BOND COUNTY MARKET

Bond County, Illinois Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Bond County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Greenville, Keyesport and Smithboro. Illinois favorites like pumpkins and apples show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Bond County by the Numbers

Bond County has 622 farms on 161,590 acres (about 260 acres each). Together they sold $123.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce tomatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 343 honey bee colonies.

40 farms in Bond County already sell straight to the public, about $529,000 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 Bond County

Bond County farms and homesteads keep 7,752 head of cattle, 2,720 hogs and 1,143 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,065 people run or help run farms in Bond County, with an average age of 57. 29% of them are women. 98 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Bond County stands out: it ranks #16 of 97 IL counties for honey bee colonies.