DELTA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Delta County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Colorado for Austin, Cedaredge and Hotchkiss. 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 Delta County by the Numbers

Delta County has 1,511 farms on 187,247 acres (about 124 acres each). Together they sold $79.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, fruit & nuts and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries, and local fields produce onions, tomatoes, potatoes and carrots. Beekeepers tend about 338 honey bee colonies.

152 farms in Delta County already sell straight to the public, about $3.4 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 Delta County

Delta County farms and homesteads keep 30,710 head of cattle, 7,885 sheep and 7,798 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,809 people run or help run farms in Delta County, with an average age of 59. 42% of them are women. 231 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 33 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Delta County stands out: it ranks #2 of 50 CO counties for selling food straight to the public and #4 of 54 CO counties for goats.