Farms Near Chicago, IL

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Pilsen Community Market runs two seasons: Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. outdoors from June through October, then indoors on the third Sunday of the month from November through mid-April. It's operated for more than a decade, connecting Pilsen's local artisans, farmers, and makers directly with neighborhood shoppers. The winter indoor run is a longer season than most Chicago markets offer.

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Iron Street Urban Farm Market operates on the urban farm site at 3333 S. Iron St. in Chicago, land Growing Power originally developed for sustainable agriculture and food-access programming on the South Side.

The Urban Canopy runs Chicago's Local Unified CSA out of a two-acre farm on the South Side, bundling produce from a network of local growers into weekly or biweekly shares instead of growing everything itself. The same operation handles residential, commercial, and event compost pickup, and delivers both the produce and empty compost bins with an all-electric vehicle fleet. It's food-system and waste-system work under one roof.

Green City Market's West Loop location sets up Saturdays, 8am–1pm, at 900 W. Monroe Street through late November. Like the market's other sites, vendors are Midwest farmers selling sustainably raised produce, meat, and dairy directly, and SNAP/Link/EBT shoppers get their food dollars triple-matched. It runs alongside the market's larger Lincoln Park location and an indoor winter market in Avondale.

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Etablished in 2016, The Hive Supply Company is Chicago’s premier beekeeping supply store. We are dedicated to providing top-quality supplies for all your beekeeping needs. From hive tools and protective gear to feeders and honey extractors, we have everything you need to keep your bees happy and healthy. As beekeepers ourselves we not only manage our own hives and harvest the honey to sell in our store, online and at farmers markets, but also maintain hives for businesses and organizations in an

Printers Row Farmers Market, also listed as the South Loop Farmers Market, runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., mid-May through the end of October, in Printers Row Park near Dearborn and Polk. It's pet-friendly, a detail that matters in this dense South Loop neighborhood where most residents don't have yards. Produce and prepared foods from Chicago-area vendors fill the stalls.

City Market at Federal Plaza is one of the City of Chicago's downtown farmers markets, running seasonally on the plaza at Adams and Dearborn in the Loop. It's a lunch-hour market built for office workers, with produce, flowers, and prepared foods from Illinois growers and food makers, operated under Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events market program.

Downtown office workers know this one as the Tuesday market at Federal Plaza, Adams and Dearborn, in the Loop. It's a City of Chicago market selling fresh produce, flowers, prepared foods, and Chicago-made goods against the backdrop of the federal complex.

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Great Lakes Common Market is the Chicago-region hub of The Common Market, a nonprofit wholesale food distributor that moves produce from small and mid-size family farms into schools, hospitals, and other institutions. The Great Lakes hub operates out of Bedford Park and practices values-based procurement, prioritizing local sourcing and food access across the region. It does not sell directly to walk-in shoppers.

Chicago Honey Co-op keeps beehives on vacant and reclaimed lots across Chicago, one of the city's longer-running urban apiary cooperatives. Members raise the bees and bottle raw honey and beeswax candles, and the co-op runs beekeeping classes for anyone new to the craft. Products turn up at Chicago-area markets and through direct orders — there's no single retail storefront.

Plant Chicago runs its farmers market, Mercado de Intercambio, on the second Saturday of each month — 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in warmer months at 45th and Marshfield, moving indoors to Southside Social from February through April. Link matching doubles produce purchases up to $25, and the market takes food scraps for community composting. It's monthly, not weekly, so mark the second Saturday specifically.

Daley Plaza Farmers Market brings Illinois growers into the heart of the Loop, at Washington and Dearborn outside Chicago's civic center. It's part of the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events market program, drawing downtown office workers during the growing season for produce, flowers, and prepared food.

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Legends Farm is an urban farm on Federal Street in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, built on ground once occupied by the Robert Taylor Homes. The site grows fresh produce for the surrounding community and doubles as an event space, holding a 4.6-star rating across dozens of Google reviews. It's one of the city's clearer examples of vacant land turned working farmland.

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Closed Loop Farms is a year-round urban farm at The Plant in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood, growing hand-harvested microgreens, herbs, edible flowers, and salad greens in soil using beyond-organic practices. The farm partners with local farms and chefs for home grocery delivery and wholesale, while creating reliable, quality work for its community.

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A seasonal pumpkin lot in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood on North Clark Street, selling pie pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks, and hay bales through fall. It also runs $20 pumpkin-carving parties that include a medium pumpkin, carving kit, table space, and decor.

