Farmers Markets near Adel, IA

Adel Farmers Market runs Tuesdays through the summer at 611 Nile Kinnick Dr. S. in Adel, Iowa, and is listed on the community calendar kept by the Adel Partners Chamber of Commerce. The chamber, reachable at 515-993-5472, handles vendor and event questions for the market alongside its other Adel signature events.

Waukee Farmers Market meets at Triangle Park, on 6th Street and Ashworth Drive, in this fast-growing Dallas County suburb west of Des Moines. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

The Perry Farmers Market runs Thursday evenings, 4 to 7pm, from early June through late September, on 2nd Street between Willis Avenue and Warford downtown. It accepts SNAP EBT and matches purchases through Double Up Food Bucks, stretching grocery budgets for the Dallas County families who shop it. The Perry Chamber of Commerce organizes the market and books at least one food vendor most weeks alongside the produce stands.

Winterset

Stuart Farmers Market sets up at City Park on South Division Street in this small Guthrie County town along the historic Lincoln Highway in central Iowa. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

West Des Moines

Global Greens Farm, run by Lutheran Services in Iowa, reconnects former refugee farmers with the land on an 8.5-acre incubator farm at Valley Community Center in West Des Moines — providing land access, business training, and technical support that has generated over three-quarters of a million dollars in farmer sales. Shop the weekly Global Greens International Market on Carpenter Avenue Saturdays May through October, or join the CSA to support new-American farmers.

Valley Junction's market takes over the 100 to 300 blocks of 5th Street in West Des Moines every Thursday from May through September, 4 to 8 p.m. More than 80 vendors set up weekly with fresh produce, baked goods, plants, arts and crafts, and prepared food, alongside a beer garden with live music. The Historic Valley Junction Foundation, which also runs classic car shows on the first and third Thursdays through August, organizes the event.

Johnston Farmers Market sets up at 6221 Merle Hay Road in Johnston, a Des Moines suburb in Polk County best known as headquarters to Corteva Agriscience's Pioneer seed business. Suburban markets in the Des Moines metro tend to run larger than small-town ones, with a wider mix of produce, meat, and prepared-food vendors on a given Saturday.

Des Moines

Des Moines

LSI Global Green Farmers' Market sets up in the parking lot of LSI's Refugee Connection Center at 3200 University Avenue in Des Moines. LSI is Lutheran Services in Iowa, a refugee resettlement agency that runs agricultural training for New Iowan farmers, so expect growers from that program selling alongside more typical produce stands.

Des Moines

Iowa's largest farmers market spreads across 12 city blocks along 4th Street and Court Avenue every Saturday from May through October, 7 a.m. to noon (8 a.m. in October). The Greater Des Moines Partnership produces it, drawing roughly 305 vendors from 74 Iowa cities selling produce, meat, cheese, eggs, baked goods, plants, and ready-to-eat food. SNAP/EBT, Double Up Food Bucks, and Produce Rx are accepted, and live music runs most weekends.

Parks Neighborhood Farmers Market runs out of a Euclid Avenue address on Des Moines' north side. Little independent information is available online beyond directory listings, which suggests this is a small, neighborhood-scale market rather than one of the city's larger organized markets like the Downtown Farmers' Market. Confirm hours locally before visiting.

Des Moines

This market sets up outside Highland Park Lutheran Church on East Euclid Avenue, serving Des Moines' Highland Park neighborhood on the city's north side as a closer alternative to the larger Downtown Farmers Market.

Guthrie Center's market operates along South 4th Street in this Guthrie County seat in west-central Iowa, a modest outlet for area growers in a county better known for Guthrie Lake and Springbrook State Park.

Southridge Mall Farmers Market sets up at 1111 East Army Post Road on Des Moines' south side. Growers from the surrounding Polk County countryside sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers in the mall parking lot.

Uptown Ankeny Farmers Market gathers at SW 3rd Street and SW Maple Street in this fast-growing Polk County suburb north of Des Moines. Local growers sell seasonal produce direct to area shoppers.

This market operates on Des Moines' east side at 3200 Delaware Avenue, giving neighborhood shoppers a closer option than the larger Downtown Farmers Market across the river.

Main Street Greenfield's Farmers Market sets up on the Public Square in Greenfield, the Adair County seat in southwest Iowa. Square-based markets like this one are a fixture in small Iowa county seats, with local growers selling off the courthouse lawn through the summer growing season.

Pleasant Hill

The Community Farmers Market of Pleasant Hill meets Mondays, 4 to 7pm, June through August, at Berean Church on East University Avenue. Its vendor rule is stricter than most Iowa markets: if you didn't grow it, raise it, bake it, or make it yourself, you can't sell it here, no resale tables allowed. More than 40 vendors show up alongside a rotating lineup of food trucks, live music, and a free kids' train.