PLEASANTS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Pleasants County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in West Virginia for Saint Marys, and Willow Island. 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 Pleasants County by the Numbers

Pleasants County has 198 farms on 23,138 acres (about 117 acres each). Together they sold $2.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 102 honey bee colonies.

17 farms in Pleasants County already sell straight to the public, about $45,000 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 Pleasants County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,042 head of cattle, 1,135 egg-laying hens and 140 goats in Pleasants County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 356 people run or help run farms in Pleasants County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 39 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.