Farmers Markets near Champaign, IL

Champaign

This Champaign market runs Sundays, 3 to 6 p.m., spring through fall, in the Country Fair Shopping Center lot on Mattis Avenue. Vendors sell local produce, baked goods, and handcrafted items, including USDA-certified organic options.

Champaign Farmers Market operates every Tuesday, 3 to 6 p.m., May through October, in the downtown plaza at Neil and Main. Run by The Land Connection, it brings in meat, produce, microgreens, baked goods, and herbal products from growers within 150 miles of Champaign-Urbana. SNAP and WIC benefits are accepted and doubled, and a weekly vendor map lets shoppers see who's set up before they arrive.

Champaign

Urbana

The Champaign-Urbana Winter Farmers Market is a winter farmers market located at Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana. We operate from November through April, with a few Saturdays off for holiday break. Vendors sell a variety of food and farm products, as well as crafts and other homemade goods. We have several food assistance programs that operate through this market as well.

Set up at the intersection of Illinois 47 and East Main Street, this Mahomet market runs spring through fall with local growers selling produce, baked goods, flowers, and handcrafted items to Champaign County shoppers.

Running since 1979, Urbana's Market at the Square is producer-only — everything sold is grown or made by the vendor standing behind the table. More than 150 vendors set up at Illinois and Vine Streets on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon, selling Illinois-grown produce, meat, cheese, honey, wine, and baked goods alongside pottery and jewelry. It has won the News-Gazette's People's Choice Award for community events.

Corner of Sangamon & Garrard Rantoul

Rantoul Farmers Market runs Fridays, 4 to 7 p.m., through early September, at the corner of Garrard and Congress. Revived in 2015 as a nonprofit, it now offers online ordering and delivery alongside the usual stalls of produce, berries, corn, melons, and baked goods. SNAP and Link cards are accepted, and the market can be reached directly at [email protected].

Monticello Main Street has run this Thursday market on the town square for more than twenty years, setting up on State Street between Washington and Main from 3 to 6 p.m., June through October. Vendors bring produce, fruit, baked goods, and other regional products grown or made within driving distance. Market Director Amanda Pankau handles day-to-day questions; Shelly Crawford-Stock oversees the Main Street organization behind it.

Abundant Market sets up on Tuscola's Main Street at 214 N. Main, in the Douglas County seat along I-57 near the Amish communities of Arthur and Arcola. No vendor list, season dates, or hours are published online for this listing beyond the address on file.

Arthur