MORGAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Morgan County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Blairs Mill, Cannel City and and Grassy Creek. Watch for local sorghum syrup 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 Morgan County by the Numbers

Morgan County has 560 farms on 90,351 acres (about 161 acres each). Together they sold $5.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and horses.

Local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 63 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Morgan County already sell straight to the public, about $32,000 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 Morgan County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,436 head of cattle, 908 egg-laying hens and 580 horses and ponies in Morgan County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 921 people run or help run farms in Morgan County, with an average age of 58. 29% of them are women. 66 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.