VENTURA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Ventura County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Oxnard, San Buenaventura and Moorpark. California favorites like avocados and strawberries 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 Ventura County by the Numbers

Ventura County has 1,812 farms on 300,567 acres (about 166 acres each). Together they sold $2.1 billion of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, vegetables and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow lemons, avocados and oranges, and local fields produce celery, fresh herbs, kale and cabbage. Beekeepers tend about 35,303 honey bee colonies.

123 farms in Ventura County already sell straight to the public, about $9.6 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 Ventura County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,416 egg-laying hens, 3,453 head of cattle and 2,289 horses and ponies in Ventura County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 3,466 people run or help run farms in Ventura County, with an average age of 62. 37% of them are women. 217 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 28 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Ventura County stands out: it ranks #10 of 58 CA counties for number of farms and #11 of 56 CA counties for total farm sales.