WASHINGTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Campbellsburg, Fredericksburg and and Salem buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local melons when it comes into season in Indiana. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Washington County by the Numbers

Washington County has 783 farms on 190,434 acres (about 243 acres each). Together they sold $258.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and apples, and local fields produce tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 233 honey bee colonies.

33 farms in Washington County already sell straight to the public, about $252,000 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 Washington County

Washington County farms and homesteads keep 973,670 turkeys, 162,368 egg-laying hens and 16,215 head of cattle.

About 1,411 people run or help run farms in Washington County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 182 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Washington County stands out: it ranks #5 of 78 IN counties for egg-laying hens and #13 of 92 IN counties for number of farms.