The first Allen Farmers Market of 2025 is
January 15, 2025 from 3 – 6:30PM.
COME 1/15/25, JOIN US EVERY WEDNESDAY, YEAR-ROUND AT THE ALLEN FARMERS MARKET!
Every week at the Allen Farmers Market is a little different. To learn more about this week’s activities, what vendors to expect and for more information click on: THIS WEEK AT THE MARKET.
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2025 INDOOR ALLEN FARMERS MARKET SEASON
No matter if it’s Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter, the Allen Farmers Market ensures our community has access to fresh and local produce, baked goods, and diverse food offerings no matter what!
From November 2024 – May 7, 2025, you can find our food vendors inside the Greatroom, located at 1629 E Kalamazoo St, through the double doors at the North side of the building.
Count on the Allen Farmers Market for fresh produce from mid-Michigan farms, the highest quality meat, artisan baked breads, gluten-free goods, eggs, and more. It’s more important than ever to buy your groceries from local sources. Our supply chains for food are vulnerable and your support of the local food system helps strengthen it, while ensuring quality in taste.
All of our vendors accept cash transactions, or you can visit our Market Bank to swipe a debit/credit card or SNAP/EBT card to spend at the select vendors. We do provide Double Up Food Bucks for folks that use a SNAP/EBT card and match up to $20 per market visit. Fun fact, in 2005, the Allen Farmers Market became the first farmers market in Michigan to accept SNAP/EBT.
Our market has always supported local, good food, but also has strong roots in having fun and providing a sense of place and belonging. We hope you will make it a habit to stop by the Allen Farmers Market on Wednesdays between 3 – 6:30PM and find community at the Market.
Are you interested in becoming a vendor at our Market? We are always accepting applications. Please contact Market Manager, Jenny at (517) 999-3911 or email jennyw@allenneighborhoodcenter.org.
Sign up for our weekly Market Alert to find out who and what will be at the market each week.
For the 2024 – 2025 Fall/Winter Season, you can expect to see the vendors below regularly, however, sign up for the Market Alert to have access to the most up to date vendor schedule and their offerings.
G3 Food 4 All of Michigan
Gluten Free Bakery Goods(Dairy free & Vegan options), Lemonade or Ice Tea, occasional hot foods
Handheld Food Co.
Made to order street food
Highwater Farms
Microgreens – mild & spicy; pea shoots; sunflower shoots; various vegetable, herb, flower starts; asparagus; summer and cusa squash; tomatoes; potatoes; honey; ground cherries; grapevine wreaths; garlic and garlic braids
Hillcrest Farms
Fresh Market Vegetables, Strawberries, Blueberries, Tree Fruit, limited Flowers
Hometown Hone
Knife, scissors, yard tools, mower blade etc sharpening
Jerusalem Bakery
Hummus & pita
Mycophile’s Garden
Wild & cultivated fresh mushrooms, mushroom tinctures, mushroom jerky, mushroom tea blends, grow-your-own mushroom grow kits, t-shirts, mushroom stickers, pawpaws in the Fall
Nasi and Mee
Malaysian Chinese Food Cuisine, Beverages & Snow Cones
Nature’s 92
Wildcrafted sea moss products: smoothies, gel, soap & more
Naughty Goat Farm
Freeze dried candy/produce & jams/jellies
Picnic Food Truck
Vegan, vegetarian, and non-veg sandwiches, burgers & fries
Stone Circle Bakehouse
Seasonally fresh breads and pastry
Tomac Pumpkins
Starter plants, pumpkins, gourds, maple syrup, honey
Youth Service Corp
Teas, beverages, & crafts
FIND THESE VENDORS IN THE ACCELERATOR KITCHEN:
Mr. Leslie’s Cheesecakes
Different varieties of cheesecake
Hong Kong
Chinese food, including dumplings, steamed buns, and crab rangoons
For folks that may want to be involved in the Allen Farmers Market as a food vendor, or for more information, contact Jenny at (517) 999-3911 or email jennyw@allenneighborhoodcenter.org.
It’s the support from our stakeholders that allow us to provide resources and activities for our community each week and improve the functionality and accessibility of the Market. Thank you to our Allen Farmers Market Sponsors!
Festival Sponsors
Day Sponsors
COVID-19 Precautions
- We encourage mask wearing however, they are not mandatory.
- Please be mindful of your proximity to others and limit touching of products as well as the number of people in your shopping party.
- Practice patience & grace with your neighbors.
- Thank you for shopping local!
Our Mission
We will create a sustainable market that, as part of a larger food system, will provide a) all Eastside residents with access to affordable, locally-grown produce and other locally processed foods and b) small local farmers and artisans with an economically viable market for their goods. Most importantly, we will build rural-urban connections and grower-neighbor friendships that contribute to a secure and equitable food system.
Our History
Our first market season in 2004 was just 10 weeks long, featuring 4 female farmers. In 2005, we became the first market in Michigan to accept EBT/SNAP food assistance! We have increased our accessibility to our widely diverse neighbors by accepting a variety of payment options, including SNAP/EBT, year-round Double Up Food Bucks, WIC and Market Fresh coupons, and credit/debit cards.
Allen Farmers Market has grown into a thriving weekly market that provides our neighborhood with access to fresh produce and other delicious products, a convivial atmosphere to visit with neighbors, and opportunities to engage with each other and share diverse resources and perspectives.
Our Values
- Place. We seek to serve the residents of the Eastside and the growers closest to Lansing’s urban center and to strengthen Eastside neighborhoods and the local economy.
- Diversity. We seek to offer a diversity of produce and products for sale at the market, and to ensure that the vendors, volunteers, and shoppers reflect the economic, demographic, and cultural diversity of the Eastside neighborhoods.
- Inclusiveness. We seek to engage the rich diversity of our community, and will not tolerate behavior that discriminates on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, physical handicap, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, marital status, parental status (including pregnancy), disability, height, weight, political affiliation, and membership in any labor organization.
- Balance. We seek to balance economic, social, environmental, and educational concerns in all market decisions and activity. No single set of concerns will dominate; each will improve the others.
- Scale. We seek to maintain the “personality” of the market. The market will not grow beyond what is necessary to fulfill its mission. We will grow slowly in order to retain a friendly, intimate atmosphere.
- Justice. We seek to build a food system that provides healthy, affordable food to low income urban residents and a fair return to small and/or organic farmers, populations that have been largely ignored by the industrial food system.
- Community. We seek to create a social space in which neighbors can make and strengthen friendships as well as a forum where urban consumers can build relationships with rural growers.
CONNECT WITH US!
Sign up for our Market Alert to find out who and what will be at the market each week.
For more information about the Allen Farmers Market, contact:
Jenny Wagemann, Farmers Market Manager at 517-999-3911 or jennyw@allenneighborhoodcenter.org