Farms Near Cedar Rapids, IA

Cedar Rapids

Cultivate Hope Urban Farm, founded in 2012 by Matthew 25 on land cleared after the 2008 flood, is Iowa's first urban farm, growing pesticide-free fruits and vegetables on two acres in Cedar Rapids' northwest-side food desert. The harvest reaches neighbors through farmers markets, the Cultivate Hope Corner Store, and Groundswell Café, alongside community garden plots, youth programs, a 1,000-square-foot greenhouse, and a harvest festival.

Cedar Rapids' Downtown Farmers Market sets up at Greene Square on select Saturdays, 7:30 a.m. to noon, spring through fall. Local growers, bakers, and craftspeople line the 400 block of Third Avenue SE, and a "Market After Dark" version runs some evenings with music and food trucks. Downtown Cedar Rapids, the organization behind the event, can be reached at (319) 398-5317.

Cedar Rapids

NewBo City Market is a year-round indoor market hall in Cedar Rapids' New Bohemia District, not a seasonal outdoor stand. The nonprofit building at 1100 3rd Street SE houses food vendors, retail startups, and an entrepreneur incubator program, open Wednesday through Saturday 10am to 8pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Farmers market vendors set up alongside the permanent shops on select days — more storefront than folding-table market.

Cedar Rapids

Collins Rd. & Council St. NE Cedar Rapids

Noelridge is one of several neighborhood farmers markets that Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation operates directly, rather than leaving it to a nonprofit or chamber group. It runs seasonally at the Collins Road and Council Street NE corner in northeast Cedar Rapids. The city runs multiple markets across different neighborhoods on different days, so confirm the current location and hours with Parks and Rec before visiting.

Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids

Family-owned since 1991, this rural Cedar Rapids farm taps its own trees for 100% pure maple syrup, sold in sizes from a small glass decanter up to a 16-ounce jug. The Goldings also sell honey, garden vegetables, wild berries, and hay, all harvested by hand and grown without insecticides or herbicides. Visits are by appointment — call or email ahead before driving out.

Marion

East Post Pumpkins started in 2009 as a hobby patch and has grown into a self-serve roadside stand in Marion, open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. through the season. Alongside specialty pumpkins and mums, the farm grows fresh cut flowers — zinnias, sunflowers, strawflowers, peonies — plus honey and lavender, sold on the honor system rather than through a staffed stand.

Palo

Meadowview Farm, Inc. has worked its Covington Road ground outside Palo since being registered in 1996, growing field crops as a general crop operation. Mary Goodlove runs a WIC-approved store on the property, making it one of the area stops where WIC benefits cover farm-grown food. Phone 319-396-2010 for current availability.

Marion

Bart's Farm charges no admission or parking fee - pay only for what you pick or ride. The Alburnett Road farm runs pumpkins in every size, a small corn maze, hayrides, and weekend pony rides, open weekdays 3 p.m. to dark and weekends 9 a.m. to dark each fall through Halloween. It's built as an affordable, low-frills alternative to the bigger agritourism farms around Cedar Rapids.

Marion

Marion

Swisher

Honey Creek Acres is a Swisher-area farm categorized under tree-fruit and crop production in business directories, with honey listed among its offerings. Specific products, hours, and contact details aren't published online — confirm directly before planning a visit.

Atkins

Bloomsbury Farm calls itself Iowa's premier Adventure Farm, and the year-round calendar backs it up - a spring Bunny Bash and tulip festival, a baby-animal festival, and a fall festival with a full pumpkin patch and corn maze. Add a zip line, jumping pillow, super slide, and petting zoo, and it's built for a full day rather than an hour. The farm sits 10 minutes west of Cedar Rapids and 40 minutes north of Iowa City.

City Park Shellsburg

Shellsburg Farmers Market meets at City Park in this small Benton County town east of Cedar Rapids. Local growers set up to sell seasonal produce and homemade goods to neighbors through the summer months.

Mount Vernon

Solon

Shima Pumpkin Patch is a seasonal pumpkin farm on Highway 382 outside Solon, in Johnson County's cluster of fall patches. Hours and current offerings aren't posted online, so a call ahead is worth it before visiting.

Mount Vernon

Center Point

Simon Farm is located on Urbana Road outside Center Point in Linn County. No confirmed details on crops, hours, or activities are published online — call ahead to check what's currently open.

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Springville

Springville Farmers' Market meets at the Cox Lake Pavilion behind City Hall on Broadway, in this Linn County town northeast of Cedar Rapids. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to neighbors through the market season.

Hof Acres is registered in Iowa with no city, address, or matching website found in research. What this farm raises or sells is currently unverified.

