JEFFERSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Adena, Amsterdam and Dillonvale buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Jefferson County by the Numbers

Jefferson County has 541 farms on 72,749 acres (about 134 acres each). Together they sold $9.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 345 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Jefferson County already sell straight to the public, about $108,000 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 Jefferson County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,308 head of cattle, 1,410 egg-laying hens and 815 horses and ponies in Jefferson County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 876 people run or help run farms in Jefferson County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 67 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.