CHITTENDEN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Chittenden County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Vermont for Bolton Valley, Burlington and Hinesburg. Vermont favorites like apples and blueberries show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Chittenden County by the Numbers

Chittenden County has 584 farms on 74,472 acres (about 128 acres each). Together they sold $56.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), hay & other field crops and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, squash, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 452 honey bee colonies.

152 farms in Chittenden County already sell straight to the public, about $4.4 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 Chittenden County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,822 head of cattle, 4,791 egg-laying hens and 2,201 sheep in Chittenden County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,152 people run or help run farms in Chittenden County, with an average age of 57. 40% of them are women. 125 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 53 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Chittenden County stands out: it ranks #3 of 14 VT counties for selling food straight to the public.