Farmers Markets in South Dakota

Aberdeen Farmers' Market

Aberdeen, SD

The Central Park Farmers Market sets up Wednesday afternoons from 4:30 to 7:30, June through October, at Central Park on 2nd Ave SE in Aberdeen. It runs producer-only: home-grown produce and homemade or handmade goods, sold by the people who raised or made them. Most vendors take cash and cards, and some accept SNAP, EBT, and WIC. Free live music plays through the season.

Black Hills Bulk Foods

Hot Springs, SD

Black Hills Bulk Foods delivers fresh produce, meat, and natural and organic groceries to rural Black Hills towns, sourcing locally where it can. David and Merissa Alink started it in 2021, running order windows Monday through Wednesday once or twice a month with delivery the following week to Rapid City, Spearfish, Hot Springs, Custer, and Piedmont. They also host a pop-up market at their Hot Springs facility for anyone who'd rather pick up meat and produce in person.

Black Hills Farmers Market

The Black Hills Farmers Market is the largest in South Dakota, running Saturdays 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. May through October at Market Park, 245 E Omaha St in Rapid City, with a Wednesday market added July through October and a smaller indoor winter market. More than 50 vendors sell produce, mushrooms, meat, eggs, honey, baked goods, and crafts. It has operated since 1989 and doubles SNAP dollars up to $20 a day.

Brookings Farmers' Market

Brookings, SD

The Brookings Farmers Market runs Saturday mornings 9 a.m. to noon, May through October, on the 300 block of 6th Ave between the public library and the county courthouse downtown. Area growers and makers sell fruit, vegetables, herbs, meat, eggs, honey, bread, jam, coffee, and soap. The nonprofit market shifts indoors to the Fifth Street Gym for a winter season, held the first and third Saturdays November through April.

Callaway's Farmers Market

Callaway's Farmers Market sets up in the lot at 500 E 69th St by Prairie Green Golf Course in Sioux Falls, open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Vendors bring farm-fresh beef, pork, chicken, lamb, and goat, plus produce, bedding plants, cut flowers, eggs, baked goods, jam, salsa, and home-canned foods.

Country Farmers' Market

Pierre, SD

The Country Farmers' Market sets up on the upper-deck parking lot at Pierre Mall, 1615 N Harrison Ave, in South Dakota's capital city. Hours and vendor details are thin online. Central South Dakota's short, hot growing season means sweet corn, tomatoes, squash, and other garden produce arrive from midsummer into fall.

Deadwood Street Market

The Deadwood Street Market brings local growers and makers together at 71 Sherman St in Deadwood, where every item is grown, raised, or made by the vendor or a nearby partner farm. It is one of a couple of seasonal markets in this Black Hills mining town; a separate Friday-evening farmers market runs at nearby Gordon Park through the summer.

Elk Point Farmers' Market

Elk Point, SD

The Elk Point Farmers' Market gathers local growers at 106 W Pleasant St in this small Union County town near the Iowa and Nebraska lines in far southeast South Dakota. Detailed hours are not well documented online, but area markets typically run from late spring through fall with garden produce, eggs, and baked goods.

Freeman Farmers' Market

Freeman, SD

The Freeman Farmers' Market runs Wednesday evenings 5 to 7 p.m., June through September, in this Hutchinson County town settled by German-Russian Mennonites. Vendors sell garden vegetables, baked goods, homemade ice cream, and crafts. The market has used the Pioneer Hall lot at Freeman Academy, and has also set up at the swimming pool park on the north end of town.

Gages Gardens & Greenhouses Farmers Market

Gage Gardens & Greenhouses is a garden center and small farm at 379 Evans Lane in Spearfish, growing annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, and vegetable starts in its greenhouses each spring. Later in the season it brings in Colorado peaches and roasts fresh green chiles on site. The shop is generally open Monday through Saturday 9 to 5 and Sunday 10 to 4.

Huron Farmers' Market

Huron, SD

The Huron Farmers' Market has sold local food since 2005, running Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon from June into early October. Five to a dozen vendors bring in-season produce, farm-fresh eggs, raw honey, local beef and lamb, canned goods, baked goods, and handmade soap. Most take cash and cards, and some accept SNAP, EBT, and WIC.

Hyde County Farmers' Market

Highmore, SD

The Hyde County Farmers' Market sets up at the south park in Highmore, the small county-seat town on US-14 in central South Dakota's ranch and wheat country. Vendor and schedule details are sparse online. Markets in this part of the state generally run midsummer through early fall with garden produce and baked goods.

Madison Farmers' Market

Madison, SD

The Madison Farmers' Market runs Thursday afternoons 3 to 6 p.m., July through October, at the Madison Public Library, 209 Center St E, in this Lake County town. Local growers and makers bring seasonal produce and homemade goods to the downtown site through the summer.

Miller Area Farmers Market

Miller, SD

Fresh, local foods and handmade wares for the Miller, SD area. Operating Tuesday 5-7 second week in July- September.

Sioux Empire Farmers' Market

Sioux Falls, SD

Runs Saturdays 8am to 1pm, May through October, at 8th & Railroad in downtown Sioux Falls. Vendors sell farm-fresh eggs, beef, poultry, honey, seasonal vegetables and fruit, herbs, artisan breads and baked goods, plus spring and fall plants and flowers. Wood-fired pizza is available on site. Everything sold is locally grown or produced. One of several long-running markets serving the Sioux Falls area.

The Prairie Farmers' Market

Sioux Falls, SD

Held Saturdays 8am to 1pm, May through October, at Cherapa Place near the river in Sioux Falls, then moves indoors to a parking garage for the winter. About 15 vendors rotate weekly, including Hanisch Farms produce and Dakota Mushrooms & Microgreens, plus eggs, honey, meat, jams, baked goods, flowers, coffee and prepared food. Parking is free and plentiful. Many vendors take SNAP, EBT, WIC and FMNP.

Watertown Farmers' Market

Watertown, SD

Sets up Saturdays 8am to noon in the Runnings parking lot at 1701 9th Ave SE, Watertown, from May into October. This USDA-certified market carries produce, baked goods, eggs, kettle corn, beef and goat's milk soap. It accepts SNAP, WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers.

Burke Area Farmers Market

Burke, SD

Burke Area Farmers Market

Burke, SD

Dakota Fresh Food Hub

Sioux Falls, SD

New Hope Farm

Rapid City, SD