all votes for Old Capitol Farmers' Market
Fresh home grown food that is close to my house.
My family has loved the Old Capitol Farmer's Market because not only can we find fresh local produce,but we can get to know the growers, learn where and (most importantly) HOW the food was grown and handled. We love knowing that we're supporting the local economy and families we see in our area.
Fresher produce while supporting local farmers
They have everything, from fruits & veggies to salsa & donuts! It's a great spot to spend a saturday morning.
A great twice a week market that offers a diverse selection of products. I applaud the local farmers and ranchers who are able to bring such a broad spectrum to our tables. From produce to meats to eggs to soap, you can find it all.
You won't believe your eyes when you visit Old Capitol Farmers' Market, there are so many things to purchase, see & experience it's impossible to put it all into words. Stop on down and see for yourself!
It reminds me of a simpler time mostly hard to come by these days. A time when you can be among good people who provide great home/farm produced products- with no middle man!
IT IS A WONDERFUL VARIETY AND VERY GOOD PRODUCE AND
OTHER THINGS
It's a beautiful block party twice a week!
I like the wide variety of items, friendliness of vendors and the opportunity to support local small businesses in Illinois.
Great people, great produce, and artisan's market and live music every other Saturday.
The Capitol Farmer's Market is a blessing to our community. It is a wonderful opportunity to purchase local and home grown fruits and vegetables. It is also wonderful for our seniors that are able to purchase items with their coupons.
Buy local, buy fresh!!!
This market is really great, Located in a beautiful part of Springfield, it is sure to please the whole family!!
The market is the best place to buy fresh and local!!!
I love the fresh produce and plants!
everyone is very friendly. there is a variety of different foods there. great place to shop.
This is a great place to get fresh food and support our local farmers. Everyone is very friendly and wonderful to you.
The fresh veggies, breads, fruits and the friendly atomosphere makes for a wonderful start to any day. I find the vendors are the greatest people in the area. I love going early on Sat. morning to find a huge selection of veggies to make an interesting dinner on Sat. night. Thank you Springfield Farmers Market for giving us a place to buy locally grown fresh foods.
I love this market. It is always put together well and kept clean. the people are always the very friendliest and the food is the freshest around.
The vendors are friendly and always answer your questions...the produce is fresh and taste so good!
THIS AREA IS REALLY CLEAN WITH THE FRESHNESS PRODUCE AND FRIENDLY VENDORS! EVERYONE IS SO KIND & HELPFUL.
TO ME, IT IS SOMETHING I TAKE THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY. THE PRODUCE IS JUST "TOTALLY OVER THE TOP"!
I HAVE ENJOYED & PURCHASED PRODUCE THAT IS SO FRESH AND JUICY!
Because we don't have much of anything that contains nutritional value in Springfield... and this is a wonderful refuge for something healthy, local, and lovely.
Fresh fruits and vegetables available from local growers that we can help support by purchasing locally!!! Keep our money at home ...! :)
Illinois Farmers rock!
Great fresh food
There is a great selection to choose from and sometimes they have music and craft vendors. The dowtown Springfield area is a perfect place for the market and a great way to spend some time on a Wednesday or Saturday morning.
It's a great place to get fresh fruits and vegetables...better than the grocery stores!!
There is a great variety; vegetables, fruit, pasture-raised meats, eggs and cheese, herbal balms and oils with many of the growers using sustainable methods. You can find fresh breads, home-made pies and cookies. There are sweet treats and drinks for the kids as well as coffee and teas for adults. What I love best of all is the energy when I walk down the street. People who have come together to celebrate farming, local foods and the abundance that has been given to us to grow and nourish ourselves. I love the community that is created between growers and consumers and appreciate that the farmers have gone to the trouble to make health convenient for us by coming together in one place twice a week!
great selection of produce, and great people to talk to
THEY HAVE A GREAT SELECTION OF PRODUCE GROWN LOCALLY!
I want to support sustainable agriculture and local farmers.
Wonderful produce! I've never bought anything there that I didn't like. And not only is the produce good, but you couldn't have more friendly and helpful vendors.
It has great, fresh products from friendly, Illinois people! Cabbage to cookies- it has everything I like!
The tomatoes are Heaven-sent! The cherries, blueberries, and peaces are amazing. The chicken and pork that I buy are all raised free-range and that helps my guilt for the meat cravings that my husband and I have. I am buying products from my neighbors and they do not have to drive very far... Thus, I reduce my carbon footprint and get the very best of every fresh vegetable, fruit and much more that I could imagine.
Great fresh food grown locally!!
Location is in beautifual and historic downtown Springfield and features a a variety of local produce, food, art and music!
We love the variety of items and booths. The samples are great and the people are very friendly. It makes a fun family outing or a nice break from work.
