SAN MATEO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Redwood City to Colma, San Mateo County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in San Mateo County by the Numbers

San Mateo County has 250 farms on 44,885 acres (about 180 acres each). Together they sold $87.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, pears and apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, green peas, artichokes and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 84 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in San Mateo County already sell straight to the public, about $4.2 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 Mateo County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,894 egg-laying hens, 2,565 head of cattle and 1,513 horses and ponies in San Mateo County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 446 people run or help run farms in San Mateo County, with an average age of 61. 46% of them are women. 36 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.