BUTLER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Excello, Fairfield and Middletown buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Butler County by the Numbers

Butler County has 888 farms on 93,238 acres (about 105 acres each). Together they sold $65 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, apples and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, watermelons, asparagus and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,142 honey bee colonies.

111 farms in Butler County already sell straight to the public, about $1.5 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 Butler County

Butler County farms and homesteads keep 14,490 hogs, 9,237 head of cattle and 3,119 egg-laying hens.

About 1,566 people run or help run farms in Butler County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 96 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 21 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Butler County stands out: it ranks #3 of 86 OH counties for honey bee colonies and #18 of 88 OH counties for goats.