CRITTENDEN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Crittenden County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Marion, and Tolu. Kentucky favorites like sweet corn and apples show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Crittenden County by the Numbers

Crittenden County has 512 farms on 133,842 acres (about 261 acres each). Together they sold $64.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and chestnuts, and local fields produce green beans, pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 84 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Crittenden County already sell straight to the public, about $29,000 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 Crittenden County

Crittenden County farms and homesteads keep 9,923 head of cattle, 2,080 goats and 1,786 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 872 people run or help run farms in Crittenden County, with an average age of 56. 32% of them are women. 98 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.

Where Crittenden County stands out: it ranks #2 of 117 KY counties for goats.