PENNINGTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Goodridge, Saint Hilaire and and Thief River Fall buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Pennington County by the Numbers

Pennington County has 322 farms on 258,956 acres (about 804 acres each). Together they sold $100.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, wheat and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 82 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Pennington County already sell straight to the public. 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 Pennington County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,058 head of cattle, 238 egg-laying hens and 125 sheep in Pennington County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 539 people run or help run farms in Pennington County, with an average age of 58. 33% of them are women. 20 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.