Market watch: Last call for many farmers markets

Where has the time gone? The 2010 season is closing this weekend at many Twin Cities farmers markets, including:

THURSDAY: Burnsville (Mary, Mother of the Church), Hugo and Oakdale (Guardian Angels) branches of the St. Paul Farmers Market (www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com)

FRIDAY: White Bear Lake Farmers Market (www.whitebearlake.org) and the West St. Paul and St. Thomas More branches of the St. Paul Farmers Market.

SATURDAY: Buffalo Farmers Market (www.buffalofarmersmarket. com), Hopkins Farmers Market (www.thinkhopkins.com), Midtown Farmers Market (www.midtownfarmersmarket.org), Richfield Farmers Market (www.richfieldfarmersmarket.org) and the Burnsville (Transit Station), Apple Valley and Lakeville branches of the St. Paul Farmers Market.

SUNDAY: Savage branch of the St. Paul Farmers Market and the Kingfield Farmers Market (www.kingfieldfarmersmarket.org).

Meanwhile, the Minneapolis Farmers Market (www.mpls farmersmarket.org) remains open daily (6 a.m. to 1 p.m.) through mid-November (Christmas tree sales continue through Dec. 24); its Thursday Nicollet Mall outpost (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.) runs through Nov. 18.

The St. Paul Farmers Market runs Saturday (6 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and Sunday (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.) through Nov. 21; winter hours (9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday) begin Nov. 28.

The Mill City Farmers Market will conduct a winter market (at Local D'Lish, 208 N. 1st St., Mpls., www.localdlish.com) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 20, Dec. 18, Jan. 15, Feb. 19, March 19 and April 6.

The Village Farmers Market will conduct an indoor winter market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month starting Nov. 14 and going through May 8 (in the St. Anthony Community Center, 3301 Silver Lake Rd., www.thevillagefarmersmarket.org).

And the Kingfield Farmers Market will conduct its annual holiday market (in the Martin Luther King Park building, 41st St. and Nicollet Av. S., Mpls.) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 13.