How many more Wednesdays do you actually have at the farmers market this year? If you assumed the answer matched your Saturday count, you'd be off by seven weeks.
Right now, on the Monday after Labor Day weekend, Parkville has two Wednesday markets left and nine Saturday markets left. That gap isn't a rounding error or a website typo. It's baked into how the Parkville Farmers Market has always been built, and once you see the shape of it, you'll stop treating "farmers market season" as one continuous run that ends sometime in the fall. It ends twice.
Two Schedules Hiding Inside One Season
The market runs on two separate clocks, and they don't share a closing date.
| Wednesday Market | Saturday Market | |
|---|---|---|
| Hours | Noon to 4 p.m. | 7 a.m. to noon |
| 2026 season | June 10 to September 9 | April 25 to October 31 |
| Weeks running | 13 | 27 |
| Last day this year | September 9 | October 31 |
Read that table straight and the asymmetry jumps out. The Saturday market runs more than twice as long as the Wednesday one, and it closes seven weeks after Wednesday shuts down for the year. If you've built a habit around Wednesday afternoon trips to English Landing Park, September 9 is your last chance this season, not October.
The Building Behind the Schedule
Part of why this market gets talked about at all this year traces back to a rebuild that took three years longer than anyone planned.
The original farmers market structure had stood since 1991. In April 2022, a truck backed into it and drove off. Less than 45 days later, a second truck hit the north side and did significant additional damage. The city spent the next several years sorting insurance claims, working through design meetings with BBN Architects, and getting construction bids out the door, with E.L. Crawford Construction eventually breaking ground on a replacement.
Mayor Dean Katerndahl put the timeline in blunt terms while the project was still delayed in the summer of 2025, noting it would be "a full three years from when it first got hit" by the time the new structure was finally dedicated. The ribbon cutting happened July 24, 2025, and the Parkville Farmers Market Association held its own celebration two weeks later on August 9. City leaders called the finished project "a long time coming," and the new building came out taller, with wider bays and a longer roof overhang than the one it replaced, along with upgraded lighting, ADA-accessible sidewalks and ramps, and a reworked parking lot designed to keep future trucks farther from the stalls.
If you're looking for it, the market sits just off South East Street, past the train tracks and before you reach the park itself.
Why Wednesday Ends First
Once you know the market has always run on two different calendars, the September 9 cutoff makes more sense.
The Saturday market is built to bracket the entire growing season, from the last Saturday in April through the last Saturday in October. That's a season built around planting through harvest. Wednesday, by contrast, has always been boxed into the peak of summer, running only from the second Wednesday in June through the second Wednesday in September. It's the market layered inside the core growing months, not a mirror image of the anchor Saturday schedule.
That's the practical reading for anyone planning around it: Saturday is the market you can count on from spring cleanup through fall cleanup. Wednesday is a bonus window that only exists while summer producers are at full volume, and it closes the moment that window narrows.
Who's Actually at the Stalls
The rebuilt structure has enough room now for a wider vendor lineup, and the current stall map gives a real sense of what's out there on a given morning:
- McFarland Plant Farm, stalls 1 and 2, fresh produce and plants
- Bunny Blossoms, stall 3, fresh flowers
- Bumbler Beekeeper, stall 4, honey
- Living Dirt Ranch, stall 5, grass-fed beef
- Locascio's Creations, stall 6, wood-turned bowls, pens, and other items
- CK Berry Farms, stall 7, fruits, baked goods, and flowers
- Jo-Lotte, stall 8, handcrafted jewelry
- Family Blessings Farm, stall 9, produce and flowers
- Farms Wide Open, stall 10, pastured meats
- San Win Garden, stall 11, fresh produce
- Pure Skin, stall 13, organic skin care
- Tiffany Ascensio Designs, stall 14, hand-painted greeting cards
Vendor operations run through the Parkville Farmers Market Association, and questions about stall availability or hours go through Joyce McFarland, who handles vendor coordination for the group.
The Rest of the Fall Calendar Around It
The market's two-part closing sits inside a fuller fall run for downtown Parkville, and the timing lines up in a way that's worth knowing if you're planning weekends.
Parkville Days just wrapped for the year, running Friday through Sunday, August 21 through 23. What follows over the next two months looks like this:
- Friday, August 28: Final Friday, live music and food around downtown
- Saturday, September 19: Fall Open House, new fall merchandise in the shops
- Friday, September 25: Final Friday
- Saturday, October 17: Creepy Crawl, the adults' Halloween stroll through downtown
- Saturday, October 24: Trick-or-Treat, the kids' Halloween day
- Friday, October 30: Final Friday
Notice where the Wednesday farmers market falls against that list. It closes September 9, before the Fall Open House even happens. The Saturday market, on the other hand, runs straight through Creepy Crawl and Trick-or-Treat weekend, closing on the same date, October 31, that ends the market's own season. If your fall routine includes both the market and the Halloween-season events downtown, the Saturday version is the one that actually spans the whole run.
What This Means for Your Next Few Weeks
The takeaway isn't complicated once you've seen the numbers side by side. If Wednesday afternoons are your habit, mark September 2 and September 9 on the calendar now, because those are the only two sessions left. If you're a Saturday regular, you've got a longer runway, nine more markets between now and Halloween weekend, stretching through the Fall Open House and both Halloween events without a single Wednesday session overlapping any of it.
The market rebuilt bigger after three rough years, but the schedule underneath it never changed shape. Saturday was always the anchor. Wednesday was always the shorter, summer-only add-on. Knowing that now means you're not caught off guard when the Wednesday stalls don't show up the week after next.
We spend a lot of time paying attention to the small civic details that shape daily life in Parkville, because those details are part of what makes this a place worth living in, not just visiting. If you're thinking about what it's actually like to call this neighborhood home, or you're weighing a move into the Northland corridor, Northstar Realty is glad to talk through what we know. Contact our Parkville team for a local market consultation.
