WASECA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Janesville, New Richland and and Waseca buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Waseca County by the Numbers

Waseca County has 622 farms on 266,866 acres (about 429 acres each). Together they sold $393.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, squash, green beans and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 241 honey bee colonies.

29 farms in Waseca County already sell straight to the public, about $148,000 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 Waseca County

Waseca County farms and homesteads keep 216,305 hogs, 181,705 turkeys and 9,649 head of cattle.

About 1,116 people run or help run farms in Waseca County, with an average age of 58. 29% of them are women. 76 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.

Where Waseca County stands out: it ranks #7 of 77 MN counties for goats.