UNION COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Union County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Pennsylvania for Allenwood, Hartleton and Millmont. 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 Union County by the Numbers

Union County has 483 farms on 61,919 acres (about 128 acres each). Together they sold $218.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hogs and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, peaches and apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, cantaloupes, watermelons and tomatoes.

31 farms in Union County already sell straight to the public, about $708,000 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 Union County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 601,161 egg-laying hens, 343,005 turkeys and 70,632 hogs in Union County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 923 people run or help run farms in Union County, with an average age of 48. 36% of them are women. 210 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Union County stands out: it ranks #8 of 63 PA counties for egg-laying hens and #12 of 67 PA counties for total farm sales.