The Farmer’s Market in Haymarket
The Farmer’s Market in Haymarket, Lincoln is Nebraska’s largest outdoor market. Having expanded another block along the North 8th Street and thus allowing for around 200 vendors during its midyear peak, the Farmer’s Market celebrates Lincoln’s rich culture and traditions while providing the best food, produces, and wares that Nebraska has to offer.
The Farmer’s Market vendors are allowed to set up their stalls in the morning starting 6:00am until 7:45am. Customers are allowed to look around and have certain items reserved if they wish, but it has long been a tradition that no purchases are to be made until the the whistle blows at 8:00am. At around that time, its pretty much free for all shopping for everybody until 12:00 noon. This has been the longstanding tradition, rain or shine.
Shoppers are enticed by the bargains bargains, treats, and finds at the Farmer’s Market. There’s also entertainment for those who are sitting around and enjoying their meals that they can participate in to better immerse themselves in the culture. This has been a tradition for the folks in the Haymarket area of Lincoln for quite some time now, and with the yearly crowd turnouts it doesn’t look like its going to fade away any time soon.
The Farmer’s Market offers a variety of products for visitors and patrons to choose from. The usual market fare consists of baked goods like muffins, breads, cookies, cakes, pies, croissants, and even Greek Mediterranean favorites like baklava. You can also find a lot of good homemade products here like homemade root beer, seasoning mixes, hot sauces, kettle corn, and jams.
If you’re looking for accessories, art pieces and home decor, you will be able to find something suitable at the Farmer’s Market for your home too. You can find jewelry, wooden furnitures, outdoor furnitures, utility furnitures, knitwear and knitted blankets, children’s wear, pillows, primitive artworks, iron artworks, decorated baskets, birdcages and a lot more. One visit will surely satisfy all your personal, indoor, and outdoor needs.
And of course, what would a Farmer’s Market be without produce. At the Farmer’s Market in Haymarket you will of course find the finest picks in organic goods. The farmers who grow these fruits and vegetables have been longstanding experts in their field. A majority of them have been growing goods that are common to the area of Nebraska for a good portion of their lives. And aside from native crops like strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, beans, radishes, lettuces, carrots, plums, nectarines, peaches, onions, sweet corn, cucumber, gourmet nuts, they also grow bedding plants and flowers for bouquets. You can also find dried meats, buffalo meat, fresh fish, lamb, elk, pork, chicken, eggs, and dairy.
The Haymarket Farmer’s Market happens every year from around the months of May until October and is set up at 335 North 8th Street. Just remember that weapons, knives and utility tools are restricted from the market area, and so are animals except for service animals for the disabled. Promotional materials like posters, banners and stickers are also banned from the premises.