COLLIER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Collier County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Collier County. 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 Collier County by the Numbers

Collier County has 330 farms on 177,671 acres (about 538 acres each). Together they sold $387.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, nursery & greenhouse plants and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, grapefruit and tangelos, and local fields produce tomatoes, bell peppers, watermelons and squash. Beekeepers tend about 12,202 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Collier County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 million 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 Collier County

Collier County farms and homesteads keep 10,033 head of cattle, 664 egg-laying hens and 378 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 564 people run or help run farms in Collier County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 49 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Collier County stands out: it ranks #6 of 67 FL counties for total farm sales and #6 of 65 FL counties for selling food straight to the public.