CABELL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Cabell County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in West Virginia for Huntington, Barboursville and Milton. Watch for local peaches when it comes into season in West Virginia. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Cabell County by the Numbers

Cabell County has 420 farms on 39,347 acres (about 94 acres each). Together they sold $2.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn, green beans and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 112 honey bee colonies.

38 farms in Cabell County already sell straight to the public, about $74,000 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 Cabell County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Cabell County counts 2,607 head of cattle, 2,477 egg-laying hens and 392 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 677 people run or help run farms in Cabell County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 49 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.