KENT COUNTY MARKET

Kent County, Rhode Island Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Kent County? Backyard growers and small farms around Warwick, Coventry and and West Warwick list it here. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Kent County by the Numbers

Kent County has 125 farms on 8,694 acres (about 70 acres each). Together they sold $3.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, nursery & greenhouse plants and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, figs and pomegranates, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplant. Beekeepers tend about 94 honey bee colonies.

29 farms in Kent County already sell straight to the public, about $1 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 Kent County

Kent County farms and homesteads keep 2,860 turkeys, 619 egg-laying hens and 243 head of cattle.

About 225 people run or help run farms in Kent County, with an average age of 58. 40% of them are women. 13 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.