Farmers Markets in Iowa

208 Food Hub

Idaho Falls, IA

208 Food Hub is a seasonal food truck with a rotating menu, based in Idaho Falls, Idaho — not Iowa, despite the state on file here. It shows up at local spots like Soda Sip and Maltese CrossFit rather than running a fixed storefront, so its Facebook page is the best way to catch that week's location.

Adel Farmers Market

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.

Akron Farmers Market

Akron Farmers Market sets up where Highway 12 meets Big Sioux River Road, on the Iowa side of the river dividing the state from South Dakota and Nebraska in the far northwest corner of Plymouth County. It's a small border-town market rather than a destination event. Iowa's outdoor market season generally runs May through October, with tables fullest during the peak growing months of July and August.

Albion Farmers Market

Albion Farmers Market sets up on South Main Street in this small Marshall County community, not far from the county seat of Marshalltown in central Iowa. Markets this size run on whatever growers bring that week rather than a fixed vendor list, with the season concentrated between June and the first fall frost.

Allamakee Farmers Market

Allamakee Farmers Market runs on the Allamakee County Fairgrounds on Allamakee Street in Waukon, the county seat set in Iowa's driftless region — the unglaciated, bluff-and-valley corner of the state along the Mississippi River in the far northeast. The terrain runs cooler in the shaded valleys and warmer on the ridges, which stretches the local growing season longer than a flat map would suggest.

Amana Colonies Farmer's Market

Amana Colonies Farmer's Market sets up on V Street in Homestead, one of the seven original Amana villages founded by the Community of True Inspiration in the 1850s. The Amana Colonies are a National Historic Landmark and one of Iowa's most-visited tourist stops, built on a communal economy before the 1932 change to private enterprise. A market here runs alongside the villages' long-standing furniture shops, wineries, meat markets, and bakeries.

Amana Farmers Market

Amana Farmers Market sets up on 220th Trail behind the Lehm Book Shop in the village of Amana, the largest of the seven historic Amana Colonies communities in Iowa County. The village sits just off Interstate 80, and the market runs during the warm months when day-trip and tour-bus traffic through the Colonies is heaviest.

Anamosa Farmers Market

Scott & Main Street Anamosa, IA

Anamosa Farmers Market sets up at the corner of Scott and Main in the Jones County seat, a town best known for the state penitentiary on its edge, the National Motorcycle Museum downtown, and its place as the birthplace of painter Grant Wood. The market runs the length of the Iowa growing season, roughly May into October.

Anita Farmers Market

SE corner of City Park Anita, IA

Anita Farmers Market sets up at the southeast corner of City Park on East Main Street in this small Cass County town in southwest Iowa, Nishnabotna River country and some of the state's most productive row-crop ground. It runs on a small-town scale — a handful of area growers rather than a formal vendor roster.

Atlantic Farmers Market

Atlantic Farmers Market sets up on 7th Street East in the Cass County seat, a southwest Iowa town built up along the old Rock Island rail line. As at most small Iowa markets, the tables run heaviest from July through September and thin out fast once the first hard frost hits.

Avoca Main Street Market

Avoca, IA

Avoca Main Street Market sets up at Walnut and West High in this Pottawattamie County town in southwest Iowa, not far from the Loess Hills running along the Missouri River valley. It's a Main Street market in the literal sense — area growers selling out of a small downtown rather than a fairgrounds or parking-lot setup.

Belmond Area Farmers Market

Belmond Area Farmers Market sets up on Main Street in this Wright County town in north central Iowa. Like most markets in this part of the state, it draws from area gardens and small farms rather than commercial growers, and the season runs roughly late spring through the first fall frost.

Bettendorf Farmers Market

Bettendorf Farmers' Market is run by the Mississippi Valley Growers' Association, the same nonprofit behind the Davenport Farmers' Market across the river, bringing local growers, bakers, and craft vendors together for fresh produce, flowers, and baked goods. The market operates at 2850 18th St. in Bettendorf; the association can be reached at 563-332-5529.

Bondurant Farmers' Market

Bondurant, IA

Bondurant Farmers' Market sets up at Main Street SE and Grain Street NE in one of the fastest-growing suburbs on the northeast edge of the Des Moines metro. Polk County's sprawl has turned Bondurant from a small farm town into a bedroom community within a generation, and the market gives the newer subdivisions a direct line to the row-crop country still surrounding them.

Britt Farmers' Market

Britt Farmers' Market sets up on Main Avenue South in this Hancock County town in north central Iowa, best known nationally for hosting the National Hobo Convention and Hobo Days every August. The market runs on the standard Iowa outdoor calendar, busiest in the weeks around that same summer festival.

Camp Creek Organic Produce

Kalona, IA

Camp Creek Organic Produce farms 40 certified-organic acres of diversified vegetables near Kalona, plus a microgreen operation, and distributes what it grows across Iowa through its own food hub built around the line "it starts with soil and ends with you." Certification runs through the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Reach James at 319-936-6510 or [email protected].

Carlisle Farmers' Market

Carlisle, IA

Carlisle Farmers' Market sets up on Highway 5 in this Warren County town just south of the Des Moines metro. Carlisle has grown quickly as a bedroom community over the last two decades, and the market serves both the newer subdivisions and the older farm families still working the ground around town.

