MEDINA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Brunswick, Chippewa Lake and Lodi buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Ohio. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Medina County by the Numbers

Medina County has 1,007 farms on 100,579 acres (about 100 acres each). Together they sold $92.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and walnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 1,179 honey bee colonies.

167 farms in Medina County already sell straight to the public, about $1.7 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 Medina County

Medina County farms and homesteads keep 9,075 egg-laying hens, 7,159 head of cattle and 2,412 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,806 people run or help run farms in Medina County, with an average age of 55. 37% of them are women. 174 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Medina County stands out: it ranks #2 of 86 OH counties for honey bee colonies and #17 of 88 OH counties for selling food straight to the public.