CAMDEN COUNTY MARKET

Camden County, New Jersey Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Camden County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in New Jersey for Camden, Cherry Hill and Bellmawr. 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 Camden County by the Numbers

Camden County has 149 farms on 7,431 acres (about 50 acres each). Together they sold $34.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and vegetables.

Local fields produce sweet corn, sweet potatoes, cucumbers and squash. Beekeepers tend about 158 honey bee colonies.

25 farms in Camden County already sell straight to the public, about $4.2 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 Camden County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 806 egg-laying hens, 135 horses and ponies and 113 head of cattle in Camden County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 272 people run or help run farms in Camden County, with an average age of 56. 30% of them are women. 26 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.