CRAWFORD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Crawford County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Annapolis, Flat Rock and Robinson. 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 Crawford County by the Numbers

Crawford County has 607 farms on 234,709 acres (about 387 acres each). Together they sold $190.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts, pears and hazelnuts, and local fields produce tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 139 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Crawford County already sell straight to the public, about $58,000 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 Crawford County

Crawford County farms and homesteads keep 100,064 turkeys, 2,031 head of cattle and 667 sheep.

About 979 people run or help run farms in Crawford County, with an average age of 58. 27% of them are women. 93 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.