LIVINGSTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Burna, Carrsville and Salem buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Livingston County by the Numbers

Livingston County has 360 farms on 144,892 acres (about 402 acres each). Together they sold $46.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 70 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Livingston County already sell straight to the public, about $47,000 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 Livingston County

Livingston County farms and homesteads keep 13,864 head of cattle, 1,245 egg-laying hens and 641 hogs. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 634 people run or help run farms in Livingston County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 65 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.