Farmland, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Farmland, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Farmland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Farmland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Farmland — the short answer
Farmland, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 193 days between hard freezes, across 340 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~193
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 340 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6a is Farmland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Farmland's 193-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Farmland
Each reading below is measured for Farmland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFarmland runs about 193 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredFarmland sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Farmland is in
Farmland sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Farmland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randolph County.
What Grows in Farmland
Every plant below cleared Farmland's own zone 6a and its 193-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Farmland?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Farmland
Survey cells within 31 miles of Farmland checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 54 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Farmland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Farmland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FARMLAND DRY CLEANERSBrownfields · 700 ft
- CONSOLIDATED PRINTING SERVICESBrownfields · 700 ft
- FARMLAND FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Shell Dealer Farmland Newton ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Village Pantry 5525Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- HOWELLS UNION 76Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Frontier CommunicationsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- POINT PANTRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- MONROE CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- PHELPS MACHINE INCBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- Ran Del Agri Services IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- PAK A SAK 12Underground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Farmland's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Farmland.
Total Sites
125
within ~10 miles of Farmland
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Farmland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Farmland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Farmland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Farmland — Superfund (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (13 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Farmland
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farmland average
Your land is one point inside Farmland
Everything above resolves to Farmland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 340 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Farmland Average
Farmland Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Farmland
- ●One soil character for all of Farmland
- ●Frost dates read at Farmland's scale: Apr 12 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Farmland's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Farmland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Farmland, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Farmland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Farmland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farmland average
How we know this about Farmland
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Farmland’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Farmland
When does frost risk typically end in Farmland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Farmland typically lands around Apr 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 3.
When is the first frost in Farmland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Farmland typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 193 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Farmland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Farmland sees about 193 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 8, about 158 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Farmland?
The federal record around Farmland is a meaningful one — 125 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Farmland?
From about Sep 22 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Farmland's scale — its 6a band and its 193-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Farmland's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Farmland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Farmland's own scale — its own ~193-day season between 28°F freezes, the 340 acres it covers and 125 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Farmland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Farmland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Oct 22 and the ~193-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 125 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Farmland, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Farmland's boundary and the 340 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~193-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Farmland's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Farmland checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Farmland's 340 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Farmland's 340 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Farmland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 340 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Farmland-wide figureread your own land →
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