Farmers Markets near Kenosha, WI

Kenosha

This market meets at Columbus Park, at 22nd Avenue and 54th Street in Kenosha, part of the city's set of neighborhood park markets held on different days across town. Kenosha sits on Lake Michigan at Wisconsin's southeastern corner, and area growers supply seasonal produce through the warm months. The Columbus Park location gives the surrounding central-city neighborhoods a nearby market of their own.

Kenosha

The Lincoln Park market runs at 18th Avenue and 70th Street in Kenosha, one of the neighborhood markets the city stages at different parks through the season. Southeastern Wisconsin growers bring produce, plants, and baked goods during the warm months. Locating a market at Lincoln Park gives residents on this side of Kenosha a walkable option close to home rather than traveling to a single central market.

Kenosha

One of several neighborhood markets the City of Kenosha runs at different parks, this one meets at Baker Park near 66th Street and Sheridan Road, close to Lake Michigan on the city's east side. Kenosha County and southeastern Wisconsin growers bring seasonal produce through the warm months. Spreading markets across parks lets different Kenosha neighborhoods each get a local option during the growing season.

Kenosha

Kenosha

Kenosha

Kenosha

Kenosha

One of Kenosha's neighborhood markets, this one sets up at Pennoyer Park near the Lake Michigan shoreline on the city's north side. Expect a summer-and-fall lineup of southeastern Wisconsin produce, along with eggs, honey, baked goods, and plants from area growers. The lakefront park setting makes it an easy morning stop before a walk along the water.

Kenosha

Kenosha HarborMarket runs along 2nd Avenue near the downtown harbor and Lake Michigan, drawing produce growers, bakers, cheesemakers, and craft vendors on summer weekends. The market sits close to the electric streetcar line and the city's harbor-side museums, so shoppers often pair a visit with a lakefront stroll.

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sturtevant

This market runs along Durand Avenue (Highway 11) in Sturtevant, a Racine County village in southeast Wisconsin between Racine and the interstate. Area growers bring seasonal produce, flowers, and baked goods through the warm months. Sturtevant is best known as home of the region's Amtrak Hiawatha station on the Milwaukee-to-Chicago line, and the market gives the fast-growing western Racine suburbs a local spot to buy direct from farmers.

This market runs in the West Racine business district at 3100 Washington Avenue, a few miles inland from Racine's Lake Michigan shore. Racine County's farmland and greenhouses supply the produce, flowers, and bedding plants vendors bring through the season. Racine is famous for Danish kringle, and local bakers often turn up alongside the growers. The Washington Avenue location serves the city's west-side neighborhoods with easy parking.

Shiloh Blvd Zion

Zion Market Days runs Thursdays from mid-June through late September at Shiloh Boulevard and Sheridan Road, organized through the Zion Park District's Shiloh Park programming. Vendors sell fresh local produce and artisan food products in a straightforward weekly setup. Call (847) 746-5056 for current vendor and schedule information.

The Bristol Farmers Market meets at 19801 83rd Street in Bristol, a Kenosha County village in Wisconsin's far southeastern corner near the Illinois line. Area growers bring seasonal vegetables and homegrown goods through summer and fall. The location sits close to Bristol's village center, an easy stop for southern Kenosha County shoppers.

Racine

Racine's downtown market sets up near State and Erie streets, close to the Root River and the Lake Michigan harbor. The city is Wisconsin's kringle capital, and the market pairs that Danish-bakery tradition with local produce, flowers, and cheese through summer. It is a lakefront market a short walk from the marina and downtown shops.

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Union Grove

This producers-only market at 1614 South Street in Racine stays open year-round, four days a week: Tuesday 1-6, Friday 8-1, Saturday 7-2, and Sunday 10-4. More than 40 Wisconsin vendors sell fresh vegetables and fruit, herbs, cut flowers, plants, meat, cheese, seafood, honey, nuts, maple syrup, jam, soap, baked goods, and prepared foods. The indoor-outdoor setup keeps it running through winter.

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Union Grove

This market meets in Village Square Park at Main Street and 10th Avenue in downtown Union Grove, a Racine County village in southeast Wisconsin's growing exurbs between Milwaukee and the Illinois line. Local growers bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, flowers, and baked goods through the summer. The village-park setting keeps it close to the shops of the small downtown and makes it an easy weekly stop for nearby residents.

