EATON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bellevue, Charlotte and Lansing buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Michigan favorites like blueberries and asparagus show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Eaton County by the Numbers

Eaton County has 953 farms on 199,560 acres (about 209 acres each). Together they sold $129.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce onions, pumpkins, sweet corn and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 374 honey bee colonies.

93 farms in Eaton County already sell straight to the public, about $310,000 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 Eaton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,777 head of cattle, 3,543 egg-laying hens and 1,493 sheep in Eaton County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,578 people run or help run farms in Eaton County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 190 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Eaton County stands out: it ranks #16 of 83 MI counties for number of farms.