YAVAPAI COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Yavapai County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Arizona for Sedona, Ash Fork and Clarkdale. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Yavapai County by the Numbers

Yavapai County has 727 farms on 661,643 acres (about 910 acres each). Together they sold $34 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, pecans and peaches, and local fields produce fresh herbs, tomatoes, squash and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 18 honey bee colonies.

54 farms in Yavapai County already sell straight to the public, about $4.6 million 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 Yavapai County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Yavapai County counts 35,229 head of cattle, 4,288 egg-laying hens and 4,215 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,325 people run or help run farms in Yavapai County, with an average age of 61. 48% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Yavapai County stands out: it ranks #3 of 15 AZ counties for selling food straight to the public and #3 of 13 AZ counties for egg-laying hens.