ONEIDA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Utica, Alder Creek and Boonville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. New York favorites like sweet corn and maple syrup show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Oneida County by the Numbers

Oneida County has 834 farms on 187,672 acres (about 225 acres each). Together they sold $190.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and sweet cherries, and local fields produce green beans, sweet corn, pumpkins and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 885 honey bee colonies.

150 farms in Oneida 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 Oneida County

Oneida County farms and homesteads keep 37,804 head of cattle, 7,188 egg-laying hens and 2,369 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,513 people run or help run farms in Oneida County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 137 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Oneida County stands out: it ranks #7 of 62 NY counties for number of farms.