Farms Near Clinton, IL

Clinton

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Clinton

Clinton Area Farmers' & Artisans' Market runs every Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon, from May 2 through October 10, on Mr. Lincoln's Square in downtown Clinton. Vendors sell locally grown produce alongside handmade goods, and the market operates under the DeWitt County seat's Chamber of Commerce, which fields questions about vendor spots and dates.

Clinton

Wagon Wheel Pumpkin Farm grows pumpkins and apples on Airport Road outside Clinton, with a corn maze, pony rides, and a bakery turning out cider doughnuts through the fall. Admission is free, and the family that runs it keeps prices reasonable enough that it shows up repeatedly in reviews. The farm opens Thursday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm, from early September through late October.

Wild Harvest Honey Farm produces honey in Illinois. No apiary location, product list, or contact details are published online for this listing.

Heyworth

Clinton

Mariah's Mums & More, also known as Triple M Farm, runs u-pick strawberries, sunflowers, and fall mums on Airport Road east of Clinton, alongside sweet corn, watermelon, and a spring plant sale of annuals and hanging baskets. The farm market sells kettle corn, donuts, and ice cream, and hosts field trips and birthday parties through the season. Hours shift by month, running weekends only in spring and Thursday-through-Sunday in fall.

Clinton

New Douglas

Ernst Family Farms in New Douglas has raised beef, beefalo, and pork for three generations, on land the family settled in the mid-1800s after emigrating from Germany. Owner David Ernst grazes cattle nearly year-round by stockpiling fescue and planting cover crops, keeping the loop local and tight; find the farm at the Goshen Market in Edwardsville on Saturdays and the Maryville Farmers Market on Thursdays.

Warrensburg

A family-owned pumpkin patch outside Warrensburg operating since 1997, with free admission, pick-your-own and pre-picked pumpkins, a wood maze, a corn maze, and a small kids' haunted house. The 2025 season opens September 20, running Monday and Wednesday through Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 11am-5pm (closed Tuesdays) through October 31. Pets aren't allowed on-site.

Chestnut

Sasse's Apiary in Chestnut, Illinois provides quality honey products with a home-grown philosophy: table honey, cut comb, creamed honey, and beeswax products straight from the hives.

Beason

Downs Village Market sets up on South Seminary Street in this small McLean County community just southeast of Bloomington. It's a village-run market on a modest scale, the kind of stop where a handful of local growers and makers set up rather than a large multi-block event.

One College Park Decatur

Richland Farmers Market runs the third Wednesday of the month, 3 to 7 p.m., June through September, at Richland Community College's College Park campus in Decatur. Richland Student Farms runs it as a hands-on lab for students in the college's sustainable agriculture program, not a commercial vendor market. The Richland Bistro To Go food truck and occasional urban-farming workshops round out the afternoon.

Decatur

Saturday Produce Market operates out of Richland Community College's National Sequestration Education Center at 1 College Park — a building built for carbon capture research, repurposed on weekends for a produce market. Vendors lean toward organically grown fruit and vegetables. It's a college-hosted market rather than a downtown or park district one, which keeps it smaller and steadier than markets tied to festival calendars.

Downs

A fall farm near Downs with a 10-acre corn maze alongside a wide pumpkin and specialty gourd selection. Extras include straw bales, corn stalks, scarecrow-building classes, and gourd birdhouses for kids to take home.

Sheffer Farms grows and sells decorative and specialty pumpkins, gourds, and squash on Stare Road near Oakley, with sizes running from miniature decorative types up to full carving pumpkins. A 1.5-acre corn maze rounds out the fall visit. The family has run the patch since at least 2015, keeping the operation focused on pumpkins rather than a wider fall festival.

Bloomington

Dearing Country Farms is a Bloomington, Illinois homestead growing naturally raised, chemical- and hormone-free meat, eggs, produce, fruit, and berries with regenerative practices, plus a CSA and a stand at the Downtown Bloomington Farmers Market every Saturday, May through October. Its Pioneer & Sustainability AgriLearning Center hosts classes and events — including Breakfast with the Goats, veteran meetups, senior garden days, and youth outreach.

Farmer City

Farmer City Haunted Forest runs as a seasonal event in South Park in Farmer City, De Witt County. No verifiable website or listing was found to confirm current dates or hours.

Bloomington

Bloomington

Our market is managed by the City of Bloomington's Economic & Community Development Department. Everything you buy from our farmers, artists, and prepared food artisans is produced by them. There is a variety of organic and chemical-free produce. It's all fresh, original, and guaranteed to come from your own community.

Bloomington

Milmine

Windmill Pumpkin Farm sells pumpkins from a stand on North 300 East Road in Milmine, in the flat farm country of Piatt County. The operation posts to Facebook when pumpkins are freshly picked, washed, and ready for pickup. Beyond that, it's a modest, family-scale operation without much of an online footprint.

Mt. Pulaski

FarmFED Co-op runs a food-processing and cold-storage facility in Mt. Pulaski built to move Central Illinois produce into grocery stores, schools, and hospitals. The co-op lightly processes and freezes staple vegetables — tomatoes, broccoli, bell peppers, carrots, and green beans — packaged for both bulk institutional orders and smaller retail units. Local food entrepreneurs can also rent space in its licensed commercial kitchen for custom processing.

Mt Pulaski

Tyson's Over the Moon Farm operates out of Mt Pulaski, listed under agriculture and farming with the local chamber of commerce. Details beyond its location are thin online, a small operation worth a call before visiting.

Macon

Normal

Rader Family Farms is a fourth-generation working farm that opens to the public each September and October, along Route 66 in Normal. The main draw is a 12-acre corn maze, backed by pick-your-own pumpkins, hayrack rides, apple cannons, a jumping pillow, and weekend train rides — more than 50 activities in total. A retail store and food stands round out a day on the farm.

Mount Zion

A u-pick apple orchard and farm market on Route 121 in Mount Zion. It's listed among the area's fruit and vegetable growers rather than a large event venue — a straightforward stop for fresh apples in season.

Lincoln

Lincoln's Saturday market runs 8 a.m. to noon in Scully Park on South Kickapoo Street, with growers selling produce, plants and flowers, honey, and baked goods under the park's shade trees. It's a small-town outdoor market — no vendor list posted online, so what's available shifts week to week with the harvest.

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.

Macon

Golden Oldies Farm is a small CSA just south of Decatur in Macon, growing produce without chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. Run by Keith Brown on Hibbard Road, the farm sells sustainably-grown vegetables direct to CSA members.

Towanda

Three kids started ABC Farms as a pandemic project in 2020, raising heritage breed chickens outside Towanda. Today the family sells farm-fresh eggs, raw honey, and small-batch cookies through a self-serve stand called the Eggloo, with sourdough, trees, and flowers planned as future additions.

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White Heath

Pontious Farm grows an extensive mix of produce on Blueberry Lane outside White Heath — blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, and salad greens among them. The road name gives away the specialty, but this is a diversified vegetable farm, not a single-crop operation. Call ahead for what's currently being picked.

Mahomet

Salted Spade is a small CSA farm west of Mahomet near Spring Lake, selling pasture-raised eggs by the dozen and sweet corn alongside cut flowers. CSA members pick up Tuesdays 4-6pm. The farm also runs garden workshops for members who want to learn the growing side, not just eat the harvest.