MONROE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Monroe County? Backyard growers and small farms around Rochester, Brockport and Greece list it here. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in New York. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Monroe County by the Numbers

Monroe County has 511 farms on 93,901 acres (about 184 acres each). Together they sold $101.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, corn and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, green beans, squash and cabbage. Beekeepers tend about 1,084 honey bee colonies.

91 farms in Monroe County already sell straight to the public, about $4.7 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 Monroe County

Monroe County farms and homesteads keep 2,922 head of cattle, 2,426 horses and ponies and 1,857 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 929 people run or help run farms in Monroe County, with an average age of 56. 40% of them are women. 86 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.