MIDDLESEX COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Middlesex County? Backyard growers and small farms around Edison, Avenel and East Brunswick list it here. 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 Middlesex County by the Numbers

Middlesex County has 193 farms on 12,302 acres (about 64 acres each). Together they sold $41.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 494 honey bee colonies.

41 farms in Middlesex County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 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

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,319 egg-laying hens, 656 hogs and 613 turkeys in Middlesex County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 364 people run or help run farms in Middlesex County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 31 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.