TEHAMA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Tehama County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in California for Corning, Flournoy and Mill Creek. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Tehama County by the Numbers

Tehama County has 1,154 farms on 627,913 acres (about 544 acres each). Together they sold $195.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, cattle and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, almonds and olives, and local fields produce cantaloupes, watermelons, honeydew melons and eggplant. Beekeepers tend about 17,564 honey bee colonies.

57 farms in Tehama County already sell straight to the public, about $922,000 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 Tehama County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Tehama County counts 41,071 head of cattle, 5,654 sheep and 4,011 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,129 people run or help run farms in Tehama County, with an average age of 60. 43% of them are women. 132 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Tehama County stands out: it ranks #8 of 50 CA counties for goats.