YORK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the York County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Virginia for Grafton, Naval Weapons St and and Yorktown. Virginia favorites like sweet potatoes and apples show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in York County by the Numbers

York County has 58 farms on 1,220 acres (about 21 acres each). Together they sold $3.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, aquaculture and poultry & eggs.

Local fields produce watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 331 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in York County already sell straight to the public, about $57,000 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 York County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,190 egg-laying hens, 87 head of cattle and 74 horses and ponies in York County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 87 people run or help run farms in York County, with an average age of 55. 40% of them are women. 3 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.