MENDOCINO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Mendocino County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in California for Albion, Boonville and Covelo. Watch for local strawberries when it comes into season in California. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Mendocino County by the Numbers

Mendocino County has 975 farms on 677,787 acres (about 695 acres each). Together they sold $143.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, pears and apples, and local fields produce squash, pumpkins, tomatoes and cabbage. Beekeepers tend about 249 honey bee colonies.

94 farms in Mendocino County already sell straight to the public, about $5.8 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 Mendocino County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,870 head of cattle, 4,902 sheep and 3,568 egg-laying hens in Mendocino County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,861 people run or help run farms in Mendocino County, with an average age of 61. 40% of them are women. 92 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 41 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.