SAUK COUNTY MARKET

Sauk County, Wisconsin Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Sauk County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Baraboo, Hillpoint and Merrimac. 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 Sauk County by the Numbers

Sauk County has 1,408 farms on 298,103 acres (about 212 acres each). Together they sold $269 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 630 honey bee colonies.

112 farms in Sauk County already sell straight to the public, about $2.7 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 Sauk County

Sauk County farms and homesteads keep 60,840 head of cattle, 32,301 hogs and 19,101 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,684 people run or help run farms in Sauk County, with an average age of 55. 37% of them are women. 286 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Sauk County stands out: it ranks #6 of 69 WI counties for selling food straight to the public and #7 of 65 WI counties for goats.