LINCOLN COUNTY MARKET

Lincoln County, Maine Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Lincoln County? Backyard growers and small farms around Alna, Boothbay and Damariscotta list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Lincoln County by the Numbers

Lincoln County has 306 farms on 26,499 acres (about 87 acres each). Together they sold $21.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce cucumbers, squash, lettuce and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 258 honey bee colonies.

85 farms in Lincoln County already sell straight to the public, about $2.4 million 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 Lincoln County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 3,933 egg-laying hens, 1,260 head of cattle and 1,251 sheep in Lincoln County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 546 people run or help run farms in Lincoln County, with an average age of 59. 47% of them are women. 39 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.