FREMONT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Fremont County? Backyard growers and small farms around Canon City, Coal Creek and Howard list it here. Watch for local peaches 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 Fremont County by the Numbers

Fremont County has 681 farms on 231,567 acres (about 340 acres each). Together they sold $11.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and rhubarb. Beekeepers tend about 621 honey bee colonies.

44 farms in Fremont County already sell straight to the public, about $187,000 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 Fremont County

Fremont County farms and homesteads keep 7,706 head of cattle, 3,672 horses and ponies and 2,288 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,260 people run or help run farms in Fremont County, with an average age of 61. 42% of them are women. 77 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 Fremont County stands out: it ranks #6 of 48 CO counties for honey bee colonies.