ASHE COUNTY MARKET

Ashe County, North Carolina Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Ashe County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in North Carolina for Creston, Crumpler and Jefferson. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Ashe County by the Numbers

Ashe County has 760 farms on 84,498 acres (about 111 acres each). Together they sold $73.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by Christmas trees, cattle and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, potatoes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 419 honey bee colonies.

59 farms in Ashe County already sell straight to the public, about $452,000 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 Ashe County

Ashe County farms and homesteads keep 9,152 head of cattle, 1,948 egg-laying hens and 653 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,290 people run or help run farms in Ashe County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 86 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Ashe County stands out: it ranks #17 of 100 NC counties for number of farms.