OLDHAM COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Buckner, Crestwood and Pewee Valley buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kentucky favorites like tomatoes and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Oldham County by the Numbers

Oldham County has 410 farms on 55,910 acres (about 136 acres each). Together they sold $35.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by horses, soybeans and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and pawpaws, and local fields produce tomatoes, green beans, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 374 honey bee colonies.

48 farms in Oldham County already sell straight to the public, about $915,000 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 Oldham County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 3,953 head of cattle, 2,959 egg-laying hens and 2,052 horses and ponies in Oldham County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 709 people run or help run farms in Oldham County, with an average age of 60. 42% of them are women. 38 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 Oldham County stands out: it ranks #8 of 113 KY counties for selling food straight to the public and #15 of 111 KY counties for honey bee colonies.