CARBON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Carbon County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for Albrightsville, Aquashicola and Junedale. Pennsylvania favorites like maple syrup and apples show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Carbon County by the Numbers

Carbon County has 167 farms on 22,910 acres (about 137 acres each). Together they sold $17.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, Christmas trees and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, potatoes, bell peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 79 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Carbon County already sell straight to the public, about $104,000 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 Carbon County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,098 head of cattle, 858 egg-laying hens and 316 horses and ponies in Carbon County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 288 people run or help run farms in Carbon County, with an average age of 55. 31% of them are women. 35 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.