Farms Near Maxwell, IA

Maxwell

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.

Maxwell

Maxwell

Maxwell

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.

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.

Elkhart

Every farm has a story. This is where we share some of our farm's story. The Who Meet Tony. Tony is the 4th generation, and the driver behind getting the farm to produce nourishing food for the surrounding community. The Where In the Milky Way galaxy, on planet Earth, on the continent of North America, in the country of the United States of America, in the state of Iowa, about halfway between Des Moines and Ames, two miles east of the small town of Elkhart, IA, looking over the valley of the Sku

Nevada

Nevada

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.

Nevada

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.

Altoona

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.

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.

Mitchellville

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.

Ankeny

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.

Nevada

Dean and Judy Henry realized a dream by establishing the Berry Patch Farm in the early 1970s. Today you’ll see Judy at the markets, Dean on the tractors, and their son Mike at the stand and picking the freshest harvest. Throughout the Berry Patch you’ll see the personal touches of each individual involved. We grow strawberries, raspberries, vegetables, apples, and more. You can get Berry Patch goodies from the farm, at markets, and through CSAs (community supported agriculture). The Berry Patch

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.

Nevada

Main Street Nevada runs this market out of City Hall on 6th Street every other Sunday, noon to 3pm, from May through September. It's organized less like a produce stand and more like a small-business showcase, giving local growers and food makers a direct line to customers without a storefront. Main Street Nevada's executive director, Emily Schaack, handles vendor applications through the organization's own site.

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.

Pleasant Hill

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.

Colo

Colo

Little Stone House Farm sits on 200th Street outside Colo, a small Story County town in central Iowa. It's a small farm operation running agritourism activities on the property.

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.

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.

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.

Des Moines

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.

Ames

Ames

Ames

State Center Farmers' Market sets up at 100 West Main Street in this small Marshall County town, known locally as the rose capital of Iowa. Area growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Farmers' Market Main Street is listed in Iowa with no city or address attached, and no matching website or organizer contact turned up in research. Season dates and vendor details are currently unverified.

Des Moines

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.

Ames

The North Grand Farmers' Market sets up twice a week in the parking lot north of JCPenney at North Grand Mall in Ames — Wednesdays 3 to 6pm and Saturdays 8am to 12:30pm. Alongside the standard produce, flowers, herbs, eggs, and honey, vendors sell Iowa wine, crafts, and pet items, a wider mix than most small-town markets. North Grand Mall also runs a separate indoor market during the colder months.

Ames

Ames

La Mar Farms sells farm-fresh eggs year-round from its Ames location, then shifts into seasonal Christmas trees, pumpkins, and firewood as the calendar turns. It's a smaller operation built around whatever's in season rather than one big fall event, so egg customers can stop by outside of pumpkin and tree season too.

Des Moines

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

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.

Des Moines

Des Moines

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

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.

Des Moines

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.

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.

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.

Ames

DeMoss Pumpkin Farm grows pumpkins in Ames, in central Iowa's Story County, tied to the fall pumpkin-patch season common across the state's corn country.

Des Moines

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.

Des Moines

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

Des Moines

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.

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.

Des Moines

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.

Newton Main Street runs this Tuesday market at Legacy Plaza Green Space from June through September, 4 to 6pm. The vendor rules are stricter than most: produce has to be Iowa-grown, and out-of-state goods are only allowed when the local season for that item hasn't started yet. Beyond vegetables, expect farm-raised meat and dairy, jams, honey, baked goods, and handcrafted items sold direct by the makers.