Farmers Markets near St. Louis, MO

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.

St. Louis

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.

St Louis

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.

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.

parking lot and indoors Maplewood

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bethalto

Waterloo's Saturday market has run in the Monroe County Annex parking lot on Illinois Avenue for close to forty years, a fixture long before farm-to-table was a marketing term. It's vendor-operated, growers set their own hours within the 7:30 a.m. to noon window, April 25 through late October, and stocks produce, plants, meat, honey, eggs, flowers, and baked goods. Park along Illinois Avenue or in the grassy lot behind the building if the front fills up.

O'Fallon

This market runs in the Wildwood Town Center at 221 Plaza Drive, in far western St. Louis County. Wildwood growers and vendors bring produce, flowers, baked goods, and crafts to the plaza during the outdoor season, serving one of the metro's newer suburban communities.

Herculaneum

A small market on Joachim Avenue in Herculaneum, a Mississippi River town in Jefferson County south of St. Louis. Local growers sell seasonal produce, eggs, and homemade goods to the surrounding community through the warm months.

Defiance

A market held at Chandler Hill Vineyards on Defiance Road in Defiance, the winery country along the Missouri River in western St. Charles County. Growers set up on the vineyard grounds, pairing local produce and food vendors with the tasting room and the Katy Trail traffic that runs through this stretch of wine trail.