ANCHORAGE COUNTY MARKET

Anchorage County, Alaska Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Anchorage County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Alaska for Anchorage, Chugiak and Girdwood. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Anchorage County by the Numbers

Anchorage County has 401 farms on 39,532 acres (about 99 acres each). Together they sold $44 million of farm products in 2022, led by aquaculture, nursery & greenhouse plants and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce potatoes, lettuce, carrots and broccoli. Beekeepers tend about 290 honey bee colonies.

57 farms in Anchorage County already sell straight to the public, about $943,000 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 Anchorage County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,364 egg-laying hens, 670 hogs and 434 horses and ponies in Anchorage County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 694 people run or help run farms in Anchorage County, with an average age of 56. 48% of them are women. 59 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 35 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Anchorage County stands out: it ranks #1 of 5 AK counties for number of farms and #1 of 5 AK counties for egg-laying hens.