PERRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Perry County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Crooksville, Glenford and New Lexington. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Ohio. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Perry County by the Numbers

Perry County has 696 farms on 76,325 acres (about 110 acres each). Together they sold $32.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 108 honey bee colonies.

53 farms in Perry County already sell straight to the public, about $253,000 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 Perry County

Perry County farms and homesteads keep 12,245 hogs, 7,414 head of cattle and 3,191 egg-laying hens.

About 1,289 people run or help run farms in Perry County, with an average age of 54. 38% of them are women. 166 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.