Farms Near St. Louis, MO

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Good Life Growing is an urban farming company in north St. Louis using aquaponic, hydroponic, and aeroponic systems to grow quality local food year-round — including microgreens — while promoting sustainable urban renewal and healthy food access. Its GreenCubator facility on Lumiere Boulevard incubates food businesses, hosts tours and events, and anchors a community food hub.

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The Ville Open-Air Market operates at 4223 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in The Ville, a historically significant African American neighborhood in north St. Louis. Community markets like this bring fresh produce and homemade goods to an area with limited grocery access. Vendors sell seasonal vegetables, fruit, and prepared foods through the warm-weather months. It doubles as a neighborhood gathering spot.

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A St. Louis CSA that pairs just-picked produce from Confluence Farms with handcrafted value-added goods made at the North Sarah Food Hub. Members pick up shares at the 1038 N Sarah Street location and other neighborhood spots around the city, with on-street parking at the Sarah Street site. Sign-ups and pickup schedules run through the North Sarah website.

Log-grown shiitake mushrooms raised in the Ozark hardwood forest of south-central Missouri. The Macpherson family inoculates cut oak logs and lets the mushrooms fruit outdoors on forest time rather than in climate-controlled rooms, and the operation is certified organic. Fresh and dried shiitake reach St. Louis restaurants and farmers markets, and they sell through their online store.

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The Villarreal Family Farm, also called Our City Farm, grows on Delmar Boulevard inside St. Louis, turning city ground into a working farm. Urban farms like this raise vegetables and sometimes animals on small lots, connecting residents to food grown in their own neighborhood. The Delmar address places it well within the city itself, not on the rural edge.

City Greens Market is a Missouri produce market built around making fresh fruit and vegetables affordable and accessible. No verified public page here confirms its current address or hours, so check locally before visiting.

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Set at 6655 Delmar Boulevard in University City, in the rear lot of the historic market building along the Delmar Loop. This inner-ring St. Louis suburb draws a steady Loop crowd, and vendors bring produce, baked goods, and prepared foods to the market through the season.

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New Roots Urban Farm is a farming collective on less than a third of an acre straddling two north St. Louis neighborhoods, growing organic produce alongside chickens, bees, a greenhouse, and an outdoor kitchen. The collective works toward block-by-block localized food systems — urban farming and land stewardship as resistance, and a model for what urban communities can accomplish for themselves.

Held in Tower Grove Park on the south side of St. Louis, this Saturday market gathers area farms and food makers. Stalls carry locally grown vegetables, fruit, meats, eggs, and prepared foods through the growing season, one of the city's better-known neighborhood markets.

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Harr Family Farms is a fourth-generation southern Illinois farm in business since 1925, selling at historic Soulard Farmers Market in St. Louis (stand #13-17, northeast wing) on Fridays and Saturdays. The all-natural lineup runs deep: pasture-raised beef, pork, goat, and lamb by the cut or whole, fresh poultry and cage-free eggs, raw honey, homegrown fruits and produce, hickory smoked meats, country butter, jams, and fresh-squeezed juices — even live poultry and livestock.

Soulard is one of the oldest public markets west of the Mississippi, operating at 730 Carroll Street in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis since the early 1800s. The City of St. Louis runs it as a covered, year-round market open Wednesday through Saturday. Stalls sell produce, meat, seafood, spices, cheese, flowers, and prepared foods, often at wholesale-style prices. It anchors one of the city's most historic neighborhoods.

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Thies Farm & Greenhouses grows produce and plants in the St. Louis area, with pick-your-own peaches, blackberries, and cut flowers in season. Its greenhouses stock houseplants, herbs, vegetables, and nursery items, and fall brings apples and pumpkins. The farm runs two sites, on North Hanley Road in St. Louis and Greens Bottom Road in St. Charles.

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The Schlafly Farmers Market runs at Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Avenue in Maplewood, an inner suburb of St. Louis. Held in the brewery's lot and indoors, it pairs local growers and food makers with the Bottleworks restaurant and beer garden. Vendors bring seasonal produce, meats, eggs, bread, and prepared foods. The setting makes it a well-known weekend stop in the St. Louis market scene.

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A Missouri farmers market. Beyond the name, location and vendor details aren't published online.

Maplewood

Bolyard's Meat & Provisions in Maplewood is St. Louis' only whole-animal butcher, voted the #3 butcher shop in the US by USA Today. Every animal comes from small Midwestern pasture farms — non-confinement, hormone- and antibiotic-free — delivered through the front door and broken down in an open-concept cutting room, with restaurant-trained butchers making sandwiches and provisions in-house from local ingredients.

Ferguson Farmers Market gathers every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon, May through October, at the Plaza at 501 on South Florissant Road. Growers pick fruits and vegetables within a day of selling, and stalls also carry farm eggs, honey, meats, jelly, cut flowers, bedding plants, and small-batch soaps. Ferguson is a north St. Louis County suburb in eastern Missouri.

