MIDLAND COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Midland, Coleman and and Sanford buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Midland County by the Numbers

Midland County has 549 farms on 86,940 acres (about 158 acres each). Together they sold $81.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hay & other field crops.

Local fields produce cucumbers, sweet corn, pumpkins and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 455 honey bee colonies.

50 farms in Midland County already sell straight to the public, about $335,000 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 Midland County

Midland County farms and homesteads keep 7,723 head of cattle, 3,355 hogs and 3,059 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 969 people run or help run farms in Midland County, with an average age of 56. 33% of them are women. 122 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.