Detroit Central Market

Cities like Detroit built public markets where growers, fish mongers, vendors, and peddlers sold directly to customers. People of all ages, many nationalities, and various occupations crossed paths in these spaces.

Learn how a group of dedicated individuals raised more than enough money to bring back to life the Detroit Central Market in Greenfield Village—during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about The Henry Ford's vision to offer a weekly farmer's market experience in the reconstructed vegetable building from Detroit's Central Market in Greenfield Village, starting in Spring 2022.

This year's #GivingTuesday campaign aims to bring the Detroit Central Farmers Market to Greenfield Village. Learn more and contribute to this goal today.

Discover what everyday life for florists, fishmongers, hucksters, peddlers, and other community members would have been like in Detroit Central Market's 19th-century vegetable shed, now in Greenfield Village.