STARK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Stark County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Bradford, Castleton and and Wyoming. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Stark County by the Numbers

Stark County has 346 farms on 162,962 acres (about 471 acres each). Together they sold $185.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce green beans, beets, pumpkins and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 11 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Stark County already sell straight to the public, about $130,000 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 Stark County

Stark County farms and homesteads keep 17,349 hogs, 3,338 head of cattle and 647 egg-laying hens.

About 530 people run or help run farms in Stark County, with an average age of 57. 29% of them are women. 67 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.