LETCHER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Carcassonne, Cromona and Ermine buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kentucky favorites like apples and sorghum syrup show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Letcher County by the Numbers

Letcher County has 71 farms on 4,912 acres (about 69 acres each). Together they sold $650,000 of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, potatoes, green beans and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 68 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Letcher County already sell straight to the public, about $46,000 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 Letcher County

Letcher County farms and homesteads keep 2,466 egg-laying hens, 150 horses and ponies and 149 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 137 people run or help run farms in Letcher County, with an average age of 55. 43% of them are women. 7 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.