MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Montgomery County? Backyard growers and small farms around Caney, Cherryvale and Havana list it here. Kansas favorites like sweet corn and pumpkins 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 Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 892 farms on 300,352 acres (about 337 acres each). Together they sold $70.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by wheat, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, beets, watermelons and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 73 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $111,000 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 Montgomery County

Montgomery County farms and homesteads keep 32,521 head of cattle, 1,571 egg-laying hens and 679 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,657 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 57. 38% of them are women. 164 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 21 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Montgomery County stands out: it ranks #9 of 105 KS counties for number of farms and #20 of 99 KS counties for egg-laying hens.