Black Hawk Farmers Marketing Association Inc

06/19/2026

Local food season is picking up across Iowa 🍅

Farmers markets, CSA boxes, farm stands, local restaurants, and summer road trips are giving Iowans more ways to choose food grown closer to home.

That’s what the Iowa Local Food Challenge is all about: choosing a local food goal that works for you and building from there.

Already buying local? Join anyway. Your participation helps make local food support more visible across Iowa.

Take the Challenge:
https://buff.ly/0YB2HxQ

06/08/2026

If you are a recipient of these food purchasing benefits, you can find vendors that accept these Vouchers at all 4 of our 'family' of farmers markets!

Cedar Valley Farmers Markets :
*At Kimball Ridge, Tuesdays 3-6 pm
*At Shiloh Baptist Church Waterloo, Iowa, Thursdays 3-6 pm

Evansdale IA Farmers Markets
*Wednesdays 3-6 pm
*Saturdays 9 am-12 pm

🟣🟡 UNI Veggie Vouchers can be used for fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, and food producing seeds/plants.

🔴🔵 WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) Vouchers can be used for fresh fruits, vegetables, and fresh cut herbs.

Senior FMNP Vouchers can be used for fresh fruits, vegetables, fresh cut herbs, AND honey.

For more information about these assistance programs, contact these organizations:
UNI Local Food Program
Operation Threshold
Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging

06/04/2026

Bring an umbrella just in case, don't miss all the beautiful flowers, delicious foods, stock up on natural bug control, as well as butterfly and bee attractants!

05/19/2026

04/17/2026

Did you miss our farmers market vendor /information/sign up meeting last night? No worries! There's still plenty of time to meet with 2 of our board members and fill out our vendor application/get approved/pay fees/ask questions about vending at one of these markets:
Cedar Valley Farmers Markets
*At Kimball Ridge in Waterloo Tuesdays 3-6 pm
*At Shiloh Baptist Church in Waterloo Thursdays 3-6 pm
Evansdale IA Farmers Markets
*Wednesdays 3-6 pm
*Saturdays 9 am-12 pm
🟢Catch up with James (The Bagel🥯👨🏻‍🍳 Guy-selling his bagels FYI) and Kelly Moore (The 🌶️Pepper Lady of the CV Pepper People) at Wanderlust Studio Market on these days and time frames:
*Saturdays April 18th and 25th, from 10 am-1 pm
*Wednesdays April 22nd and 29th from 3-6 pm

🤓They will have information handouts on FMNP, UNI Vegetable Vouchers, becoming authorized to accept SNAP, Black Hawk County Health Department rules and regulations on cottage foods versus Home Food Processing Establishment (HFPE) products including labeling requirements, what is allowed to be sold at farmers markets without a permit, and more! James and Kelly are seasoned farmers market vendors, a wealth of information for people who have never vended at a farmers market before but are interested in starting.

🌺While you're there, check out all the fabulous Mother's Day gift ideas or sign up for a crafting workshop!

City of Waterloo, Iowa - City Hall
Experience Waterloo
KWWL

04/13/2026

🤩Are you a local grower👨🏻‍🌾🍄‍🟫🍉🧄🫑🍎🥒🍓🥔/producer🐝🍯🍻🧋🍭🍿🧈🥩🥚🍬/crafter👩🏼‍🎨👨🏻‍🏭/baker👨🏻‍🍳👩🏻‍🍳🍪🍰🥧🧁🥖🥐🥯🍞/food truck🍔🌮🌭🍧🍨/entertainer👩🏻‍🎤🧑🏻‍🎤? Do you represent a non profit organization or want to do a fundraiser👩🏻‍🚒👩🏻‍🔬 event this year? Want to join one of our outdoor farmers markets as a vendor this year? We are holding vendor information and sign up meetings for these 4 outdoor markets:
* Cedar Valley Farmers Markets at Kimball Ridge in Waterloo, Tuesdays 3-6 pm, starts 5/5,
*Cedar Valley Farmers Markets, at Shiloh Baptist Church in Waterloo, Thursdays 3-6 pm, starts 5/7
* Evansdale IA Farmers Markets
*Wednesdays 3-6 pm, starts 5/6
*Saturdays 9 am-12 pm, starts 5/2

Vendor meeting opportunities:
1. Wednesdays 4/15 AND 4/22 from 3-6 pm, meet up with our board member James Moore aka The Bagel Guy, inside Wanderlust Studio Market at 3568 Lafayette Road in Evansdale, to fill out a vendor application/agreement and pay vendor fees.

