PUEBLO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Pueblo County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Pueblo, Beulah and and Rye. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Pueblo County by the Numbers

Pueblo County has 758 farms on 833,740 acres (about 1,100 acres each). Together they sold $52 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, vegetables and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, watermelons, cabbage and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 136 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Pueblo County already sell straight to the public, about $408,000 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 Pueblo County

Pueblo County farms and homesteads keep 22,799 head of cattle, 3,629 sheep and 1,986 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,438 people run or help run farms in Pueblo County, with an average age of 59. 37% of them are women. 106 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.