MILLE LACS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Mille Lacs County? Backyard growers and small farms around Bock, Foreston and Princeton list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Mille Lacs County by the Numbers

Mille Lacs County has 603 farms on 96,684 acres (about 160 acres each). Together they sold $65.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and hazelnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, squash, tomatoes and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 596 honey bee colonies.

49 farms in Mille Lacs County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 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 Mille Lacs County

Mille Lacs County farms and homesteads keep 362,928 egg-laying hens, 12,633 head of cattle and 889 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,055 people run or help run farms in Mille Lacs County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 104 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Mille Lacs County stands out: it ranks #6 of 79 MN counties for egg-laying hens and #12 of 81 MN counties for selling food straight to the public.