METCALFE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Center, Knob Lick and and Summer Shade buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kentucky favorites like apples and sorghum syrup show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Metcalfe County by the Numbers

Metcalfe County has 799 farms on 124,964 acres (about 156 acres each). Together they sold $50.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, dairy (milk) and corn.

Local fields produce pumpkins and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 38 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Metcalfe County already sell straight to the public, about $162,000 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 Metcalfe County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 30,530 head of cattle, 765 sheep and 740 horses and ponies in Metcalfe County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,357 people run or help run farms in Metcalfe County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 152 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.