MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Montgomery County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd and Cheltenham. 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 Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 579 farms on 31,595 acres (about 55 acres each). Together they sold $31.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, sweet corn and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 895 honey bee colonies.

128 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $4.6 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 Montgomery County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,444 egg-laying hens, 1,716 head of cattle and 1,522 horses and ponies in Montgomery County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,159 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 57. 38% of them are women. 94 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 33 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Montgomery County stands out: it ranks #11 of 67 PA counties for selling food straight to the public.