MEADE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Meade County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Battletown, Brandenburg and Payneville. Kentucky favorites like sorghum syrup and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Meade County by the Numbers

Meade County has 731 farms on 126,388 acres (about 173 acres each). Together they sold $55.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 102 honey bee colonies.

30 farms in Meade County already sell straight to the public, about $196,000 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 Meade County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 22,978 egg-laying hens, 12,982 head of cattle and 1,087 sheep in Meade County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,238 people run or help run farms in Meade County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 121 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.

Where Meade County stands out: it ranks #16 of 110 KY counties for egg-laying hens.