WOOD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Wood County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in West Virginia for Belleville, Davisville and Parkersburg. West Virginia favorites like peaches and maple syrup show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Wood County by the Numbers

Wood County has 845 farms on 85,648 acres (about 101 acres each). Together they sold $6.2 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, potatoes, sweet corn and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 526 honey bee colonies.

41 farms in Wood County already sell straight to the public, about $85,000 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 Wood County

Wood County farms and homesteads keep 7,384 head of cattle, 3,132 egg-laying hens and 627 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,484 people run or help run farms in Wood County, with an average age of 60. 37% of them are women. 80 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.

Where Wood County stands out: it ranks #5 of 50 WV counties for honey bee colonies and #6 of 55 WV counties for number of farms.