MARTIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Martin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Crane Naval Depo, Loogootee and and Shoals. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Martin County by the Numbers

Martin County has 249 farms on 57,900 acres (about 233 acres each). Together they sold $109.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hogs and corn.

Beekeepers tend about 88 honey bee colonies.

6 farms in Martin County already sell straight to the public, about $19,000 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 Martin County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 582,501 turkeys, 54,922 hogs and 3,691 head of cattle in Martin County.

About 466 people run or help run farms in Martin County, with an average age of 56. 27% of them are women. 41 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.