BOURBON COUNTY MARKET

Bourbon County, Kentucky Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Millersburg, and Paris buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kentucky favorites like tomatoes and sweet corn 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 Bourbon County by the Numbers

Bourbon County has 846 farms on 183,749 acres (about 217 acres each). Together they sold $250.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by horses, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and grapes, and local fields produce green beans, sweet corn, pumpkins and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 276 honey bee colonies.

38 farms in Bourbon County already sell straight to the public, about $123,000 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 Bourbon County

Bourbon County farms and homesteads keep 43,023 head of cattle, 11,170 horses and ponies and 4,266 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,552 people run or help run farms in Bourbon County, with an average age of 58. 42% of them are women. 167 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Bourbon County stands out: it ranks #7 of 120 KY counties for total farm sales and #19 of 117 KY counties for goats.