PIKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Pike County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Otwell, Petersburg and and Winslow. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Pike County by the Numbers

Pike County has 279 farms on 88,483 acres (about 317 acres each). Together they sold $85.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, poultry & eggs and soybeans.

Beekeepers tend about 128 honey bee colonies.

4 farms in Pike County already sell straight to the public, about $38,000 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 Pike County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Pike County counts 218,000 turkeys, 6,868 hogs and 280 goats.

About 485 people run or help run farms in Pike County, with an average age of 63. 32% of them are women. 15 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.