Green Acres Flea Market

This place was just an absolute joke. Half of the shoes there are stolen, they still have security tags on them, and the other half shoes not even goodwill would sell. Many booths/​vendors where nothing but junk and it is so ran down and ragidy. There is no pride in the establish. Its dark and dingy. Would recommend not visiting

This place has turned into Little Mexico over the years but that’s ok, those guys spend money too and it’s fun trying to haggle with somebody that speaks little to no English.
They have good Mexican food here (but not cheap from what I’ve seen) and of course on Sundays, in warmer weather the outside is normally PACKED. Saturdays not many people show up but Sundays are where it’s at. Then around 1PM. POOF! Starts turning into a ghost town.
The inside is standard flea market fare but like most flea markets the outside is where it’s
at. Of course you have the same vendors week after week but the ones I like are they people needing money NOW and will deal or just have a bunch of junk they want to get rid of and do not want to pack up again. These are the people you want to deal with.
This is an older flea market and they’ve been fixing it up but it’s still kind of a dive which is fine by me. The people that come week after week, month after month, year after year don’t really care.
I believe in more recent years, the local Mexican population have really propped this place up, and that’s fine. Otherwise I doubt if it would still be here, kind of a local institution really. Ask anybody around Knoxville or Maryville if they know where Green Acres is.

What a dump. Things should be trashed. The only nice booth was the guitars. Not a good place.

We just moved into the apartments right behind here so of course, we’re frequent visitors.
The Green Acres Flea Market is pretty inexpensive for vendors ($ 20 for an inside spot and down to $ 5 for cheaper outside spots, if I remember correctly from the handwritten sign up front). As such, you certainly get a lot of junk to sift through. However, there is a lot of stuff worth your time as well.
Indoors is mostly antiques, new products, I think there’s a Mexican dress shop as well as a tattoo place.
The flea market is split about ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ overall between U.S. vendors/​products and Mexican/​Latino vendors/​products. However, the Mexican/​Latinos definitely outweigh the Americans when it comes to food vendors. Being originally from Texas, I really appreciate the authentic Mexican options. There are fruterias selling delicious fruit salads mixed with lime juice and salt or chile, other vendors selling fresh homemade tortillas or chicharrones, restaurants selling tortas, huaraches, aguas frescas, etc. This is authentic Mexican and Central American food at its best in Knoxville. There are also produce stands selling Mexican products like nopales, mango, chile (powder, dried, and fresh), flores de jamaica, avocados, and some pan dulce brought in from Georgia that’s actually pretty fresh. This is the only place I can find poblanos and decent avocados with any consistency. There’s also vendors selling Spanish music, DVDs, and christian books, and Mexican leather/​jewelry.
Of course you can find clothes, household products, electronics, tools, etc. I think there’s a guy making his own axes there.
And the livestock. Chickens, turkeys, geese, quail?, goats, rabbits, puppies, fresh eggs.
I really wouldn’t look for a lot of furniture here, but that’s just me. It’s pretty decent, although I will say the indoor area was cool even on a warmer day so I probably wouldn’t recommend visiting here in the rain/​cold, when I go I prefer to stay outside. It’s certainly an adventure that will keep you occupied for a couple of hours on a Sunday, especially if you’re into authentic Mexican food or adventurous enough to try some!

Burrrrr. It’s Freezing in here! Thanks to the nice Asian woman at the front stand selling leather wallets, jackets and miscellaneous other Motorcycle garb, I got a break from the rush of COLD air that hits you the moment you walk in. She kindly offered her propane heater to me for a few moments while my family looked through her stuff.
This place is an old warehouse with VERY DIM lighting and NO HEAT! Bring your ski jackets, ear muffs and gloves if you dare to attend. There were about 30 – 40 vendors, if that. Disappointing, seeing as I had read prior to going that there were to be 300 vendors.
If you’re interested in any of the following, then you might want to check it out. If you can bear the cold.
1. Old Video Games (Nintendo, Super-​Nintendo etc.)
2. Gold and Silver Jewelry (I recommend a jeweler that provides heat, though, because the prices weren’t much different than what you can find in a retail store or on Ebay.)
3. Motorcycle Garb
4. Stuffed/​Hanging Dead animals
5. Carved Stone sculptures
6. Used and new clothing
7. Vintage/​Retro (but used and not in great condition) tables and chairs
8. Cowboy boots (this stand seemed to offer a pretty versatile selection of colors and styles.)
9. Mexican Food (which I didn’t try but I heard from one of the vendors that it was excellent!)
Perhaps on a warmer Spring day I might return to check out the missing 250 or so vendors. But this place just carried too much «ehhhh» stuff (if you know what I mean) to bear the cold again.
The reason I have given a two star rating is because I did find, at the very end of my 30 minute experience, outside of the main warehouse and off to the side, a nice stand run by a sweet Asian woman with tons of cheap, albeit usable and fun stuff, ranging from poochie knit hats (which I gladly swept up for $ 2.00), warm knit fuzzy socks (that retail for $ 12.99) for $ 1.00 a pair, sunglasses for $ 2.00, new sports socks, tools, bras, air soft guns, toys, cha-​chkas and other fun stuff for a real bargain. I wouldn’t say the stuff I bought is the epitome of quality, but you can certainly find good use for some of it.
Good luck.