WINDSOR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Windsor County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Vermont for Barnard, Bethel and Cavendish. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Windsor County by the Numbers

Windsor County has 687 farms on 84,158 acres (about 123 acres each). Together they sold $33.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), vegetables and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 104 honey bee colonies.

116 farms in Windsor County already sell straight to the public, about $3.3 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 Windsor County

Windsor County farms and homesteads keep 6,974 egg-laying hens, 6,270 head of cattle and 2,005 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,238 people run or help run farms in Windsor County, with an average age of 59. 43% of them are women. 106 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 38 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Windsor County stands out: it ranks #3 of 14 VT counties for number of farms and #3 of 14 VT counties for goats.