Farmers Markets near Sparta, MI

Sparta

A seasonal farmers market on North Union Street in downtown Sparta, a small Kent County community north of Grand Rapids. No current schedule or vendor list is posted publicly — worth a call to the village office before visiting.

Kent City

Blue Tree Market operates out of Kent City, a small village in northern Kent County. No website, Facebook page, or news mention turned up online, so vendor lineup, hours, and season are unconfirmed at this time.

Grand Rapids

Plainfield Charter Township Farmers' Market runs three days a week — Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. — from spring through fall, more often than most Michigan township markets bother to open. The township itself runs it, and the vendor list runs long: honey, maple syrup, cheese, fresh meat, and produce alongside prepared foods and handmade crafts. It sits at 4411 Plainfield Ave NE on the north side of Grand Rapids.

Cedar Springs

Solon Township's market runs Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., spring through fall, at Algoma Avenue and Wiersma Road near Cedar Springs. It's less a produce-only market and more a combined operation — farm goods, crafts, and flea-market tables share the same lot, open more days per week than most Michigan township markets bother with.

Rockford

Rockford Farmers Market runs Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through October, in the city lot behind the post office — enter off Main Street, across from Rocky's. Vendor turnout varies week to week, so the lineup of produce, baked goods, and local products shifts depending on who shows up. It's a straightforward small-town market, not a curated festival, which is part of its appeal for regulars.

Grand Rapids' Westside Farmer's Market runs three days a week — Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., spring through fall — at 733 Bridge St. NW. It's part of the Foodshed farmers market network, selling produce, baked goods, honey, herbs, and plants along the Bridge Street corridor. SNAP and WIC accepted.

Grand Rapids

Kids' Food Basket isn't a market — it's a hunger-relief nonprofit that packs and delivers meals to kids across 68 schools in Kent, Muskegon, Ottawa, and Allegan counties, plus a Grow program that raises produce on its own farmland. Since July 2025 the organization has distributed more than 1.7 million meals through its Nourish program alone. The Plymouth Avenue address in Grand Rapids is program headquarters, not a public storefront — families and schools connect through the district, not a walk-up counter.

Grand Rapids

The YMCA Farmers' Market sets up at 475 Lake Michigan Dr. NW in Grand Rapids on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, spring through fall, run through the Fulton Street Market network. Beyond the usual produce, baked goods, and artisan wares, the market has hosted BIPOC vendor nights and queer art markets — community programming layered onto a produce stand. SNAP and WIC accepted.

Grand Rapids

Fulton Street Market in Grand Rapids has connected farmers, food creators, and artists to the community since 1922 — more than a century as more than just a marketplace. The market runs year-round in two six-month seasons, with the main season open Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. from May through October.

Grand Rapids

A year-round indoor food hall at 435 Ionia Avenue SW, home to 21 merchants — butchers, bakers, fishmongers, and ice cream makers — plus a commercial kitchen and an incubator program for food entrepreneurs. Open Monday-Friday 11am-8pm and weekends 10am-8pm, with public events and private event rentals throughout the year.

Grand Rapids

Named for the labor organizer, this market sits on Rumsey Street Southwest in Grand Rapids' southwest side. No current website was found to confirm its vendors, hours, or season.

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Grand Rapids

Community Food Club is based on Division Avenue South in Grand Rapids, a corridor with several food-access nonprofits and social-service groups. No public hours, membership details, or contact information are listed yet.

Grand Rapids

Our Kitchen Table, a Grand Rapids food-justice nonprofit, runs this market at Joe Taylor Park and gives priority vendor space to women of color and home growers from the surrounding southeast side neighborhoods. Tables carry local produce, cottage-kitchen foods, personal care items, crafts, and ready-to-eat meals. The market runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on market days and takes SNAP and other food assistance benefits.

Grand Rapids

Small market sourcing first from BIPOC and women-led businesses and farms.

Alger Heights Farmers' Market sets up on Eastern Avenue SE in the Alger Heights neighborhood on Grand Rapids' south side. It's one of several neighborhood-scale markets the city supports outside the larger downtown market, serving shoppers who'd otherwise drive across town for fresh produce.

Grant

What's listed as Grant Farmers Market is Nelson's Farm Market, an indoor farm store at 135 South Maple Street open Monday through Saturday, 9am to 6pm, closed Sundays. It carries produce, baked goods, honey, potted plants and flowers year-round rather than running as a single weekly vendor market, and in fall it adds pumpkin picking with wagon rides and a small petting area for kids.

Grandville

Grandville Farmers Market sets up outdoors at 4144 Chicago Drive Southwest, spring through fall, with a park-style layout of produce, baked goods, potted plants and flowers, and artisan goods. It's run through the City of Grandville, which posts the season's vendor schedule and any weather cancellations on the city website. Chicago Drive itself is the old US-16 corridor connecting Grand Rapids to Grandville, still one of the busier commercial strips on the west side of the metro.

Allendale

Grand Valley State University runs its own farmers market on the Allendale campus, set up in Parking Lot G off Campus Drive. It keeps weekday hours rather than a single Saturday morning slot: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 9am-3:30pm, Wednesday 8am-3:30pm, Friday 9am-4pm, closed weekends. Vendors sell produce, baked goods, and artisan goods, drawing both students and area residents to Lot G between classes throughout the week.

