POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Pottawatomie County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kansas for Belvue, Blaine and Louisville. 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 Pottawatomie County by the Numbers

Pottawatomie County has 820 farms on 404,286 acres (about 493 acres each). Together they sold $151.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 383 honey bee colonies.

42 farms in Pottawatomie County already sell straight to the public, about $221,000 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 Pottawatomie County

Pottawatomie County farms and homesteads keep 66,020 head of cattle, 5,357 hogs and 4,631 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,505 people run or help run farms in Pottawatomie County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 91 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Pottawatomie County stands out: it ranks #5 of 64 KS counties for honey bee colonies and #12 of 91 KS counties for goats.