VENANGO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Clintonville, Cooperstown and Kennerdell buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Pennsylvania favorites like sweet corn and maple syrup show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Venango County by the Numbers

Venango County has 329 farms on 45,637 acres (about 139 acres each). Together they sold $13.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, dairy (milk) and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 35 honey bee colonies.

39 farms in Venango County already sell straight to the public, about $296,000 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 Venango County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 3,877 head of cattle, 1,207 egg-laying hens and 612 sheep in Venango County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 552 people run or help run farms in Venango County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 42 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.