LOUISA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Louisa County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Bumpass, Louisa and and Mineral. Watch for local sweet potatoes when it comes into season in Virginia. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Louisa County by the Numbers

Louisa County has 452 farms on 86,660 acres (about 192 acres each). Together they sold $36.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 483 honey bee colonies.

60 farms in Louisa County already sell straight to the public, about $2.3 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 Louisa County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 135,490 turkeys, 12,932 head of cattle and 2,667 egg-laying hens in Louisa County.

About 744 people run or help run farms in Louisa County, with an average age of 61. 38% of them are women. 28 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Louisa County stands out: it ranks #12 of 87 VA counties for selling food straight to the public and #16 of 92 VA counties for honey bee colonies.