SCOTT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Georgetown, Sadieville and and Stamping Ground buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Scott County by the Numbers

Scott County has 781 farms on 114,772 acres (about 147 acres each). Together they sold $78.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by horses, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 70 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Scott County already sell straight to the public, about $164,000 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 Scott County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 24,723 head of cattle, 3,972 horses and ponies and 2,141 egg-laying hens in Scott County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,420 people run or help run farms in Scott County, with an average age of 57. 42% of them are women. 123 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.