Wisconsin Farmers Markets

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

237 Wisconsin farmers markets in USDA's national directory. The middle of the 43 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 Wisconsin 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

237

Seasons readable as a range

File weekly hours

Rank by listing count

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The Wisconsin markets nearest a ZIP code

USDA’s directory holds 237 farmers market listings in Wisconsin. The middle of the 43 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 Wisconsin season

The middle Wisconsin listing runs June 1 to October 31

USDA's directory holds 237 farmers market listings in Wisconsin. 43 of them give a season this site can read as a range, 18 percent, and the middle of those runs June 1 to October 31. The listings themselves were last touched between June 2020 and August 2025.

That range is a median across the 43 Wisconsin 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. 34 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 Wisconsin’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.

8 Wisconsin 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 43 Wisconsin seasons in USDA's directory that can be read as a range: June 1 to October 31. 34 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 43 readable Wisconsin seasons

October 31Median closing, as filedabout 22 weeks of season

8Listings that are year roundset aside from the medians

#8Rank by listing countbetween Virginia and Georgia

How good is this data

What Wisconsin operators actually filled in

What the Wisconsin listings actually fill in

Filed as two real dates125%
Typed as a month range3113%
Written as year round00%
Other prose, not readable00%
Left blank19482%

The first two rows are the ones this site can read as a range, 43 of 237 or 18 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. 43 listings also file weekly hours and 237 carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on. The records themselves were last touched between June 2020 and August 2025.

The Wisconsin records in this snapshot were last touched between June 2020 and August 2025. 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.

237 of the 237 listings carry usable coordinates, which is what the ZIP tool ranks on, and 140 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 Wisconsin's 237 listings, 43 tell you which weeks of the year to expect this and 43 tell you which morning. “Cauliflower, winter cabbage, and yellow onions” — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lance Cheung — Public domain

The big ones

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

USDA’s form asks operators how many vendors they have, and 43 of Wisconsin’s 237 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.

Appleton Downtown Farm Market150 vendors
Dane County Farmers' Market - Saturday on the Square130 vendors
Downtown Beloit Farmers' Market - Summer90 vendors
Kenosha Public Market - Summer Outdoor80 vendors
Kenosha Public Market70 vendors

What Wisconsin listings say they belong to

3 listings name Wisconsin Farmers Market Association
1 listing names City of Beloit
1 listing names Downtown Beloit Association
1 listing names Farmers Market Coalition

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 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, which is the public body for this in Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin: the 237 listings here are markets that filed, and a Wisconsin 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

Wisconsin farmers market FAQ

Is a farmers market open in Wisconsin today?

When does the Wisconsin farmers market season usually run?

Across the 43 Wisconsin 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. 34 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 8 Wisconsin listings are year round and excluded from it entirely.

How good is the Wisconsin data?

Which Wisconsin markets are the biggest?

Do Wisconsin farmers markets take SNAP?

Who runs farmers markets in Wisconsin?

The markets themselves do, almost always as independent nonprofits, town committees or vendor cooperatives. The public body is Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, which keeps the state's own market list. The directory also records what listings say about themselves: 3 name Wisconsin Farmers Market Association and 1 name City of Beloit. Those are membership organisations rather than public bodies, named here rather than quoted.

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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