CHESAPEAKE CITY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Chesapeake City County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Chesapeake, Bowers Hill and and Fentress. Virginia favorites like peanuts and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Chesapeake City County by the Numbers

Chesapeake City County has 180 farms on 37,359 acres (about 208 acres each). Together they sold $39.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pecans and walnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, squash, tomatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 402 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Chesapeake City County already sell straight to the public, about $165,000 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.