JACKSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Jackson County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Brownstown, Crothersville and Seymour. Watch for local tomatoes when it comes into season in Indiana. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Jackson County by the Numbers

Jackson County has 607 farms on 168,778 acres (about 278 acres each). Together they sold $264.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, persimmons and chestnuts, and local fields produce watermelons, pumpkins, tomatoes and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 233 honey bee colonies.

30 farms in Jackson County already sell straight to the public, about $500,000 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 Jackson County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Jackson County counts 43,795 hogs, 8,176 head of cattle and 517 goats.

About 1,073 people run or help run farms in Jackson County, with an average age of 58. 33% of them are women. 114 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.