WINDHAM COUNTY MARKET

Windham County, Connecticut Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Windham County? Backyard growers and small farms around Brooklyn, Canterbury and Eastford list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Windham County by the Numbers

Windham County has 667 farms on 50,753 acres (about 76 acres each). Together they sold $56.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), nursery & greenhouse plants and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers and snow peas. Beekeepers tend about 623 honey bee colonies.

146 farms in Windham County already sell straight to the public, about $4.7 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 Windham County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 9,293 head of cattle, 5,156 egg-laying hens and 710 horses and ponies in Windham County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,215 people run or help run farms in Windham County, with an average age of 57. 41% of them are women. 137 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.