SANILAC COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Sanilac County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Applegate, Brown City and Deckerville. Michigan favorites like blueberries and asparagus show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Sanilac County by the Numbers

Sanilac County has 1,334 farms on 471,070 acres (about 353 acres each). Together they sold $557.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, chestnuts and grapes, and local fields produce cucumbers, sweet corn, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 11,084 honey bee colonies.

88 farms in Sanilac County already sell straight to the public, about $690,000 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 Sanilac County

Sanilac County farms and homesteads keep 66,576 head of cattle, 3,913 egg-laying hens and 1,641 hogs. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,451 people run or help run farms in Sanilac County, with an average age of 55. 30% of them are women. 227 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 Sanilac County stands out: it ranks #1 of 83 MI counties for number of farms and #1 of 74 MI counties for honey bee colonies.