CLARK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Clark County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Borden, Charlestown and Marysville. Watch for local tomatoes when it comes into season in Indiana. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Clark County by the Numbers

Clark County has 437 farms on 86,065 acres (about 197 acres each). Together they sold $58.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce tomatoes, pumpkins, cantaloupes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 102 honey bee colonies.

37 farms in Clark County already sell straight to the public, about $807,000 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 Clark County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,976 head of cattle, 1,863 egg-laying hens and 597 goats in Clark County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 806 people run or help run farms in Clark County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Clark County stands out: it ranks #16 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public.