CARROLL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Carroll County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Austinville, Cana and Lambsburg. 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 Carroll County by the Numbers

Carroll County has 757 farms on 111,941 acres (about 148 acres each). Together they sold $31.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, fruit & nuts and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 165 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Carroll County already sell straight to the public, about $390,000 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 Carroll County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 31,568 head of cattle, 1,423 egg-laying hens and 972 sheep in Carroll County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,235 people run or help run farms in Carroll County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 89 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Carroll County stands out: it ranks #14 of 98 VA counties for number of farms.