BOULDER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Boulder, Longmont and Erie buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Colorado favorites like peaches and sweet corn 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 Boulder County by the Numbers

Boulder County has 826 farms on 74,242 acres (about 90 acres each). Together they sold $25.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, cantaloupes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 929 honey bee colonies.

131 farms in Boulder County already sell straight to the public, about $2.1 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 Boulder County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,391 egg-laying hens, 3,425 head of cattle and 2,275 horses and ponies in Boulder County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,479 people run or help run farms in Boulder County, with an average age of 61. 44% of them are women. 76 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 29 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Boulder County stands out: it ranks #3 of 48 CO counties for honey bee colonies and #4 of 50 CO counties for selling food straight to the public.