Clayton

A seasonal market on Maryland Avenue in downtown Clayton, the county seat and business district just west of the city of St. Louis. Regional growers bring produce, meat, eggs, cheese, and baked goods to a walkable downtown crowd of office workers and residents on market days through the season.

Ferguson

The cold-season version of Ferguson's farmers market, held indoors at St. Stephen's on North Clay on the third Saturday of each month. It keeps local growers and food makers selling through winter, when the outdoor summer market on the Ferguson square shuts down. Expect storage vegetables, eggs, baked goods, and pantry items rather than peak-summer produce.

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EarthDance Organic Farm School in Ferguson, Missouri grows organic food, farmers, and community — a certified organic teaching farm sharing the craft and science of farming through apprenticeships (77% of alumni continue in sustainable agriculture), youth programs, and workshops. Its Pay What You Can farm stand and Ferguson Farmers Market booth put fresh organic produce within everyone's reach.

Richmond Heights

McKnight Bee Products keeps chemical-free, antibiotic-free hives around the Ladue and Richmond Heights area of St. Louis and turns the harvest into raw and whipped honey, beeswax candles, and handmade lavender goods. It's a small urban-edge operation selling direct and online. The honey and candles come from the same hives the owners tend by hand.

Overland

Vendors gather at 2500 Woodson Road in Overland, an inner-ring suburb northwest of St. Louis. This compact community market serves nearby neighborhoods with seasonal vegetables, fruit, eggs, and baked items from area growers. The selection tracks the St. Louis growing season, strongest from June through October. Days and hours can shift year to year, so check before heading over.

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Kirkwood

One of the St. Louis area's oldest open-air markets, the Kirkwood Farmers' Market fills a permanent pavilion at 150 E. Argonne Drive in downtown Kirkwood. Regional growers sell fruit, vegetables, plants, and cut flowers from the covered stalls, and the selection shifts across the year from spring bedding plants to summer produce to fall pumpkins.

Washington Park

Green Acres Farm sells produce on Rock Springs Road in Washington Park, a small St. Clair County community near East St. Louis. No independent website or listing turned up, so current offerings and stand hours are best confirmed directly.

Florissant

Sullivan Farms has run its October pumpkin patch on New Halls Ferry Road in Florissant since 1990, with free hayrides, a free straw maze, a jump house, slides, and a kids' train. There's no gate fee; a few activities cost a couple of dollars. Mid-November through December the farm sells Christmas trees. It sits in north St. Louis County.

Granite City

Relleke Farms has worked this ground since the late 1800s, though the pumpkin patch and fall festival is the newer part of the business, running weekends from late September through Halloween. Visitors pick their own pumpkins or buy ones already picked, then stick around for a petting zoo, animal rides, wagon rides, food trucks, and live music. The farm recently marked its 45th festival year.

A suburban market on Coeur De Ville Drive in Creve Coeur, a west St. Louis County community. Regional growers bring seasonal produce, eggs, and baked goods for the surrounding neighborhoods during the warm-weather season.

Collinsville

W. J. Donahue is a small farm operation on Fairmont Road in Collinsville, listed on Illinois agritourism registries but without a public website or social page. No verified details on crops or visiting hours are available online, so this listing is bare-bones until confirmed directly with the farm.

Millstadt

Eckert's Belleville Farm is a flagship location of one of Illinois' oldest family-run orchard operations, with U-pick fields alongside a country restaurant, doughnut and custard shop, cider shed, bakery, deli, and garden center on one property. It's less a single stop than a full day out — pick in the field, then eat, shop, and browse the country store. Hours vary by department, so check ahead.

Millstadt

Eckert's Millstadt Farm packs in more rides than fruit come fall — a corn maze, pig races, pony and camel rides, an underground slide, and a pumpkin cannon alongside the usual u-pick apples and pumpkins. The farm also books private bonfires for up to 25 people and runs school field trips with custom packages. It closes for the off-season and typically reopens in early September.

The Columbia farmers market sets up outdoors in the Schnucks parking lot at Columbia Center, tucked behind the McDonald's and Taco Bell off Route 3. It runs Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m., late April through October, giving Monroe County growers a weekday evening outlet separate from the Saturday Waterloo market across the county. Produce and other farm goods change with the season. Call ahead for the week's vendor lineup.

Arnold hosts this market in Jefferson County, part of the St. Louis metro just south of the city. Local vendors sell seasonal produce and homemade goods through the warm-weather months.

Fenton

Held in Olde Towne Fenton at 200 Gravois Road, this market serves the southwest St. Louis County suburbs along the Meramec River. Local growers bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, eggs, and baked goods to a small-town setting inside the metro. Activity peaks through summer and into the fall harvest. Confirm the current schedule before visiting.

A community and farmers' market at 200 Gravois Road in Fenton, a St. Louis County suburb on the Meramec River. It pairs local produce and homemade-goods vendors with community activities during the outdoor season, drawing shoppers from the southwest St. Louis suburbs.

