Business owners and concerned residents packed the common area of the largely vacant Seven Points shopping center at Lake and Hennepin on Monday night for a meeting organized by the Uptown Association. The group announced an Uptown Farmers Market that will run every Thursday, June 12 to September 25, on the Girard Avenue Plaza outside Seven Points. They also declared a grassroots effort to recruit 30 to 40 businesses within a two-block radius in the heart of Uptown.
Come summer, residents of the Hill & Lake area and surrounding communities will have a new destination for Thursday evenings. Thanks to a strong, multi-neighborhood, all-volunteer effort, an Uptown Farmers Market will launch on June 12 outside of Seven Points. The market will run Thursday evenings, from 4-8 p.m. through September 25, along Lake Street and the Girard Avenue Plaza, between Lake Street and 31st (one block east of Hennepin Avenue). Mark your calendars!
—Uptown Farmers Market Coming Summer 2025 (Hill & Lake Press)
Chef Jenny Breen showed Jason DeRusha and Heather Brown a creative way to use many summer vegetables found at local farmers markets.
The East Isles Farmers Market is returning for its second season along The Mall, giving Uptown a weekly market to buy fresh food from regional farmers and cooks.
Heather will be selling pies on Thursday nights at the East Isles Farmer’s Market, starting their opening night, June 13. (That’s the evening farmer's market tucked behind Uptown on the Mall just west of Hennepin, parallel to the bike Greenway.)
The Twin Cities farmers market family continues to grow. The East Isles neighborhood has opened its arms to the “first-ever farmers market on Park Board property,” says farmers market and brand director Debbie Dachis Gold.
Food is the focus at the East Isles Farmers Market, which is midway through its first season on The Mall.
Some of the new vendors are taking advantage of the market’s “pickle booth,” which allows ultra-small purveyors to sell under the state’s Cottage Food law.
The inaugural Thursday night East Isles Farmers Market will feature 26 local food vendors, food trucks and music on The Mall between Hennepin and Humboldt.
A farmers market is in development for the green space on The Mall west of Hennepin Avenue. The East Isles Residents Association is closing in on tentative plans for an evening weekday market of about 40 food-focused vendors to launch this summer.
