YOLO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Woodland, Brooks and Davis buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Yolo County by the Numbers

Yolo County has 795 farms on 478,555 acres (about 602 acres each). Together they sold $658.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, fruit & nuts and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow almonds, grapes and walnuts, and local fields produce tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 26,451 honey bee colonies.

106 farms in Yolo County already sell straight to the public, about $14.2 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 Yolo County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 52,995 head of cattle, 26,018 egg-laying hens and 16,407 sheep in Yolo County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,524 people run or help run farms in Yolo County, with an average age of 60. 39% of them are women. 81 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Yolo County stands out: it ranks #10 of 52 CA counties for selling food straight to the public and #10 of 50 CA counties for egg-laying hens.