GILA COUNTY MARKET

Gila County, Arizona Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Gila County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Arizona for Globe, Hayden and San Carlos. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Gila County by the Numbers

Gila County has 191 farms on 1,328,043 acres (about 6,953 acres each). Together they sold $9.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, sweet cherries and pears, and local fields produce chile peppers and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 1,233 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Gila County already sell straight to the public, about $254,000 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 Gila County

Gila County farms and homesteads keep 15,170 head of cattle, 2,040 horses and ponies and 1,559 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 345 people run or help run farms in Gila County, with an average age of 62. 39% of them are women. 19 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.