SNAP/EBT recipients can get their purchase double matched (buy $10, get $30) each market day!
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Harvest Social 2025
Join us for the Harvest Social! SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th 5:00-7:30pm Mill City Museum Ruins Courtyard The Harvest Social is a celebration of local food champions. This year’s dinner will be prepared by renowned local Chef Nettie Colón using ingredients sourced from Mill City Farmers Market vendors. 5pm Cocktail hour + live music 6pm Farm-to-Table Dinner…
Greens for Good: Fresh Produce Drive this Saturday
Anyone who has slept in on a Saturday morning and gotten to the Market late has probably noticed that our farmers don’t usually sell out of everything on their tables. What happens to bunches of beets and pints of potatoes that haven’t sold after a 5-hour Market day? For the past seven years, the Mill… Read More →
12 Facts for 12 Years
MCFM turns 12 this season! This week we’re celebrating the past dozen years of “healthy foods, local farmers” with 12 facts about the market’s vendors, programming and shoppers, leading up to opening day this Saturday, May 6! 1 Our vendors farm 1,255 acres of sustainable land in Minnesota and Wisconsin. 2 Our vendors plant 0 GMOs.… Read More →
At Green Earth Growers, Farming is for Everyone
Written by Alia Jeraj, @aliaxgrace Ella Aho took a short break from loading a 25-foot truck full of cut flowers and plants bound for a school fundraiser in South Minneapolis to chat about being part of the small, women-led team at Green Earth Growers. For Ella, loading and unloading trucks is one of the times… Read More →
Greens for Good
Gleaning at the Mill City Farmers Market Originally published in The Journal. “What exactly is gleaning?” is a question with which Nell Gehrke, of the Mill City Farmers Market’s Greens for Good program, starts many of her Saturdays. Her volunteers often guess that it means green cleaning or glamorous cleaning, a la “glamping,” but contrary… Read More →
MN First State To Fund SNAP Incentives At Farmers Markets
June 1, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Minnesota Is The First State To Fund SNAP Incentives At Farmers Markets Minnesota offers $10 match program for low-income families and individuals to shop at farmers markets. Minneapolis, Minn.—The Mill City Farmers Market is open for the season, and it looks a lot different for customers using Supplemental Nutrition… Read More →
