MONROE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bloomington, Ellettsville and and Woodbridge buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Indiana. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Monroe County by the Numbers

Monroe County has 419 farms on 63,216 acres (about 151 acres each). Together they sold $16.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow persimmons, apples and pawpaws, and local fields produce spinach, sweet corn, tomatoes and onions. Beekeepers tend about 168 honey bee colonies.

62 farms in Monroe County already sell straight to the public, about $795,000 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 Monroe County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,036 head of cattle, 1,184 egg-laying hens and 918 sheep in Monroe County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 741 people run or help run farms in Monroe County, with an average age of 58. 39% of them are women. 38 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Monroe County stands out: it ranks #17 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public.