CARROLL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Carrollton, Ghent and and Sanders buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Carroll County by the Numbers

Carroll County has 226 farms on 44,115 acres (about 195 acres each). Together they sold $4.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow sweet cherries, peaches and pears, and local fields produce okra and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 15 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Carroll County already sell straight to the public, about $44,000 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 Carroll County

Carroll County farms and homesteads keep 4,459 head of cattle, 514 egg-laying hens and 222 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 406 people run or help run farms in Carroll County, with an average age of 57. 36% of them are women. 39 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.