KENT COUNTY MARKET

Kent County, Delaware Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Camden Wyoming, Clayton and Felton buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Kent County by the Numbers

Kent County has 770 farms on 187,248 acres (about 243 acres each). Together they sold $570.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, grapes and nectarines, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, broccoli and kale. Beekeepers tend about 244 honey bee colonies.

49 farms in Kent County already sell straight to the public. 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 Kent County

Kent County farms and homesteads keep 5,299 head of cattle, 2,644 egg-laying hens and 2,110 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,391 people run or help run farms in Kent County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 174 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.