GALLATIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Gallatin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Glencoe, Sparta and and Warsaw. 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 Gallatin County by the Numbers

Gallatin County has 157 farms on 26,928 acres (about 172 acres each). Together they sold $11.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, tobacco and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce tomatoes, green beans, sweet corn and broccoli.

9 farms in Gallatin County already sell straight to the public, about $12,000 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 Gallatin County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,389 head of cattle, 828 egg-laying hens and 112 horses and ponies in Gallatin County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 251 people run or help run farms in Gallatin County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 10 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.