HARDIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hardin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Ackley, Alden and Iowa Falls. Iowa favorites like honey and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Hardin County by the Numbers

Hardin County has 839 farms on 333,515 acres (about 398 acres each). Together they sold $805.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce green beans, tomatoes and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 76 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Hardin County already sell straight to the public, about $131,000 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 Hardin County

Hardin County farms and homesteads keep 860,744 hogs, 16,563 head of cattle and 810 sheep.

About 1,431 people run or help run farms in Hardin County, with an average age of 56. 31% of them are women. 170 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.

Where Hardin County stands out: it ranks #7 of 99 IA counties for total farm sales.