POWESHIEK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Poweshiek County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Brooklyn, Deep River and Montezuma. 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 Poweshiek County by the Numbers

Poweshiek County has 792 farms on 288,668 acres (about 364 acres each). Together they sold $386.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts and pecans. Beekeepers tend about 149 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Poweshiek County already sell straight to the public. 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 Poweshiek County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Poweshiek County counts 87,202 hogs, 24,584 head of cattle and 1,563 sheep.

About 1,370 people run or help run farms in Poweshiek County, with an average age of 59. 31% of them are women. 121 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.