MADISON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Berea, Bybee and and Richmond 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 Madison County by the Numbers

Madison County has 1,164 farms on 191,746 acres (about 165 acres each). Together they sold $63.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, chile peppers and squash. Beekeepers tend about 268 honey bee colonies.

60 farms in Madison County already sell straight to the public, about $260,000 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 Madison County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 55,758 head of cattle, 4,072 egg-laying hens and 1,057 horses and ponies in Madison County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,033 people run or help run farms in Madison County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 135 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.

Where Madison County stands out: it ranks #10 of 120 KY counties for number of farms.