CHRISTIAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Christian County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Assumption, Bulpitt and Hewittsville. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Christian County by the Numbers

Christian County has 768 farms on 350,778 acres (about 457 acres each). Together they sold $400.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 50 honey bee colonies.

25 farms in Christian County already sell straight to the public, about $123,000 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 Christian County

Christian County farms and homesteads keep 60,868 hogs, 3,809 head of cattle and 1,907 egg-laying hens.

About 1,300 people run or help run farms in Christian County, with an average age of 60. 31% of them are women. 96 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Christian County stands out: it ranks #21 of 102 IL counties for total farm sales.