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Food access resources

While we work to build a source of fresh and nutritional food for Central Topeka, please utilize these resources to source your or your neighbor's next meal.

Markets

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  • Monday Farmers Market
    Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
    Mondays, June 22: 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
    East Parking Lot
    Shop high-quality, locally-grown produce, farm fresh eggs, baked goods, fresh cut flowers and bedding plants. 

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  • Common Table Market
    University United Methodist Church
    Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m., running through August
    The market takes place in the church parking lot
    located at 1621 SW Boswell Ave
     

  • Downtown Topeka Farmers Market
    6th and Harrison
    Saturdays, from 7:30 a.m. to Noon

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  • Bread Basket Farmers Market
    21st and Wanamaker
    Saturdays, from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
    The market is located in the south parking lot of Furniture Mall of Kansas at West Ridge Mall at 1901 SW Wanamaker Rd

Food Pantries

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Blessing Boxes

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Community Gardens

  • Bethany House and Garden
    835 SW Polk St.

  • Capper Foundation Darden Garden 
    3500 SW 10th

  • Countryside United Methodist Church
    33rd and Burlingame

  • Central Park Community Garden
    16th and Polk

  • Daryl Hurley Garden/ Vegetation Plantation
    8753 SW 53rd St. 

  • East Topeka Senior Center
    432 SE Norwood

  • Exploring Life, Inc. & Community of Christ Church – Peace Garden
    19th & Fairmont

  • First Congregational Church Community Garden
    1701 SW Collins

  • French Middle School Garden
    5257 SW 37th St. 

  • Gil Carter Food Forest
    6th & Rogers

  • Helen & Walt Laughlin Community Garden
    (formerly the Historic Old Town Garden)
    725 SW Buchanan St.

  • Hi-Crest Community Garden
    SE Colfax south of 37th Street
    (behind Southern Hills Mennonite Church, 511 SE 37th)

  • Jardine Elementary School Garden
    2600 SW 33rd St.

  • Kansas Neurological Institute Gardens
    3107 SW 21st Street

  • LULAC Senior Center Garden
    1502 NE Seward Avenue

  • Shawnee County Extension Demonstration Vegetable & Community Garden
    2303 SW College (CRC Center at Stout school)

  • Shawnee County Health Department WIC Garden
    2600 SW East Circle Drive

  • TARC Avenues – Garden of Possibilities
    2701 SW Randolph

  • Topeka Oakland Gardens
    1033 NE Michigan (Lundgren School Grounds)

  • Topeka Transplants
    3224 SW Arnold

  • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Community Garden
    4775 SW 21st

  • Vida Ministry Community Garden
    1701 Collins

  • Washburn University Community Garden
    1700 SW College Ave.

  • Whitson Elementary School
    1725 SW Arnold Avenue

  • Williams Science & Fine Arts  Magnet School Garden
    1301 SE Monroe

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(Information sourced from Topeka Common Ground website as of Sept. 3, 2026)

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