DINWIDDIE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Dinwiddie County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Ammon, Church Road and Sutherland. Virginia favorites like sweet potatoes and apples show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Dinwiddie County by the Numbers

Dinwiddie County has 350 farms on 101,333 acres (about 290 acres each). Together they sold $26.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and tobacco.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, squash and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 180 honey bee colonies.

29 farms in Dinwiddie County already sell straight to the public, about $291,000 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 Dinwiddie County

Dinwiddie County farms and homesteads keep 4,121 head of cattle, 1,663 egg-laying hens and 456 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 612 people run or help run farms in Dinwiddie County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 57 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.