LORAIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Lorain County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Lorain, Avon and Grafton. Ohio favorites like apples and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lorain County by the Numbers

Lorain County has 894 farms on 108,838 acres (about 122 acres each). Together they sold $171 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 453 honey bee colonies.

140 farms in Lorain County already sell straight to the public, about $5.4 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 Lorain County

Lorain County farms and homesteads keep 6,254 egg-laying hens, 5,476 head of cattle and 5,437 hogs. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,588 people run or help run farms in Lorain County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 161 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lorain County stands out: it ranks #1 of 88 OH counties for selling food straight to the public.