Georgetown Township

The Georgetown Township Farmers Market sets up outside the Georgetown Township Public Library at 1525 Baldwin Street in Jenison, Monday evenings from 4 to 7:30pm, mid-June through late August. Beyond produce and baked goods, the schedule includes food trucks and live music on select weeks, plus family programming aimed at library patrons who wander over after story time.

Wyoming

Metro Health Farm Market sets up in front of the hospital on Byron Center Avenue in Wyoming, drawing around 60 vendors from across West Michigan. Shoppers find farm-fresh produce, meats, cheeses, honey, maple syrup, baked goods, cut flowers, and prepared foods, plus soap and jam from area makers. It's also known locally as the UM Health-West Farm Market.

Kentwood

Kentwood Farmers Market runs Mondays, 4:30 to 7:30pm, June through August, at the Kentwood Activities Center on Breton Road Southeast. The City of Kentwood Parks and Recreation Department organizes it, and it accepts SNAP, Senior Project FRESH, and Double Up Food Bucks alongside regular cash sales.

Ada

Ada Farmers Market sets up along Thornapple River Drive in Ada Township, a Kent County community on the river's namesake waterway just east of Grand Rapids. Its riverside setting places it among a cluster of West Michigan markets drawing from the same Grand Rapids-area growing region.

Allendale Farmers' Market sets up along Lake Michigan Drive in Allendale, an Ottawa County township best known as home to Grand Valley State University. The market gives the college-town population a produce source outside the chain grocery stores lining the same corridor.

Newaygo

Newaygo's market sets up Friday afternoons, 2 to 5:30 p.m., June through September, in Brooks Park in the middle of downtown. Local growers, bakers, and food artisans bring produce and baked goods that track the season, and the market accepts Market Senior and Market Kids tokens for shoppers who qualify.

Hudsonville Farmers' Market & Crafts sets up outdoors at 3302 Prospect Street, spring through fall, on the grounds of the local grain elevator company that helps run it. Vendors sell produce, baked goods, flowers, prepared foods, and artisan goods. Shoppers describe a wide range of prices across vendors, not just one price point.

Hudsonville

Lowell

Lowell Area Farmers Market runs Thursdays, 2 to 7pm, June through late September, in downtown Lowell along the Grand River Riverwalk near the Kent District Library. Vendors sell seasonal produce, honey, maple syrup, cheese, and bread, and the market pauses for one week each July when the town's Riverwalk Festival takes over downtown.

Caledonia

Caledonia is a fast-growing Kent County township just south of Grand Rapids. Its farmers market runs on Cherry Valley Avenue Southeast, though no current website or vendor list was found online to confirm hours or offerings.

Fremont

A farmers market on East Main Street in Fremont, a Newaygo County city in west Michigan. No current hours or vendor details are posted publicly — check locally for this season's schedule.

Dorr

Twin Acres Farm in Dorr is a small family operation built around a simple line from its owners: growing their own food and knowing what's in it. Each season adds another piece toward living off the land — more canning, more hunting, more of the farm doing double duty. It's a working farm first, not a retail storefront, so reach out directly through Facebook or email before making the drive out to Zellman Court.

Greenville

Greenville Farmer's Market at 1325 West Washington Street runs long hours for a farm market, roughly 7:30am to 6pm Monday through Saturday and closed Sundays, spring through fall. Vendors carry produce, baked goods, flowers, honey, herbs, prepared foods, and artisan goods, plus locally bottled raw milk from area dairies. The market closes a little earlier on Wednesdays.

Greenville Farmers' Market at 307 Luray Street runs indoors seven days a week, Monday-Saturday 8am-6pm and Sunday 8am-5pm, spring through fall. It operates out of Wayside Gardens, a local garden center, so alongside produce, baked goods, and artisan goods you'll find a bigger plant and flower selection than a typical outdoor stall market.

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Spring Lake

Local growers and bakers set up in downtown Spring Lake at this Exchange Street market, listed through the Grand Haven area Chamber of Commerce's farmers market guide, a short walk from the Spring Lake waterfront. Expect seasonal produce, baked goods, honey, plants, and handmade goods spring through fall. Call 616-842-4910 for the current vendor lineup and market days.

Muskegon

Since 2005, this Muskegon cooperative has connected small organic producers directly with shoppers at Mercy Health Lakes Village near US-31 and Pontaluna Road. Offerings include pasture-raised poultry and eggs, grass-fed beef and lamb, nitrate-free pork, organic produce, goat-milk dairy, soaps, and kombucha, with preorders and CSA shares available. The market runs Saturday mornings, spring through fall, closing briefly between Christmas and New Year's.

Muskegon

FARM Food Processing Accelerator is based on Stebbins Road in Muskegon. The name suggests a shared-use kitchen or processing space built to help small food producers scale up production, though no public hours or program details are listed yet.

Grand Haven

Grand Haven Farmers Market sets up at 301 North Harbor Drive, steps from the Grand Haven waterfront and its landmark lighthouse catwalk. Vendors sell produce, baked goods, flowers, and herbs in a seasonal outdoor market, spring through fall. The Grand Haven Area Chamber of Commerce handles logistics for the market, and can point shoppers to that week's vendor lineup.

Muskegon

Muskegon's winter market moves indoors on Western Avenue when the outdoor season ends, keeping Saturday shopping going through the cold months. Vendors sell fresh vegetables, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, and handmade crafts, all sourced from local producers. It's the cold-weather counterpart to the long-running Muskegon Farmers Market a few blocks over.