GREENE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Acra, Ashland and Climax buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in New York. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Greene County by the Numbers

Greene County has 201 farms on 30,213 acres (about 150 acres each). Together they sold $25 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and plums, and local fields produce potatoes, squash, tomatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 699 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Greene County already sell straight to the public, about $1.8 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 Greene County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,109 head of cattle, 425 goats and 146 horses and ponies in Greene County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 361 people run or help run farms in Greene County, with an average age of 61. 42% of them are women. 18 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.