Farms Near Topeka, KS

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Topeka

This is the library-hosted Monday market at 1515 SW 10th Ave. in Topeka — the same market known as the Monday Farmers Market at Your Library, held in the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library parking lot near 10th and Washburn. Vendors sell locally grown produce, eggs, baked goods, and flowers from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., May through early October. Call the library at 785-580-4495 to confirm the week's setup.

Topeka

Every Monday morning from May through early October, vendors set up in the parking lot of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library at 1515 SW 10th Ave., selling locally grown produce, farm-fresh eggs, baked goods, cut flowers, and bedding plants. The market runs 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. and grew out of the library's Capital City Wellness initiative, aimed at getting downtown Topeka workers eating better. Kids get a free activity sheet at each visit. Call the library at 785-580-4495 for current vendor lists.

Downtown Topeka Farmers Market has gathered vendors at SW 6th and Harrison since the 1930s, running Saturdays 7:30 a.m. to noon from April through the end of October. More than 100 farmers, ranchers, bakers, and craftspeople set up weekly, making it one of the larger markets in the state capital. The market has weathered nearly a century of Kansas weather and change without moving far from its original corner.

Topeka

Breadbasket Farmers Market is dedicated to supporting local growers, local crafters, and the local community. Show up any Saturday morning and be greeted by generous, happy vendors in a family-friendly environment filled with artisan products, delicious baked goods, and a bounty of fresh, seasonal produce. Breadbasket Farmers Market is fun for the whole family. Hope to see you there!

Topeka

Meier's Pumpkin Paradise brings the fall lineup to northwest Topeka — pumpkin picking plus mums and hay bales for anyone decorating a porch instead of just carving. It's a seasonal, family-run operation rather than a year-round farm stand, so the picking runs on an autumn calendar. Call ahead if you're driving any distance, since pumpkin patches this size sell out favorites early in October.

Topeka

Topeka

Luke Paine has run Insane Paine Produce on 20 acres in Topeka since 2011, opening each spring with greenhouse tomatoes and hanging baskets. Summer brings zucchini, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, watermelon and cantaloupe, with mums and a full lineup of pumpkins and winter squash by September. Paine keeps adding acreage and new crops most years.

Topeka

Capitol Midweek sets up at 10th and Jackson, on the south side of the Kansas Statehouse, every Wednesday morning starting at 7:30, May through October. It grew out of the Capital City Wellness Project, built to give downtown Topeka workers a walkable stop for fresh food on a weekday. Expect seasonal produce, dairy like cheese and eggs, fresh herbs, and cut flowers.

Tecumseh

Topeka

86th Street Orchard is a small, family-run u-pick operation just north of Topeka, growing apples, raspberries, grapes, and tomatoes alongside peaches, pears, cherries, and plums. It isn't set up for group tours — call ahead and Cathy or Kenny will tell you what's ripe and set a pick time. The orchard also sells local honey. Open July through September.

Tecumseh

The Iwig family has raised healthy cows and produced high-quality milk for Kansas families since 1910 in Tecumseh. In 2005 the dairy added its own bottling and retail operation, supplying bottled milk to grocery stores throughout Kansas as one of the state's last farm-bottling dairies.

Silver Lake

Silver Lake's market runs Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m., June through August, organized through the Silver Lake Public Library at 203 Railroad St. Vendors reapply to the library every season before they can set up a booth, which keeps the lineup mostly local growers selling seasonal produce and specialty items. It's a small, short-season market built around the town's library rather than a market association.

Grantville

Gary's Pumpkin Patch has run its fall festival in Grantville, just outside Topeka, since 1993. The lineup covers a you-pick pumpkin patch, a corn maze, pig races, a corn pit and a climbing course called Goat Mountain, plus apple cider slushies and doughnuts from the concession stand. The festival runs weekends through September and October.

Hooterville Garden Center, at 12165 S. Topeka Ave. in Carbondale, was known for tree-ripened peaches, just-picked berries, and orchard apples sold straight off the lot. The garden center itself has since closed. The address now operates as Hooterville Flea Market, a separate business — worth confirming directly if you're headed out expecting a farm stand.

Big Springs Berries grows thornless blackberries on trellised vines in Lecompton, in the rolling hill country north of Lawrence. The u-pick fields come with a picnic area, a nature trail, and bird and wildlife feeding stations for the wait between rows. Call ahead before visiting, since u-pick berry season is short and weather-dependent.

Perry

Hillcreek Market is a family-run general store in Lecompton, Kansas, mixing a full espresso bar and small eatery with cuts of meat, local goods, and a gift shop under one roof at 505 Eisenhower Memorial Dr. From April through October, the market has hosted its own on-site farmers market alongside its regular retail hours, which run as early as 7 a.m. on weekdays and as late as 8 p.m. on weekends.

