BOONE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Boone County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Advance, Jamestown and and Zionsville. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Boone County by the Numbers

Boone County has 519 farms on 205,588 acres (about 396 acres each). Together they sold $230.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, sweet cherries and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 489 honey bee colonies.

44 farms in Boone County already sell straight to the public, about $358,000 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 Boone County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 18,077 hogs, 2,144 head of cattle and 2,068 goats in Boone County.

About 939 people run or help run farms in Boone County, with an average age of 57. 31% of them are women. 90 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 Boone County stands out: it ranks #2 of 90 IN counties for goats and #6 of 88 IN counties for honey bee colonies.