Hands in the Soil
A farm stand at first light in Holmes County — dew, dirt under the nails, the honor box getting its first dollar of the day.
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The Market Map
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Select a marker on the map and the producer's particulars will appear here — or browse the full directory.
Every pinned producer in the directory, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. Tap a marker to see who is there — or browse the full directory.
Select a marker — or a market card below — and the market's days, goods, and its own website will appear here.
Every farmers market in the state directory — 213 of them, from Findlay Market to the smallest Saturday church-lot gathering. Tap a marker for its market days, what it sells, and a link to the market's own website where it has one. Filter by day to plan the week; a market with no days on the record simply waits under All Days.
No farmers market has that day on the record yet — market days print only where the record carries them.
One map of Ohio, two layers deep. Producers — every farm, mill, and quarry in the directory. Farmers Markets — the 213 markets where Ohio gathers each week. Pick a layer and wander.
This Week’s Markets
One hundred eight Ohio farmers markets with their market days on the record, printed by day — tap a name to find it on The Market Map.
By region
Monday No market day on the record yet.
Tuesday OhioHealth Farmers Market (Columbus) · Hilliard Farmers Market (Hilliard) · Caledonia Farmers Market - Marion Family Ymca Marion, Oh (Marion) · Coit Road Farmers Market (East Cleveland) · Summit Lake Neighborhood Farmers Market (Akron) · Barberton Farmers Market (Barberton) · BG Community Market (Bowling Green)
Wednesday Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Farmers' Market (Columbus) · Upper Arlington Farmers Market (Upper Arlington) · Johnstown Farmers Market (Johnstown) · Oberlin Farmers Market (Oberlin) · Lexington Farmers Market (Lexington) · HAPI Fresh Farmers Market (Akron) · Summit Lake Neighborhood Farmers Market (Akron) · Tuscarawas Valley Family Farm Market (Dover) · Westgate Farmers Market (Toledo) · Ottawa Farmers Market (Ottawa) · Athens Farmers Market (Athens) · Northside Farmers Market (Cincinnati) · Uptown Maumee Farmer's Market (Maumee)
Thursday Olde Pickerington Farmers Market (Pickerington) · Bexley Farmers Market (Columbus) · Healthy New Albany Farmers Market (New Albany) · Plain City Farmers Market (Plain City) · Old Brooklyn Farmers Market (Cleveland) · Painesville Farmers Market (Painesville) · Downtown Youngstown Farmers Market (Youngstown) · Garrettsville Farmers Market (Garrettsville) · North End Farmers Market (Mansfield) · Green Farmers Market (Uniontown) · Hancock County Farmers Market (Findlay) · Perrysburg Farmers Market (Perrysburg) · Goshen Farmers Market (Goshen) · Madeira Farmers Market (Cincinnati) · Piqua Community Farmers Market (Piqua)
Friday Candlewood Farmers Market (Mt Gilead) · Mentor Outdoor Farmers Market (Mentor) · Warren Farmers' Market (Warren) · Twin City Farmers Market (Dennison) · Pioneer Farmers Market (Pioneer) · Union Township Farmers Market (Cincinnati) · Mt. Washington Farmers' Market (Cincinnati) · Reading Farmers Market (Cincinnati) · Willard Farmers Market (Willard)
Saturday Delaware County Farmers Market (Delaware) · Main Street Delaware Farmers Market (Delaware) · Powell Farmers Market (Powell) · Lancaster Farmers Market (Lancaster) · Canal Winchester Farmers' Market (Canal Winchester) · Clintonville Farmers' Market (Columbus) · German Village Farmers Market (Columbus) · North Market Farmers Market (Columbus) · Westgate Farmers Market (Columbus) · Dublin Market at Bridge Park (Dublin) · Grove City Farmers Market (Grove City) · Uptown Westerville Farmers' Market (Westerville) · Worthington Farmers Market (Worthington) · Mount Vernon Farmers Market (Mount