Faith in Place, an Illinois interfaith environmental nonprofit, runs a rotating set of winter markets inside Chicago houses of worship, including Temple Sholom, Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park, and Congregational Church of Jefferson Park. This Lake Street listing is one stop on that circuit, offering produce and goods from regional farms once outdoor markets close for the season.

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Midwest Foods is a family- and women-owned food supplier based at 3100 W. 36th Street in Chicago, with a second facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The company supplies restaurants and professional kitchens with fresh produce, pre-cut ingredients, and specialty dry goods across 125,000 square feet of SQF-certified space. It holds Certified Women's Business Enterprise and MOSA organic certifications and sources from regional growers.

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Amish & Healthy Foods at 1025 N. Western Avenue in Chicago stocks non-GMO and organic products made with traditional handcrafted methods — from Sacred Blossom Farm herbal teas to organic coffee and spices — open seven days a week.

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Chicago Patchwork Farms is a BIPOC-led urban farm serving Chicago's West and Southside, growing nutrient-dense vegetables with organic practices across three locations including Chicago Ave and The Plant. All produce is offered on a sliding scale so no one is turned away, through seasonal farm stands, a summer CSA, farm dinners, skill shares, and volunteer days.

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The Wicker Park & Walsh Park Farmers Markets bring regional farmers, food producers, crafters, and small businesses to the heart of Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood all season long. Run by the Wicker Park & Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, the markets pair fresh, sustainably produced local food with live music and community events.

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Star Farm is a nonprofit urban farm that's operated in Back of the Yards since 2016, growing kale, chard, collards, tomatoes, and root vegetables on land that used to sit vacant. It runs a storefront market at 5256 S. Ashland Avenue with a deli, produce, and farm eggs, plus a CSA with weekly deliveries. Beyond selling food, the farm trains and employs neighborhood residents — the market is one piece of a larger operation.

The Streeterville market sets up Tuesdays, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the outdoor plaza of the Museum of Contemporary Art at 220 E. Chicago Avenue. The Streeterville Organization of Active Residents, a neighborhood group founded in 1975, has run it since 2015. Produce, baked goods, and flowers rotate with the season, and several vendors sell lunch on-site, a rarity for a market built mostly around office workers and residents on foot.

SOAR Farmers Market sets up on the Museum of Contemporary Art's plaza every Tuesday, June through October, rain or shine. The Streeterville Organization of Active Residents — a neighborhood group founded in 1975 — has run it since 2015, and it draws around 21 vendors selling produce, flowers, baked goods, cheese, and spices. It's a lunch-hour market as much as anything, timed for the office crowd around Michigan Avenue.

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creativity through urban agriculture. Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago, Illinois working to build a more just and equitable local food system. We aim to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, our mission is to cultivate nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing, and creativity through urban agriculture. We provide hands-on job tra

West Town Health Market operates out of 2233 W. Division Street, running spring through fall with extended weekday hours to fit working schedules. Vendors sell fresh, seasonal produce, and the market accepts SNAP/EBT. Details on this year's exact days are best confirmed directly, since seasonal markets like this one shift schedules year to year.

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The SOAR Farmers Market runs every Tuesday from mid-May through early November, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the MCA Plaza in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood. Run by the Streeterville Organization of Active Residents, the market offers fresh produce, baked goods, flowers, and light lunch options from local vendors.

Farm on Ogden operates less like a weekend pop-up and more like a neighborhood grocery store. Chicago Botanic Garden's Windy City Harvest runs it year-round at 3555 W. Ogden Avenue in North Lawndale, open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., stocked with seasonal, locally grown produce, plants, and seeds.

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Division Street Farmers' Market fills a stretch of Wicker Park with produce, stone fruit, microgreens, and cut flowers from Illinois growers, alongside goods from neighborhood food makers and small businesses. The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce operates the market and handles vendor and shopper questions directly.

Bronzeville's market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June through September, at 47th Street and King Drive, in partnership with The South Side Sanctuary. SNAP and EBT are accepted at the table. Expect fresh, locally grown produce alongside prepared foods and handcrafted items from South Side vendors — the market's Instagram carries weekly vendor lists.

The Illinois Farmers Market Association isn't a market itself — it's the statewide nonprofit that trains and certifies the markets and vendors who are, running SNAP/WIC certification, webinars, and a "What's in Season" shopping guide out of its Paulina Street office in Chicago. It's the group to contact if you run a market, not a place to buy produce.

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Sonny Acres Farm has operated in West Chicago since 1883, when German immigrants Ferdinand and Anna Nagel founded it as Oakwood Farm. Generations later it runs as a year-round destination — pumpkin patch and fresh produce in fall, pony rides, train rides, and animal feeding on a rotating schedule through the rest of the year.

