NAVAJO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Navajo County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Arizona for Cibeque, Clay Springs and Hotevilla. Arizona favorites like dates and pecans show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Navajo County by the Numbers

Navajo County has 3,269 farms on 4,637,488 acres (about 1,419 acres each). Together they sold $48 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, nursery & greenhouse plants and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce squash, watermelons, cantaloupes and honeydew melons. Beekeepers tend about 148 honey bee colonies.

58 farms in Navajo County already sell straight to the public, about $241,000 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 Navajo County

Navajo County farms and homesteads keep 39,927 sheep, 20,363 head of cattle and 10,094 goats. Local wool, lamb and fiber crafts often trade hands at farmers markets.

About 5,696 people run or help run farms in Navajo County, with an average age of 60. 51% of them are women. 527 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Navajo County stands out: it ranks #2 of 15 AZ counties for number of farms and #2 of 12 AZ counties for goats.