FAUQUIER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Goldvein, Hume and Remington 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 Fauquier County by the Numbers

Fauquier County has 1,040 farms on 188,562 acres (about 181 acres each). Together they sold $67.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce cabbage, beets, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 485 honey bee colonies.

160 farms in Fauquier County already sell straight to the public, about $19.3 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 Fauquier County

Fauquier County farms and homesteads keep 31,898 head of cattle, 7,530 egg-laying hens and 3,758 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,981 people run or help run farms in Fauquier County, with an average age of 59. 44% of them are women. 168 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 18 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Fauquier County stands out: it ranks #2 of 87 VA counties for selling food straight to the public and #8 of 98 VA counties for number of farms.