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The Lincoln Park Farmers Market runs Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through November, and accepts SNAP and EBT. It's operated for years near 2001 N. Orchard Street, though recent seasons have shifted it toward Lincoln Park High School as the neighborhood's market footprint gets reshuffled. Distinct from Green City Market's separate Lincoln Park location, this one runs independently under its own name.

Green City Market's Lincoln Park location runs Wednesdays and Saturdays, 7am–1pm, at 1817 N. Clark Street through late November. It's the market's original and largest site, built around Midwest farmers selling sustainably grown produce, pasture-raised meat, and dairy, with SNAP/Link/EBT shoppers getting triple-matched dollars on fresh food. The nonprofit behind it also runs West Loop and an indoor winter market in Avondale.

Ujamaa Co-op runs a rotating farmers market through Chicago's South Side, with a stop at 4857 S. Evans Avenue alongside stands at senior buildings and other neighborhood locations. Shoppers find fresh produce, baked goods, and flowers from local vendors, and the market matches SNAP/Link purchases up to $25. Days and stop locations shift through the spring-to-fall season, so checking their Facebook page before heading out is worth it.

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A free autumn festival at Lincoln Park Zoo running Friday through Sunday, September 26 through October 26, 10am to 5pm. Activities rotate weekend to weekend but typically include pumpkin picking, s'mores over a fire pit, pumpkin-carving demos, and fall-themed animal enrichment throughout the zoo.

A one-day fall event at Humboldt Park run jointly by the Chicago Park District and the Humboldt Park Advisory Council, built around pumpkin painting and other kid-focused activities rather than a full patch to walk through.

West Humboldt Park's farmers market has run for more than a decade, community-organized rather than city-run. It sets up Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., seasonally, at 3601 W. Chicago Avenue, selling organic, locally grown produce and accepting LINK benefits. The market operates on donations, so support beyond a purchase helps keep it running.

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E.G. Woode Food Hub operates out of a storefront on West 63rd Street in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. Beyond the name and address, no details on hours, offerings, or ownership are published online — reach out directly to confirm what's currently available.

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Sloanstead keeps beehives in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood and sells honey drawn entirely from those local hives, plus a soap line made with the honey and beeswax through a partner maker. Two additional hives are hosted at Keeler Gardens nearby. Sales run through an online Square store with contactless pickup in Irving Park only — no shipping, and the honey regularly sells out before the season ends.

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IMAN's Fresh Beats and Eats Farmers' Market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., from late May through late September at 2744 W. 63rd St. on Chicago's South Side. The Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a nonprofit founded in 1997, organizes it as part of a broader health and wellness mission, selling produce, eggs, milk, and meat direct from local growers.

IMAN Health and Wellness Farmers Market shares its 2744 W. 63rd St. address with IMAN's Fresh Beats and Eats market — both grow out of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network's health and wellness programming on Chicago's South Side, connecting neighbors with fresh produce as part of the nonprofit's broader holistic health work.

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Hyde Park Farmers' Market runs Sundays, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through October, at Hyde Park Square. It bills itself as a growers' market — every vendor is a family farm using regenerative or humane practices — selling produce, meat, eggs, cheese, cut flowers, and prepared foods, with preordering available through some vendors.

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The Nettelhorst French Market fills North Broadway in Lakeview every Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., from mid-April through October. Run by Bensidoun USA, the operator behind French-style markets in cities across the country, it uses the same producer-vendor model that built its reputation on Chicago's north side. Shoppers who can't make it in person can order from market vendors online instead.

The Hyde Park Farmer's Market sets up in the Hyde Park Bank parking lot at 54th Street and Lake Park Avenue every Sunday, June through September, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. It's organized through Downtown Hyde Park Chicago rather than the neighborhood's other well-known market on 61st Street — Hyde Park has more than one, and this is the one anchored closer to the University of Chicago campus.

Sidetrack Market is listed at 3349 N. Halsted Street in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. Little public information exists beyond the address, so specifics on vendors, hours, and season aren't available — check directly with the market before visiting.

Green City Market's Avondale location is the organization's indoor winter market, opening once the outdoor Lincoln Park and West Loop markets close for the season. It runs under the same nonprofit, with SNAP/Link/EBT shoppers getting triple-matched dollars at every location. Specific Avondale hours and dates weren't posted at the time of research — check current listings before visiting.

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One of the City of Chicago's neighborhood markets, Ashburn sets up at 6700 S. Kedzie Avenue with a seasonal lineup of produce, local meats, and specialty goods from area farms. Like the city's other ward markets, exact weekly hours are set by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events program rather than a standalone market group, so it's worth confirming the current-season schedule before visiting.