OTTAWA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bono, Clay Center and Lacarne 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 Ottawa County by the Numbers

Ottawa County has 590 farms on 119,544 acres (about 203 acres each). Together they sold $86.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, sweet corn, chile peppers and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 79 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Ottawa County already sell straight to the public, about $521,000 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 Ottawa County

Ottawa County farms and homesteads keep 4,066 head of cattle, 1,119 egg-laying hens and 295 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,025 people run or help run farms in Ottawa County, with an average age of 58. 29% of them are women. 100 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.