Farms Near Des Moines, IA

Des Moines

We are accidental farmers. We started out attempting to get an abandoned pocket park cleaned up and updated. That started a multi-year journey working with the Parks and Rec department and City Council to allow the neighborhood itself to decide what would be done with a lot that is directly next to my home. In the end, my husband and I were allowed to convert this old and vacant once-upon-a-time park into a market garden space. This was in 2016, and from there we have only grown in scale and sco

Des Moines

Center Street Farmers' Market sets up at 1401 Center St. in Des Moines' River Bend neighborhood, just north of downtown. No current vendor list, season dates, or organizer contact were found online to confirm what's sold or when the market runs.

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Chair: Rachel Binning, Corteva Agriscience (2025) Vice Chair: Jim Hoyt, GROWMARK, Inc., retired (2024) Secretary: open Treasurer: Christine Augustine, Canterbury Enterprises (2025) Jane Hatfield Anchustegui, retired middle school teacher (2023) Amara Huffine, Madison County Chamber of Commerce (2025) Marion James, James Law Office (2024) Barb Kalbach, Madison Co. Hospital, retired (2024) David Wallace Murray, American Clean Power Association (2024) Michelle Wilson, Southern Iowa Resource Conserv

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The Downtown Farmers’ Market, presented by UnityPoint Health – Des Moines, connects urban and rural communities while supporting local entrepreneurs, including farmers, producers, bakers and artists from all across the state of Iowa. Des Moines’ Downtown Farmers’ Market is produced by the Greater Des Moines Partnership. Dates: May – Oct. Times: 7 a.m. – Noon History Since 1976, the Downtown Farmers’ Market has hosted vendors and patrons from counties across Iowa. Farmers, growers and artisan foo

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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A Brief History The Beaverdale Farmers Market launched in 2012 at Beaverdale Park on Adams Avenue, hosting around 30 vendors weekly. From 2013 thru 2015, the market was located at 3422 Beaver Avenue, next to Boesen the Florist. From 2017 to 2019 the market was held on Urbandale Avenue on the west side of Beaver Avenue. We are currently at 4801 Franklin Avenue in the Franklin Junior High parking lot on the north and west side of the building. Double Up Food Bucks The Beaverdale Farmers Market par

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Dogpatch Urban Gardens is Des Moines' destination for local food, where FarmHer Jenny bottles small-batch, farm-inspired salad dressings made with clean non-GMO ingredients and heart-healthy avocado oil — gluten-free, dairy-free, no added sugar. Born from an urban farm, the brand now sits on Hy-Vee shelves across the metro, alongside weekly homesteading tips, recipes, and stories from the Quiner family homestead.

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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.

Just Iowa Honey runs five home-based apiaries in Des Moines, bottling small-batch, unpasteurized honey in varietals like black locust, linden, and wildflower alongside comb honey and beeswax goods. The operation builds custom honey favors for weddings and events and curates a Heritage Collection gift line; visits to the Crestmoor Drive location are by appointment.

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The Iowa State Fair runs each August at the fairgrounds on East Grand Avenue in Des Moines, drawing more than a million visitors over eleven days. It's one of the oldest and largest agricultural and industrial expositions in the country, built around livestock competitions, commodity displays, and the state's 4-H and FFA programs alongside midway rides and concerts.

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.

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.

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Quilted Gardens and Nursery in Des Moines carries both common bedding plants and less typical varieties, backed by landscape design and installation services. The nursery's inventory changes throughout the season, and they keep a Facebook page updated as new stock arrives. Customers can also order through an online store for local pickup, in addition to shopping the retail lot in person.

Ankeny

Bob's Aronia Field grows aronia berries, also known as chokeberries, in Ankeny in the Des Moines metro area. Aronia is a small, tart, deep-purple fruit increasingly grown in the Midwest for juices, jams, and fresh eating.

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.

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.

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.

Urbandale

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.

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Urbandale

Spread across 500 acres in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale, Living History Farms walks visitors through three centuries of Iowa agriculture — an 1700 Ioway farm, an 1850 pioneer farm, and a 1900 horse-powered farm — plus a reconstructed 1875 townsite, all staffed by costumed interpreters.

Cumming

Ted's Garden Center is on Cumming Avenue in Cumming, a small Warren County town just south of Des Moines along the Raccoon River Valley Trail. It's a garden center serving the metro's southern suburbs.

Indianola

The Garden Barn sells plants as its main focus out of a post-and-beam barn built in 1886 on Highway G24 outside Indianola, rounding out the inventory with gifts, antiques, garden art, wreaths, and wind chimes. A display garden and gazebo sit alongside the shop. It's open seasonally, April through December, and welcomes groups by arrangement.

Bondurant

Geisler Farms sits on NE 94th Avenue outside Bondurant, a fast-growing Polk County suburb northeast of Des Moines. It's a working farm running agritourism activities on the property.

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Carlisle

Carlisle Farmers' Market sets up on Highway 5 in this Warren County town just south of the Des Moines metro. Carlisle has grown quickly as a bedroom community over the last two decades, and the market serves both the newer subdivisions and the older farm families still working the ground around town.

Ankeny

Van Dyke Sweet Corn sells sweet corn from its stand in Ankeny, one of the fastest-growing suburbs north of Des Moines. No independent listing confirms current hours or season dates — check locally before visiting.

