KALKASKA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Kalkaska County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Fife Lake, Kalkaska and and South Boardman. Watch for local blueberries when it comes into season in Michigan. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Kalkaska County by the Numbers

Kalkaska County has 181 farms on 25,005 acres (about 138 acres each). Together they sold $16.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, nursery & greenhouse plants and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, apples and peaches, and local fields produce potatoes, snow peas, cabbage and squash. Beekeepers tend about 141 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Kalkaska County already sell straight to the public, about $131,000 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 Kalkaska County

Kalkaska County farms and homesteads keep 1,201 egg-laying hens, 937 head of cattle and 253 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 356 people run or help run farms in Kalkaska County, with an average age of 56. 43% of them are women. 32 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.