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Ohio Locavore Overview

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Ohio Locally Grown Product

There are plenty of seasonal Locavore opportunities to find exactly the fruit, vegetables, beef, lamb, poultry, wine or dairy products that you may be looking for. The 2007 USDA Farm Census reported that Ohio had approximately 75,861 farms and the average number of acres per farm was 184. Of those farms, 2,873 showed that they raised vegetables for sale, there were 1,462 orchards, 629 organic farms and 424 CSAs in the state.

Synopsis of 2007 USDA Ag census for Ohio

Classification
Number of farms within the State
Top five counties with the greatest number of farms in each type of classification
Farms with Vegetables harvested for sale
2,873
 Geauga Wayne Medina Stark Ashtabula
Number of Orchards
1,462
 Ashtabula Holmes Medina Wayne Lorain
Sweet Corn
1,467
 Stark Trumbull Geauga Ashland Lorain
Potatoes
631
 Geauga Wayne Holmes Medina Ashland
Tomatoes
1,351
 Meigs Geauga Lawrence Medina Lorain
Apples
1,000
 Holmes Medina Ashtabula Wayne Geauga
Peaches
483
 Holmes Wayne Erie Knox Ottawa
Cantaloupe
273
 Geauga Medina Wayne Knox Holmes
Watermelon
213
 Medina Lorain Pike Ashland Geauga
Strawberries
483
 Holmes Geauga Wayne Ashland Medina
Blueberries
263
 Lorain Wayne Trumbull Medina Holmes
Raspberries
362
 Medina Lorain Holmes Union Wayne
Blackberries and Dewberries
274
 Medina Scioto Ashtabula Lorain Trumbull
Poultry and egg production
1,650
 Holmes Mercer Darke Wayne Stark
Dairy cattle and milk production
2,955
 Wayne Holmes Mercer Richland Columbiana
Beef and Cattle ranches
12,297
 Gallia Adams Muskingum Guernsey Brown
Bison
29
 Pickaway Carroll Clark Columbiana Hancock
Aquaculture or other animal production
7,195
 Medina Geauga Warren Holmes Wayne
Farms that collect Honey
1,120
 Holmes Medina Lorain Ashland Wayne
Farms that collect Maple Syrup
600
 Geauga Trumbull Holmes Ashtabula Portage