CRAWFORD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Eckerty, English and Milltown buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Indiana favorites like sweet corn and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Crawford County by the Numbers

Crawford County has 374 farms on 68,274 acres (about 183 acres each). Together they sold $28 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and walnuts, and local fields produce pumpkins, broccoli, green beans and cabbage. Beekeepers tend about 191 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Crawford County already sell straight to the public, about $68,000 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 Crawford County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 16,245 hogs, 4,342 head of cattle and 758 egg-laying hens in Crawford County.

About 633 people run or help run farms in Crawford County, with an average age of 57. 32% of them are women. 72 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.