PHILADELPHIA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Philadelphia County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for Philadelphia and the rest of Philadelphia County. Pennsylvania favorites like mushrooms and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Philadelphia County by the Numbers

Philadelphia County has 37 farms on 326 acres (about 9 acres each). Together they sold $2.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, nursery & greenhouse plants and honey.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pawpaws and persimmons, and local fields produce lettuce, chile peppers, pumpkins and eggplant. Beekeepers tend about 589 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Philadelphia County already sell straight to the public, about $238,000 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 Philadelphia County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 50 horses and ponies and 32 egg-laying hens in Philadelphia County. Hay, tack and horse boarding are common listings in horse country.

About 69 people run or help run farms in Philadelphia County, with an average age of 43. 46% of them are women. 14 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.