FRANKLIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Franklin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Columbus, Dublin and Brice. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Franklin County by the Numbers

Franklin County has 372 farms on 48,728 acres (about 131 acres each). Together they sold $71.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and pawpaws, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 464 honey bee colonies.

58 farms in Franklin County already sell straight to the public, about $919,000 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 Franklin County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Franklin County counts 3,404 egg-laying hens, 1,107 sheep and 955 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 679 people run or help run farms in Franklin County, with an average age of 57. 39% of them are women. 81 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.