Excellent selection, fantastic location and friendly farmers!
It's great, it's fun, and it's convenient. Plenty of friendly vendors and customers.
There are really nice people who are providing their produce and products there. A young farmer named Gerrick is super nice.
The selection is out standing!
It is a fun experience and there is great selection!
It's variety and long service to Illinois' capital.
Great farmer's and products!!!
The farmers provide the best local produce and selection. There is always something delicious to eat and delcious to plant or display!
We found beautiful flowers there for our daughters wedding rehearsal dinner! Great itmes for sale, lovely environment!
Great selection and food. Everyone is so friendly.
The produce and products you can get are amazing in quality; the prices are competetive; and the people are nice and knowledgeable. What's not to love?
Great selection of local produce, fun to go to!
You can get some of the best fruits & vegetables around. Also you have a chance to try new items that you may never have thought you would try
Interesting booths with great variety. Downtown historic area makes a good backdrop for the setup - shade from the buildings helps on hot days!
The farmers love it...the downtown businesses love it...the downtown residents and workers love it...the consumers who come from all over the area love it...the great medical/health care community here should love it...the providers of the event who work so hard in making it happen love it...what is there not to love?...that's just a few of the reasons why I love it!
I have been to many Farmer's Markets all over the SE USA and also throughout IL. I love the Old Capitol Farmer's Market best because the love that was put into making it a success is definitely part of the overall ambiance.
It is in the Downtown, near the Illinois Old State Capitol State Historic Site, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Law Office and the Lincoln family's mid-nineteenth century historic neighborhood and home. In addition to providing locally grown vegetables and heirloom products, its location near the brick streets where Lincoln, as young lawyer walked with his young sons, Willy and Tad on his shoulders, is a link to the historic heritage of our community.
Good people selling good food at good prices. Plus you get to visit with your neighbors.
The products are of a fantastic quality, and the atmosphere is almost that of a street festival. Highly recommended!
Best in Illinois!
We have the greatest variety and the most freshest harvest! In addition, you get to meet the friendliest people in the U.S. all within the view of our State Capital.
Prices are great; food is fresh; like going downtown; recipes at Veenies Veggies esp helpful.
Large variety of fresh food. always frindly, plenty of help-usually family
Good food, good prices, good fun
Fresh produce with friendly people in historic downtown.
The Old Capitol Farmers' Market is a spring and summer tradition for our family. Once school is out for the summer, we enjoy shopping on Wednesdays for fresh produce. It's great to get the children involved selecting healthy foods. The friendly and knowledgeable vendors each offer something unique!
It is a great way to teach our girls that fresh produce doesn't come from a store.
I love the feel of it going and shoppping up and down the street. The food is fresh and I like to shop local
location and quality of produce.
Well I use to live in IL. I also go back a few times a year and always buy from them. Fresh produce and always friendly workers who you can tell take PRIDE in what they produce. I live in WY now and finding fresh is hard to do. I really appreciate IL. fine foods.
Love fresh veggies and fruits.
All kinds of great produce by local growers!I feel healthy by the time I get done shopping.
Great Veenstra produce!
Great fresh locally grown produce source as well as great social atmosphere.
For my family and myself this is the only way to be!
Staying healthy and fit and at the same time being kind and gentle to the earth that sustains us is of utmost importance to us. So what we cannot grow organically ourselves, we purchase from the Organic Growers at the Farmers Market. Thank you for your back breaking work and your never ending loyalty and ethics to produce this wonderful food for us. We appreciate it very much.
I believe in supporting local growers. I think it's so important for my children to be connected to their food and understand how it is grown.
Wide range of friendly farmers, fresh bakery breads and desserts; what's not to like? Twice a week, I get to wander through an Eden of fresh produce and products, sampling the best.
My wife goes there and buys great stuff for me to eat...yum.
The food is more flavorful than the stuff shipped in from thousands of miles away, and I support local farmers.
it's where i shop for Maldaner's Restaurant
Saturday is a great day to see and visit with peaple
It offers the freshest produce direct from the farm right in the heart of Abraham Lincoln‘s home town! All the produce sold at this market is grown by the farmer selling it AND it has to be grown in Illinois, so you know it is the best.
supporting local growers & receiving fresh produce
The sellers are friendly and informative. It is a great learning experience and a wonderful shared community event. We have honey, salsas, breads, soaps, fruits and vegetables, flowers, plants, etc. We have people who raise heirloom plants and lovingly bring them in to share along with the accompanying knowledge. They do this with the same joy that a proud parent would have. It is a wonderful, positive atmosphere that makes the entiire experience joyful and healthful.
Because of Buy Fresh Buy Local and my son sells at the Springfield Market.
