SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MARKET

San Luis Obispo County, California Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in San Luis Obispo, Adelaide and Cambria buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. California favorites like honey and citrus show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in San Luis Obispo County by the Numbers

San Luis Obispo County has 2,184 farms on 921,300 acres (about 422 acres each). Together they sold $1.2 billion of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, vegetables and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, avocados and olives, and local fields produce broccoli, lettuce, carrots and cauliflower. Beekeepers tend about 6,228 honey bee colonies.

241 farms in San Luis Obispo County already sell straight to the public, about $37.7 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 San Luis Obispo County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 38,139 head of cattle, 23,462 sheep and 9,837 egg-laying hens in San Luis Obispo County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 4,347 people run or help run farms in San Luis Obispo County, with an average age of 61. 42% of them are women. 258 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 54 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where San Luis Obispo County stands out: it ranks #4 of 52 CA counties for selling food straight to the public and #8 of 58 CA counties for number of farms.