DARKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Darke County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Ansonia, Bradford and Hollansburg. Ohio favorites like maple syrup and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Darke County by the Numbers

Darke County has 1,761 farms on 366,642 acres (about 208 acres each). Together they sold $1.2 billion of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hogs and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, green beans and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 292 honey bee colonies.

65 farms in Darke County already sell straight to the public, about $631,000 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 Darke County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,610,584 egg-laying hens, 818,320 turkeys and 356,183 hogs in Darke County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 2,917 people run or help run farms in Darke County, with an average age of 56. 29% of them are women. 334 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Darke County stands out: it ranks #1 of 88 OH counties for total farm sales and #1 of 74 OH counties for egg-laying hens.