CHAMPAIGN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Champaign County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Cable, Christiansburg and Rosewood. 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 Champaign County by the Numbers

Champaign County has 839 farms on 217,289 acres (about 259 acres each). Together they sold $228 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, bell peppers and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 669 honey bee colonies.

92 farms in Champaign County already sell straight to the public, about $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 Champaign County

Champaign County farms and homesteads keep 44,279 hogs, 9,687 head of cattle and 3,915 egg-laying hens.

About 1,487 people run or help run farms in Champaign County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 144 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Champaign County stands out: it ranks #10 of 88 OH counties for goats and #16 of 86 OH counties for honey bee colonies.