LAWRENCE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Lawrence County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for New Castle, Bessemer and Hillsville. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Lawrence County by the Numbers

Lawrence County has 585 farms on 96,812 acres (about 165 acres each). Together they sold $69.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, bell peppers and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 312 honey bee colonies.

68 farms in Lawrence County already sell straight to the public, about $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 Lawrence County

Lawrence County farms and homesteads keep 14,986 head of cattle, 2,732 egg-laying hens and 1,534 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,020 people run or help run farms in Lawrence County, with an average age of 56. 32% of them are women. 133 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 18 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.