WOOD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Wood County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Ohio for Bloomdale, Bowling Green and Grand Rapids. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Wood County by the Numbers

Wood County has 1,151 farms on 250,260 acres (about 217 acres each). Together they sold $283.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce tomatoes, pumpkins, chile peppers and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 125 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Wood County already sell straight to the public, about $269,000 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 Wood County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 10,712 hogs, 7,960 head of cattle and 994 sheep in Wood County.

About 2,039 people run or help run farms in Wood County, with an average age of 59. 29% of them are women. 200 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.

Where Wood County stands out: it ranks #14 of 88 OH counties for number of farms and #15 of 88 OH counties for total farm sales.