ASHLAND COUNTY MARKET

Ashland County, Ohio Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Ashland County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Ashland, Hayesville and Perrysville. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Ashland County by the Numbers

Ashland County has 1,028 farms on 148,742 acres (about 145 acres each). Together they sold $197.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, dairy (milk) and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, squash and cabbage. Beekeepers tend about 646 honey bee colonies.

98 farms in Ashland County already sell straight to the public, about $1.1 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 Ashland County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 260,479 egg-laying hens, 25,615 head of cattle and 16,036 hogs in Ashland County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,870 people run or help run farms in Ashland County, with an average age of 54. 35% of them are women. 236 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Ashland County stands out: it ranks #9 of 74 OH counties for egg-laying hens and #17 of 86 OH counties for honey bee colonies.