ALCONA COUNTY MARKET

Alcona County, Michigan Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Alcona County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Michigan for Barton City, Black River and Harrisville. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Alcona County by the Numbers

Alcona County has 199 farms on 34,916 acres (about 175 acres each). Together they sold $12.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 14 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Alcona County already sell straight to the public, about $64,000 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 Alcona County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,431 head of cattle, 766 egg-laying hens and 367 sheep in Alcona County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 353 people run or help run farms in Alcona County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 27 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.