ESTILL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Jinks, and Ravenna buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kentucky favorites like apples and sorghum syrup 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 Estill County by the Numbers

Estill County has 349 farms on 49,684 acres (about 142 acres each). Together they sold $3.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pawpaws, and local fields produce sweet corn, green beans, potatoes and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 53 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Estill County already sell straight to the public, about $75,000 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 Estill County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,794 head of cattle, 1,744 egg-laying hens and 287 horses and ponies in Estill County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 528 people run or help run farms in Estill County, with an average age of 55. 30% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.