SUFFOLK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Amagansett, Amityville and Bohemia buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. New York favorites like apples and grapes 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 Suffolk County by the Numbers

Suffolk County has 578 farms on 33,821 acres (about 59 acres each). Together they sold $364.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,276 honey bee colonies.

151 farms in Suffolk County already sell straight to the public, about $50 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 Suffolk County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,112 egg-laying hens, 1,653 turkeys and 1,179 horses and ponies in Suffolk County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,286 people run or help run farms in Suffolk County, with an average age of 56. 39% of them are women. 124 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 55 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Suffolk County stands out: it ranks #1 of 59 NY counties for selling food straight to the public and #4 of 60 NY counties for total farm sales.