Carroll Farmers Market

Westgate Mall Parking lot Carroll, IA

Carroll Farmers Market sets up in the Westgate Mall parking lot on North Adams Street in the Carroll County seat, a west central Iowa town built as a Chicago and North Western rail junction. The market runs the standard Iowa season, heaviest in the mid-summer weeks when sweet corn and tomatoes are at their peak statewide.

Cascade Farmers Market

Cascade Farmers Market sets up at Riverview Park along 1st Avenue West in this small town straddling the Dubuque-Jones county line in eastern Iowa. It's a park-based market rather than a formal grounds, drawing from the farms and hobby gardens in the rolling, timbered country typical of this part of the state.

Cedar Valley Farmers Market - Kimball Ridge

behind Covenant Cancer Treatment Ctr. Waterloo, IA

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.

Centerville Farmers Market

Centerville Farmers Market sets up on East Maple Street in the Appanoose County seat, a south Iowa coal-mining-turned-farm town not far from Rathbun Lake. The market runs the usual Iowa outdoor calendar, from late spring through the first killing frost.

Central City Farmers' Market

Central City, IA

Central City Farmers' Market sets up at Courtyard Park on South 5th Street in this Linn County town along the Wapsipinicon River, a short drive north of Cedar Rapids. The river bottomland here has long supported small produce operations that feed markets across the metro, and this one runs on the same summer-into-fall schedule as its neighbors.

Charles City Area Farmers' Market

Charles City, IA

Charles City Area Farmers' Market sets up at Central Park on North Main Street in the Floyd County seat, a town that rebuilt its downtown around the Cedar River after a 2008 tornado and later added a whitewater park on the river itself. The market draws from Floyd County's row-crop and dairy country in north central Iowa.

Cherokee Area Farmers' Market

Cherokee Area Farmers' Market sets up on South 4th Street in the Cherokee County seat, a northwest Iowa town on the Little Sioux River. The market follows the same rhythm as most Iowa outdoor markets — light in May, full by midsummer, and done by the time the first frost lands in the fall.

Clarke County Farmers Market

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.

College Hill Farmers 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.

Columbus Junction Community Farmers Market

Columbus Junction Community Farmers Market sets up at the fairgrounds off Highway 92 in this Louisa County town, built where the Iowa River meets the Cedar River in southeast Iowa. The junction gave the town its name and its rail history; today it's better known for its Tyson pork plant, and the market serves the surrounding farm families and plant workforce alike.

Coon Rapids Farmers' Market

Coon Rapids, IA

Coon Rapids Farmers' Market sets up at the corner of Highway 141 and 5th Avenue in this Carroll County town, home base for the Garst family farm made famous by Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit and now preserved as the Whiterock Conservancy. The market runs on the same land ethic — small producers, local ground, nothing shipped in.

Coralville Farmers Market

Coralville Farmers Market sets up on 7th Street in this Johnson County city that shares the Iowa City metro with its larger neighbor across the Iowa River. Coralville Lake and its reservoir sit just north of town, and the market draws both from area growers and the university-town foot traffic that moves through the metro all summer.

Corydon Farmers Market

Corydon, IA

Corydon Farmers Market sets up on the courthouse lawn at North Lafayette in the Wayne County seat, a south Iowa town built around its historic courthouse square. The market follows the same courthouse-square tradition found across rural Iowa, running from late spring through the first fall frost.

Cresco Farmers Market

Cresco Farmers Market sets up on 2nd Street Southwest, in Grube's north lot, in the Howard County seat in far northeast Iowa. The county sits in the state's driftless region, hill country the last glaciation never flattened, and the market draws from the smaller, hillier farms that terrain produces.

Creston Farmers' Market

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.

Davis County Farmers Market

Davis County Farmers Market sets up on East Jefferson Street in Bloomfield, the county seat in southeast Iowa. Bloomfield's town square, built around its courthouse, is one of the more intact examples of the old courthouse-square layout common to this part of the state, and the market runs on that square through the growing season.

Denison Farmers Market

Denison Farmers Market sets up on South Main Street in the Crawford County seat, a west Iowa meatpacking town best known as the birthplace of actress Donna Reed. The town hosts the Donna Reed Festival for the Performing Arts every summer, and the farmers market runs on the same small-town calendar, heaviest from July through the county fair season in August.

DeWitt Farmers Market - Summer

DeWitt, IA

The DeWitt Farmers Market is a big, small town market! Held every Thursday from May through October, it's a weekly destination for both locals and out-of-towners. Here you'll fine locally grown produce, delicious baked goods, handcrafted items, and so much more. Every week has a different theme including Apple Fest, Kid Biz Day, Pet Day, and more! Located in a city park with a playground, we are very family friendly. Kids can stop by our book giveaway table to pick out a free book each week.

DeWitt Farmers Market - Winter

DeWitt, IA

The DeWitt Winter Market is a fast growing market! Held every Thursday in November and December, then monthly February-April, it's a destination for both locals and out-of-towners. Here you'll fine locally grown produce, delicious baked goods, handcrafted items, and so much more.

Downtown Farmers Market

Cedar Rapids' Downtown Farmers Market sets up at Greene Square on select Saturdays, 7:30 a.m. to noon, spring through fall. Local growers, bakers, and craftspeople line the 400 block of Third Avenue SE, and a "Market After Dark" version runs some evenings with music and food trucks. Downtown Cedar Rapids, the organization behind the event, can be reached at (319) 398-5317.

