CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Downtown Farmers Market opened its 20th season June 7, 2025, with thousands of customers navigating the streets of downtown Cedar Rapids. See photos from opening day of the 2024 season. With temperatures at the start of the market in the 60s, vendors and patrons were spared the rain or heat […]
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Photos: Opening day of the 2023 Cedar Ra...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — While growers could use a good rain, the weather couldn’t have been better for the first Downtown Farmers Market of the season. With sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s, thousands of customers filled the streets of downtown Cedar Rapids on May 27, for the market’s opening day. Early season produce, […]
Photos: A stormy Market After Dark in Ce...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Rain, and lightning, dampened the middle of the 2022 Market After Dark in downtown Cedar Rapids. Lightning spotted just before 8:30 p.m. led organizers to delay the live entertainment until the storm had passed. The event, from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, resumed after the storm delay, but […]
Photos: Downtown Farmers Market 2022 ope...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — After resorting to a drive-through market in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a shortened season last year, the 2022 Downtown Farmers Market kicked off May 28 with crowds of customers and picture-perfect weather. Organizers estimated 15,000 people would attend the opening day of the market, featuring more than 150 […]
Iowa’s 2019 farmers market season begins
Even as indoor farmers markets wrap up their season this month, the outdoor market season has already begun. The Millwork Night Market in Dubuque launched its season on Thursday, April 11, and for those of us whose memories of the harsh winter have been erased by the last week or so of spring, the weather […]
Final photos: Sub City in historic downt...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Joe Pilcher was among the regular customers at Sub City, finding it a convenient spot to go for lunch from his job in downtown Cedar Rapids. Both he and his wife, who also works downtown, like to support local businesses and enjoyed the fresh bread, meat and other sandwich ingredients, but Pilcher […]
Photos: Market After Dark 2017
CEDAR RAPIDS – The weather was perfect for Market After Dark, until it wasn’t. A brief downpour put a damper on the nighttime market and sent crowds scattering, but not before bands played, dancers performed and people filled the streets of downtown Cedar Rapids, for the third annual event. Market After Dark, the night version […]
Market After Dark returning to downtown ...
By Cindy Hadish/Homegrown Iowan CEDAR RAPIDS – Warning: Market After Dark is not for everyone. The 2017 Market After Dark is set from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, from Second to Fifth Street and Second Avenue to Third Avenue SE. Attracting an average of 30,000 attendees in its first two years, the nighttime […]
Hot markets: Lion Bridge and Downtown Ce...
CEDAR RAPIDS – An exceptionally warm day greeted customers at the first Downtown Farmers Market of the season on Saturday, June 3, 2017. With temperatures climbing into the upper 80s, vendors selling lemonade and other drinks fared particularly well. Many produce vendors also sold out of early season vegetables, such as radishes, lettuce and onions. […]
Photos: Downtown Farmers Market 2016 ope...
CEDAR RAPIDS – We’ve been lucky, weather-wise, on the opening day of the Downtown Farmers Market for the past few years and today was no exception. Thunderstorms rumbled through Eastern Iowa overnight, but let up in plenty of time for the 2016 market kickoff in downtown Cedar Rapids. Strawberries, onions, radishes, lettuce and other greens […]