HANCOCK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Hawesville, Lewisport and and Reynolds Station buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kentucky favorites like tomatoes and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Hancock County by the Numbers

Hancock County has 328 farms on 48,270 acres (about 147 acres each). Together they sold $26.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, poultry & eggs and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 91 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Hancock County already sell straight to the public, about $74,000 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 Hancock County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Hancock County counts 50,026 turkeys, 5,568 head of cattle and 1,370 egg-laying hens.

About 599 people run or help run farms in Hancock County, with an average age of 54. 34% of them are women. 83 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.