FOUNTAIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Attica, Cates and Newtown buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Fountain County by the Numbers

Fountain County has 440 farms on 192,752 acres (about 438 acres each). Together they sold $175.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pawpaws and walnuts. Beekeepers tend about 38 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Fountain County already sell straight to the public, about $18,000 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 Fountain County

Fountain County farms and homesteads keep 3,336 head of cattle, 304 egg-laying hens and 302 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 765 people run or help run farms in Fountain County, with an average age of 59. 28% of them are women. 84 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.