BARBER COUNTY MARKET

Barber County, Kansas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Barber County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Hardtner, Hazelton and Medicine Lodge. 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 Barber County by the Numbers

Barber County has 393 farms on 723,977 acres (about 1,842 acres each). Together they sold $102.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and corn.

6 farms in Barber County already sell straight to the public, about $103,000 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 Barber County

Barber County farms and homesteads keep 58,448 head of cattle, 563 goats and 493 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 705 people run or help run farms in Barber County, with an average age of 56. 35% of them are women. 95 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 29 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.