Wow this Farmers Market is truly a market, mushrooms, collards, pastries, fruit and many flowers…read more Street parking was not a hassle on Saturday morning. The crowd was manageable and we didn't experience no buffoonery. I'm going back because I had a greedy spirit and finished my treats from Pleasant House Pub and Royal pies. Shepherd pie Peach hand pie Spinach & cheese pie GONE is it Saturday yet?

I'm sorry, I really wanted to like this market. Don;t get me wrong, the vendors were great and we…read morebought more than we should have, honestly. But there are some significant issues. From outside in, the parking sucks. All very narrow street parking. Good luck. Then just finding the market is a challenge. An almost unmarked door just down from a coffee shop. What is this, some kind of speakeasy? Once you're in you're looking at two rooms of about 8 vendors per room. Kinda weak. And only maybe 2 of them were actual "farmers". The others had juices or baked goods or breakfast burritos or whatever. Not bad, just not exactly farmers market items en mas. The venue is...weird. It's like an artist coop or something. Really poorly suited to the market. The first thing I noticed was the smoke from cooking (burned?) breakfast foods hanging in the air. Less than ideal. The prices are stupid. Like stupid high. Sure, you expect that from "artisanal", "organic", "small batch", etc stuff. But this was over the top. $8 for a loaf of bread less than 1/3 of a loaf at any other bakery is stupid. The vendors are great, the quality is great. The space, both inside and out sucks, and the prices border on criminal. I suggest you look around for other venues if you are on a budget.

Well, decided to bump this up one star because they are really trying to make this work and for…read moresome reason I am starting to like this Farmer's Market. Although it was not the most pleasant day weather - wise - - gray and somewhat drizzly at times AND my favorite vendor, Sputnik Coffee is no longer participating, I still enjoyed the market today. I really enjoyed chatting a little with some of the vendors: Pixie Dust Salts - sea salt mixtures like vanilla, lavendar, rosemary ; John Bailey Honey (Keisha is a delightful young lady that introduced me to the products) - not only honey, various fruit jams, applesauce ; two produce vendors : Steve Frank Farms and Cedillo's Fresh Produce. There's Running Mile Hot Sauce and Yvolina's Tamales. There was an info booth about using Link cards at farmers markets and another about the McKinley Park News. There was also a face painter. Not Just Cookies was sold out and gone by the time I got there slightly before 1 pm. According to the newsletter Broken K Ranch, Made a Mano and The Urban Canopy also participate. I noticed that from 10 am to 11 am there is "Yoga at the Farmers Market". Bring your mat, water, towel and optional blocks and strap. Suggested donation is $5. https://mckinleypark.news/events/full-calendar/event/9251-yoga-at-the-farmers-market On some market days, there is entertainment. You can check the news letter for weekly info on the market. https://mckinleypark.news/events/featured-events/event/9218-mckinley-park-farmers-market You can sign up to receive emails about McKinley Park that will update you weekly about the Farmers Market and other happenings in the area. This is a rather pretty location for a farmers market. Because it is in the park, it seems more relaxed to me. I really liked it last year when Sputnik Coffee was here. I heard they are trying to find another coffee vendor and I sure hope they are successful! I also would like to see another bakery vendor and hopefully both will be reasonably priced and well stocked also! Farmers Market - Review #1 McKinley Park Neighborhood - Review #1

3 stars for showing potential in an underappreciated venue: McKinley Park…read more Yoga in the park was well attended. Good deal for 1 hour at five bucks. Or was that the minimum donation? Take care of your instructor! There was a cool truck with free pizza samples. Cauliflower crust tho. My brother loves that but I'm old fashioned. A bakery had a wide array of cookies. Hot sauce table. Only one produce vendor that I can recall. The organizers need to step up their efforts to get farmers into the farmers market. That's the draw for city people: produce. How about herb vendors? Cheese? This is a great spot and this FarMar needs more attention.

We visited this place on the opening day,4th August. Wen we…read morearrived there only to find few vendors. So disappointed... Will try again some other Tuesday.

