POTTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Potter County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Austin, Cross Fork and Mills. Pennsylvania favorites like sweet corn and maple syrup 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 Potter County by the Numbers

Potter County has 417 farms on 103,315 acres (about 248 acres each). Together they sold $42.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), hay & other field crops and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce green beans, potatoes, bell peppers and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 172 honey bee colonies.

60 farms in Potter 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 Potter County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,569 head of cattle, 2,121 egg-laying hens and 816 sheep in Potter County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 759 people run or help run farms in Potter County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 68 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.