PEORIA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Peoria, Peoria Heights and Dunlap buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Peoria County by the Numbers

Peoria County has 989 farms on 278,241 acres (about 281 acres each). Together they sold $249.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 307 honey bee colonies.

38 farms in Peoria County already sell straight to the public, about $895,000 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 Peoria County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 12,323 hogs, 8,874 head of cattle and 2,324 egg-laying hens in Peoria County.

About 1,693 people run or help run farms in Peoria County, with an average age of 59. 29% of them are women. 126 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Peoria County stands out: it ranks #17 of 93 IL counties for selling food straight to the public and #19 of 97 IL counties for honey bee colonies.