SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Spotsylvania County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Fredericksburg, Partlow and and Snell. Watch for local sweet potatoes when it comes into season in Virginia. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Spotsylvania County by the Numbers

Spotsylvania County has 281 farms on 39,666 acres (about 141 acres each). Together they sold $14.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, rhubarb, chile peppers and eggplant. Beekeepers tend about 348 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Spotsylvania County already sell straight to the public, about $579,000 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 Spotsylvania County

Spotsylvania County farms and homesteads keep 6,698 head of cattle, 2,129 egg-laying hens and 628 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 504 people run or help run farms in Spotsylvania County, with an average age of 62. 38% of them are women. 28 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.