DOUGLAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Douglas County? Backyard growers and small farms around Lawrence, Baldwin City and and Lecompton list it here. 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 Douglas County by the Numbers

Douglas County has 919 farms on 218,949 acres (about 238 acres each). Together they sold $86.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, turnips, tomatoes and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 673 honey bee colonies.

100 farms in Douglas County already sell straight to the public, about $1.4 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 Douglas County

Douglas County farms and homesteads keep 17,881 head of cattle, 4,045 egg-laying hens and 1,069 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,632 people run or help run farms in Douglas County, with an average age of 58. 39% of them are women. 84 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 23 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Douglas County stands out: it ranks #3 of 76 KS counties for selling food straight to the public and #3 of 64 KS counties for honey bee colonies.