BLACKFORD COUNTY MARKET

Blackford County, Indiana Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Hartford City, and Montpelier 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 Blackford County by the Numbers

Blackford County has 217 farms on 75,340 acres (about 347 acres each). Together they sold $78.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Beekeepers tend about 32 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Blackford County already sell straight to the public, about $22,000 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 Blackford County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Blackford County counts 27,020 hogs, 1,641 head of cattle and 437 egg-laying hens.

About 355 people run or help run farms in Blackford County, with an average age of 59. 31% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.