MENOMINEE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Menominee County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Carney, Cedar River and Menominee. 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 Menominee County by the Numbers

Menominee County has 277 farms on 76,513 acres (about 276 acres each). Together they sold $56.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and plums, and local fields produce pumpkins, asparagus and squash. Beekeepers tend about 15 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Menominee County already sell straight to the public, about $55,000 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 Menominee County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 16,996 head of cattle, 919 egg-laying hens and 190 horses and ponies in Menominee County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 479 people run or help run farms in Menominee County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 43 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.