CUMBERLAND COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Cumberland County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Hazel Dell, Jewett and and Trilla. 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 Cumberland County by the Numbers

Cumberland County has 686 farms on 161,892 acres (about 236 acres each). Together they sold $164.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, figs and plums, and local fields produce tomatoes and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 83 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Cumberland County already sell straight to the public, about $169,000 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 Cumberland County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 89,661 hogs, 7,800 head of cattle and 301 egg-laying hens in Cumberland County.

About 1,148 people run or help run farms in Cumberland County, with an average age of 60. 28% of them are women. 75 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.