MASON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Mason County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Dover, Limestone Sq and and Mays Lick. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Mason County by the Numbers

Mason County has 541 farms on 98,439 acres (about 182 acres each). Together they sold $41 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and sweet cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, cantaloupes, watermelons and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 69 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Mason County already sell straight to the public, about $69,000 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 Mason County

Mason County farms and homesteads keep 25,207 head of cattle, 663 egg-laying hens and 486 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 996 people run or help run farms in Mason County, with an average age of 55. 34% of them are women. 167 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.