BUTTE COUNTY MARKET

Butte County, California Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Butte County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in California for Bangor, Berry Creek and Clipper Mills. Watch for local honey when it comes into season in California. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Butte County by the Numbers

Butte County has 1,667 farms on 388,383 acres (about 233 acres each). Together they sold $514.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, rice and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, almonds and plums, and local fields produce pumpkins, bell peppers, chile peppers and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 34,917 honey bee colonies.

142 farms in Butte County already sell straight to the public, about $2.8 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 Butte County

Butte County farms and homesteads keep 19,927 head of cattle, 5,141 egg-laying hens and 3,481 hogs. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 3,076 people run or help run farms in Butte County, with an average age of 60. 39% of them are women. 131 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.