BROWARD COUNTY MARKET

Broward County, Florida Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Broward County? Backyard growers and small farms around Fort Lauderdale, Davie and Tamarac list it here. Watch for local tomatoes when it comes into season in Florida. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Broward County by the Numbers

Broward County has 658 farms on 13,007 acres (about 20 acres each). Together they sold $63.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow mangoes, lychees and bananas, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, chile peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,391 honey bee colonies.

86 farms in Broward County already sell straight to the public, about $336,000 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 Broward County

Broward County farms and homesteads keep 1,783 egg-laying hens, 1,265 horses and ponies and 578 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,258 people run or help run farms in Broward County, with an average age of 57. 42% of them are women. 141 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.