LINCOLN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Crab Orchard, Hustonville and and Waynesburg buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local tomatoes when it comes into season in Kentucky. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Lincoln County by the Numbers

Lincoln County has 984 farms on 147,519 acres (about 150 acres each). Together they sold $83.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, dairy (milk) and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, watermelons and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 105 honey bee colonies.

31 farms in Lincoln County already sell straight to the public, about $135,000 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 Lincoln County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 45,445 head of cattle, 10,013 egg-laying hens and 1,232 sheep in Lincoln County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,667 people run or help run farms in Lincoln County, with an average age of 56. 37% of them are women. 208 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lincoln County stands out: it ranks #17 of 120 KY counties for number of farms and #18 of 110 KY counties for egg-laying hens.