HALIFAX COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Halifax County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Alton, Clover and Lennig. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Halifax County by the Numbers

Halifax County has 759 farms on 159,004 acres (about 209 acres each). Together they sold $50.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 232 honey bee colonies.

37 farms in Halifax County already sell straight to the public, about $767,000 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 Halifax County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Halifax County counts 16,249 hogs, 15,567 egg-laying hens and 14,433 head of cattle.

About 1,253 people run or help run farms in Halifax County, with an average age of 61. 36% of them are women. 78 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Halifax County stands out: it ranks #7 of 91 VA counties for egg-laying hens and #13 of 98 VA counties for number of farms.