DELAWARE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Delaware County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Ashley, Columbus and Lewis Center. Watch for local maple syrup when it comes into season in Ohio. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Delaware County by the Numbers

Delaware County has 728 farms on 130,937 acres (about 180 acres each). Together they sold $133.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, lettuce, bell peppers and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 597 honey bee colonies.

100 farms in Delaware County already sell straight to the public, about $616,000 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 Delaware County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 22,126 hogs, 4,349 egg-laying hens and 2,157 head of cattle in Delaware County.

About 1,341 people run or help run farms in Delaware County, with an average age of 57. 39% of them are women. 112 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.