Racine

This market operates at 4838 Douglas Avenue on the north side of Racine, a Lake Michigan port city between Milwaukee and Kenosha. Racine County's farm country supplies the region, and area growers bring seasonal produce through the warm months. It is a neighborhood-scale market on the Douglas Avenue corridor rather than one of Racine's larger downtown or waterfront events.

Racine

This north-side Racine market sets up in the parking lot of St. Andrew Lutheran Church at 1015 Four Mile Road, apart from the downtown Monument Square market. Local growers bring seasonal produce, flowers, and homemade goods to the Caledonia-edge neighborhood through the summer. It gives shoppers on Racine's north side a farm-direct option close to home. Vendor turnout follows the growing season.

Held in the lot at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 1015 Four Mile Road, this seasonal market draws area farmers and makers on Racine's north side. Tables carry garden vegetables, eggs, baked goods, plants, and handmade items as they come into season. The church-hosted setting makes it a neighborhood gathering as much as a produce stop. Hours track the summer growing months.

Gurnee

Gurnee Farmers Market runs Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., from early June through early September at Saratoga Square. Local farmers and makers set up for locally grown produce and artisanal goods, with the vendor lineup shifting through the season as different crops come into harvest.

Taste of Eden Market is listed at 13 N. Genesee Street in downtown Waukegan. Some directories categorize it as a grocery and prepared-food shop rather than a produce market, so what's actually for sale here may differ from a typical farmers market — confirm directly before visiting if you're after fresh produce specifically.

Antioch

Set inside Sequoit Creek Park at 845 Main Street, the Antioch market now runs alongside the village's Food Truck Festival and Sequoit Saturdays as one combined Saturday event, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from late June through August. Expect fresh produce and local vendor booths in addition to the food trucks. The Village of Antioch manages vendor applications each season through its parks department.

Antioch

Village of Antioch, Parks & Recreation is a local farmers market located in Antioch, IL in Lake County. A community farmers market supporting local growers and producers.

Hainesville

Center and Whitney Streets Grayslake

Grayslake Farmers Market is a nonprofit that runs three seasons a year in Historic Downtown Grayslake: Saturday mornings each spring and fall in Centennial Plaza, then Wednesday afternoons through summer on Center Street. Vendors sell fresh and prepared foods, arts and crafts, with live music and kids' activities filling out the corner of Center and Whitney.

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South Milwaukee

The Lake Forest Open Air Market sets up seasonally at 695 N. Western Avenue on Chicago's North Shore. Specific hours and vendor lineups change year to year, and little beyond the address is published online — worth a call to the city to confirm before visiting.

Mundelein's Saturday market runs 8 a.m. to noon, June through September, on Park Street between Lake and Seymour downtown. Every vendor sources from within 200 miles, so the produce, meats, flowers, and cheese on the tables reflect what's actually growing in northern Illinois that week. Admission is free, and the market leans on teenage volunteers, 13 and up, to help run it.

This Fox Lake market runs Tuesdays, 4 to 8 p.m., June through September, at School Court. Vendors sell fresh produce, baked goods, snacks, and crafts in this Lake County lake town.

Vernon Hills

This market runs on N. Lake Avenue in Twin Lakes, a Kenosha County resort community on the Illinois border known for Lake Mary and Lake Elizabeth. The 'St. John's' name points to its host site in the village, where southeast Wisconsin growers set up through the summer with produce, flowers, and homemade goods. Its lakeside location draws both locals and weekenders down from Milwaukee and up from the Chicago suburbs.

Cudahy

Cudahy's market meets at 3500 Library Avenue, outside the public library in this working-class suburb on Milwaukee's south lakefront. The town grew up around Patrick Cudahy's meatpacking works, and the market gives south-side residents a warm-season source for local produce, baked goods, and eggs. It runs through summer and into early fall.

Greendale

The Greendale Open Market runs in the village's historic downtown at Broad Street and Schoolway. Greendale is one of three federal Greenbelt towns built in the 1930s, and its walkable village center gives the market a distinctive setting. Vendors bring southeastern Wisconsin produce, crafts, and food through the warm season, drawing residents into the historic core. It stays closer to a village community market than a large regional draw.

Greenfield

The Greenfield Farmers Market is a seasonal Sunday market organized by Greenfield Parks & Recreation at Konkel Park in Greenfield, Wisconsin. It features local vendors, musicians, and a monthly makers market on the first Sunday of each month.

Milwaukee

This market anchors Milwaukee's Garden District, a neighborhood on the city's far south side near 6th and Howard. The district takes its name from the area's market-gardening past, when truck farms fed the city. Southeastern Wisconsin and city growers bring seasonal fruits and vegetables through the warm months, giving south-side residents a local produce option rooted in the neighborhood's own farming heritage.

