DOUGLAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Douglas County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Littleton, Castle Rock and Larkspur. Watch for local green chiles when it comes into season in Colorado. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Douglas County by the Numbers

Douglas County has 1,127 farms on 218,374 acres (about 194 acres each). Together they sold $14.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and sweet cherries, and local fields produce cucumbers, pumpkins, spinach and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 305 honey bee colonies.

84 farms in Douglas County already sell straight to the public, about $983,000 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 Douglas County

Douglas County farms and homesteads keep 6,144 head of cattle, 4,505 egg-laying hens and 3,420 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,200 people run or help run farms in Douglas County, with an average age of 57. 45% of them are women. 103 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Douglas County stands out: it ranks #8 of 63 CO counties for number of farms and #7 of 54 CO counties for egg-laying hens.