ALLEGAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Allegan County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Michigan for Allegan, Dorr and Hopkins. Watch for local asparagus when it comes into season in Michigan. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Allegan County by the Numbers

Allegan County has 1,120 farms on 209,410 acres (about 187 acres each). Together they sold $727.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, dairy (milk) and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce cucumbers, radishes, celery and squash. Beekeepers tend about 2,979 honey bee colonies.

159 farms in Allegan County already sell straight to the public, about $2.9 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 Allegan County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,495,609 egg-laying hens, 325,031 turkeys and 221,437 hogs in Allegan County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 2,002 people run or help run farms in Allegan County, with an average age of 56. 35% of them are women. 191 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Allegan County stands out: it ranks #1 of 76 MI counties for egg-laying hens and #2 of 81 MI counties for total farm sales.