PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Hawks to and Rogers City, Presque Isle County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Michigan favorites like asparagus and cherries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Presque Isle County by the Numbers

Presque Isle County has 280 farms on 70,263 acres (about 251 acres each). Together they sold $25.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and tart cherries, and local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 29 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Presque Isle County already sell straight to the public, about $399,000 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 Presque Isle County

Presque Isle County farms and homesteads keep 2,655 head of cattle, 1,204 egg-laying hens and 228 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 508 people run or help run farms in Presque Isle County, with an average age of 56. 31% of them are women. 72 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.