HOLMES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Holmes County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Baltic, Berlin and Glenmont. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Holmes County by the Numbers

Holmes County has 1,736 farms on 184,549 acres (about 106 acres each). Together they sold $291.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, dairy (milk) and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, cantaloupes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 595 honey bee colonies.

95 farms in Holmes County already sell straight to the public, about $3.2 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 Holmes County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 689,185 egg-laying hens, 34,280 head of cattle and 13,557 sheep in Holmes County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 3,230 people run or help run farms in Holmes County, with an average age of 48. 35% of them are women. 692 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 29 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Holmes County stands out: it ranks #3 of 88 OH counties for number of farms and #4 of 88 OH counties for goats.