KOSCIUSKO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Kosciusko County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Atwood, Burket and Mentone. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Kosciusko County by the Numbers

Kosciusko County has 1,079 farms on 298,904 acres (about 277 acres each). Together they sold $428.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 207 honey bee colonies.

59 farms in Kosciusko County already sell straight to the public, about $3.1 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 Kosciusko County

Kosciusko County farms and homesteads keep 116,917 hogs, 21,426 head of cattle and 2,171 horses and ponies.

About 1,938 people run or help run farms in Kosciusko County, with an average age of 55. 32% of them are women. 283 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Kosciusko County stands out: it ranks #2 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public and #6 of 92 IN counties for number of farms.