ARAPAHOE COUNTY MARKET

Arapahoe County, Colorado Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Aurora, Cherry Hills Vil and Englewood 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 Arapahoe County by the Numbers

Arapahoe County has 607 farms on 269,428 acres (about 444 acres each). Together they sold $11.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow tart cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, chile peppers, carrots and snow peas. Beekeepers tend about 64 honey bee colonies.

57 farms in Arapahoe County already sell straight to the public, about $183,000 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 Arapahoe County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,767 head of cattle, 4,046 egg-laying hens and 1,319 horses and ponies in Arapahoe County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,112 people run or help run farms in Arapahoe County, with an average age of 58. 44% of them are women. 67 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Arapahoe County stands out: it ranks #9 of 54 CO counties for egg-laying hens.