Argus Farm Stop - Packard

Argus Farm Stop - Packard ties food access directly to the market floor: its food access team donates AFS Produce Boxes to Jewish Family Services weekly, linking this Burns Park location to support for Washtenaw County residents in need. At 1200 Packard Road, the Packard Market serves the Burns Park neighborhood and sits at the corner of Packard and Woodlawn, while also anchoring Argus's online business and produce box subscription operation. The result is a year-round market that functions more like a daily local food stop than a once-a-week shopping trip, with products from more than 200 farms and producers sold across the year.

Why it matters locally

The Packard Market is built around locally farmed foods in Ann Arbor's Burns Park neighborhood, and Argus says more than 200 farms and producers sell their products through its locations during the year. That scale matters in the context Argus highlights: over 90% of local farms producing dairy, meat, and produce have disappeared since 1950, while the average farmer age is 58.

Argus also frames local buying as a direct alternative to long-distance food distribution, noting that nationally 99.7% of food is purchased indirectly from producers and food travels an average of 1,500 miles from farm to table. At Packard, that local focus is paired with access programs, including donated produce boxes through Jewish Family Services and fruit-and-vegetable donations through Food Gatherers.

What you'll find there

This Packard location combines a market stocked by named farms and producers with an adjacent cafe and tavern at Dewey and Packard Street serving locally made meals, beverages, craft beers, and coffee. The roster leans heavily toward produce growers, orchards, organics, eggs, and a few prepared-food anchors inside the broader Argus setup.

• -Browse the Packard Market for locally farmed foods and the produce box subscription operation based at this location.
• -Pick up lunch or another locally made meal at the Packard Cafe, along with beverages, craft beers, and coffee.
• -Find fresh, locally grown produce through Argus Farm Stop's market operation.
• -Look for breads and cheeses carried through the Argus market lineup.
• -Shop local beer and wine offered through the Argus market locations.
• -Seek out Ark of Taste products focused on the taste qualities of produce.
• -Choose produce from Adsit Organics of Plymouth.
• -Check farm goods from Birch Hill Farm, Blue Spring Farm, and Tantré Farm in the farmers roster.
• -Add orchard fruit from Kapnicks Orchards, Knerrs Orchard, and Wolfe Orchards.
• -Look for berries from Harris Blueberries and Michigan Cranberry Company.
• -Find greens and vegetables from Monroe Family Organics, Pine Ridge Organics, and Sunnyside Organics & Produce.
• -Watch for microgreens from Touchstone Living Microgreens.
• -Shop eggs from farms including Blue Spring Farm in Ann Arbor, Brieland-Shoultz Farm in Chelsea, Cloudberry Farm in Ann Arbor, Ernst Farm in Ann Arbor, Goetz Farm in Riga, and Webbed Foot Pines in Adrian. A distinctive thread here is how specifically Argus names the farms behind everyday staples. The eggs list alone stretches from Blue Spring Farm and Cloudberry Farm in Ann Arbor to Brieland-Shoultz Farm in Chelsea, Goetz Farm in Riga, Prickly Prairie Farmstead in Jackson, and Webbed Foot Pines in Adrian. In the broader farmers roster, the names stack up the same way: Tantré Farm, TAZ Urban Farm, UM Campus Farm, We The People Opportunity Farm, and Wolfe Orchards sit alongside Monroe Family Organics and Harris Blueberries. That naming makes the Packard stop feel less like an anonymous grocery shelf and more like a map of southeast Michigan producers gathered at one address.

Know before you go

Parking is the main planning detail here: on-site parking is limited because of the market's small size and its proximity to downtown, though on-street parking is available. Argus also notes parking at 1200 Packard Street and at 325 West Liberty Street, which can help if the immediate lot is full.

This is a daily, year-round stop rather than a weekly pop-up, with hours running 8am to 8pm every day. The Packard Market is in the Burns Park neighborhood at the corner of Packard and Woodlawn. Dogs are not allowed, and restrooms are not available on site.

Payments & SNAP

SNAP/EBT is accepted here, and Argus says Double Up Food Bucks makes fresh produce 50% off. The market also works with the Michigan Fitness Foundation on a grant that reduces the price of its weekly produce box by 75% for SNAP users. Those food-access efforts sit alongside weekly produce box donations to Jewish Family Services.