OTERO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Otero County? Backyard growers and small farms around Cheraw, Fowler and and Timpas list it here. Colorado favorites like peaches and sweet corn 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 Otero County by the Numbers

Otero County has 397 farms on 529,274 acres (about 1,333 acres each). Together they sold $132.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, vegetables and hay & other field crops.

Local fields produce potatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and cantaloupes.

15 farms in Otero County already sell straight to the public, about $462,000 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 Otero County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 52,853 head of cattle, 865 goats and 629 horses and ponies in Otero County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 771 people run or help run farms in Otero County, with an average age of 57. 37% of them are women. 99 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Otero County stands out: it ranks #12 of 60 CO counties for total farm sales.