ISANTI COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Braham, Cambridge and and Stanchfield buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in Minnesota. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Isanti County by the Numbers

Isanti County has 814 farms on 101,666 acres (about 125 acres each). Together they sold $73.2 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 pumpkins, sweet corn, garlic and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 237 honey bee colonies.

92 farms in Isanti County already sell straight to the public, about $1.3 million 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 Isanti County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Isanti County counts 20,543 hogs, 7,620 head of cattle and 4,592 egg-laying hens.

About 1,393 people run or help run farms in Isanti County, with an average age of 57. 38% of them are women. 123 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Isanti County stands out: it ranks #11 of 81 MN counties for selling food straight to the public and #16 of 79 MN counties for egg-laying hens.