LAS ANIMAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Las Animas County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Aguilar, Boncarbo and Trinchera. Colorado favorites like green chiles and honey show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Las Animas County by the Numbers

Las Animas County has 485 farms on 1,805,818 acres (about 3,723 acres each). Together they sold $31.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and sheep & goats.

Beekeepers tend about 56 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Las Animas County already sell straight to the public, about $389,000 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 Las Animas County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 40,618 head of cattle, 1,357 goats and 893 horses and ponies in Las Animas County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 903 people run or help run farms in Las Animas County, with an average age of 61. 41% of them are women. 52 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 23 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Las Animas County stands out: it ranks #8 of 54 CO counties for goats.