Ankeny

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Bondurant

Bondurant Farmers' Market sets up at Main Street SE and Grain Street NE in one of the fastest-growing suburbs on the northeast edge of the Des Moines metro. Polk County's sprawl has turned Bondurant from a small farm town into a bedroom community within a generation, and the market gives the newer subdivisions a direct line to the row-crop country still surrounding them.

Indianola

Granger

Iowa Orchard grows more than 20 apple varieties, including Honeycrisp and Jonathan, on its Granger u-pick grounds, with a separate farm market in Urbandale selling homemade pies, preserves, and raw honey. The farm runs apple picking from September into mid-October, summer u-pick berries by appointment, and a pumpkin patch through Halloween.

Altoona

Upstream Gardens & Orchard sits on NE 88th Street in Altoona, on the eastern edge of the Des Moines metro near Adventureland. It's an orchard and garden operation in a fast-growing suburban corridor.

Altoona

Ericksons Orchard grows pick-your-own apples on NE 38th Avenue outside Altoona, backing the orchard with a bakery, fresh cider, and a country store. The farm hosts an annual Applefest with live music and food vendors and is open seven days a week, 9 to 4 Monday through Saturday and 9 to 2 on Sunday.

Altoona

Elkhart

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The Holton Homestead's domain name is currently listed for sale rather than hosting an active farm website, and no other listing, address, or contact for this Iowa operation turned up in research. What the homestead grows or sells is unverified.

Waukee

You are here: Home / About Us About Us View Larger Map Located Near You! L.T. Institute of Preventive Medicine L.T. Organic Farm and Clinic 32513 Ute Avenue Waukee, IA 50263 (515)987-3561 [email protected] We are located on I-80. We are five minutes from West Des Moines Why our CSA Once weekly when you are here we harvest your food. This ensures you know who handles your food and guarantees your produce is locally-grown, fresh-harvested, and vine-ripened, directly from the plant to your plat

Cumming

Howell's Greenhouse and Pumpkin Patch sits 25 miles south of Des Moines off I-35, with an 8-acre corn maze as the anchor and a long list of add-ons: wagon rides, a paintball range, pedal go-karts, a corn cannon, and goat cuddling during the season's first few weekends. The farm stand sells kettle corn, caramel apples, and cider donuts. It runs daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through the end of October.

Elkhart

Prudent Produce delivers organic produce, meat, dairy, and pantry staples straight to doorsteps across central Iowa, sourcing locally whenever the season allows. The family farm in Elkhart runs the area's only organic produce home-delivery service, built around a CSA model rather than a pickup site. Everything ships free of synthetic chemicals. Customers order through the farm's website and get boxes delivered on a set weekly schedule.

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Indianola Farmers Market sets up at the fairground entrance on West 2nd Avenue, on the Warren County Fairgrounds south of Des Moines. Fairground-based markets in Iowa typically run weekly through the growing season, with growers selling sweet corn, tomatoes, and other produce straight from the truck bed. Indianola draws from the farm country ringing Des Moines' southern suburbs.

Prole

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.

Prole

Eden Ridge Acres sells raw milk and honey from A2/A2 registered Jersey cows, grass-fed on pasture and supplemented with GMO-free sprouted grain. The family farm near Prole has run since 2017, adding chemical-free produce, pastured poultry and eggs, and farm-made teas and jams alongside the dairy program. Milk moves through cow-share arrangements rather than a retail counter, standard practice for raw milk in Iowa.

Mitchellville

Mitchellville

Pumpkinville charges no general admission - walk in free and pay only for the corn maze, pumpkins, or produce you actually want. The fourth-generation family farm sits two blocks south of Casey's, about 12 miles from the I-80/I-35 interchange in Des Moines, with a full corn maze plus a smaller maze built for younger kids. Hayrides and seasonal decorations round out the visit, and the family has run the place for more than 30 years.

Huxley

Huxley's market sets up on West Railway Street in this fast-growing Story County town between Ames and Ankeny, giving area growers a stop in one of central Iowa's fastest-expanding suburbs.

Maxwell

Madrid

The Cellar Winery makes wine from cold-climate grapes at its Madrid location, pouring in a tasting room open Friday 2 to 9pm, Saturday 2 to 7pm, and Sunday 1 to 7pm — closed Monday through Thursday. The winery hosts live music and weddings alongside regular tastings. Call 515-367-7777 for the current event calendar.

Cambridge

Center Grove Orchard grows more than 34 apple varieties across 20 acres outside Cambridge, open for pick-your-own from May into June and again August through December. Beyond apples, the farm runs a store with a restaurant and online ordering, plus pumpkins, a corn maze, hayrides, and farm animals for kids. It's built for repeat visits across two separate seasons rather than one fall trip.

Maxwell

Stewart Family Farm in Maxwell runs an on-farm market with u-pick, we-pick, and CSA pickup options rather than a typical roadside stand. Dan and Kirsten Stewart started the operation in 2018, growing it from a market garden into a full CSA and pick-your-own setup. Call ahead at 515-967-6963 to check what's ready for picking that week.

Saint Charles

Two Saints Winery & Vineyards is a winery and vineyard operation in Saint Charles, south of Des Moines in Madison County's rolling hill country.