DODDRIDGE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Center Point, New Milton and and West Union buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local apples 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 Doddridge County by the Numbers

Doddridge County has 383 farms on 71,740 acres (about 187 acres each). Together they sold $3.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts, apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, chile peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 65 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Doddridge County already sell straight to the public, about $73,000 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 Doddridge County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,738 head of cattle, 1,684 egg-laying hens and 243 goats in Doddridge County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 630 people run or help run farms in Doddridge County, with an average age of 60. 36% of them are women. 46 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.