Nebraska City Farmers Market runs Thursdays, May 21 through August 27, 2026, along 8th Street from 1st Corso to Central Avenue. A Kids Korner activity starts at 4:30 pm each week, alongside vendors selling fresh produce, homemade jellies, jams, pies and eggs.
Visit Apple House Market year-round to savor the fresh flavors of the orchard and vineyard. Apple House Market invites you to taste, explore, and delight in every season. Sip signature wines, seasonal hard cider, and draft beer, or enjoy our famous apple cider and slushies. Shop local favorites like Village Pie Maker pies, jams, jellies, and popcorn, savor barbecue and fresh apple pie at Porter’s, and browse charming gifts to take home. Every visit supports the tree-planting mission of the Arbor Day Foundation. Inclement weather may affect hours. Please call ahead at 402-873-8733 if you have questions. You can select the wines you taste, choosing from a variety of whites, reds, and fruit wines.
Nebraska City's AppleJack Festival is ripening into two full weekends of crisp fall fun — and you’re invited to take a big juicy bite out of the celebration! Named one of America’s Best Fall Harvest Festivals by USA Today and a Top Fall Destination by HGTV, this iconic event draws up to 80,000 apple-lovers to our historic town — and for good reason. This year, we're stretching the festivities across two themed weekends starting Friday, September 19, and going until the last apple is crunched. 🍏 Weekend One: Traditional AppleJack: Get your classic fix of parades, apple pies, carnival rides, craft shows, and all the nostalgic vibes. 🍎 Weekend Two: All About Apples: It's apple-palooza! Cider slushies, sip-and-stroll hard cider experience, caramel-covered everything, orchard tours, and more apple-y goodness than you thought possible. Need more reasons to make a weekend of it? Our charmi...
Love, The Locals hosts a curated fall market at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City timed with the AppleJack Festival, alongside a Holiday Market and Sip and Shop event each December in Lincoln. Vendors apply through a juried process with a non-refundable application fee, and only Nebraska sales tax registered makers of their own handmade goods are accepted.
Sweet Pickins is an indoor craft, vendor and maker market held at Lourdes Central Catholic School during Nebraska City's AppleJack Festival weekend, running 10 am to 4 pm both days. Now in its sixth year, it is known for one of a kind crafters and vendors selling quality handmade goods. The market is free to attend, with concessions and plenty of parking on site.
For more than 150 years, folks in this small town on the Oaks, pines, maples, elms, willows, sycamores. Flowering trees, conifers, deciduous. What started as a plan to make the empty plains welcoming to settlers and provide shade, shelter, and building materials has turned into a quest for environmental preservation – a chance to enrich the earth for future generations. Along the way, what became known as Arbor Day grew into a weekend-long celebration. And not only in our own community…Arbor Day may have started in the small town of Nebraska City, Nebraska, but it is now recognized in all 50 states and in many countries around the world. Come and visit us this Arbor Day! Make a weekend out of it; stay a few days, visit some museums, shop a bit, see the sights…plant a tree! Check out all our fabulous Nebraska City Museums! Make a weekend out of it and book an overnight stay ! Hungry...