BLAND COUNTY MARKET

Bland County, Virginia Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Bland County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Bastian, Bland and and Rocky Gap. 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 Bland County by the Numbers

Bland County has 324 farms on 79,310 acres (about 245 acres each). Together they sold $10.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn and squash. Beekeepers tend about 117 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Bland County already sell straight to the public, about $53,000 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 Bland County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 13,465 head of cattle, 836 egg-laying hens and 477 sheep in Bland County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 558 people run or help run farms in Bland County, with an average age of 61. 34% of them are women. 42 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.