SENECA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Seneca County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in New York for Hayt Corners, Interlaken and and Waterloo. Watch for local grapes when it comes into season in New York. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Seneca County by the Numbers

Seneca County has 422 farms on 103,156 acres (about 244 acres each). Together they sold $110.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 178 honey bee colonies.

82 farms in Seneca County already sell straight to the public, about $30.4 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 Seneca County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,434 head of cattle, 8,853 hogs and 1,477 sheep in Seneca County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 831 people run or help run farms in Seneca County, with an average age of 52. 40% of them are women. 171 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Seneca County stands out: it ranks #2 of 59 NY counties for selling food straight to the public.