SCIOTO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Scioto County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Franklin Furnace, Lucasville and Otway. Watch for local apples 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 Scioto County by the Numbers

Scioto County has 585 farms on 81,126 acres (about 139 acres each). Together they sold $32.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, apples and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, green beans and tomatoes.

24 farms in Scioto County already sell straight to the public, about $25,000 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 Scioto County

Scioto County farms and homesteads keep 6,133 head of cattle, 676 horses and ponies and 493 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,005 people run or help run farms in Scioto County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 68 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.