Downtown Farmers Market

Iowa's largest farmers market spreads across 12 city blocks along 4th Street and Court Avenue every Saturday from May through October, 7 a.m. to noon (8 a.m. in October). The Greater Des Moines Partnership produces it, drawing roughly 305 vendors from 74 Iowa cities selling produce, meat, cheese, eggs, baked goods, plants, and ready-to-eat food. SNAP/EBT, Double Up Food Bucks, and Produce Rx are accepted, and live music runs most weekends.

Downtown Sioux City Farmers' Market

Sioux City, IA

Sioux City's downtown market runs Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., from the first Saturday in May through the last Saturday in October, near the Tyson Events Center on Pearl Street. Buy Fresh Buy Local - Siouxland, a local nonprofit, organizes more than 64 vendors selling fresh-picked produce, baked goods, flowers, and prepared food, drawing about 2,600 shoppers on a typical Saturday.

Downtown Waterloo Farmers' Market

Waterloo, IA

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.

Dubuque County Fairgrounds Farmers' Market

Dubuque, IA

Held on the grounds of the Dubuque County Fairgrounds off Old Highway Road, this market gives area growers a stand outside the city center, with easy parking for fairgrounds visitors and nearby residents.

Dubuque Main Street Farmers' Market

Dubuque, IA

Dubuque's Main Street Farmers Market sets up downtown at 13th and Central, in the historic commercial core near Iowa Street. It's one of three area markets serving Dubuque shoppers alongside the county fairgrounds and winter markets.

Dubuque Winter Farmers' Market

Dubuque, IA

Dubuque's cold-weather market moves indoors to the Colts Building on Central Avenue, keeping area producers connected to shoppers through the months when outdoor markets close. It's the winter counterpart to Dubuque's Main Street and County Fairgrounds markets.

Durant Farmers' Market

Durant, IA

Durant's market sets up at Pythias Park next to the fire station on 5th Street, a small-town gathering spot for area growers in this Cedar and Scott County line community between Davenport and Iowa City.

Dyersville Area Farmers Market

Dyersville's market sets up at Commercial Club Park along Highway 136, in the same small city known for the Field of Dreams movie site and the National Farm Toy Museum. It gives area growers a downtown-adjacent spot to sell in-season produce.

Eastside Farmers Market

This market operates on Des Moines' east side at 3200 Delaware Avenue, giving neighborhood shoppers a closer option than the larger Downtown Farmers Market across the river.

Elgin Area Growers' Market

Elgin, IA

Elgin's growers market sets up in the city park on Center Street next to Elgin State Bank, a small Fayette County town in northeast Iowa. It's a seasonal outlet for area growers rather than a large-scale operation.

Everly Farmers Market

Everly's market operates along County Road B-24 in this small Clay County town in northwest Iowa, giving area growers a local outlet without a trip to a larger city market.

Farm Fresh Farmers Market

Located on Agency Street in Burlington, this market gives southeast Iowa shoppers a produce-focused stop along the Mississippi River bluffs, distinct from the nearby Farm King market across town.

Farmington Farmers Market

Farmington's market sets up on South Front Street in this small Van Buren County town along the Des Moines River in southeast Iowa, a low-key outlet for area growers.

Farm King Farmers Market

This market sets up at the Farm King store on South Gear Avenue in West Burlington, using the farm-supply retailer's lot as a seasonal outlet for area growers a few miles from Burlington's Agency Street market.

Farm Table Delivery

Farm Table Delivery is a food hub Ellen Walsh-Rosmann founded in Harlan in 2013 to move local farm products at wholesale prices to schools, restaurants, retailers, food pantries, and households across western Iowa and eastern Nebraska. Executive director Michelle Dill now leads the organization as it transitions to nonprofit status. Reach the procurement team at [email protected].

Field to Family

Iowa City, IA

Field to Family works to create a more local, healthy and sustainable community-based food system in the Iowa City/ Cedar Rapids region. Field to Family is a nonprofit local food hub offering farm to school education, serving multiple school districts, the University of Iowa, food access agencies, local businesses and other institutions in east central Iowa as well as individual residents and households by increasing access to- and demand for- healthy and local foods. The organization works in partnership with 30+ food service professionals, 60+ local farmers and value - added agricultural enterprises to procure, store, promote and deliver locally-grown foods and food products while ensuring food safety, freshness and quality.

Franklin County Farmers Market

This market operates at 1st Street NW and 1st Avenue NW in Hampton, the Franklin County seat in north-central Iowa, giving area growers a courthouse-adjacent spot to sell in season.

Ft Madison Farmers Market

Fort Madison's market sets up near 9th Street and Avenue E in this Lee County river town on the Mississippi, home to the Old Fort Madison reconstruction and the Santa Fe swing-span bridge.

Garner Farmers' Market

Garner, IA

Garner's market sets up at the corner of Highway 69 and Highway 18, east of Tammy's Pharmacy, in this Hancock County seat in north-central Iowa. It's a small-town outlet for area growers along a well-traveled highway junction.

Global Greens Farm: Lutheran Services in Iowa

West Des Moines, IA

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.

