YUMA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Yuma, Dateland and Somerton buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Yuma County by the Numbers

Yuma County has 397 farms on 212,153 acres (about 534 acres each). Together they sold $1.5 billion of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow lemons, tangerines and tangelos, and local fields produce spinach, cauliflower, cabbage and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 1,631 honey bee colonies.

34 farms in Yuma County already sell straight to the public, about $536,000 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 Yuma County

Yuma County farms and homesteads keep 1,238 egg-laying hens, 587 goats and 264 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 752 people run or help run farms in Yuma County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 45 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Yuma County stands out: it ranks #2 of 15 AZ counties for total farm sales.