Peoria RiverFront Market — Attraction in Peoria

I love this farmer's market. There is always live music and lots of well mannered dogs and kids. It is mostly wheelchair accessible (when vendors don't block the curb cuts) and there are accessible parking spots in nearby lots, as well as drop off areas. A jogging stroller or off-road stroller works very well here.

If you are a SNAP beneficiary, you can buy tokens to be used on food items from anywhere except for the restaurant and drink vendors. There is also a program that matches your tokens to be used only on produce. All of the grocery, produce, and baked good vendors accept these tokens. Sometimes you can have difficulty purchasing items that aren't a round dollar amount, but most vendors have been willing to either sell me a $0.50 item, give me exact change, or round down.

The only problem is the lack of shade. There is some shade from a patio restaurant and from a few trees in the park, where you'll also find benches. Bringing your own reusable bags or containers is recommended but not required.

There are a lot of local fine art and craft vendors who have established themselves with the community. These run the full gamut, from ceramics, hand blown glass, woodworking, fiber arts, photography, paintings, metalwork, and more.

Produce is mostly regional or local farms, not small grocers pretending to be locally grown produce shipped in from elsewhere (looking at you, Dekalb). You'll find a few vendors who sell eggs, cheese, local honey, regional maple syrup, frozen chicken, and now there is a vendor who also sells beef, pork, turkey, and chicken products. In addition, there are local bakeries and flower vendors.

This market is very well done and I look forward to it every year. It runs on Saturdays from 8 or 9 until noon, from June...

Great people with a fantastic simple way that they sell their stuffs .I love the cold iced tea that I had 🥤 was delicious while the weather was hot 🥵. I like historical signs some of them have it ,like Paradise valley family farm they sell some of their natural stuffs🌶🥕🥬🥒, also hilltop honey spot customer services was friendly . they did explain to us different kinds of honey, we had been looking about a dark honey , they were out of .. I wish next week they will have it . Bought yellow 🍯. I would rather get a dark honey then yellow 🍯.The braker’s family sign made us buy sugar cookies🍪 .....it said Our products contain no Preservatives . The cookies was full of sugar. ...

I’m not sure if I got sun poisoning or food poisoning from the vegetables I purchased there, but once I got home I made a salad and food with the produce I bought from there washed them. I didn’t eat anything all day until about 3pm @ 6 o’clock I started to get a devastating, headache, fever, Diarrhea nausea, no energy, the worst 12 hours of my life. it could’ve been the sun too, since it does have the same symptoms, and I could barely open my eyes it was so brigh there, I’m a vegetarian and the last thing I ate before that was a cheese pizza around 11 PM the night before, I still have a...