GoodEatens Produce Farm

GoodEetens Produce Farm grows chemical-free produce with lots of TLC on garden plots in Everly and Boyden, Iowa, selling at the Farmers' Market in the Park at Arnolds Park and the Sheldon Farmer's Market, WIC and Senior check certified. The farm hosts Practical Farmers of Iowa field days showcasing its untamed, no-till garden practices and has been featured on Iowa Ingredient.

Greene County Farmers Market

Greene County's market operates out of a storefront space on North Chestnut Street in Jefferson, the county seat known for its 14-story Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower. It gives area growers an indoor-adjacent option in this west-central Iowa community.

Green Hills Produce & Crafts Farmers Market

Corning, IA

This Corning market combines produce stands with craft vendors at 8th Street and Davis Avenue, in the Adams County seat in southwest Iowa. The produce-and-crafts format sets it apart from most single-focus Iowa town markets.

Grinnell Farm to Table

Grinnell, IA

Grinnell Farm to Table works as a food hub for roughly 35 Iowa producers, moving dairy, eggs, meat, grains, and produce into the Grinnell area. It started in 1999 as Local Foods Connection in Iowa City and relocated to Grinnell in 2017 to serve rural need directly. Call 641-821-0753 or email [email protected].

GROWN Locally

Decorah, IA

GROWN Locally is a farmer-owned food cooperative incorporated in April 2000, delivering its first order that June with ten member farms aboard. It now serves a five-county stretch of northeast Iowa along with parts of southeast Minnesota and southwest Wisconsin, aggregating member farms' meat, produce, and dairy for delivery to local buyers. Email [email protected].

Grundy Center Farmers' Market

Grundy Center, IA

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.

Guthrie Center Farmers Market

Guthrie Center's market operates along South 4th Street in this Guthrie County seat in west-central Iowa, a modest outlet for area growers in a county better known for Guthrie Lake and Springbrook State Park.

Harrison County Welcome Center Farmers Market

This market sets up at the Harrison County Welcome Center on Monroe Avenue in Missouri Valley, a rest-stop landmark just off I-29 in western Iowa. It gives area growers access to interstate travelers, not just local foot traffic.

Hawarden Farmers Market

Hawarden's market operates at 13th Street and Avenue E in this Sioux County town on the Big Sioux River, along the Iowa-South Dakota border. It's a small-town outlet for area growers in far northwest Iowa.

Highland Park Farmers' Market

Des Moines, IA

This market sets up outside Highland Park Lutheran Church on East Euclid Avenue, serving Des Moines' Highland Park neighborhood on the city's north side as a closer alternative to the larger Downtown Farmers Market.

Highway 34 Farmers' Market

Glenwood, IA

This market operates directly on Highway 34 in Glenwood, the Mills County seat in southwest Iowa near the Loess Hills, giving passing highway traffic a roadside stop for area produce.

Historic Valley Junction Farmers Market

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.

Hudson Farmers' Market

Hudson, IA

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.

Humboldt Farmers Market

This market operates on Sumner Avenue in Humboldt, the county seat where the West and East Forks of the Des Moines River meet in north-central Iowa. It gives area growers a local outlet without a drive to a bigger city.

Huxley Farmers Market

Huxley, IA

Huxley's market sets up on West Railway Street in this fast-growing Story County town between Ames and Ankeny, giving area growers a stop in one of central Iowa's fastest-expanding suburbs.

Independence Farmers Market

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.

Indianola Farmers Market

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.

Indoor Farmers' Market at the Isle

The Indoor Farmers' Market at the Isle is held inside the Isle Casino Hotel complex on Lady Luck Parkway in Bettendorf, part of the Quad Cities riverfront. Taking the market indoors is a common move for Iowa vendors once the outdoor season ends, giving small growers and home bakers a stop through the colder months. Bettendorf sits directly across the Mississippi from Illinois.

Iowa Choice Harvest, LLC

Marshalltown, IA

Iowa Choice Harvest is a food company owned entirely by Iowans that flash-freezes apples, corn, and aronia berries sourced from Iowa growers, then ships them wholesale to retail, foodservice, and institutional buyers across the Midwest. It's a processor and distributor built on Iowa-grown crops, not a roadside farm stand. Email [email protected].

Iowa City Farmers Market

Iowa City Farmers Market runs at 460 E. Washington Street in downtown Iowa City, steps from the Pentacrest and the University of Iowa campus. A university town this size tends to draw a wide mix of produce growers, bakers, and prepared-food vendors to its market. Days and vendor lineups shift with the season, so check locally for the current schedule.

Iowa Falls Farmers' Market - Saturday

Iowa Falls Farmers' Market runs on Saturdays, per its own listing name, at 500 Washington Avenue. Iowa Falls sits on the Iowa River in Hardin County, a north-central Iowa river town known locally for its rapids. Small Saturday markets like this one are typically a spring-through-early-fall affair, growers selling whatever's ripe that week off truck tailgates.

Janesville Farmers' Market

Janesville, IA

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.

Jefferson St. Farmers Market

Jefferson St. Farmers Market runs along the 300-500 blocks of Jefferson Street in downtown Burlington, a Mississippi River town best known for Snake Alley, the famously crooked brick street a few blocks away. Downtown block markets like this one usually close a street to traffic for the day, with growers and craft vendors setting up along the curb through summer.

