CHAMPAIGN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Champaign County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Champaign, Bondville and Foosland. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Illinois. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Champaign County by the Numbers

Champaign County has 1,330 farms on 545,674 acres (about 410 acres each). Together they sold $583.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pawpaws and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, lettuce and carrots. Beekeepers tend about 434 honey bee colonies.

46 farms in Champaign County already sell straight to the public, about $464,000 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 Champaign County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Champaign County counts 11,760 hogs, 6,748 egg-laying hens and 5,423 head of cattle.

About 2,440 people run or help run farms in Champaign County, with an average age of 59. 28% of them are women. 224 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Champaign County stands out: it ranks #5 of 102 IL counties for number of farms and #5 of 102 IL counties for total farm sales.