BUTLER COUNTY MARKET

Butler County, Pennsylvania Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Mars, Bon Aire and Chicora buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Pennsylvania. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Butler County by the Numbers

Butler County has 903 farms on 132,809 acres (about 147 acres each). Together they sold $71.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, dairy (milk) and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, green beans and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 646 honey bee colonies.

121 farms in Butler County already sell straight to the public, about $2.7 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 Butler County

Butler County farms and homesteads keep 13,886 head of cattle, 6,019 egg-laying hens and 1,380 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,677 people run or help run farms in Butler County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 119 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.