MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Montgomery County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Dayton, Centerville and Beavercreek. 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 Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 789 farms on 118,582 acres (about 150 acres each). Together they sold $117.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, lettuce and broccoli. Beekeepers tend about 474 honey bee colonies.

96 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $1.3 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 Montgomery County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,722 head of cattle, 4,066 egg-laying hens and 972 horses and ponies in Montgomery County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,408 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 97 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.