HENRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Deshler, Hamler and Mc Clure buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Henry County by the Numbers

Henry County has 948 farms on 243,932 acres (about 257 acres each). Together they sold $245.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce green beans, pumpkins and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 62 honey bee colonies.

33 farms in Henry County already sell straight to the public, about $200,000 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 Henry County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 23,004 hogs, 6,943 head of cattle and 716 egg-laying hens in Henry County.

About 1,588 people run or help run farms in Henry County, with an average age of 58. 23% of them are women. 151 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.