FOSTER COUNTY MARKET

Foster County, North Dakota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bordulac, Grace City and and Mchenry buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. North Dakota favorites like honey and potatoes show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Foster County by the Numbers

Foster County has 235 farms on 362,426 acres (about 1,542 acres each). Together they sold $159.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 3,300 honey bee colonies.

4 farms in Foster County already sell straight to the public, about $92,000 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 Foster County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 17,596 head of cattle and 211 horses and ponies in Foster County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 362 people run or help run farms in Foster County, with an average age of 56. 30% of them are women. 37 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.