GILES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Eggleston, Glen Lyn and Newport buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in Virginia. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Giles County by the Numbers

Giles County has 356 farms on 70,873 acres (about 199 acres each). Together they sold $9.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and Christmas trees.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 154 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Giles County already sell straight to the public, about $81,000 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 Giles County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 12,434 head of cattle, 919 sheep and 852 egg-laying hens in Giles County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 617 people run or help run farms in Giles County, with an average age of 60. 41% of them are women. 48 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.