CALAVERAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Calaveras County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Altaville, Angels Camp and Campo Seco. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Calaveras County by the Numbers

Calaveras County has 603 farms on 221,491 acres (about 367 acres each). Together they sold $31.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, poultry & eggs and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, walnuts and olives, and local fields produce tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 843 honey bee colonies.

66 farms in Calaveras County already sell straight to the public, about $5.4 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 Calaveras County

Calaveras County farms and homesteads keep 58,095 turkeys, 22,889 head of cattle and 3,095 egg-laying hens.

About 1,135 people run or help run farms in Calaveras County, with an average age of 59. 45% of them are women. 78 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.