FULTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Akron, Fulton and and Rochester buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Fulton County by the Numbers

Fulton County has 636 farms on 181,860 acres (about 286 acres each). Together they sold $195.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears and apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, asparagus, green beans and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 62 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Fulton County already sell straight to the public, about $173,000 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 Fulton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 31,756 hogs, 14,204 head of cattle and 877 sheep in Fulton County.

About 1,120 people run or help run farms in Fulton County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 153 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.