Johnston Farmers Market

Johnston Farmers Market sets up at 6221 Merle Hay Road in Johnston, a Des Moines suburb in Polk County best known as headquarters to Corteva Agriscience's Pioneer seed business. Suburban markets in the Des Moines metro tend to run larger than small-town ones, with a wider mix of produce, meat, and prepared-food vendors on a given Saturday.

Keota Farmers Market

Keota, IA

Keota Farmers Market sets up at the corner of Broadway and Fulton in this small southeast Iowa town. Markets in towns this size are typically modest, a handful of local growers and gardeners selling sweet corn, tomatoes, and whatever else came in that week. Contact the town office for current market days.

Kimball Ridge Farmers' Market

Waterloo, IA

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.

Knoxville Farmers Market

Knoxville Farmers Market sets up at 214 E. Main in downtown Knoxville, the Marion County seat known nationally as the Sprint Car Capital of the World and home to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. Downtown markets in county-seat towns like this one usually run through the growing season, with local growers selling produce off the courthouse square.

Lake Mills Farmers' Market

Lake Mills, IA

Lake Mills Farmers' Market sets up at US 69 and 1st Avenue, on the north side of the Corner Stop station in this Winnebago County town near the Minnesota border. Small-town markets in this part of north Iowa run on a short summer window, with a handful of growers selling sweet corn and garden produce as it comes ready.

Lakes Area Farmers Market

Lakes Area Farmers Market sets up at 15th Street and Peoria Avenue in Spirit Lake, in the Iowa Great Lakes region around West Okoboji and Spirit Lake, a summer tourist draw that swells the local population well beyond its year-round count. Markets here tend to lean into that seasonal traffic, running through the peak lake season.

Lamoni Farmers' Market

Lamoni, IA

Lamoni Farmers' Market sets up on South Linden Street in this small Decatur County town near the Missouri border, home to Graceland University. College towns this size still tend to run modest markets, a few local growers and gardeners selling produce through the summer, scaled to the town rather than the campus.

LeClaire River Front Farmers Market

Le Claire, IA

LeClaire River Front Farmers Market sets up in the MindFire parking lot on South Cody Road in Le Claire, a Mississippi River town better known these days as home base for the American Pickers TV show and Mike Wolfe's Antique Archaeology store a few blocks up Cody Road. The riverfront setting puts vendors right along the Mississippi.

Le Mars Area Farmers' Market

Le Mars, IA

Le Mars Area Farmers' Market sets up at 1st Avenue and 1st Street NE in Le Mars, the self-declared Ice Cream Capital of the World and home to Wells Enterprises' Blue Bunny plant. Plymouth County farm country surrounds the town, and the market draws growers from that base through the summer season.

Linn Street Farmers Market

Linn Street Farmers Market sets up at 103 E. Linn Street in downtown Marshalltown, the Marshall County seat. Downtown markets in county-seat towns like this one typically run weekly through the growing season, with growers and a few prepared-food vendors setting up within walking distance of the courthouse square.

LSI Global Green Farmers' Market

Des Moines, IA

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.

Lucas Farmers' Market

Lucas, IA

Lucas Farmers' Market sets up at Lucas Memorial Park, at the junction of Highways 65 and 34 in Lucas, a small Lucas County town. Markets in towns this size are typically a small, informal affair, a handful of area growers selling produce out of truck beds as it ripens through the summer.

Lyons Farmers Market

Main Ave. & Roosevelt St. Clinton, IA

Lyons Farmers Market sets up at Main Avenue and Roosevelt Street in Clinton, in the Lyons neighborhood on the city's north side, historically its own river town before Clinton annexed it. Clinton sits directly on the Mississippi, and markets here draw from river-bottom farm ground on both the Iowa and Illinois sides.

Main Street Greenfield's Farmers Market

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.

Manchester Farmers' Market

Manchester, IA

Manchester Farmers' Market sets up at 100 S. Tama Street in Manchester, the Delaware County seat on the Maquoketa River, a town regionally known for its state fish hatchery as much as its produce stands. The market runs through the growing season with area growers selling directly to shoppers.

Maquoketa Farmers Market

Maquoketa Farmers Market sets up at 1215 E. Platt Street in Maquoketa, the Jackson County seat and gateway to Maquoketa Caves State Park a few miles north. Growers here sell out of the surrounding Jackson County farm ground, typical of the small county-seat markets that dot eastern Iowa.

Market In the Park

Market In the Park sets up in the 200 block of Central Avenue West in Clarion, the Wright County seat in north-central Iowa. As the name suggests, this one runs in a park setting rather than a downtown street closure, a common format for markets in towns this size.

Market on Central

Market on Central sets up at 726 1st Avenue North in Fort Dodge, the Webster County seat and a longtime gypsum-mining and wallboard-manufacturing hub. Fort Dodge is one of the larger markets in this part of the state, drawing growers from Webster County's farm ground through the summer season.

Marshall County Market

Marshall County Market sets up at 3700 South Center Street in Marshalltown, a second market location alongside the Linn Street Farmers Market downtown. County-name markets like this one usually run under a county fair board or extension office, pulling growers from across Marshall County rather than just the city itself.

