CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY MARKET

Chautauqua County, New York Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Ashville, Bemus Point and Clymer buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in New York. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Chautauqua County by the Numbers

Chautauqua County has 1,291 farms on 229,885 acres (about 178 acres each). Together they sold $242 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), fruit & nuts and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and sweet cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,454 honey bee colonies.

187 farms in Chautauqua County already sell straight to the public, about $2.6 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 Chautauqua County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 45,350 head of cattle, 6,622 egg-laying hens and 1,963 horses and ponies in Chautauqua County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,464 people run or help run farms in Chautauqua County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 258 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 23 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Chautauqua County stands out: it ranks #2 of 62 NY counties for number of farms and #4 of 54 NY counties for goats.