GILMER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Baldwin, Coxs Mills and Perkins buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. West Virginia favorites like maple syrup and honey show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Gilmer County by the Numbers

Gilmer County has 240 farms on 52,920 acres (about 221 acres each). Together they sold $8.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and peaches, and local fields produce potatoes, cabbage, horseradish and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 90 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Gilmer County already sell straight to the public, about $6,000 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 Gilmer County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,934 head of cattle, 890 egg-laying hens and 395 sheep in Gilmer County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 398 people run or help run farms in Gilmer County, with an average age of 60. 33% of them are women. 31 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.