2. Thursday 4/16, from 5-7 pm, Perkins Waterloo private meeting room, will be a vendor meeting with agency speakers for UNI Veggie Vouchers and potentially Black Hawk County Health Department representatives there, and several of our board of directors will be on hand to answer any and all questions. Vendors can also fill out a vendor application/signature agreement form, fee worksheet, and pay their fees. Attendees of this meeting are encouraged to order food and pay for their own food.

3. You can also message one of the market pages listed in this post directly, and we will email you the documents to fill out and arrange a meet up time one on one.

🛑We will NEVER ask for you to message someone else, and will not take any payments for vendor fees online.
City of Waterloo, Iowa - City Hall
Experience Waterloo
KWWL
Main Street Waterloo
Vicki St James

04/06/2026

🥹Our Winter Farmers Market is now closed until November, because we are vendor run and all our vendors need to get ready for the various outdoor farmers markets they sell at in the area May 1st through October 31st! We would like to say THANK YOU to our incredible customers, our amazing vendors, and JSA Development for allowing us to use an incredible space to showcase local producers, growers, and entrepreneurs and bring 17 businesses to the downtown Waterloo area for the last 6 months!

🤩Check out these farmers markets we manage, and other local farmers markets starting in May to find our vendors and the products you love, as well as many other fantastic treasures and delicious foods!
Cedar Valley Farmers Markets
*at Kimball Ridge Tuesdays 3-6 pm
*at Shiloh Baptist Church Thursdays 3-6 pm
Evansdale IA Farmers Markets
*Wednesdays 3-6 pm
*Saturdays 9 am-12 pm

Experience Waterloo
City of Waterloo, Iowa - City Hall
Denver Farmers Market
Waterloo Urban Farmers Market
Dunkerton Farmers Market
Cedar Falls Farmers Market
Kimball Ridge Family Market

04/03/2026

It's the LAST 2 Days to shop at our Winter Farmers Market before we are closed for the season Fri-Sat from 9 am-5 pm, at 320 and 322 E. 4th St. in Waterloo! We are vendor run, and all our vendors will be vending at various outdoor farmers markets May through October, so make sure you ask where they are going to be vending so you can continue getting all your favorite goodies and treasures from them!

🍄 Tech Gnar Farms will be here Saturday morning from 9 am-12 pm with FRESH oyster/lion's mane/cremini mushrooms!

🥯The Bagel Guy is back this week, with savory, sweet, fruity flavored bagels, perfect for early breakfast on Easter Sunday!

🍪Mark Litteaur's cookies- get them NOW and freeze them, as during the summer he is a full-time produce vendor and does not have time to bake!

🤑There are many deeply discounted treasures around the market, end of season closeouts! Don't miss out!



Evansdale IA Farmers Markets
Cedar Valley Farmers Markets
Waterloo Urban Farmers Market
City of Waterloo, Iowa - City Hall
Experience Waterloo
KWWL
Main Street Waterloo

03/30/2026

🌷Signs that it is Spring: Crocus flowers popped up, and our Winter Farmers Market is coming to an end☹️! Stop by our indoor market at 320 and 322 E. 4th St. in Waterloo this week 9 am-5 pm Monday-Saturday April 4th, our LAST DAY! We are a 'temporary pop-up shop', because all our vendors also vend at several local outdoor farmers markets May-October.

🤩There are lots of baked goods, snacks and treats, jellies, mushroom products, honey, eggs, indoor and outdoor plants, artisan crafts and jewelry, indoor and outdoor home decor, Easter decorations/egg hunt prizes/egg decorating kits/baskets and filler grasses, clearance sales, and so much more! On our last day, Saturday April 4th, Tech Gnar Farms will be there with fresh Oyster and Lion's Mane mushrooms!

Evansdale IA Farmers Markets
Denver Farmers Market
Cedar Valley Farmers Markets
Dunkerton Farmers Market
Waterloo Urban Farmers Market

Main Street Waterloo
City of Waterloo, Iowa - City Hall
Experience Waterloo
KWWL