JACKSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Coalmont, Cowdrey and and Walden 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 Jackson County by the Numbers

Jackson County has 112 farms on 371,376 acres (about 3,316 acres each). Together they sold $48.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle and sheep & goats.

Beekeepers tend about 4 honey bee colonies.

2 farms in Jackson County already sell straight to the public. 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 Jackson County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 25,960 head of cattle, 528 horses and ponies and 286 sheep in Jackson County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 225 people run or help run farms in Jackson County, with an average age of 61. 39% of them are women. 12 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.