CALDWELL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Caldwell County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Fredonia, and Princeton. Kentucky favorites like sorghum syrup and tomatoes 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 Caldwell County by the Numbers

Caldwell County has 441 farms on 122,775 acres (about 278 acres each). Together they sold $67.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 48 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Caldwell County already sell straight to the public, about $47,000 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 Caldwell County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 9,865 head of cattle, 776 egg-laying hens and 356 sheep in Caldwell County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 789 people run or help run farms in Caldwell County, with an average age of 55. 35% of them are women. 107 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.