Vernon) · Granville Farmers Market (Granville) · West Jefferson Farmers Market (West Jefferson) · Caledonia Farmers Market - Public Square Caledonia Ohio (Caledonia) · Mt Gilead Farmer's Market (Mount Gilead) · Union County Farmers Market (Marysville) · Loudonville Farmers Market (Loudonville) · Coit Road Farmers Market (East Cleveland) · Stearns Homestead Farmers' Market (Parma) · Sandusky Farmers Market (Sandusky) · Geauga Fresh Farmers' Market (South Russell) · Willoughby Farmers Market (Willoughby) · Farmers Market of Medina County (Medina) · Medina Farmers Market (Medina) · Haymaker Farmers' Market (Kent) · Canton Farmers' Market (Canton) · Summit Lake Neighborhood Farmers Market (Akron) · Hudson Farmers Market (Hudson) · Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market (Peninsula) · Stow Farmers Market (Stow) · Howland Farmers Market (Warren) · Lima Farmers' Market (Lima) · Hicksville Farmers Market (Hicksville) · Toledo Farmers Market (Toledo) · Athens Farmers Market (Athens) · Ohio Valley Farmers' Market (Bellaire) · Jackson Farmers Market (Jackson) · Zanesville Farmers Market (Zanesville) · Chillicothe Farmers' Market (Chillicothe) · Vinton County Farmers Market (McArthur) · River City Farmers Market (Marietta) · Tiffin Farmers Market (Tiffin) · Adams County Farmers Market (West Union) · Sons of Toil Farmers Market (Mt Orab) · Hamilton Historic Farmers Market (Hamilton) · West Chester Farmers Market (West Chester Township) · Batavia Farmers Market (Batavia) · Clinton County Farmers' Market (Wilmington) · Fayette County Farmers Market (Washington Court House) · Anderson Farmers' Market (Anderson Township) · Madeira Farmers Market (Cincinnati) · Montgomery Farmers Market (Cincinnati) · Franklin Farmers Market (Franklin) · Deerfield Farmers Market (Mason) · St. Marys Canal Farmers Market (St Marys) · New Carlisle Farmers Market (New Carlisle) · Greene County Farmers Market (Beavercreek) · Yellow Springs Farmers Market (Yellow Springs) · Cherry Street Local Farmers Market (Troy) · Sidney Farmers Market (Sidney) · La Marketa (Cleveland Fresh Farmers Market) (Cleveland) · Wooster Farmers Market (Wooster) · Hocking County Farmers Market (Logan) · Market in the Park (Vermilion)
Sunday Hubbard Farmers Market (Hubbard)
Season-Long North Canton Farmers' Market (North Canton · May–Oct.)
Why this exists
Ohio produces an astonishing share of what America eats, builds with, and wears — and almost none of it can be found in one place. A builder who wants Ohio hardwood, a weaver who wants Ohio fleece, a family that wants food grown in its own county: each of them starts from scratch, every time. The Ohio Market is the index that should have existed — every producer of raw materials in the state, everything produced and nothing chemical, gathered under three pillars and six regions.
Market Bulletin
Welcome to the Market — pull up a chair. We're just getting started, and we're glad you came by.
565 Ohio producers are listed in the directory — every one of them real, every one of them Ohio.
Everything Ohio makes, grows, and digs — and the people behind it.
The Ohio Market gathers the state's raw-material producers — farms and orchards, sawmills and quarries, fiber growers and mills: everything produced, nothing chemical — and puts them in one place with the neighbors who buy from them, and the stands at the ends of their driveways. A directory answers questions. A market is somewhere you go. This one is built to be visited.
565Producers listed
79Counties covered
6Ohio regions
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The Three Pillars
Every listing in the directory stands under one of three pillars. If it isn't produced in Ohio from the land or the workshop, it doesn't stand here.
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Food & Farm
377Meat and poultry, dairy and cheese, orchards, maple syrup, honey, grains, wine, and Christmas trees — raised and grown on Ohio soil.
