When: Sundays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: 126 N. Tenth St.

If you’re a hungry artist, or maybe just hungry, the North Village Farmers and Artisans Market is just the place for you.

Every Sunday this season until Oct. 28, join fellow vegetarians, vegans, carnivores and everyone else in between at the market behind the Historic Wabash Station. Where else can you buy local food, peer at art, enjoy live music and attend workshops about composting with worms?

“Our goal is to not just have a market where people can buy fresh produce and artisan goods but (one) that they could also come and hang out with their neighbors or meet people or learn something new,” market manager Loretta Kyle says.

All you environmentally-conscious consumers have only more reason to love the market, thanks to vendors like John Botts, owner of JSB Natural Farms, who says all his animals are quite happily pastured.

Sue Shan was visiting her cousin at MU when she attended last week’s market.

“I like how everything is grown naturally,” Shan says. “It looks so different from the grocery store.”

And if these 20-30 food vendors — some of whom trek 150 miles to sell their tomatoes, peppers and apples — don’t impress your homespun tastes, the market’s artisan vendors sell all sorts of glass-blown items, jewelry and carved soap — no tacky Cracker Barrel tags attached.

As far as the jams go, young musicians play until 11 a.m., when the acoustic and bluegrass sets take over. Fine and dandy as that is, it’s the workshops and activities that are the main players in bringing an adorable hipster feel to the market. During the season, workshops range from vertical gardening and Dutch oven cooking to raising chickens and tie dying, Kyle says.

As trends toward buying local and eating organic continue, Kyle and marketing director Haley Schwarz hope to see growth in the market’s ability to draw foot traffic and maintain a community presence. Sounds like they’re bent on making produce-loving believers out of all of us.

Take Yinan Yan, for example, who, as a Chinese exchange student, had never been to a farmer’s market until last Sunday.

“I bought a few peaches, tomatoes and eggplants — they look very fresh,” Yan says. “It was the highlight of my day.”