Solon

Sundog Farm is a diversified vegetable farm located on the rolling hills between Solon and Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and is the principal vegetable grower for Local Harvest CSA. Sundog Farm was formerly ZJ farm, which was owned and operated by Susan Jutz and her family for over twenty years. In 1996 Susan started Local Harvest CSA in collaboration with other small farmers, and was always the principal vegetable grower. She has been committed to supporting and mentoring young farmers for many years, and

Solon

Solon

ABOUT IOWA GROWN A great love for Iowa, the outdoors, and fresh, natural foods were the inspirations that lead Vince Waters and Bethany Fischer to create Iowa Grown LLC in 2012. What started as a hobby quickly blossomed into the vibrant small farm they own today. "Our mission is to grow good produce! We believe in sustainable farming using organic practices, conducting good land stewardship, creating diverse green spaces and preserving a healthy soil." ​ STEWARDSHIP Read More > ​ For generations

Solon

Wild Woods Farm is Farmer Kate's CSA farm in rural Solon, just north of Iowa City, serving area families with organically grown vegetables since 2010. Members receive weekly boxes of seasonal, hand-selected produce picked the day of delivery — and because the farm is so close to town, they can visit and see exactly where their food grows.

Mount Vernon

Amana Farmers Market sets up on 220th Trail behind the Lehm Book Shop in the village of Amana, the largest of the seven historic Amana Colonies communities in Iowa County. The village sits just off Interstate 80, and the market runs during the warm months when day-trip and tour-bus traffic through the Colonies is heaviest.

Central City

Central City Farmers' Market sets up at Courtyard Park on South 5th Street in this Linn County town along the Wapsipinicon River, a short drive north of Cedar Rapids. The river bottomland here has long supported small produce operations that feed markets across the metro, and this one runs on the same summer-into-fall schedule as its neighbors.

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Mt Vernon

In 1946, Howard and Elizabeth Kroul married and began raising their five kids on a family farm south of Mount Vernon. They raised corn and soybeans as well as cattle and pigs. Their family values and strong work ethic were instilled in their children and a legacy was born. Today, Lizzy and Howard’s son, John, and his wife Kaylene, have transformed that farm into a modern marketplace for seasonal produce. They still raise the same traditional Iowa crops and animals as Howard and Lizzy did all tho

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Mount Vernon

Bass Farms sits on Highway 30 West outside Mount Vernon, in Linn County's stretch between Cedar Rapids and the Lincoln Highway corridor. It's a working farm running agritourism activities on the property.

Solon

This cut-flower farm sits between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, growing blooms it turns into wedding flowers from May through October. Brides can buy wholesale stems for do-it-yourself arranging or order finished bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, and full ceremony-and-reception florals directly from the farm.

North Liberty

Colony Pumpkin Patch bills itself as 'a little country in the city,' running a five-acre corn maze alongside pumpkin hunting, hayrides, and a playground just outside North Liberty. It's a compact operation aimed at families who want fall activities without driving out to rural farmland - eastern Iowa's version of a pumpkin patch reachable in fifteen minutes from Iowa City or Cedar Rapids.

Dean and Katie Colony run Colony Acres as third-generation farmers on ground their family has worked in North Liberty for close to a century. The farm grows pick-your-own pumpkins and a corn maze each fall, sells Christmas trees in winter, and closes down between seasons. Reach the farm at (319) 626-6091 or [email protected].

Mount Vernon-Lisbon's own market sets up downtown on Saturdays from May through September. Vendors bring fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, plants, and honey alongside jam, baked goods, meat, soap, and handmade crafts. It's a small-town market serving two Linn County communities that share a school district and a Main Street, so expect goods pulled from farms scattered around both towns rather than one single strip of stands.

Mount Vernon

The Marti family grows 2,200 apple trees across 20-plus varieties on their property west of Mount Vernon, and the on-farm store sells what the orchard doesn't move as fresh fruit — fried donuts, baked goods, and honey. It's a weekend operation, open Saturday and Sunday, closed the rest of the week, which keeps the pace closer to a small family orchard than a full-time retail operation.

Central City

Buffalo Ridge Orchard in Central City, Iowa grows quality local produce for its community, with a farm store open Tuesday through Saturday from May to mid-December. Its Collaboration CSA bundles 6–12 weekly items from the orchard and other local growers, while dedicated Apple Shares deliver 6–20 apples a week for the apple-a-day crowd.

Center Point

K and K Ranch grows raspberries for u-pick during July and August outside Center Point, a shorter and less crowded picking window than most eastern Iowa berry farms. There's no storefront or elaborate website - visitors call ahead to check ripeness and hours before driving out. It's a small, seasonal operation worth planning around rather than a spontaneous stop.

