DUTCHESS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Dutchess County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in New York for Amenia, Arlington and Dover Plains. New York favorites like maple syrup and apples show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Dutchess County by the Numbers

Dutchess County has 620 farms on 99,652 acres (about 161 acres each). Together they sold $45.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 1,327 honey bee colonies.

133 farms in Dutchess County already sell straight to the public, about $9.2 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 Dutchess County

Dutchess County farms and homesteads keep 6,865 egg-laying hens, 5,552 head of cattle and 2,593 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,337 people run or help run farms in Dutchess County, with an average age of 57. 38% of them are women. 190 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 41 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Dutchess County stands out: it ranks #11 of 59 NY counties for selling food straight to the public and #12 of 56 NY counties for honey bee colonies.