HANCOCK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hancock County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Charlottesville, Fortville and and Wilkinson. Indiana favorites like popcorn and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Hancock County by the Numbers

Hancock County has 505 farms on 184,430 acres (about 365 acres each). Together they sold $206.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 98 honey bee colonies.

36 farms in Hancock County already sell straight to the public, about $3.9 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 Hancock County

Hancock County farms and homesteads keep 94,447 hogs, 3,169 egg-laying hens and 2,926 head of cattle.

About 895 people run or help run farms in Hancock County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 79 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.

Where Hancock County stands out: it ranks #1 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public and #14 of 78 IN counties for egg-laying hens.