DAUPHIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Dauphin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for Harrisburg, Berrysburg and Grantville. Pennsylvania favorites like mushrooms and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Dauphin County by the Numbers

Dauphin County has 685 farms on 87,399 acres (about 128 acres each). Together they sold $142.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, dairy (milk) and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, bell peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 889 honey bee colonies.

86 farms in Dauphin County already sell straight to the public, about $5.1 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 Dauphin County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Dauphin County counts 527,957 egg-laying hens, 21,939 hogs and 11,141 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,192 people run or help run farms in Dauphin County, with an average age of 54. 33% of them are women. 142 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Dauphin County stands out: it ranks #9 of 67 PA counties for selling food straight to the public and #10 of 63 PA counties for egg-laying hens.