LEE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Lee County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Amboy, Ashton and Franklin Grove. Illinois favorites like apples and honey 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 Lee County by the Numbers

Lee County has 829 farms on 377,886 acres (about 456 acres each). Together they sold $400.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, plums and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, chile peppers and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 131 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Lee County already sell straight to the public, about $137,000 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 Lee County

Lee County farms and homesteads keep 82,125 egg-laying hens, 27,512 hogs and 5,849 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,383 people run or help run farms in Lee County, with an average age of 58. 27% of them are women. 151 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lee County stands out: it ranks #4 of 90 IL counties for egg-laying hens.