ESSEX COUNTY MARKET

Essex County, Massachusetts Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Essex County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Massachusetts for Lawrence, Haverhill and Boxford. Massachusetts favorites like honey and cranberries show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Essex County by the Numbers

Essex County has 441 farms on 18,490 acres (about 42 acres each). Together they sold $36.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, carrots, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 706 honey bee colonies.

127 farms in Essex County already sell straight to the public, about $10.2 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 Essex County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,742 egg-laying hens, 1,835 head of cattle and 1,358 horses and ponies in Essex County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 833 people run or help run farms in Essex County, with an average age of 60. 50% of them are women. 63 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 26 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Essex County stands out: it ranks #3 of 14 MA counties for selling food straight to the public.