LOGAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Logan County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Adairville, Auburn and and Olmstead. Kentucky favorites like apples and sorghum syrup show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Logan County by the Numbers

Logan County has 1,017 farms on 266,727 acres (about 262 acres each). Together they sold $225.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and tart cherries, and local fields produce pumpkins, watermelons and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 282 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Logan County already sell straight to the public, about $63,000 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 Logan County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 286,139 egg-laying hens, 31,027 head of cattle and 810 horses and ponies in Logan County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,625 people run or help run farms in Logan County, with an average age of 59. 32% of them are women. 100 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.

Where Logan County stands out: it ranks #2 of 110 KY counties for egg-laying hens and #9 of 120 KY counties for total farm sales.