Hey, five stars to these guys aka vendors as they are "real troupers"=brave and determined…read more It is pouring rain today and the vendors still are friendly with a positive attitude despite the weather. Shoppers can find fresh seasonal produce, plants, cheese, bread, cookies, bagels,etc. (Key word is "seasonal" with the produce.) I decided to take a walk down to the Federal Plaza Farmers Market to see what was fresh. Fresh Asparagus by the pound-you pick it-(out of the basket) and they weigh it! Leeks! Herbs! Peony flowers! I am looking forward to tomato and cucumber season. For now it is asparagus, fresh "Siam Queen" Thai basil from Smits Farms is of a much better quality with larger leaves than I have found in other places in Chicago. Plus reddish-pink peonies. Look for the Alexander Calder "Flamingo" Sculpture-then you know you are in the right spot! FYI-Not all vendor's from one market go to other Chicago City Farmer's Markets during different days of the week. Which makes it all the more interesting to market hop.

A farmer's market should offer more fruit veggie garden selections.. and not Bodybutter, earrings…read moreand lotions

The best way to describe this place is basically Whole Foods but condensed. It features mostly…read moreorganic food, snacks, oils, CBD, vitamins and a bunch of other great products. This place sells a certain energy drink Whole Foods used to sell so I was sold immediately. It also has a food bar as well. Definitely reccomend, would love to see more of these stores.

This Green City Market located in the west loop is soooooo much easier than dealing with the…read morecraziness that exists in Lincoln Park on Saturdays. While I love the LP green city farmers market, it's incredibly crowded and if you have a car, good luck finding parking. This west loop location is smaller. There are fewer venders here than the other location, but there are far less people and finding parking isn't difficult at all. The park is also beautifully shaded and hilly. Clusters of tents are spread out a bit. You could miss a few if you don't walk around. As much as I love all of the bakery representation at the LP location, I will frequent the green city market in the west loop instead. It's so much less of a headache

Green City Market is a small market in the West Loop. It's super close to my apartment, so my dog…read moreand I often visit early in the morning to kick off our weekend. The market only has a few vendors, but they are really great. I love going to look at the flowers and usually grab a pastry and coffee to take home. There are several produce and meat/egg stands, but I find everything to be a little too pricey for me to justify buying much. However, they do triple match Illinois Link! I wish the market had a few more vendors, as it gets crowded quickly and the lack of competition favors the high prices, but it is a nice thing to do each weekend. I appreciate that it is dog friendly so I can bring my dog with me to get some socialization in.

A winter farmer's market on the 4th floor of Water Place Tower that's only open from 12-4pm on…read moreSunday afternoons and ends at the end of March. With it being winter, there isn't a whole lot of produce, but plenty of food vendors so come hungry. I was really happy to see Yvolina's Tamales from Pilsen there. I just made tamales yesterday, but couldn't help but buy one still. I do love her tamales and don't make it to Pilsen often enough. I was really hoping to find jars of jam because I only have 1 jar left of my own jam. There was only one vendor selling jam and it was sugar free. I like eating healthy but jam should be sweet IMO. There are plenty of pastry vendors. The usual farmers market representation. A lot of them looked really good, but I was too full to partake. I brought home Ube cookies, sugar scrubs, and local honey I really look forward to spring and summer farmers markets when produce and flowers are in abundance. Not to mention vendors with jam ;)

