MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Montgomery County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Christiansburg, Ironto and and Whitethorne. Virginia favorites like sweet potatoes and apples show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 523 farms on 85,117 acres (about 163 acres each). Together they sold $29.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, dairy (milk) and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, lettuce and kale. Beekeepers tend about 350 honey bee colonies.

50 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $237,000 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 Montgomery County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 19,670 head of cattle, 2,501 egg-laying hens and 1,467 sheep in Montgomery County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 941 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 57. 40% of them are women. 89 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Montgomery County stands out: it ranks #16 of 91 VA counties for goats.