FREEBORN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Freeborn County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Albert Lea, Alden and Freeborn. Minnesota favorites like honey and apples 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 Freeborn County by the Numbers

Freeborn County has 908 farms on 351,174 acres (about 387 acres each). Together they sold $475.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and hazelnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 40 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Freeborn County already sell straight to the public, about $487,000 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 Freeborn County

Freeborn County farms and homesteads keep 224,400 hogs, 59,210 turkeys and 9,173 head of cattle.

About 1,508 people run or help run farms in Freeborn County, with an average age of 59. 31% of them are women. 122 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.