MIDDLESEX COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Middlesex County? Backyard growers and small farms around Lowell, Cambridge and Ashland list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Middlesex County by the Numbers

Middlesex County has 617 farms on 25,752 acres (about 42 acres each). Together they sold $87.9 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, pumpkins, squash and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 1,356 honey bee colonies.

165 farms in Middlesex County already sell straight to the public, about $10.8 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 Middlesex County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Middlesex County counts 9,997 egg-laying hens, 4,385 turkeys and 2,513 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,198 people run or help run farms in Middlesex County, with an average age of 59. 43% of them are women. 116 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 40 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Middlesex County stands out: it ranks #2 of 14 MA counties for selling food straight to the public and #2 of 14 MA counties for total farm sales.