TRIMBLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bedford, and Milton 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 Trimble County by the Numbers

Trimble County has 393 farms on 51,335 acres (about 131 acres each). Together they sold $9.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 59 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Trimble County already sell straight to the public, about $102,000 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 Trimble County

Trimble County farms and homesteads keep 6,166 head of cattle, 1,067 egg-laying hens and 293 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 678 people run or help run farms in Trimble County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.