The 2023 Mill City Farmers Market Season Opens May 6, and it's Going to be a Glorious Year!

The Mill City Farmers Market (MCFM) will open its 2023 outdoor season this Saturday, May 6th from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Look forward to 115 rotating small local businesses, including a record number of new vendors. Enjoy a wide variety of local and sustainable businesses including farmers, food makers, textile and ceramic artists, jewelers, bakers, skin and body care, prepared food vendors and more.

The list of May 6th vendors is posted online, including the following new vendors Morning Glory Farm and Gardens, TunTum BlackHill Farm, Yummitizers, Krishna's Delight, For They Skincare & Wellness, Get Bentz Farm, Minneapolis Mehndi & Henna, Primitiva Collective, Spoon and Theory Handmade, Tare Market, and WAAM Industries. Find more info on new vendors here.

Programming at the Market will be back in full force this season after scaling down in previous years due to the pandemic. Mill City Cooks (MCC) will be on the first and third Saturdays of each month for chef-led cooking demos with market ingredients. Power of Produce (PoP) Club, a food access program that gives children the opportunity to try a new fruit or vegetable in exchange for a $2 market token, will be held on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.

Mill City Cooks returns in 2023! Look for these demos twice per month. Nettie Colón kicks it off May 6th, with Jenny Breen and Beth Jones also returning to share their vast knowledge. View the 2023 line up: https://millcityfarmersmarket.org/cooks/PoP Club (Power Of Produce) will be paired with Story Time with the Guthrie on the second Saturdays of each month for Mill City Kids Day. In addition to Story Time and PoP, on second Saturdays the Market will welcome Babycake’s Book Stack, a mobile bookstore that carries a highly curated inventory of books designed to include the culture and/or languages of the indigenous, immigrants, refugees, African American and many other backgrounds from our community.

MCFM has championed for the local food movement and put farmers first since its founding in 2006 by farm-to-table pioneer and James Beard nominated restauranteur Brenda Langton. While not all of its vendors are USDA Certified Organic, they all adhere to the Market’s Sustainability Statement, which, in addition to a 25% Local Sourcing Standard, supports healthy soils, sustainable water use, humane treatment of livestock, honorable workplace practices and rejects synthetic inputs and GMO seed.

MCFM is also the first zero-waste market in Minnesota, with over 90% of market waste being diverted from the landfill each season.