Dane County Farmers' Market

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As COVID-19 raged and vaccinations were still months away, the Dane County Farmers’ Market moved the 2020 outdoors season to the Alliant Energy Center, where customers could pre-order, drive through and pick up their food. Eventually customers were allowed to shop at booths with masking and social distancing requirements in place. The 2021 outdoor season again opened at the Alliant Center, with similar rules in place, until rising vaccination rates made it possible to return mid-summer to downtown. On April 16, the downtown market outdoors season will have its opening day on the Capitol Square for the first time in two years. And the timing could not be better, as the market is celebrating its golden anniversary. Fresh cheese curds and hot spicy cheese bread, here we come! The Saturday market continues through Nov. 12 on the Square (the market moves to Breese Stevens Field on July 9, making way for Art Fair on the Square). Also, the Wednesday market takes place 8:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m., April 20-Nov. 2, on the 200 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

press release: Beginning Saturday, April 16, 2022, and running each Saturday through November 12, 2022, the Dane County Farmers’ Market (DCFM) will host its weekly Saturday Market on the Square from 6:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.

On July 9, during Art Fair on the Square, the DCFM will be held at Breese Stevens Field.

The DCFM Wednesday Market on the 200 Block of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. will begin Wednesday April 20, 2022, and continue through November 2, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.

EBT services are provided every market at the Information Booth.

This year, the DCFM also celebrates its 50th anniversary. The DCFM was founded in September of 1972 with just five farmers set up on the Capitol Square. Now, with over 250 producers, the DCFM has grown to be a tradition in Madison. Local Wisconsin producers have been essential to keeping the market going and growing. Visit us any Saturday or Wednesday this year, rain or shine, to experience Wisconsin Goodness.

To stay up to date throughout the season, visit dcfm.org, sign up for our weekly e-newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @DaneCoFM

Since 1972, the Dane County Farmers' Market has worked to provide Wisconsin producers a thriving alternative marketing opportunity and improve the variety, freshness, and taste of produce available in the region.