Browse the pillar → §Building Materials
153Hardwood lumber, dimension stone, clay and brick, sand and gravel, soil and mulch — the raw stuff of Ohio building, dug and milled here.
Browse the pillar → ⁂Fiber & Textiles
35Alpaca and sheep wool, hemp and flax, and the fiber mills that turn Ohio fleece into yarn — Ohio raises one of the largest alpaca herds in the nation.
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Buy Ohio Yarn
Three words, and they were always true: Ohio grows the fleece and spins the yarn. Eighteen yarn sellers are already in this directory — alpaca and wool farms, hand-spinners with hand-dyed colorways, and working fiber mills in Copley, Peebles, and Sardinia that turn Ohio fleece into yarn you can knit with. Ohio raises one of the largest alpaca herds in the nation; the yarn was never the hard part. Finding it was.
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Browse by Region
Ohio's eighty-eight counties, gathered into six natural regions. Pick your corner of the state and see who is producing there.
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The Season at Hand
October in Ohio
Mid-October finds Ohio at the height of harvest. Corn and soybeans are coming off the fields, the last of the hay is in, and orchard country is heavy with apples and cider. It is the best month of the year to buy from the people in this directory: maple country is quiet but stocked, sawmills are sawing into the cool weather, and fiber growers are sorting the spring clip for the mills.
In the hill country the hardwoods are turning; on the lake plain the grape harvest is wrapping up. County fairs have mostly closed their gates for the year — several of them celebrated anniversaries this fall — and farm stands are shifting to squash, pumpkins, and stored goods. Plant garlic now, before the ground closes. Mind the first frost, and put up what the season gave you.
Almanac Notes
| The Moon | — |
| The Season | Autumn — harvest in full swing |
| In Season | Apples & cider, winter squash, pumpkins, grapes, fresh-pressed sorghum |
| From the Mills | Hardwood sawing season; kiln schedules filling for winter |
| From the Fiber Shed | Autumn shearing & fleece sorting; mill queues open |
| Weather Lore | “When the corn husks are thick and tight, the winter will be hard and white.” |
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Watch — Snippets from the Market
Short films, twenty seconds to a few minutes, made with Ohioans — not about them. Hands in the soil, a loom moving, yarn winding off a wheel, a place feeling like itself. Nobody is the star; the crowd is the star. Each snippet pins to its place on The Market Map.
The Loom at Work
Shuttle, beat, breathe. Fiber country at working speed — Ohio fleece becoming cloth one pass at a time.
Snippet · In productionThe Forge Breathes
Bellows and coal smoke in a one-man smithy. No narration — just the rhythm a blacksmith's arms know by heart.
Snippet · In productionYarn, Winding
A spinning wheel in a farmhouse window, a skein coming off the niddy-noddy. The Buy Ohio Yarn story, wordless.
Snippet · In productionMarket Morning
Stalls going up before the town wakes — canopies, crates, chalk on a sign. The sound a Saturday makes.
Snippet · In productionThe Quilting Table
Four generations of hands around one frame. A t-shirt quilt taking shape, square by square, story by story.
Snippet · In productionThe first snippets premiere right here, on this wall. Film something at your stand, bench, or mill? That's how this wall fills.
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Make a Day of It
Our sister channel, North Ohio Wild, films the wild half of this state — waterfalls, heron rookeries, lake light, the woods of the northern counties. The Market knows the other half of the same day: the farm stand ten minutes from the trailhead, the mill town on the road home. A waterfall in the morning, a dozen eggs and a bag of apples after — that's not two trips. That's one good day, and both of us exist to help you take it.
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About the Market
Where it leads
The mission is the whole of it: build a community, and connect people. Producers with customers. Makers with audiences. A quilter with her next commission, a neighbor with the stand at the end of the road, an Ohioan in another state with a story from home. Everything here — the directory, The Market Map — is a means to that one end.
So the market grows the way communities do: the map fills in layer by layer, new markets and makers join each season, and visitors become regulars. Pull up a chair.