ADDISON COUNTY MARKET

Addison County, Vermont Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Addison County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Vermont for Bread Loaf, Bridport and Hancock. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in Vermont. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Addison County by the Numbers

Addison County has 751 farms on 177,719 acres (about 237 acres each). Together they sold $262.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), hay & other field crops and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and chestnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, garlic and squash. Beekeepers tend about 6,293 honey bee colonies.

191 farms in Addison County already sell straight to the public, about $2.9 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 Addison County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 62,820 head of cattle, 37,489 egg-laying hens and 4,296 sheep in Addison County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,429 people run or help run farms in Addison County, with an average age of 57. 38% of them are women. 167 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 Addison County stands out: it ranks #1 of 14 VT counties for number of farms and #1 of 14 VT counties for total farm sales.