TIOGA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Arnot, Blossburg and Gaines buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Tioga County by the Numbers

Tioga County has 998 farms on 204,782 acres (about 205 acres each). Together they sold $111.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, dairy (milk) and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and peaches, and local fields produce green beans, sweet corn, pumpkins and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 550 honey bee colonies.

83 farms in Tioga County already sell straight to the public, about $630,000 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 Tioga County

Tioga County farms and homesteads keep 60,945 hogs, 23,965 head of cattle and 1,732 sheep.

About 1,936 people run or help run farms in Tioga County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 189 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Tioga County stands out: it ranks #14 of 67 PA counties for number of farms.