MUSKINGUM COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Adams Mills, Adamsville and East Fultonham buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Ohio. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Muskingum County by the Numbers

Muskingum County has 1,301 farms on 200,805 acres (about 154 acres each). Together they sold $121.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 263 honey bee colonies.

67 farms in Muskingum County already sell straight to the public, about $279,000 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 Muskingum County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 310,206 egg-laying hens, 24,669 head of cattle and 3,608 sheep in Muskingum County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 2,321 people run or help run farms in Muskingum County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 263 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 23 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Muskingum County stands out: it ranks #5 of 88 OH counties for goats and #8 of 88 OH counties for number of farms.