ORANGE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in French Lick, Orleans and and West Baden Sprin buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Orange County by the Numbers

Orange County has 425 farms on 95,336 acres (about 224 acres each). Together they sold $220.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pawpaws, and local fields produce potatoes, pumpkins, green onions and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 16 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Orange County already sell straight to the public. 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 Orange County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Orange County counts 445,130 turkeys, 8,564 head of cattle and 836 sheep.

About 693 people run or help run farms in Orange County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 73 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.