Agricultural Lifestyle

Knowing where your food comes from is important to many of us. In our great community, we have the opportunity to take advantage of our farming residents. Following is just a taste of where you can buy local, and in most instances, buy locally grown organic foods. Please contact the farms for more information about their products and growing practices. And, to our local farmers...thanks for keeping our agriculture available to our community!

Champaign County Farmers' Market

Buy Local... Shop Champaign

We are an old market that is downtown in the City of Urbana, Ohio. We are providing Chemical free meats and veggies. We are the first in the State of Ohio to become a member of OHIO Proud, which we hope will be an asset to all vendors in our group. Our hours at are Saturdays 9:00A.M. to 1:00 P.M., May through October. We are a vendor operated market. With the move to downtown, we are working with Monument Square District, Activate Champaign County, and the Champaign County Preservation Alliance's Home and Garden Tour to make our products more available to you. Now accepting vendors. Rates: $10/week to a max amount of $50 for the season.

Contact Lonny LeFever, 937-726-7668
Corner of 205 S. Main and Market St
Urbana, OH 43078


SUNSEED FARMS

Buy Local... Shop Champaign

Sunseed Farm is your source for locally grown, transitional organic vegetables, herbs, bee products, and cage-free, free-range eggs. We grow all of our produce on our farm in Urbana, OH. The crops are grown with sustainable practices, no pesticides, and home-grown compost. Give us a call about our new store. Currently accepting new share-holders.

Contact Jessica Peltier, 937-244-3839
4273 Hurst Road
Urbana, OH 43078

Sycamore Farms LLC

Buy Local... Shop Champaign

We are a 23 acre transitional organic farm. We are OEFFA members. We previously operated a 300 acre OCIA & OEFFA organic farm which we sold in 2003. Our farming operation is diversified. We grow a variety of vegetables, grain and livestock. We are members of the Seed Savers Exchange and raise many heirloom varieties of grain and vegetables. Our livestock includes 2 breeds of geese, 1 breed of ducks, Giant Chinchilla rabbits (an heirloom breed of rabbits),and chickens. We are a mixed power farm, using draft horses and small tractors to work our ground.

Contact Richard, Beverly & Daniel Zimmerman, 937-974-8010
12680 Putnam Rd.
St. Paris, OH 43072

Mohr Animal Acres

We are a small farm in West Central Ohio working to bring a tasty, tender, delicious product directly to the consumer without the use of hormones or antibiotics to promote growth. Our animals are raised naturally and humanely. We sell poultry, beef, pork, lamb and goat, a wonderful selection of Goat's Milk Soaps and Lotions. We are also working to get our milking parlorup and going, in the hopes of producing Goat's Milk Cheeses sometime this summer or fall.

Contact Trudy Mohr, 937-484-5950
www.mohranimalacres.biz
1262 W. SR 296
Urbana, OH 43078

Urbana is conveniently nestled in Champaign County in the heart of west central Ohio.

  • Incorporated in 1868
  • Approximately 6.8 square miles
  • Population 11,793 as of 2010 census
  • Home to Urbana University, a liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1500 and a 128-acre campus
  • Two national residential historic districts and multiple single sites on the registry
  • According to the Ohio Historical Society, in 1840 during the VanBuren-Harrison contest, downtown Urbana was the site for a national Whig convention dinner. Hanging nearby was a banner with the words "The People is Oll Korrect." This helped to perpetuate the national trend of using "OK," not only as a show of political support, but as a common phrase used today. (more)