Farms Near Waterloo, IA

Waterloo

Waterloo

Downtown Waterloo's seasonal market sets up at Riverloop Expo Plaza along the Cedar River, a public plaza in the city's riverfront district. It gives area growers and vendors a downtown outlet during the Iowa growing season.

Waterloo

America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership is the nonprofit that manages Silos & Smokestacks, a 37-county National Heritage Area across northeast Iowa recognized by Congress for its farming history. The partnership connects visitors to more than 110 partner sites, from historic farms to implement museums, and runs youth programs including Junior Ranger badges and Camp Silos. It's based in Waterloo.

Waterloo Urban Farmers' Market sets up at 460 Jefferson Street in downtown Waterloo, a separate stop from the city's University Avenue market. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Waterloo

behind Covenant Cancer Treatment Ctr. Waterloo

Cedar Valley Farmers Market at Kimball Ridge sets up on East Ridgeway Avenue behind the former Covenant Cancer Treatment Center in Waterloo, the Black Hawk County seat and anchor of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River. It's one of several Cedar Valley-area markets, this one positioned on the medical-campus side of town rather than downtown.

Waterloo

Kimball Ridge Farmers' Market sets up at Kimball Avenue and Ridgeway Road in Waterloo, at the Kimball Ridge shopping area. Waterloo markets like this one draw from the wider Cedar Valley farm belt, and a shopping-center lot typically means easier parking and a longer vendor row than a small-town market can support.

Waterloo

Heartland Farms operates a roadside farm stand at 5111 Osage Road on Waterloo's north side, in Black Hawk County.

University Avenue Farmers' Market sets up at 4000 University Avenue in Waterloo, along one of the city's main commercial corridors. Growers from Black Hawk County sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Waterloo

Heartland Farms has grown strawberries and seasonal produce on Osage Road in Waterloo since 1983, adding asparagus, sweet corn, melons, peppers, and pumpkins over the decades. The farm runs group outings and events like campfires and goat yoga alongside its farm market.

College Hill Farmers Market sets up on College Street in Cedar Falls, in the historic business district that borders the University of Northern Iowa campus. College Hill has been the neighborhood's commercial strip for over a century, and the market runs alongside the bars, coffee shops, and student foot traffic that already define the block.

Hudson

Hudson's market sets up at the junction of Highway 63 and Highway 58, in this small Black Hawk County town just north of Waterloo and Cedar Falls. It's a roadside outlet for area growers rather than a downtown event.

Buckingham

Beck's Farm is a small agritourism operation in Buckingham, a rural community in Tama County in east-central Iowa.

Hudson

Hansen's has farmed the same ground in Hudson for more than 150 years, and since 2004 has run its own on-farm creamery. Milk from their Holstein herd becomes cheese curds, butter, heavy cream, and ice cream, sold creamline (non-homogenized) and produced without added growth hormones. The farm is a designated Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Site and offers reservation-only tours April through October.

Hudson

Dick and Marie Brown's farm sits outside Hudson in Black Hawk County, in the same stretch of dairy and row-crop country as several other area operations. No independent listing describes current tours, products, or hours — call ahead to confirm before visiting.

Janesville

Janesville Farmers' Market sets up on Main Street in this small Cedar Valley town outside Waterloo. Markets this size in Iowa usually run to a handful of tables. Home gardeners and a couple of larger growers sell sweet corn and garden produce as it ripens. Contact the town office or county extension for current market days.

Janesville

Traer

Charlie and Cindy Lorenz built Lorenz Produce into a family business now in its fourth decade on 150th Street outside Traer. The farm sells produce direct from the property, the kind of operation that's grown by word of mouth rather than marketing. Call 319-478-2941 before visiting to check what's in season.

Janesville

Roth's Farm sits on Marquis Road outside Janesville, listed as an agritourism stop in Black Hawk County. Public details beyond the address are scarce online, so a call ahead is the best way to find out what's currently open to visitors.

Waverly

Fairbank

Sells homegrown natural beef from home raised closed herd.

Dike

Dike

Howards Farm has worked its Dike ground since Dora and Cleo Howard started farming it in 1940; Joe and Linda Bohr took over the 2.75-acre property in 2000 and added a remodeled event barn in 2023. The farm grows cut flowers, fruit, and vegetables, and opened a u-pick apple orchard in fall 2022. Open Memorial Day through Thanksgiving, 8am to 8pm. Call 319-535-5392 or email [email protected].

Waverly

Harvest Moon Manor runs its Pumpkin Paradise attraction outside Waverly in Bremer County. No independent listing confirms current hours, activities, or season dates — a call ahead is the surest way to plan a visit.

Reinbeck

Five R Farm sits on W Avenue outside Reinbeck, Iowa, in Grundy County corn-and-soybean country. No website, directory listing, or product details for this operation were found in research, so what they raise or sell is currently unverified.

Genuine Faux Farm is registered in Iowa with no city or address on file, and its website did not resolve during research. Specific crops or products for this operation are currently unverified.

Shell Rock

Independence Farmers Market operates through the Buchanan County Extension office at 2600 Swan Lake Blvd. Iowa State University Extension offices coordinate vendor sign-ups for a lot of small-town Iowa markets, and this is one of them. Expect a seasonal, outdoor setup with local growers selling produce directly off trucks and folding tables through the summer months. Call the extension office for this year's schedule.

Oelwein's market runs twice weekly from mid-May through early October — Wednesdays 4 to 6pm and Fridays 8 to 11am — in the south parking lot by Log Cabin Park. It's one of the Northeast Iowa markets that accepts WIC, the Farmers Market Nutrition Program, and SNAP, which keeps the vendor mix leaning toward everyday produce rather than specialty crafts. Fayette County's growing season sets the calendar, not a fixed opening date.

Clarksville

New Day Dairy is a fifth-generation dairy farm near Clarksville run by Dan and Lynn Bolin, milking around 150 cows. Their GuestBarn bed-and-breakfast puts guests in a loft with 24-hour views into the dairy barn below, plus a barn tour and DIY continental breakfast. Travel Iowa named it Outstanding Rural Lodging in 2022. Reach them at (319) 278-4455 or [email protected].

Clarksville

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Grundy Center

This market sets up on the Courthouse Square in Grundy Center, the Grundy County seat in east-central Iowa, giving area growers a central, walkable downtown spot rather than a parking-lot location.

Urbana

Center Point

K and K Ranch grows raspberries for u-pick during July and August outside Center Point, a shorter and less crowded picking window than most eastern Iowa berry farms. There's no storefront or elaborate website - visitors call ahead to check ripeness and hours before driving out. It's a small, seasonal operation worth planning around rather than a spontaneous stop.