BARBOUR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Barbour County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in West Virginia for Belington, Broaddus and Kasson. Watch for local honey when it comes into season in West Virginia. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Barbour County by the Numbers

Barbour County has 544 farms on 104,808 acres (about 193 acres each). Together they sold $8.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts, pears and apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 76 honey bee colonies.

40 farms in Barbour County already sell straight to the public, about $83,000 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 Barbour County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 11,271 head of cattle, 2,746 egg-laying hens and 498 sheep in Barbour County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 984 people run or help run farms in Barbour County, with an average age of 57. 37% of them are women. 123 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.