Farmers Markets near Winterset, IA

Winterset

Adel Farmers Market runs Tuesdays through the summer at 611 Nile Kinnick Dr. S. in Adel, Iowa, and is listed on the community calendar kept by the Adel Partners Chamber of Commerce. The chamber, reachable at 515-993-5472, handles vendor and event questions for the market alongside its other Adel signature events.

Stuart Farmers Market sets up at City Park on South Division Street in this small Guthrie County town along the historic Lincoln Highway in central Iowa. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Waukee Farmers Market meets at Triangle Park, on 6th Street and Ashworth Drive, in this fast-growing Dallas County suburb west of Des Moines. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Main Street Greenfield's Farmers Market sets up on the Public Square in Greenfield, the Adair County seat in southwest Iowa. Square-based markets like this one are a fixture in small Iowa county seats, with local growers selling off the courthouse lawn through the summer growing season.

Creston Farmers' Market operates out of the Union County seat, a southwest Iowa town built as a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad division point in the 19th century. The rail history still shows in the town's grid, and the market runs on Iowa's standard outdoor calendar — busiest in the peak summer weeks, done by the first hard frost.

Clarke County Farmers Market sets up on South Main Street in Osceola, the county seat along Interstate 35 in south central Iowa. The town sits close to Lake Ahquabi and the Osceola exit's cluster of travel-plaza truck stops, and the market gives the through-traffic a reason to pull off for something other than gas.

West Des Moines

Global Greens Farm, run by Lutheran Services in Iowa, reconnects former refugee farmers with the land on an 8.5-acre incubator farm at Valley Community Center in West Des Moines — providing land access, business training, and technical support that has generated over three-quarters of a million dollars in farmer sales. Shop the weekly Global Greens International Market on Carpenter Avenue Saturdays May through October, or join the CSA to support new-American farmers.

Valley Junction's market takes over the 100 to 300 blocks of 5th Street in West Des Moines every Thursday from May through September, 4 to 8 p.m. More than 80 vendors set up weekly with fresh produce, baked goods, plants, arts and crafts, and prepared food, alongside a beer garden with live music. The Historic Valley Junction Foundation, which also runs classic car shows on the first and third Thursdays through August, organizes the event.

Des Moines

Indianola Farmers Market sets up at the fairground entrance on West 2nd Avenue, on the Warren County Fairgrounds south of Des Moines. Fairground-based markets in Iowa typically run weekly through the growing season, with growers selling sweet corn, tomatoes, and other produce straight from the truck bed. Indianola draws from the farm country ringing Des Moines' southern suburbs.

Des Moines

LSI Global Green Farmers' Market sets up in the parking lot of LSI's Refugee Connection Center at 3200 University Avenue in Des Moines. LSI is Lutheran Services in Iowa, a refugee resettlement agency that runs agricultural training for New Iowan farmers, so expect growers from that program selling alongside more typical produce stands.

Southridge Mall Farmers Market sets up at 1111 East Army Post Road on Des Moines' south side. Growers from the surrounding Polk County countryside sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers in the mall parking lot.