LARUE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in LaRue County? Backyard growers and small farms around Buffalo, Hodgenville and and Magnolia list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in LaRue County by the Numbers

LaRue County has 701 farms on 111,006 acres (about 158 acres each). Together they sold $60.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, walnuts and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 221 honey bee colonies.

36 farms in LaRue County already sell straight to the public, about $267,000 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 LaRue County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 13,517 head of cattle, 3,505 egg-laying hens and 1,203 sheep in LaRue County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,206 people run or help run farms in LaRue County, with an average age of 56. 37% of them are women. 144 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.