Farmers Markets near Brainerd, MN

Brainerd

Lakes Area Growers Market sets up at 1001 Kingwood St in Brainerd, at the Franklin Arts Center lot, running Tuesdays and Fridays from mid-May through mid-October. Vendors sell in-season fruit and vegetables raised within 50 miles of the market, plus bedding plants, honey, preserves, and homemade baked goods. Locals have voted it the top farmers market in the Lakes Area.

Baxter

Baxter Market sets up Fridays from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., mid-May through October, in the Westport Shopping Center parking lot between Pizza Hut and Keller Williams. About ten vendors rotate through as the season builds, including Stone Hill Farm and Thorson's Farm Fresh Produce, selling produce, buffalo meat, baked goods, and candles. It's one stop on the Brainerd Lakes Area Farmers Markets circuit.

Baxter

Nisswa

Nisswa Farmers' Market runs Thursday mornings, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., mid-May through October, in the American Legion parking lot in downtown Nisswa. Vendors bring fresh, locally grown produce alongside handcrafted items and other locally sourced goods, drawing from the wider Brainerd Lakes Area farm community.

Crosby

Cuyuna Range Farmers' Market fills Main Street Plaza in Crosby every Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October. Fifteen to twenty-five vendors show up on a given week with farm-fresh produce and crafted goods, and the market accepts SNAP/EBT. It sits in the middle of the old mining towns that give the Cuyuna Range its name.

Little Falls

Little Falls

Pequot Lakes

Ideal Green Market Co-op runs a Saturday farmers market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., alongside its natural foods grocery store at 34988 Co Rd 39 in Pequot Lakes. The co-op format ties the market into the store's existing base of natural and local-foods shoppers in the Pequot Lakes area.

Aitkin

Onamia

This market at 108 Wall St in Onamia runs through the spring and fall growing season, selling locally sourced wild rice, maple syrup, honey, seasonal produce, and homemade bread and preserves — much of it grown or gathered around the Mille Lacs Lake area. Most, though not all, of the produce is grown without chemical inputs. It's a small operation built around what the region actually produces well.