HARDIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Cave In Rock, Elizabethtown and and Rosiclare buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Illinois. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Hardin County by the Numbers

Hardin County has 128 farms on 34,138 acres (about 267 acres each). Together they sold $6.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, poultry & eggs and vegetables.

Local fields produce tomatoes.

1 farms in Hardin County already sell straight to the public. 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 Hardin County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,176 head of cattle, 890 egg-laying hens and 139 horses and ponies in Hardin County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 234 people run or help run farms in Hardin County, with an average age of 56. 31% of them are women. 17 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.