KOOTENAI COUNTY MARKET

Kootenai County, Idaho Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Kootenai County? Backyard growers and small farms around Coeur D Alene, Athol and Hayden Lake list it here. Idaho favorites like cherries and honey show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Kootenai County by the Numbers

Kootenai County has 968 farms on 107,727 acres (about 111 acres each). Together they sold $23.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, wheat and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, sweet cherries and hazelnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, lettuce, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 347 honey bee colonies.

95 farms in Kootenai County already sell straight to the public, about $632,000 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 Kootenai County

Kootenai County farms and homesteads keep 4,617 egg-laying hens, 3,692 head of cattle and 1,410 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,772 people run or help run farms in Kootenai County, with an average age of 60. 47% of them are women. 85 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Kootenai County stands out: it ranks #4 of 39 ID counties for egg-laying hens and #7 of 44 ID counties for number of farms.