SPENCER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Spencer County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Buffaloville, Chrisney and Gentryville. 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 Spencer County by the Numbers

Spencer County has 558 farms on 162,031 acres (about 290 acres each). Together they sold $148.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 153 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Spencer County already sell straight to the public, about $400,000 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 Spencer County

Spencer County farms and homesteads keep 180,706 turkeys, 12,113 hogs and 10,641 head of cattle.

About 938 people run or help run farms in Spencer County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 59 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.

Where Spencer County stands out: it ranks #17 of 90 IN counties for goats.