HIGHLAND COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Highland County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Greenfield, Highland and Mowrystown. Ohio favorites like maple syrup and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Highland County by the Numbers

Highland County has 1,188 farms on 227,859 acres (about 192 acres each). Together they sold $194.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pawpaws, apples and chestnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, watermelons and squash. Beekeepers tend about 400 honey bee colonies.

75 farms in Highland County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 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 Highland County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Highland County counts 29,001 hogs, 19,913 head of cattle and 6,489 egg-laying hens.

About 2,059 people run or help run farms in Highland County, with an average age of 56. 35% of them are women. 251 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.

Where Highland County stands out: it ranks #11 of 88 OH counties for number of farms and #13 of 88 OH counties for goats.