Highwood

Highwood's Evening Market takes over Everts Park every Wednesday from 4:30 to 9 p.m., June through August, with more than 60 vendors rotating week to week. Celebrate Highwood runs it as part food market, part block party: produce and local food stalls alongside live music from 6 to 9 p.m.

This indoor-outdoor market operates at 3211 S. Lake Drive in St. Francis, just south of Milwaukee near the Lake Michigan shore. The indoor space lets it run past the short outdoor window that limits most Wisconsin markets, carrying produce, baked goods, and packaged local items into the colder months. It serves the lakeside south-side suburbs.

Muskego

The Muskego Green Market meets in the Public Library lot on Janesville Road, in a Waukesha County lake community southwest of Milwaukee. Vendors bring produce, plants, and prepared foods on market days through the summer season.

More than 50 regional vendors fill South Shore Park in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood every Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon, June through October. The lakefront market carries seasonal produce, proteins, botanicals, prepared foods, baked goods, honey, jams, sauces, and beverages, with live music through the morning. The park setting on the Lake Michigan shore makes it a weekend destination as much as a grocery run.

Burlington

Hawthorn Woods Farmers Market runs Friday evenings, 4:30 to 8 p.m., from mid-June through early October near Quentin and Old McHenry roads. It's a later-in-the-day market suited to commuters heading home, with produce and prepared foods from area vendors.

Lakemoor's farmers market sets up along Route 120 in the village center, bringing local growers and food artisans together for a spring-through-fall season. It's a smaller village market rather than a big-city production — worth a call to the Village of Lakemoor to confirm this year's day and hours before visiting.

Milwaukee

This market meets at Jackson Park on Milwaukee's south side, at 3500 W. Forest Home Avenue. The county park setting, with its lagoon and green space, gives the market a neighborhood-park feel away from downtown crowds. City and southeastern Wisconsin growers bring seasonal produce, plants, and baked goods through the warm months, serving the surrounding south-side neighborhoods.

IL Wauconda

The Wauconda Area Chamber of Commerce runs this market on Main Street downtown, Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m., mid-June through early October. Vendors bring produce, meats, cheeses, breads, and flowers, with live entertainment and a kids' corner alongside the stalls. The Chamber can be reached at (847) 526-5580 for vendor or event questions.

Stade's Farm & Market grows across 2,200 acres of corn, soybeans, fruit, and vegetables, and runs a pick-your-own operation on top of it — strawberries and raspberries in early summer, apples from an 11,000-tree orchard by fall, plus tomatoes, snap peas, and pumpkins from a 30-acre patch. There's a petting zoo, corn maze, and hayrides for the kids. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., through Halloween.

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New Berlin

New Berlin's market runs on West National Avenue in this Waukesha County suburb west of Milwaukee. Local farmers and food makers sell seasonal vegetables, fruit, eggs, and baked goods on market days during the growing season.

McHenry

McHenry's farmers market takes over Veterans Memorial Park on Pearl Street every Thursday evening, 4:30 to 8 p.m., from mid-May through late September. Beyond the usual produce and baked goods, vendors sell plants and frozen beef, crafters set up alongside them, and food trucks and live music carry the evening past closing.

Lake Zurich's market sets up at Paulus Park, just north of Rand Road and Route 22, with more than 25 vendors selling locally grown produce, baked goods, meat, and eggs. It runs Friday evenings from June through early September, and unlike most Illinois markets, several vendors serve hot food alongside beer and wine.

Mukwonago

Join us in this beautiful park setting where we have plenty of parking, sitting areas, and a playground. Featuring over 35 local vendors weekly, you will find an incredible selection of locally grown produce and food products. We proudly support our local growers, producers, and consumers. **Additional local artisans on 6/21 & 9/13

Northwind Perennial Farm is a 10-acre nursery and garden on Hospital Road in Burlington, running since 1991. It's the home base of plantsman Roy Diblik, whose naturalistic, low-maintenance perennial designs draw gardeners from across the region. The retail nursery sells perennials suited to Midwest conditions, and the farm offers garden design and care services alongside its display gardens.

Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva's market is held at Horticultural Hall, 330 Broad Street, a short walk from the lakefront in this Walworth County resort town. Growers and food vendors set up through the warm season, drawing both locals and weekend visitors down from Chicago and Milwaukee.