HARFORD COUNTY MARKET

Harford County, Maryland Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bel Air, Aberdeen and Churchville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Harford County by the Numbers

Harford County has 613 farms on 65,954 acres (about 108 acres each). Together they sold $65.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, nursery & greenhouse plants and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, cantaloupes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 387 honey bee colonies.

95 farms in Harford 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 Harford County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,318 head of cattle, 5,167 egg-laying hens and 1,874 horses and ponies in Harford County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,190 people run or help run farms in Harford County, with an average age of 59. 43% of them are women. 87 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Harford County stands out: it ranks #4 of 23 MD counties for selling food straight to the public.