Overbrook

Fieldstone Orchard grows 38 apple varieties plus Asian pears, plums, cherries, asparagus, berries and heirloom tomatoes across a 12-acre u-pick orchard built around seven ponds in Osage County. Farming follows organic practices, including a house line of organic feed blends made with Fertrell amendments. The Sale Barn sells fresh-picked fruit, and the Cider Barn presses cider on site. Open Tuesday through Sunday.

Overbrook

Overbrook

Holton

Burlingame

Burlingame's market sets up at Sumner City Park on Thursdays, typically 3 to 7 p.m., May through late October. Tables run to seasonal vegetables, crafts, kettle corn, and baked and canned goods; the outdoor market adds barbecue, and summer dates bring cotton candy and live music. Restrooms and shade are on site. Call or email ahead for the current week's vendor list.

Sweetlove Farm raises pastured poultry and grass-fed, grass-finished lamb on 63 acres in Oskaloosa, Kansas, in Jefferson County northeast of Topeka. Owners Phil and Sally Holman-Hebert move their laying hens across pasture in open-air, floorless coops, giving the birds constant access to grass, bugs, and sunlight instead of a barn. The farm has supplied the Lawrence and Kansas City area with eggs, chicken, and lamb since 1999, selling direct off the farm rather than through a middleman.

Eskridge

Alpacas of Wildcat Hollow raises alpacas in Eskridge, in the Flint Hills of Wabaunsee County — tallgrass prairie and cattle-ranching country between Topeka and Emporia. No public details on farm tours, fiber sales, or contact information were found; reach out directly for current offerings.

Lawrence

This market sets up in the parking lot of Clinton Parkway Nursery & Garden Store at 4900 Clinton Parkway, Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., mid-May through the end of September. Local growers sell fruit, vegetables, baked goods, meat, jams, jellies, and wine alongside the nursery's own plants and landscaping stock. Call or email ahead if you're a grower interested in a table.

Ottawa

Innisfree Fruit Farm is a u-pick berry operation outside Ottawa growing blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. Picking hours run 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday; the farm stays closed Sundays except for Memorial Day. Reach the fields by taking Highway 68 west from I-35, then north on Riley Road.

Harveyville

Country Bumpkin grows 20 different varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and squash on a two-acre patch outside Harveyville, reached by hayride from the parking area. The stand also sells homemade pumpkin fudge, which gets almost as much attention online as the pumpkins do. It's open weekends only through October — check their Facebook page before driving out, since opening dates shift a little year to year.

Pomona

Amy's Meats at the Homestead is Amy Saunders' family farm about eight miles north of Lawrence, Kansas, raising Jersey milk cows, beef cattle, heritage pasture pigs, and chickens. The farm runs a year-round protein Farm Share, a CSA-style subscription for pork, chicken, beef, and eggs, plus a farm-to-table pizza club through its FarmHer's Table events. Amy's Meats was named a Mother Earth News Homesteader of the Year and is a registered Kansas agritourism stop on the Kaw Valley Farm Tour.

Lawrence

Saint Marys

Lawrence

Lawrence

Founded in 1976, the Lawrence Farmers' Market is the oldest producer-only market in Kansas — everything sold was grown, raised, or made by the vendor standing behind it. It runs Saturdays, 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., from April 11 through November 21 at 824 New Hampshire Street, with more than 60 area farmers and producers, all within 50 miles of Lawrence. Two-hour free parking is available in garages at 7th and 9th Streets.

Lawrence

Lawrence

Lawrence

Baldwin City

Lawson Brothers Farm sits a mile and a half east of Vinland, on a historic property outside Baldwin City. It grows u-pick blackberries, raspberries and strawberries through the summer, then shifts to pumpkins in the fall, with a picnic area for families who want to make a day of it. Check the farm's site for that week's picking hours before driving out.

Lawrence

M and J Ranch raises Angus beef certified 100% grass-fed and Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World on a 670-acre family ranch outside Lawrence, Kansas. Three generations of the Williams family manage the herd — born and raised on the ranch with no hormones, antibiotics, or pasture pesticides, and never any grain.

Lawrence

Lawrence

Chestnut Charlie's is an organic chestnut orchard outside Lawrence, planted in 1995 and certified organic in 1998. The 20-acre orchard holds roughly 1,200 trees and sells fresh chestnuts each fall, typically starting in early October, with nuts also stocked at Checkers Grocery and the Community Mercantile in Lawrence. Reach them at [email protected].

Lawrence

Schaake's grows its pumpkin patch on 28 acres carved out of a working 1,400-acre family farm, an operation that started as a 4-H project and just marked its 50th season. Admission and parking are free, and so is the hayride out to the patch — you pay only for the pumpkins you pick. There's a hay maze and playground for kids who'd rather not do the picking themselves.

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