HENDRICKS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hendricks County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Amo, Avon and Lizton. 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 Hendricks County by the Numbers

Hendricks County has 544 farms on 115,423 acres (about 212 acres each). Together they sold $122.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, lettuce and broccoli. Beekeepers tend about 267 honey bee colonies.

78 farms in Hendricks County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 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 Hendricks County

Hendricks County farms and homesteads keep 21,905 hogs, 3,392 egg-laying hens and 1,972 head of cattle.

About 953 people run or help run farms in Hendricks County, with an average age of 58. 39% of them are women. 71 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hendricks County stands out: it ranks #6 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public and #9 of 90 IN counties for goats.