Pointe Coupee

Pointe Coupee County, Louisiana Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Batchelor, Blanks and Innis buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Pointe Coupee County by the Numbers

Pointe Coupee County has 485 farms on 207,821 acres (about 428 acres each). Together they sold $191.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, soybeans and corn.

Local fields produce sweet corn, watermelons, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 16 honey bee colonies.

9 farms in Pointe Coupee County already sell straight to the public, about $389,000 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 Pointe Coupee County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,175 head of cattle, 842 egg-laying hens and 396 horses and ponies in Pointe Coupee County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 854 people run or help run farms in Pointe Coupee County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 36 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Pointe Coupee County stands out: it ranks #4 of 64 LA counties for total farm sales and #7 of 52 LA counties for selling food straight to the public.