LASALLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Cedar Point, Dana and Leland buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 LaSalle County by the Numbers

LaSalle County has 1,706 farms on 603,762 acres (about 354 acres each). Together they sold $614.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, green beans and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 571 honey bee colonies.

74 farms in LaSalle County already sell straight to the public, about $617,000 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.