BOYD COUNTY MARKET

Boyd County, Kentucky Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Boyd County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Ashland, Catlettsburg and and Westwood. Kentucky favorites like sweet corn and apples show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Boyd County by the Numbers

Boyd County has 187 farms on 23,843 acres (about 128 acres each). Together they sold $1.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and poultry & eggs.

Beekeepers tend about 107 honey bee colonies.

4 farms in Boyd County already sell straight to the public, about $3,000 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 Boyd County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,640 head of cattle, 848 egg-laying hens and 197 horses and ponies in Boyd County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 322 people run or help run farms in Boyd County, with an average age of 58. 31% of them are women. 27 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.