DES MOINES COUNTY MARKET

Des Moines County, Iowa Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Buy local in Des Moines County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Burlington, Danville and West Burlington. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Des Moines County by the Numbers

Des Moines County has 648 farms on 148,881 acres (about 230 acres each). Together they sold $145.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts and pecans, and local fields produce tomatoes and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 64 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Des Moines County already sell straight to the public, about $74,000 a year in direct sales. Crop Market gives them, and every backyard grower, a free way to reach more neighbors.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Des Moines County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 43,782 hogs, 5,113 head of cattle and 1,289 egg-laying hens in Des Moines County.

About 1,123 people run or help run farms in Des Moines County, with an average age of 60. 29% of them are women. 84 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.