INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Indian River County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Vero Beach, Fellsmere and and Wabasso. Watch for local tomatoes when it comes into season in Florida. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Indian River County by the Numbers

Indian River County has 492 farms on 167,396 acres (about 340 acres each). Together they sold $124.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, aquaculture and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, grapefruit and lemons, and local fields produce watermelons, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 7,297 honey bee colonies.

54 farms in Indian River County already sell straight to the public, about $1.4 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 Indian River County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 23,234 head of cattle, 1,372 egg-laying hens and 753 horses and ponies in Indian River County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 902 people run or help run farms in Indian River County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 77 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 18 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Indian River County stands out: it ranks #7 of 65 FL counties for selling food straight to the public.