HOCKING COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hocking County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Carbon Hill, Haydenville and New Plymouth. 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 Hocking County by the Numbers

Hocking County has 449 farms on 40,976 acres (about 91 acres each). Together they sold $8.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, sweet corn, lettuce and squash. Beekeepers tend about 236 honey bee colonies.

66 farms in Hocking County already sell straight to the public, about $557,000 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 Hocking County

Hocking County farms and homesteads keep 2,696 egg-laying hens, 2,489 head of cattle and 706 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 783 people run or help run farms in Hocking County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 72 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.