FLOYD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Alum Ridge, Copper Hill and and Willis buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Virginia favorites like tomatoes and sweet potatoes show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Floyd County by the Numbers

Floyd County has 668 farms on 100,913 acres (about 151 acres each). Together they sold $33.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and chestnuts, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, spinach and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 826 honey bee colonies.

69 farms in Floyd 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 Floyd County

Floyd County farms and homesteads keep 24,407 head of cattle, 2,384 egg-laying hens and 1,413 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,160 people run or help run farms in Floyd County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 99 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Floyd County stands out: it ranks #3 of 92 VA counties for honey bee colonies and #17 of 98 VA counties for number of farms.