PREBLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Preble County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Camden, College Corner and Lewisburg. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Preble County by the Numbers

Preble County has 1,044 farms on 213,053 acres (about 204 acres each). Together they sold $260.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, green beans and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 518 honey bee colonies.

62 farms in Preble County already sell straight to the public, about $1.8 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 Preble County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 100,532 hogs, 20,425 head of cattle and 3,462 egg-laying hens in Preble County.

About 1,795 people run or help run farms in Preble County, with an average age of 56. 32% of them are women. 204 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Preble County stands out: it ranks #2 of 88 OH counties for goats and #15 of 88 OH counties for selling food straight to the public.