Alton

Every Saturday from May through October, more than 100 vendors set up at the corner of Landmarks Boulevard and Henry Street in downtown Alton, rain or shine. Alton Main Street runs the market, and the mix leans toward home-grown produce, hormone-free meats, baked goods, plants, native honey, and artisan crafts rather than resale goods. Hours run 8 a.m. to noon, and SNAP shoppers get a matching-dollar program at the info booth.

Maryland Heights

Bunker Farms at Golfport runs a seasonal pick-your-own operation on Creve Coeur Mill Road in Maryland Heights, on the edge of St. Louis County's Creve Coeur Lake park. Directory listings mark it as a fall pumpkin patch with on-farm pickup, but the farm hasn't posted hours, pricing, or a full activity list. Check ahead before making the drive to confirm what's open.

The St. Charles Lions Club runs this market at 300 North Riverside Drive, along the Missouri River near the historic Main Street district in St. Charles. As a service-club market, proceeds typically support local Lions community projects. Growers bring seasonal vegetables, fruit, eggs, and baked goods to the riverfront setting. The eastern Missouri season is strongest from June into the fall harvest.

Saint Charles

Herman's Farm Orchard is an orchard in St. Charles, on the Missouri River bottoms just west of St. Louis. Orchards in this area pick apples and pumpkins from late summer through fall. No working website turned up to confirm crops, hours or contact details.

Fenton

Stuckmeyer Farm is a fourth-generation vegetable farm and garden center near the Highway 141 and Highway 21 junction in Fenton, south of St. Louis. The on-site market sells produce the family grows plus greenhouse annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetable starts in spring. Fall brings pumpkins and mums. The greenhouses supply bedding plants and hanging baskets through the season. Open daily, with shorter Sunday hours.

Alton

312 Farms & Carriage Company is a husband-and-wife farm in Alton, Illinois on land that's been in the family for over 70 years, raising ethically and humanely produced eggs, poultry, beef, and pork under a strict animals-first policy. The couple also runs a carriage service for weddings, proms, and holiday festivals; farm visits are by appointment.

Swansea

We are a small 8 acre farm located in Swansea, IL. We grow all types of produce on our farm.

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Millstadt

Fresh Pasture Farms is a family owned farm offering local access to pasture raised poultry, eggs, pork and 100% grass fed & finished beef. We are located 20 minutes from downtown St. Louis.

Godfrey

Theodora Farms is a certified organic vegetable and herb farm in Godfrey, Illinois, started in 2019 to grow fresh, nourishing produce for the St. Louis metro and Illinois Riverbend region. The on-site FarmStore carries farm-grown organic produce plus locally sourced pantry staples and specialty items, with wholesale accounts available.

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Arnold

A small honey operation in Arnold, in Jefferson County south of St. Louis. Beekeepers here work hives through the Missouri nectar flow, from spring clover and tree blossoms into fall wildflowers, and typically sell raw local honey by the jar. Backyard and small apiaries like Larry's usually sell direct, so call ahead or catch them at a nearby market rather than expecting posted hours.

Swansea

Swansea Farmers' Market started in 2009 when a group of local volunteers decided the area needed one — it still runs the same way, Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through October, in the Rural King parking lot. Vendors sell vegetables, fruit, baked goods, and handcrafted items. It's a volunteer-run operation, not a chamber or park district program, which shows in the community feel more than the polish.

Collinsville

Marc Mayhew runs this family apiary in southwest Illinois, selling raw clover and comb honey straight from his own hives along with beeswax candles. Beyond retail honey, Mayhew Honey sells nucs and queens to other beekeepers and offers tours of the operation, a rarer combination than most honey stands provide. Curbside pickup is available for Collinsville-area orders.

Valmeyer

Stuckmeyer's Plants & Produce sits on Bluff Road outside Valmeyer, in the bottomland below the Monroe County bluffs. The farm sells produce and bedding plants from a stand on the property. Beyond that, the operation keeps a low profile online — call or stop by to see what's ready.

A woman-owned fresh-produce distributor in St. Charles, wholesaling fruit and vegetables to restaurants, schools, hospitals, and grocers across the St. Louis region since 1973. This is a distribution house rather than a farm you visit, running an online ordering system for commercial accounts out of 3840 Millstone Parkway. Reach them at (314) 436-5010.

Maryville's farmers market runs Saturdays, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., from mid-April through mid-November at 200 N. Donk Street, with a scaled-back winter market on the first and third Saturdays, December through March. It's one of the few markets in the Metro East area that doesn't fully shut down for winter.

Belleville Main Street runs this Saturday-morning market, 7:30 a.m. to noon, from late February through early November in Belleville's Old Town district, with fresh produce, baked goods, flowers, and artisan goods. It's a longer season than most Illinois markets, thanks to indoor space Main Street uses for the winter and early-spring dates. Reach the Main Street office for vendor and schedule questions.

Godfrey

The Great Godfrey Maze is a seasonal corn maze attraction on Godfrey Road in Godfrey, near Alton in the Riverbend region. No verifiable current website or listing was found to confirm this year's maze design, dates, or hours.

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