for Everyone

Here's the detail that changes how you should read all of this. The company behind the Boca Farmers Market, run by longtime Boca Raton resident Jess Del Vecchio, doesn't just operate the public Sunday market at BRiC. According to the company's own site, it also curates a separate, private, seasonal farmers market exclusively for Boca West Country Club, built specifically as a members-only amenity. The same team runs a weekday lunch market at BRiC and manages a roughly 60-vendor market in Deerfield Beach through a partnership with that city.

"Creating community-centered spaces around local food and local makers is both my passion and my profession."

That's Del Vecchio's own description of the work on the company's site, and it fits what's actually happening on the ground. Boca West wanted the amenity enough to commission a private version of it for members only. But the version anyone can walk into, the one sitting at BRiC every Sunday, has grown into the larger and more consistent of the two. Boca West's market is seasonal, meaning it runs for part of the year and sits dormant the rest. BRiC's runs 52 Sundays a year. One is a perk with a gate around it. The other is the same operator's flagship, open to the public, and it's the bigger show.

For a resident of St. Andrews Country Club, a private club that doesn't have its own version of this amenity, that distinction is the whole point. The thing Boca West pays to wall off is sitting in a parking lot a short drive away, unwalled, and bigger.

Getting There From St. Andrews

St. Andrews sits just north of Clint Moore Road in West Boca Raton, one of the private club addresses tucked into the same general corridor as Woodfield, Boca West, and the Polo Club, all of them threaded together by Clint Moore Road, Yamato Road, and the Turnpike. BRiC sits east along that same Yamato Road corridor, inside the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, a straightforward drive without much in the way of turns.

If you're heading over, the market runs every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 4950 Communication Avenue, with parking in Lot H. Bring a reusable bag if you're planning to leave with sourdough and produce both, because vendor space fills up and lines at the popular stalls tend to build by mid-morning. The market's own site keeps an updated list of that week's vendors if you want to plan around a specific stand.

Why This Is Worth Knowing If You Already Live Here

West Boca's private clubs have spent years competing on amenities that used to be internal: golf course redesigns, clubhouse renovations, spa additions. What's happening with the farmers market is a quieter version of the same instinct, except this time the amenity got built by an outside operator who also decided to run a public version at scale. That's a different kind of neighborhood infrastructure than a golf course or a tennis complex. It's not tied to a membership roll, it doesn't require initiation fees, and it grew because enough people showed up on their own, week after week, until a parking lot in an office park became one of the more reliable Sunday habits in West Boca.

If you live inside St. Andrews, that's worth filing away the next time someone asks what the neighborhood is actually like day to day, separate from the club itself. The gates keep some things in. They don't keep the good market out.

Rich and Ann at The Entel Group spend a lot of their time tracking exactly this kind of detail, the small shifts in West Boca that tell you more about how a neighborhood actually lives than any listing sheet can. If you're already part of the St. Andrews community and ever want a resident-level read on what's happening with a home nearby, or you know someone weighing a move into this stretch of West Boca, that's a conversation worth having with people who track it closely.