Minnesota Farmers Markets

Name: USDA National Farmers Market Directory listings in Minnesota
Creator: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

439 Minnesota farmers markets in USDA's national directory. The middle of the 290 whose season can be read as a range runs June 1 to October 31. Enter a ZIP below for the nearest, with the season and hours each one filed and the date it filed them.

Every Minnesota season and hours line here is what the market filed with USDA, with the date it filed beside it; current trading status is the market's own to publish

Listings in the directory

439

Seasons readable as a range

309

File weekly hours

307

Rank by listing count

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The Minnesota markets nearest a ZIP code

USDA’s directory holds 439 farmers market listings in Minnesota. The middle of the 290 readable seasons runs June 1 to October 31. Today falls inside that window, which is a statement about the median of the filings and about nothing else.

Seasons and hours as filed with USDA, each with the date it was filed. Many of those dates are years old. A market keeps its own calendar and publishes it in its own window, and every listing here links the directory record and the market for current status.

Distance is printed on every row because it matters: a market 40 miles away describes that town rather than yours. A ZIP near a state line will pull results from both sides, which is correct behaviour rather than a bug.

The Minnesota season

The middle Minnesota listing runs June 1 to October 31

USDA's directory holds 439 farmers market listings in Minnesota. 309 of them give a season this site can read as a range, 70 percent, and the middle of those runs June 1 to October 31. The listings themselves were last touched between April 2020 and January 2026.

That range is a median across the 290 Minnesota seasons in USDA’s directory this site can read as a range, with the year each operator filed under thrown away so a 2019 filing and a 2024 filing sit on the same axis. 9 of them came from a month range the operator typed into the date field rather than a filed date pair, which widens the window by up to a month at each end. Half of Minnesota’s markets open later than the median by construction. Today falls inside the window, which is a statement about the median of the filings and about nothing else.

24 Minnesota listings are year round, either written that way or filed as a range that wraps the new year. Those are excluded from the median above and counted here instead, because a year round market says nothing about when a season opens.

The middle of the 290 Minnesota seasons in USDA's directory that can be read as a range: June 1 to October 31. 9 of them came from a month range the operator typed rather than a filed date pair. Half of these markets open later than the median by construction, and it is a description of what operators filed rather than a schedule any market keeps.

June 1Median opening, as filedacross 290 readable Minnesota seasons

October 31Median closing, as filedabout 22 weeks of season

24Listings that are year roundset aside from the medians

#2Rank by listing countbetween California and New York

How good is this data

What Minnesota operators actually filled in

What the Minnesota listings actually fill in

Filed as two real dates30068%
Typed as a month range92%
Written as year round41%
Other prose, not readable51%
Left blank12128%

The first two rows are the ones this site can read as a range, 309 of 439 or 70 percent, and only those go into the median. A month range is the operator’s own words, so it is read rather than discarded, but it widens the window by up to a month at each end. 307 listings also file weekly hours and 438 carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on. The records themselves were last touched between April 2020 and January 2026.

The Minnesota records in this snapshot were last touched between April 2020 and January 2026. That is the caveat on every line of this page: a listing carries whatever the operator typed on the day they typed it, and nothing rolls it forward.

438 of the 439 listings carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on, and 171 give a website. A listing with no website and no hours is still worth having, because the address and the directory record are enough to go and look.

Cabbages, cauliflower and yellow onions on a market table with handwritten price cards — Cabbage at seventy five cents a pound, priced on a card somebody wrote that morning. Of Minnesota's 439 listings, 309 tell you which weeks of the year to expect this and 307 tell you which morning. “Cauliflower, winter cabbage, and yellow onions” — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lance Cheung — Public domain

The big ones

The largest Minnesota markets by the directory’s own vendor counts

USDA’s form asks operators how many vendors they have, and 20 of Minnesota’s 439 listings answered. This ranks the ones that answered rather than the state, and the numbers are the operators’ own on the dates their records were last touched.

Northeast Minneapolis Farmers Market65 vendors
Richfield Farmers Market35 vendors
City of Plymouth Farmers Market26 vendors
Green Scene Walker Community Farmer's Market20 vendors
Lake Minnetonka Excelsior Farmers Market18 vendors

What Minnesota listings say they belong to

154 listings name Farmers' Market Coalition
153 listings name MFMA
21 listings name St. Paul Farmers' Market Association
4 listings name Minnesota Grown

These come from the directory’s own affiliated organisation field, which is the operator’s statement about its own market. They are membership organisations rather than public bodies, named here rather than quoted, and a market’s membership is the operator’s own statement.

Current status

Where to check whether a Minnesota market is trading

Where to find out whether a market is trading

Two places, in this order. The market’s own page or noticeboard, which is the only thing that is ever current, and Minnesota Department of Agriculture, which is the public body for this in Minnesota and keeps its own list. Link verified September 4, 2026.

A state farmers market association, where one exists, is nearly always a membership nonprofit rather than a public body, so the department of agriculture is the public body linked here.

“The Farmers Market Directory lists markets that feature two or more farm vendors selling agricultural products directly to customers at a common, recurrent physical location.”

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Local Food Directories: National Farmers Market Directory

A federal directory of farmers markets. Operators file and maintain their own listings, so an entry is a claim by the market rather than a check by USDA, and a town with no entry is not a town with no market. That cuts both ways in Minnesota: the 439 listings here are markets that filed, and a Minnesota town with no listing is a town where nobody filed rather than a town with no market.

Summarised from USDA Local Food Directories, National Farmers Market Directory in our own words.

Common questions

Minnesota farmers market FAQ

Is a farmers market open in Minnesota today?

When does the Minnesota farmers market season usually run?

Across the 290 Minnesota seasons in USDA's directory that can be read as a range, the middle one opens around June 1 and closes around October 31, about 22 weeks. 9 of those were a month range the operator typed rather than a filed date pair, which widens it by up to a month at each end. It is a median of what operators filed, not a schedule: half of them open later than that by construction, and 24 Minnesota listings are year round and excluded from it entirely.

How good is the Minnesota data?

Which Minnesota markets are the biggest?

Do Minnesota farmers markets take SNAP?

Who runs farmers markets in Minnesota?

The markets themselves do, almost always as independent nonprofits, town committees or vendor cooperatives. The public body is Minnesota Department of Agriculture, which keeps the state's own market list. The directory also records what listings say about themselves: 154 name Farmers' Market Coalition and 153 name MFMA. Those are membership organisations rather than public bodies, named here rather than quoted.

Keep going

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Other Midwest states

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Farmers markets by state

Every market on this site comes from USDA’s National Farmers Market Directory, run by the Agricultural Marketing Service under OMB control number 0581-0169, a US Government work in the public domain. Snapshot taken 2026-09-04: 7,067 markets, of which 653 filed a season as two real dates, 664 typed a month range that this site reads as one, and 1,563 file weekly hours. Listings are written and maintained by the markets themselves, so a season is the operator’s statement as of that record’s own date. Farmers markets in every state