WILLIAMS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Alvordton, Bryan and Montpelier buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Ohio favorites like tomatoes and maple syrup show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Williams County by the Numbers

Williams County has 813 farms on 235,001 acres (about 289 acres each). Together they sold $237.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, hazelnuts and chestnuts, and local fields produce cucumbers, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 811 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Williams County already sell straight to the public, about $148,000 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 Williams County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Williams County counts 24,515 hogs, 10,667 head of cattle and 1,532 egg-laying hens.

About 1,319 people run or help run farms in Williams County, with an average age of 59. 28% of them are women. 96 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Williams County stands out: it ranks #8 of 86 OH counties for honey bee colonies.