HAMILTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Carmel, Nora and Fishers buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Indiana. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Hamilton County by the Numbers

Hamilton County has 517 farms on 132,195 acres (about 256 acres each). Together they sold $140.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 205 honey bee colonies.

38 farms in Hamilton County already sell straight to the public, about $1.7 million 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 Hamilton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,692 egg-laying hens, 1,006 sheep and 859 horses and ponies in Hamilton County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,014 people run or help run farms in Hamilton County, with an average age of 58. 38% of them are women. 82 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hamilton County stands out: it ranks #5 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public.