Urbana

Ebert Honey has grown from the roughly ten backyard colonies Phil Ebert kept at his Fairfield, Iowa home in 1980 into a multi-location operation with facilities in Lynnville and Mount Vernon, plus commercial pollination work in California. The family business sells honey, beeswax, pollen, and live bees — packages, nucs, singles, and queens.

Vinton

Frazier Nursery has grown windbreak trees and shrubs for Iowa farmers and livestock producers for more than 20 years from its Vinton location between Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. The Frazier family — John, Carolyn, Liz, and Alex — also handles tree planting, moving, and spading for shade trees and landscaping jobs, and partners with Iowa 4-H and FFA on youth tree-planting projects.

Amana Colonies Farmer's Market sets up on V Street in Homestead, one of the seven original Amana villages founded by the Community of True Inspiration in the 1850s. The Amana Colonies are a National Historic Landmark and one of Iowa's most-visited tourist stops, built on a communal economy before the 1932 change to private enterprise. A market here runs alongside the villages' long-standing furniture shops, wineries, meat markets, and bakeries.

Lovely Bunches operates out of a Newport Road property northeast of Iowa City, in Johnson County's mix of farmland and small acreages. The name points to a flower-growing operation rather than a produce farm.

Iowa City

Oxford

Blueyah grows 300 blueberry bushes under organic practices on a small u-pick farm 15 minutes west of Iowa City. Picking works by appointment: an $11 reservation fee applies $10 of it toward your total, with a $10 minimum purchase, or a group of five or fewer can pick for $6 a pound. It's a scenic, small-scale operation, not a commercial-size pick-your-own.

Coralville Farmers Market sets up on 7th Street in this Johnson County city that shares the Iowa City metro with its larger neighbor across the Iowa River. Coralville Lake and its reservoir sit just north of town, and the market draws both from area growers and the university-town foot traffic that moves through the metro all summer.

Iowa City

Walker Homestead farms 80 acres outside Iowa City, growing produce for its own kitchen and grapes for wine made on-site, then serves both through farm-to-table dinners and private events. The farm opens to the public Thursdays only — 5 to 9pm April through October, 4 to 8pm November through March — with other times available by appointment. Reach them at 319-351-4791 or [email protected].

Lisbon

Wild Prairie Acres is a small farm in Lisbon, in Linn County in eastern Iowa, near the Cedar River corridor between Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon.

Iowa City Farmers Market runs at 460 E. Washington Street in downtown Iowa City, steps from the Pentacrest and the University of Iowa campus. A university town this size tends to draw a wide mix of produce growers, bakers, and prepared-food vendors to its market. Days and vendor lineups shift with the season, so check locally for the current schedule.

Iowa City

This bicycle tour once routed riders through Iowa City-area farms for tastings of local produce and fermented foods, pairing a 30-mile paved "Cherry Tomato" loop with a 60-mile paved-and-gravel "Beet-it-Up" route. The event has since been rebranded as the RadTour Bike Ride and still raises money for the Farm to School program and youth cycling groups. Search for RadTour to find current dates and routes.

Iowa City

Field to Family works to create a more local, healthy and sustainable community-based food system in the Iowa City/ Cedar Rapids region. Field to Family is a nonprofit local food hub offering farm to school education, serving multiple school districts, the University of Iowa, food access agencies, local businesses and other institutions in east central Iowa as well as individual residents and households by increasing access to- and demand for- healthy and local foods. The organization works in partnership with 30+ food service professionals, 60+ local farmers and value - added agricultural enterprises to procure, store, promote and deliver locally-grown foods and food products while ensuring food safety, freshness and quality.

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Van Horne

2-Jo's Farm & Western Town is a Van Horne-area agritourism stop with a Western-town theme built into the name. Hours, activities, and contact details aren't published online — worth a call before visiting.

Lucky Star Farm is listed simply as an Iowa operation, with no city, address, or website turning up in research. Nothing verifiable is available yet on what the farm raises, grows, or sells.

Sycamore Mall Farmers Market fills the parking lot at 1660 Sycamore Street in Iowa City. Growers from the surrounding Johnson County countryside sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers on the city's south side.

Mercer Park Farmers Market sets up at 2701 Bradford Drive on Iowa City's east side, a second, neighborhood-level market alongside the larger downtown Iowa City Farmers Market. Mercer Park is primarily known for its softball complex and pool, and the market runs on the same park grounds through the growing season.

Iowa City

The site of the Orchard was purchased by German immigrants, Leonhard and Catherine Degen Brack. The Bracks had met and married in Brooklyn, New York. Their path West took them West to Ontonagon County, Michigan. There, Leonhard worked in the mines. Their first born son, Peter, arrived in 1854. Shortly afterwards, Leonhard left his wife and infant son and traveled by boat to Dubuque, Iowa where he worked in the Mines of Spain. Highway 1, the military highway, surely brought him to Johnson County