Mercer Park Farmers Market

Mercer Park Farmers Market sets up at 2701 Bradford Drive on Iowa City's east side, a second, neighborhood-level market alongside the larger downtown Iowa City Farmers Market. Mercer Park is primarily known for its softball complex and pool, and the market runs on the same park grounds through the growing season.

Monroe County Farmers Market

Monroe County Farmers Market sets up at 10 Benton Avenue East in Albia, the Monroe County seat known for its restored, brick-paved town square. Growers here draw from south-central Iowa's rolling farm and former coal-mining ground, a market typical of the small county seats in this part of the state.

Monticello Farmers Market

Willo Shelter E. Oak St. Monticello, IA

Monticello Farmers Market sets up at the Willo Shelter on East Oak Street in Monticello, the Jones County seat. Shelter-house markets like this one give vendors cover on rainy days, a practical setup for a market that likely runs rain or shine through the growing season.

Montrose Farmers Market

Montrose Farmers Market sets up at 201 N. First Street in Montrose, a small Lee County town on the Mississippi River near Fort Madison. River towns this size in southeast Iowa typically run a small, informal market, a few growers selling sweet corn and garden produce as the season allows.

Mount Vernon Farmers' Market

Mount Vernon-Lisbon's own market sets up downtown on Saturdays from May through September. Vendors bring fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, plants, and honey alongside jam, baked goods, meat, soap, and handmade crafts. It's a small-town market serving two Linn County communities that share a school district and a Main Street, so expect goods pulled from farms scattered around both towns rather than one single strip of stands.

Moville Farmers Market

Main Street and Pearl Street Moville, IA

Moville's market runs outdoors at the corner of Main and Pearl downtown, a small Woodbury County crossroads market drawing vendors from the surrounding farm country. Organizers have brought in a kids' smoothie bike that blends fruit by pedal power, a hands-on touch you won't find at bigger city markets. Check the market's Facebook page for the current week's vendor lineup and hours.

Mt. Pleasant Farmers Market

Mount Pleasant's market fills McMillan Park's Wright Family Pavilion twice a week, Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings, May through October. Around 32 vendors set up with farm-fresh produce, eggs, meat, pies, breads, plants, flowers, and handcrafted goods. The market accepts WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers, which matters in a county where fresh produce access outside the growing season is limited.

Muscatine Area Farmers Market

downtown Muscatine Tuesdays- Muscatine Mall Parking Lot Muscatine, IA

The Muscatine Area Farmers Market runs two locations each week from May through October: Saturday mornings, 7:30 to 11:30, at 3rd and Cedar downtown, and Tuesdays at the Muscatine Mall parking lot. Vendors bring fresh produce and handcrafted goods, and the Saturday market adds live music plus the occasional cooking or exercise demo. Senior and WIC nutrition vouchers are accepted through the state's Farmers Market Nutrition Program.

Muscatine Farmers' Market

Muscatine, IA

A second, smaller market in Muscatine sets up in the Calvary Church parking lot on US-61, open seasonally from May through October. Vendors here sell the usual fruits, vegetables, honey, and baked goods, plus a couple of less common finds for an Iowa farmers market: raw wool and locally made wine. It's a different crowd and a different lot than the downtown Saturday market across town.

Nevada's Midtown Market

Nevada, IA

Main Street Nevada runs this market out of City Hall on 6th Street every other Sunday, noon to 3pm, from May through September. It's organized less like a produce stand and more like a small-business showcase, giving local growers and food makers a direct line to customers without a storefront. Main Street Nevada's executive director, Emily Schaack, handles vendor applications through the organization's own site.

NewBo City Farmers Market

NewBo City Market is a year-round indoor market hall in Cedar Rapids' New Bohemia District, not a seasonal outdoor stand. The nonprofit building at 1100 3rd Street SE houses food vendors, retail startups, and an entrepreneur incubator program, open Wednesday through Saturday 10am to 8pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Farmers market vendors set up alongside the permanent shops on select days — more storefront than folding-table market.

Newton Farmers' Market

Newton Main Street runs this Tuesday market at Legacy Plaza Green Space from June through September, 4 to 6pm. The vendor rules are stricter than most: produce has to be Iowa-grown, and out-of-state goods are only allowed when the local season for that item hasn't started yet. Beyond vegetables, expect farm-raised meat and dairy, jams, honey, baked goods, and handcrafted items sold direct by the makers.

Noelridge Farmers Market

Collins Rd. & Council St. NE Cedar Rapids, IA

Noelridge is one of several neighborhood farmers markets that Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation operates directly, rather than leaving it to a nonprofit or chamber group. It runs seasonally at the Collins Road and Council Street NE corner in northeast Cedar Rapids. The city runs multiple markets across different neighborhoods on different days, so confirm the current location and hours with Parks and Rec before visiting.

North Grand Farmers Market

The North Grand Farmers' Market sets up twice a week in the parking lot north of JCPenney at North Grand Mall in Ames — Wednesdays 3 to 6pm and Saturdays 8am to 12:30pm. Alongside the standard produce, flowers, herbs, eggs, and honey, vendors sell Iowa wine, crafts, and pet items, a wider mix than most small-town markets. North Grand Mall also runs a separate indoor market during the colder months.

