WATONWAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Watonwan County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Minnesota for Butterfield, Darfur and Odin. 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 Watonwan County by the Numbers

Watonwan County has 512 farms on 263,479 acres (about 515 acres each). Together they sold $404.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn and pumpkins.

15 farms in Watonwan County already sell straight to the public, about $81,000 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 Watonwan County

Watonwan County farms and homesteads keep 248,970 hogs, 5,979 head of cattle and 2,624 sheep.

About 877 people run or help run farms in Watonwan County, with an average age of 56. 26% of them are women. 104 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.