Farmers Markets near Nevada, IA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Union

Union Farmers' Market meets at City Park on Center Street in this small Hardin County town in central Iowa. Growers from the surrounding farmland sell seasonal produce direct to neighbors.

Albion Farmers Market sets up on South Main Street in this small Marshall County community, not far from the county seat of Marshalltown in central Iowa. Markets this size run on whatever growers bring that week rather than a fixed vendor list, with the season concentrated between June and the first fall frost.

Des Moines

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.

Des Moines

Marshalltown

Iowa Choice Harvest is a food company owned entirely by Iowans that flash-freezes apples, corn, and aronia berries sourced from Iowa growers, then ships them wholesale to retail, foodservice, and institutional buyers across the Midwest. It's a processor and distributor built on Iowa-grown crops, not a roadside farm stand. Email [email protected].

Marshall County Market sets up at 3700 South Center Street in Marshalltown, a second market location alongside the Linn Street Farmers Market downtown. County-name markets like this one usually run under a county fair board or extension office, pulling growers from across Marshall County rather than just the city itself.

Linn Street Farmers Market sets up at 103 E. Linn Street in downtown Marshalltown, the Marshall County seat. Downtown markets in county-seat towns like this one typically run weekly through the growing season, with growers and a few prepared-food vendors setting up within walking distance of the courthouse square.