North Iowa Winter Farmers' Market

Mason City, IA

Despite the name, the North Iowa Winter Farmers' Market runs well past winter — vendors set up on 4th Street SW in Mason City from mid-May through late October on top of any cold-season indoor dates the group organizes. Expect the standard Iowa market spread: produce, baked goods, cut flowers, and artisan crafts. The "winter" name points to how this market started, as one of the few in Iowa that didn't stop when the growing season ended.

North Skunk Sawmill & Market, Inc

North Skunk Sawmill & Market operates out of a rural address on 515th Avenue outside Searsboro, in Poweshiek County. Directories list it under both sawmill and farmers-market categories, suggesting the operation pairs milled lumber with a seasonal market stand, an unusual combination for this stretch of central Iowa. Business records show it's been running since 2005. Call ahead, since hours aren't posted consistently online.

Oelwein Farmers' Market

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.

Orange City Farmers Market

Orange City's market sets up at Windmill Park in the center of town, a fitting backdrop for a Sioux County community known for its Dutch heritage and windmill displays. The season runs June through September, Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. It's a straightforward small-town market — produce, baked goods, and local crafts — timed to the short window between planting and first frost in northwest Iowa.

Original Spencer Farmer's Market

The Original Spencer Farmer's Market runs June through October, with hours split across the week: Wednesdays 4 to 6pm and Saturdays 7:30am to noon. It sets up near the junction of Highways 18 and 71 on South Grand, with enough parking that it draws shoppers from the smaller towns around Clay County, not just Spencer itself.

Oskaloosa Farmers Market

Oskaloosa's farmers market sets up on the east side of the town square at 110 S. D Street, a fitting spot in a town whose whole downtown radiates from that square. Mahaska County's market draws the standard produce and baked-goods crowd during the growing season. Check with organizers directly for the current week's hours, since online listings vary on the schedule.

Ottumwa Farmers Market

Ottumwa's farmers market sets up on East Main Street in the Wapello County seat, an old river and rail town in southeast Iowa. Vendors bring the seasonal basics: vegetables, fruit, eggs, baked goods, and jellies. It runs during the regional growing season like most southern Iowa markets, though exact hours are best confirmed with the Wapello County group directly.

Paradise Farmers' Market

Paradise Farmers' Market operates out of the Leon Public Library on West 1st Street, in Decatur County near the Missouri border. Little independent information is available online beyond directory listings, which suggests this is a small, community-run market rather than a promoted regional draw. Call the library for the current schedule.

Parks Neighborhood Farmers Market

Parks Neighborhood Farmers Market runs out of a Euclid Avenue address on Des Moines' north side. Little independent information is available online beyond directory listings, which suggests this is a small, neighborhood-scale market rather than one of the city's larger organized markets like the Downtown Farmers' Market. Confirm hours locally before visiting.

Paullina Farmers' Market

Paullina, IA

Paullina's market sets up in City Park on East Commerce Street, a small O'Brien County town market serving the growing season. It runs on the smaller end of Iowa's farmers market network — expect a handful of vendors selling produce and home-baked goods rather than a large weekly event. Confirm the current schedule with the town directly.

Pearl City Farmers Market

Pearl City Farmers Market is Muscatine's second Saturday market, set up on West Second Street rather than the riverfront or mall lot where the town's other markets gather. Like the rest of Muscatine's markets, it runs the spring-through-fall growing season with local growers and food artisans selling direct off the truck. Three separate farmers markets in one Mississippi River town says something about how seriously Muscatine takes local produce.

Pella Farmers' Market

Pella's market runs Thursday evenings, 4 to 7pm, from May through the fall, on Broadway Street in a town better known for its Dutch tulip festival than its produce stands. Vendors bring local produce, honey, nuts, herbs, prepared foods, and jams alongside handmade goods. It's a smaller, evening-hours market built around Pella's downtown foot traffic rather than a weekend destination event.

Perry Farmers Market

The Perry Farmers Market runs Thursday evenings, 4 to 7pm, from early June through late September, on 2nd Street between Willis Avenue and Warford downtown. It accepts SNAP EBT and matches purchases through Double Up Food Bucks, stretching grocery budgets for the Dallas County families who shop it. The Perry Chamber of Commerce organizes the market and books at least one food vendor most weeks alongside the produce stands.

Pleasant Hill Farmers Market

Pleasant Hill, IA

The Community Farmers Market of Pleasant Hill meets Mondays, 4 to 7pm, June through August, at Berean Church on East University Avenue. Its vendor rule is stricter than most Iowa markets: if you didn't grow it, raise it, bake it, or make it yourself, you can't sell it here, no resale tables allowed. More than 40 vendors show up alongside a rotating lineup of food trucks, live music, and a free kids' train.

Pleasantville Farmers' Market

Pleasantville, IA

Pleasantville's market runs Wednesday afternoons, 3:30 to 6:30, starting just after the Fourth of July and continuing into the second week of October, a shorter season than most Iowa markets, timed to the heart of the harvest. It sets up in the parking lot across from Casey's on Pleasant Street. The market marks its last week each year with a Homecoming event tied to the local school calendar.

Pocahontas Farmers Market

South Main Street (south of the Pocahontas Inn) Pocahontas, IA

Pocahontas' market sets up on South Main Street on the east side of the Court House Square, just south of the Pocahontas Inn. It's a Saturday-morning market serving a small Pocahontas County seat in northwest Iowa, drawing growers from the surrounding farm country rather than a large vendor roster. Confirm current-season hours with the county before making a special trip.

