LEHIGH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Lehigh County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for Allentown, Alburtis and Center Valley. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lehigh County by the Numbers

Lehigh County has 402 farms on 64,550 acres (about 161 acres each). Together they sold $117.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and plums, and local fields produce green beans, sweet corn, potatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 178 honey bee colonies.

75 farms in Lehigh County already sell straight to the public, about $6.8 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 Lehigh County

Lehigh County farms and homesteads keep 152,423 egg-laying hens, 4,661 hogs and 3,510 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 741 people run or help run farms in Lehigh County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 76 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lehigh County stands out: it ranks #7 of 67 PA counties for selling food straight to the public.