SONOMA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Camp Meeker buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Sonoma County by the Numbers

Sonoma County has 3,097 farms on 466,810 acres (about 151 acres each). Together they sold $976.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, poultry & eggs and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and olives, and local fields produce squash, tomatoes, pumpkins and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 559 honey bee colonies.

394 farms in Sonoma County already sell straight to the public, about $192.5 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 Sonoma County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Sonoma County counts 1,196,304 egg-laying hens, 52,370 head of cattle and 14,136 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 6,036 people run or help run farms in Sonoma County, with an average age of 61. 41% of them are women. 303 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 93 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Sonoma County stands out: it ranks #2 of 52 CA counties for selling food straight to the public and #3 of 50 CA counties for egg-laying hens.