GRUNDY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Grundy County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Braceville, Coal City and Minooka. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Grundy County by the Numbers

Grundy County has 437 farms on 188,601 acres (about 432 acres each). Together they sold $187.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce pumpkins and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 42 honey bee colonies.

19 farms in Grundy County already sell straight to the public, about $267,000 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 Grundy County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Grundy County counts 2,717 hogs, 1,035 egg-laying hens and 966 head of cattle.

About 755 people run or help run farms in Grundy County, with an average age of 59. 26% of them are women. 37 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.