I was a bit skeptical about going to the South Loop Market when a friend suggested we meet up here…read more I don't really need much at a farmer's market right now, and paying for parking to go to this one in Water Tower Place made me grumble but it was something to do with a friend, and with the kids, which can be difficult to find at this age. I was totally wrong and was really surprised at how great a market it was. It took place on the fourth floor of WTP and it was huge; I have most often been to the Ravenswood or Lincoln Square and those are a fraction of this size. There were booths with their foodstuffs--salsas, produce (including eggs, of course a hot item in 2025), bread and pastries, donuts, and so on. There was a section with prepared foods (the burgers looked really great). There was even live music happening at one end of the market, advertising the Chicago Blues Fest. There's a kids section in with the food court, but we didn't let the kids out since it was just blocked with stanchions and these two are too young to really understand they need to stay nearby. Overall the market was very well done. Fortunately, it didn't feel too terribly overcrowded except for when we were going over by where the band was. And we found out as we were wrapping up that they had a free two-hour parking offer. Not sure if that's just for the first time you download this parking app or what but I'll be keeping it in mind since I plan to attend again if I can before the winter market wraps up. The worst part is not the fault of the market but the elevators at Water Tower Place are still terrible. They're incredibly slow, and one was out of service! Hopefully they have that fixed now because it was painful. If you're able-bodied the escalator will be a better bet, instead of standing around with the masses looking longingly at the third elevator which only goes to a few floors (the fourth not being one of them).

This has been on my list for sometime, one of those I'll get around to it, I'm glad I finally did…read more I wish they were here years ago when I took Ogden Ave. to get to work. So be advised that this is a little out of the way, but really just a little or you can take the "L" and get off at Central Park. If you make your way to Riot Fest, you can find this easy peasy. The payoff, you get to support a jobs and teaching program. It's a partnership between Lawndale Christian Health and the Chicago Botanic Garden's Windy City Harvest. What else do you get, a bevy of freshly grown (most there) vegetables, tomatoes, lettuces, kale, radishes, peppers, beets on and on. If it's not grown on site they tell you where it came from. They had some pineapple and grapefruit, we know those weren't grown here. Pricing is very reasonable, better than you find at some of the neighborhood farmers markets. I bought a healthy bag of stuff for 16 bucks, and that includes one of their reusable tote bags for 2 bucks. So glad to see a worthwhile program that brings healthy food and a jobs program to the Lawndale neighborhood. Definitely repeatable.

I finally made it out to Farm on Ogden after contemplating a few times post completion of workouts…read moreat Lawndale Christian Fitness Center. Luckily, it was open until 6:00 PM the Saturday of my visit or I would have prolonged it until who knows when. Farm on Ogden stopped me while enroute to a restaurant the evening of my visit; offering me a much healthier choice to eat in comparison. I visited with an interest of purchasing a salad similar to one I had purchased days ago at Green Tomato Cafe, a cafe attached to Lawndale Christian Health Center. But more importantly I wanted to see what produce items were available for purchase. My introduction to Farm on Ogden was at the 2018 Lawndale 5k where it was mentioned that the proceeds from the race support the farm, which at the time I had no idea of. In time I learned about it after visits to Lawndale Christian Health Center - Fitness Center & Green Tomato Cafe. This visit felt like an adventure because rarely do I encounter or let alone visit an indoor farm. Highly intrigued by the presence of its greenhouse and aquaponics system which I will have to sign up for a tour in the future to learn about. As much as I wanted to ask questions about it at the time of my visit, the time was limited and I was quite positive that I would learn about it in the future eventually. Anything that contributes to the growth of a community by offering healthier foods, jobs, and education I am all for. And Farm on Ogden does so with its partnership with Lawndale Christian Health Center and Chicago Botanic Garden - Windy City Harvest. There are opportunities for anyone including veterans and adults with criminal backgrounds. If you drive, there are no worries about parking because it has its own private lot with street parking available as well. And if you do not drive, yet familiar with Chicago Transit Authority the farm sits right outside of CTA Central Park - Pink line making it an easy commute to-and-from. I made it no secret to one of the employees that I would be returning in the near future after what I discovered. Even though I live outside of the Lawndale community, it is heartwarming knowing that my contributions to not only Farm on Ogden, but Lawndale Christian Health Center are meaningful. ~Blessings~ Thomas G

Love love love this market! It is on the smaller side, but has everything you need in one stop!…read moreSome of my favorites include the fresh floeer bunches, microgreens, local honey and jams, and all the veggies and fruit. I also buy my veggie plants here every year and they do so well!!! The church coffee and donuts are also a hit!

Lovely market I was able to get so many fresh fruits and vegetables. I throughly enjoyed tasting…read morefresh Wisconsin cheese.