MARION COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Indianapolis, Southport and Nora buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local melons 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 Marion County by the Numbers

Marion County has 169 farms on 14,595 acres (about 86 acres each). Together they sold $16.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce bell peppers, lettuce, tomatoes and kale. Beekeepers tend about 273 honey bee colonies.

35 farms in Marion County already sell straight to the public, about $958,000 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 Marion County

Marion County farms and homesteads keep 1,842 egg-laying hens, 615 sheep and 287 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 328 people run or help run farms in Marion County, with an average age of 54. 40% of them are women. 49 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Marion County stands out: it ranks #14 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public.