TIPPECANOE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Tippecanoe County? Backyard growers and small farms around Lafayette, Battle Ground and Romney list it here. Indiana favorites like sweet corn and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Tippecanoe County by the Numbers

Tippecanoe County has 712 farms on 237,534 acres (about 334 acres each). Together they sold $244.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, persimmons and pecans, and local fields produce pumpkins, cantaloupes, bell peppers and squash. Beekeepers tend about 327 honey bee colonies.

69 farms in Tippecanoe County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 million 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 Tippecanoe County

Tippecanoe County farms and homesteads keep 59,526 hogs, 3,486 head of cattle and 1,944 egg-laying hens.

About 1,316 people run or help run farms in Tippecanoe County, with an average age of 57. 33% of them are women. 91 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Tippecanoe County stands out: it ranks #8 of 86 IN counties for selling food straight to the public and #18 of 92 IN counties for number of farms.