WEBSTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bergoo, Bolair and Erbacon buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Webster County by the Numbers

Webster County has 57 farms on 7,354 acres (about 129 acres each). Together they sold $657,000 of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and grapes, and local fields produce potatoes and sweet corn.

9 farms in Webster County already sell straight to the public, about $8,000 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 Webster County

Webster County farms and homesteads keep 357 head of cattle, 273 egg-laying hens and 135 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 89 people run or help run farms in Webster County, with an average age of 66. 40% of them are women. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.