LINCOLN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Lincoln County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Arriba, Genoa and and Limon. 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 Lincoln County by the Numbers

Lincoln County has 505 farms on 1,598,737 acres (about 3,166 acres each). Together they sold $85 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and sorghum.

9 farms in Lincoln County already sell straight to the public, about $77,000 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 Lincoln County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 38,046 head of cattle, 719 egg-laying hens and 502 horses and ponies in Lincoln County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 948 people run or help run farms in Lincoln County, with an average age of 60. 41% of them are women. 77 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.