CULPEPER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Boston, Brandy Station and Mitchells buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Virginia favorites like apples and peanuts show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Culpeper County by the Numbers

Culpeper County has 609 farms on 115,816 acres (about 190 acres each). Together they sold $73.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and persimmons, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet potatoes, sweet corn and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 292 honey bee colonies.

76 farms in Culpeper County already sell straight to the public, about $1.5 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 Culpeper County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 17,970 head of cattle, 2,815 egg-laying hens and 1,937 horses and ponies in Culpeper County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,076 people run or help run farms in Culpeper County, with an average age of 59. 44% of them are women. 81 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 29 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Culpeper County stands out: it ranks #11 of 91 VA counties for goats and #14 of 98 VA counties for total farm sales.