RIVERSIDE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Riverside County? Backyard growers and small farms around Riverside, Hemet and Lake Elsinore list it here. California favorites like avocados and strawberries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Riverside County by the Numbers

Riverside County has 2,424 farms on 361,970 acres (about 149 acres each). Together they sold $1.3 billion of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, fruit & nuts and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, dates and lemons, and local fields produce broccoli, lettuce, bell peppers and honeydew melons. Beekeepers tend about 38,758 honey bee colonies.

239 farms in Riverside County already sell straight to the public, about $16.3 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 Riverside County

Riverside County farms and homesteads keep 984,579 egg-laying hens, 25,955 head of cattle and 10,545 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 4,447 people run or help run farms in Riverside County, with an average age of 61. 42% of them are women. 204 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 50 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Riverside County stands out: it ranks #5 of 50 CA counties for egg-laying hens and #7 of 58 CA counties for number of farms.