LYCOMING COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Lycoming County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Cogan Station, Hughesville and Montgomery. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Lycoming County by the Numbers

Lycoming County has 918 farms on 181,550 acres (about 198 acres each). Together they sold $66.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, green beans, pumpkins and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 4,609 honey bee colonies.

75 farms in Lycoming County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 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 Lycoming County

Lycoming County farms and homesteads keep 41,814 egg-laying hens, 29,871 hogs and 10,037 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,639 people run or help run farms in Lycoming County, with an average age of 58. 28% of them are women. 183 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lycoming County stands out: it ranks #2 of 62 PA counties for honey bee colonies.