LOUDOUN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Loudoun County? Backyard growers and small farms around Sterling, and Dulles list it here. Virginia favorites like tomatoes and sweet potatoes show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Loudoun County by the Numbers

Loudoun County has 1,332 farms on 110,133 acres (about 83 acres each). Together they sold $50.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 834 honey bee colonies.

223 farms in Loudoun County already sell straight to the public, about $21.6 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 Loudoun County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 12,993 head of cattle, 10,317 egg-laying hens and 4,898 horses and ponies in Loudoun County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,434 people run or help run farms in Loudoun County, with an average age of 59. 46% of them are women. 156 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 60 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Loudoun County stands out: it ranks #1 of 87 VA counties for selling food straight to the public and #2 of 92 VA counties for honey bee colonies.