MARIPOSA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Mariposa County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in California for Catheys Valley, Coulterville and Mariposa. Watch for local citrus when it comes into season in California. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Mariposa County by the Numbers

Mariposa County has 388 farms on 240,428 acres (about 620 acres each). Together they sold $33.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce tomatoes, potatoes, watermelons and rhubarb. Beekeepers tend about 496 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Mariposa County already sell straight to the public, about $301,000 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 Mariposa County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 33,288 head of cattle, 1,792 egg-laying hens and 1,219 goats in Mariposa County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 757 people run or help run farms in Mariposa County, with an average age of 59. 49% of them are women. 35 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.