LAKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Leadville, and Twin Lakes buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lake County by the Numbers

Lake County has 33 farms on 15,034 acres (about 456 acres each). Together they sold $1.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle and sheep & goats.

6 farms in Lake County already sell straight to the public, about $233,000 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 Lake County

Lake County farms and homesteads keep 745 head of cattle, 54 goats and 36 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 80 people run or help run farms in Lake County, with an average age of 55. 40% of them are women. 14 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.