CHIPPEWA COUNTY MARKET

Chippewa County, Minnesota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Chippewa County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Minnesota for Clara City, Maynard and and Watson. Watch for local honey when it comes into season in Minnesota. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Chippewa County by the Numbers

Chippewa County has 563 farms on 364,695 acres (about 648 acres each). Together they sold $446.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and plums, and local fields produce sweet corn, squash, cantaloupes and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 7 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Chippewa County already sell straight to the public, about $737,000 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 Chippewa County

Chippewa County farms and homesteads keep 109,546 turkeys, 61,623 hogs and 16,299 head of cattle.

About 976 people run or help run farms in Chippewa County, with an average age of 57. 26% of them are women. 125 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.