The frequently-seen crisis on the unqualified vegetables and unacceptable low price of vegetables show that vegetable peasants are challenged by much more complex risks than other kinds of peasants.Based on the field study from a village in Shandong Province,this paper found that vegetable peasants have been totally involved in the running of market mechanism.The main risks peasants suffer from consist of natural risks that can be dealt with flexibly,market risks that can bring significant loss and technical risks that are unperceivable but detrimental to society.Peasants tend to be sensitive to the natural risk,a risk classified into the traditional risk,yet hysteretic and biased to the modern risk,such as the market risk and technical risk.Moreover,risk perception gaps,modern labor division,dualistic market structures and the lack of formal risk coping mechanism bring high risks to vegetable peasants.To improve vegetable growers’ capacity for coping with risks,efforts should focus on the building of peasants’ knowledge system,supports to females and the old,the regulation of orders of rural markets,improving the agricultural products markets domestically,fostering agricultural insurance markets and the construction of formal safety net.