KENDALL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Kendall County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Bristol, Millbrook and Oswego. Illinois favorites like honey and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Kendall County by the Numbers

Kendall County has 383 farms on 129,224 acres (about 337 acres each). Together they sold $154.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, walnuts and tart cherries, and local fields produce pumpkins and garlic. Beekeepers tend about 144 honey bee colonies.

27 farms in Kendall County already sell straight to the public, about $215,000 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 Kendall County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,465 head of cattle, 793 egg-laying hens and 568 horses and ponies in Kendall County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 665 people run or help run farms in Kendall County, with an average age of 57. 30% of them are women. 66 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.