CLAY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Bowling Green to Cory, Clay County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Clay County by the Numbers

Clay County has 486 farms on 168,912 acres (about 348 acres each). Together they sold $143.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 135 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Clay County already sell straight to the public, about $495,000 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 Clay County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,490 head of cattle, 1,142 egg-laying hens and 329 hogs in Clay County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 860 people run or help run farms in Clay County, with an average age of 58. 32% of them are women. 81 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.