BROWN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Brown County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Mount Sterling, Timewell and and Versailles. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Brown County by the Numbers

Brown County has 449 farms on 163,236 acres (about 364 acres each). Together they sold $84.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 48 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Brown County already sell straight to the public, about $33,000 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 Brown County

Brown County farms and homesteads keep 33,833 hogs, 5,288 head of cattle and 1,547 egg-laying hens.

About 774 people run or help run farms in Brown County, with an average age of 58. 29% of them are women. 85 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.