OKEECHOBEE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Okeechobee County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Basinger, and Okeechobee. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Okeechobee County by the Numbers

Okeechobee County has 535 farms on 325,257 acres (about 608 acres each). Together they sold $302.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, grapefruit and limes, and local fields produce green beans. Beekeepers tend about 276 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Okeechobee County already sell straight to the public, about $8,000 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 Okeechobee County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 157,001 head of cattle, 885 horses and ponies and 723 goats in Okeechobee County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,002 people run or help run farms in Okeechobee County, with an average age of 60. 37% of them are women. 54 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Okeechobee County stands out: it ranks #9 of 67 FL counties for total farm sales.