HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hillsborough County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Tampa, Plant City and Dover. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Hillsborough County by the Numbers

Hillsborough County has 1,992 farms on 201,712 acres (about 101 acres each). Together they sold $704 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, nursery & greenhouse plants and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, tangerines and grapefruit, and local fields produce tomatoes, watermelons, cucumbers and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 1,652 honey bee colonies.

102 farms in Hillsborough County already sell straight to the public, about $1.7 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 Hillsborough County

Hillsborough County farms and homesteads keep 32,943 head of cattle, 6,790 egg-laying hens and 2,564 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 3,544 people run or help run farms in Hillsborough County, with an average age of 60. 41% of them are women. 192 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 30 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hillsborough County stands out: it ranks #3 of 67 FL counties for total farm sales and #4 of 67 FL counties for number of farms.