The vendors are the best, the entire market is an aesthetic experience that delights all the senses. You will never leave unsatisfied. The market also introduced me to the best oatmeal around at "MOXOS". Celebrity chiefs introduce me to new uses of produce..
The Old Capitol Farmers' Market has growers we know and trust, fresh, local, chemical free vegetables, fruit, honey, cheese, eggs, herbs and more, plus the best chef demonstrations at any market I've been to.
It's the best....especially the baked goods.
Beautiful fresh veggies, much of them organic, big variety, friendly vendors, great community spirit. Last week I bought the most beautiful lettuce I have ever seen.
great variety, freshest food, art, entertainment, fun atmosphere
The Old Capitol Farmers' Market has grown into a regional favorite bulging with vendors - the products they bring to the market are unsurpassed....
Absolutely a feast for the eyes as well as the tummy;
amazing variety; friendly people
Love the food, love the sense of community!!
Because everything is locally grown and very fresh. Plus you get to know the folks that grow everything and learn lots of good cooking tips. Add to that the occasional concert, the cooking demos and the periodic craft area and you have a winning market!
Because my wife works downtown near the Old Capitol and every Wednesday when she gets home from work she brings me baked goodies from the Farmer's Market!
I love our market. It has fresh, inexpensive ,local produce. I can buy delicious baked goods, homemade soap, free-range chickens and eggs, honey, and plants. The farmers/sellers are friendly and it is great to get to know the people that grow/make the food you are eating. I look forward to shopping there every Wednesday.
There's a great variety of produce among the MANY vendors. Local crafts and art and music are featured, too. And there are local bakers, too.
I can buy soap from a maker who uses ingredients from her family's farm and heirloom tomatoes grown in good central Illinois soil. The flowers and herbs make the market a visual treat. I always see people I know, so it's a social event, too.
I support the Old Capitol Farmers' Market because there is such a wonderfully diverse selection of fruits, vegetables,baked goods and plants. It's not a lot of the booths with the same produce, but all kinds of different items and the quality is wonderfully fresh. The addition of the arts area once a month, live music and the restaurant cooking tips add to that great diversity.
Best place for fresh fruits/vegetables and homemade jams, jellies and breads
It feels good to buy from local farmers and it brings life to downtown during the daylight..Always good; always fresh and can't be the price.
Local produce is fabulous!
Embodies the community spirit of our city and has become THE social meeting place on Weds and Sats.
Love those wonderful fresh vegetables!
Wonderfully fresh locally grown food plus local artisans' wares and music! Truly a great community event and boon to the local economy!
It has all of the fresh produce I crave year round all in two blocks, and just down the street from my workplace. Great organic foods, some of which you can even find at the local health fool grocery. It is awesome!
Our farmers market is filled with wonderful farmers who grow great organic food and offer it at practical prices. The farmers are wonderful, giving advice on everything from how to grow your own at home to how to prepare it. I love the low-key atmosphere, and always run into a lot of people I know for great conversations. I can't list my favorite farmers, because there are so many!
If the market would provide access to people who use the Link card (food stamps), I would do a lot more, if not all of my shopping there, as would many people who do not currently have access to fresh local organic food. It's a win situation for farmers and a win situation for residents.
Having lived in several different areas, I have to say, this is BY FAR the best Farmer's Market ever!!! Tons of variety, and the community really supports the efforts of their local farmers.
Wonderful local growers, suppliers. My personal favorites: Good Earth Farms for lettuce & spring greens, Green Thoughts for handmade soaps and salves, and Incredibly Delicious for delicious baked goods! Can't wait til the tomatoes get here!
It's the freshest,most wonderful food with the greatest people growing it & attending it!
Love the Farmer's Market!! I go both Wednesdays and Saturdays for fresh fruits, vegetables, baked goods and hand made soaps and lotions. I have come to know vendors and have been able to extend my ability to buy locally.
Love that really fresh produce!
Lots of great local produce. Everyone is very friendly and it brings so many people from the community together.
Great Produce and nice family atmosphere!
I support the Old Capitol Farmers Market to help support local growers, its conveniently located and most of all it's FUN!!! I look forward to it each Spring and am always sad to see in go in the Fall. Eating veggies from the for lunch today :)
The Old Capitol Farmers' Market has wonderful vendors, provides me with a sense of community and is a weekly event that I look forward to. I love the food, the people and supporting our local producers.
It epitomizes community - a place to talk with friendly farmers, make healthy choices, meet friends and neighbors, honor the treasures within our own bioregion - and also imparts a warm glow and starts off a happy day!
It's the best!!! Great variety....great people. Friendly, welcoming faces and fabulous finds. In the heart of historic downtown Springfield, too!! :-)
