PINAL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Pinal County? Backyard growers and small farms around Apache Junction, Arizona City and Eleven Mile Corn list it here. Arizona favorites like citrus and dates 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 Pinal County by the Numbers

Pinal County has 718 farms on 1,476,279 acres (about 2,056 acres each). Together they sold $1.2 billion of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, dairy (milk) and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, tangelos and pomegranates, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 4,069 honey bee colonies.

48 farms in Pinal County already sell straight to the public, about $656,000 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 Pinal County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Pinal County counts 273,261 head of cattle, 2,496 egg-laying hens and 2,155 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,364 people run or help run farms in Pinal County, with an average age of 57. 37% of them are women. 106 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Pinal County stands out: it ranks #2 of 11 AZ counties for honey bee colonies and #3 of 15 AZ counties for total farm sales.