WAYNE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Wayne County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Beach Lake, Damascus and Lake Como. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Wayne County by the Numbers

Wayne County has 523 farms on 90,504 acres (about 173 acres each). Together they sold $27.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), hay & other field crops and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, potatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 846 honey bee colonies.

99 farms in Wayne 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 Wayne County

Wayne County farms and homesteads keep 9,130 head of cattle, 3,447 egg-laying hens and 718 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 930 people run or help run farms in Wayne County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 82 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.