GIBSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Buckskin, Fort Branch and Mackey 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 Gibson County by the Numbers

Gibson County has 477 farms on 248,444 acres (about 521 acres each). Together they sold $268.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 97 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Gibson County already sell straight to the public, about $321,000 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 Gibson County

Gibson County farms and homesteads keep 28,460 hogs, 7,511 head of cattle and 1,623 egg-laying hens.

About 858 people run or help run farms in Gibson County, with an average age of 57. 27% of them are women. 98 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.