HENDERSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Biggsville, Carman and Oquawka buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in Illinois. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Henderson County by the Numbers

Henderson County has 419 farms on 199,669 acres (about 477 acres each). Together they sold $191.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples. Beekeepers tend about 18 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Henderson County already sell straight to the public, about $107,000 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 Henderson County

Henderson County farms and homesteads keep 27,056 hogs, 14,122 head of cattle and 503 sheep.

About 741 people run or help run farms in Henderson County, with an average age of 58. 30% of them are women. 62 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.