KOOCHICHING COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Big Falls, Birchdale and Mizpah buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local wild rice 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 Koochiching County by the Numbers

Koochiching County has 190 farms on 60,919 acres (about 321 acres each). Together they sold $10.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, soybeans and cattle.

Beekeepers tend about 36 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Koochiching County already sell straight to the public, about $86,000 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 Koochiching County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Koochiching County counts 3,251 head of cattle, 1,210 egg-laying hens and 177 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 319 people run or help run farms in Koochiching County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 4 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.