Quad Cities Food Hub

Davenport, IA

Quad Cities Food Hub runs a year-round CSA grocery and multi-vendor farmers market out of its River Drive location in Davenport, carrying organic produce alongside other local goods from area growers. It functions as a standing indoor market rather than a seasonal outdoor stand, open through the winter months. Call (563) 265-2455 for current vendor hours.

Quimby Farmers' Market

Quimby, IA

Quimby's market runs out of a Main Street storefront address in this small Cherokee County town. It's a spring-through-fall market on the smaller end of Iowa's network, selling produce and handmade goods direct from local growers. Confirm hours with the town before visiting.

Richland Farmers' Market

Richland, IA

Richland's market gathers at Central Park in the middle of this small Keokuk County town, right on the town square. Listings disagree on the exact weekly schedule, which is common for markets this size that run on volunteer time rather than a paid coordinator. Local specialties, crafts, and produce make up the vendor mix, and the market accepts SNAP.

River City Farmers Market

River City Farmers Market runs Saturdays, 9am to noon, June through August, at West Broadway in downtown Council Bluffs. Vendors sell locally grown produce, eggs, honey, bedding plants, and baked goods, standard early-summer market fare timed to when Iowa gardens actually start producing. The market's Facebook page tracks weekly vendor turnout more reliably than its directory listings, which show some conflicting address details.

Riverfront Farmers' Market

Burlington, IA

Burlington's Riverfront Farmers Market sets up at the Port of Burlington on North Front Street, right along the Mississippi. The vendor list runs longer than most small-town Iowa markets, with fresh meat and cheese alongside the usual produce, plants, cut flowers, honey, nuts, and jam. Its riverfront setting is as much the draw as the shopping; Burlington built its downtown around the water, and the market takes advantage of it directly.

Riverside Farmers Market

Riverside Farmers Market sets up at 603 Pioneer Ave in Oakland, a Pottawattamie County town in southwest Iowa. Local growers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods for area shoppers during the outdoor market season.

Rolfe Farmers' Market

Rolfe's farmers market gathers at Heritage Park on Garfield Street, in this Pocahontas County town in northwest Iowa. Growers from the surrounding farmland sell seasonal produce direct to neighbors through summer and fall.

Sheldon Farmers Market

Sheldon Farmers Market takes place on 9th Street in this O'Brien County town in northwest Iowa. Area growers sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers, a regular stop for residents buying local through the season.

Shellsburg Farmers Market

City Park Shellsburg, IA

Shellsburg Farmers Market meets at City Park in this small Benton County town east of Cedar Rapids. Local growers set up to sell seasonal produce and homemade goods to neighbors through the summer months.

Shenandoah Garden City Market

Shenandoah Garden City Market sets up at 500 W. Clarinda Ave in Shenandoah, a Page County town long known as home to Earl May and Henry Field's seed and nursery companies. Growers sell produce and plants direct to local shoppers.

Sibley Farmers' Market

Sibley, IA

Sibley Farmers' Market lines the 400 block of 9th Street in this Osceola County seat in the far northwest corner of Iowa. Growers bring seasonal produce to sell directly to neighbors during the market season.

Silver Creek Farmers' Market

Silver City, IA

Silver Creek Farmers' Market sets up along Main Street and Railroad Avenue in Silver City, a small Mills County town in southwest Iowa. Growers from the area sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Sioux Center Farmers Market

Sioux Center Farmers Market fills the Centre Mall parking lot along Highway 75 in this Sioux County town in northwest Iowa. Area growers sell seasonal produce and homemade goods direct to local shoppers.

Southeast Iowa Food Hub

Fairfield, IA

Southeast Iowa Food Hub grew out of a Sustainable Living Coalition project started in fall 2014 to build a local food system for Jefferson County and its neighbors. The nonprofit connects area growers with buyers rather than farming itself. Reach Barbara at 641-919-0307 or [email protected].

Southridge Mall Farmers Market

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.

Spencer Riverfront Farmers' Market

Spencer, IA

Spencer Riverfront Farmers' Market gathers at Grand Street and 1st Street in the Riverfront District of Spencer, the Clay County seat in northwest Iowa. Local growers sell seasonal produce direct to area shoppers.

Springville Farmers' Market

Springville, IA

Springville Farmers' Market meets at the Cox Lake Pavilion behind City Hall on Broadway, in this Linn County town northeast of Cedar Rapids. Growers sell seasonal produce direct to neighbors through the market season.

State Center Farmers' Market

State Center Farmers' Market sets up at 100 West Main Street in this small Marshall County town, known locally as the rose capital of Iowa. Area growers sell seasonal produce direct to local shoppers.

Storm Lake Farmers Market

Storm Lake Farmers Market lines the 600 block of Erie Street on Courthouse Square in this Buena Vista County seat in northwest Iowa. Local growers sell seasonal produce direct to area shoppers.

Stuart Farmers Market

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.

Sycamore Mall Farmers Market

Sycamore Mall Farmers Market fills the parking lot at 1660 Sycamore Street in Iowa City. Growers from the surrounding Johnson County countryside sell seasonal produce direct to shoppers on the city's south side.