OSCEOLA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Osceola County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Kissimmee, Saint Cloud and and Kenansville. 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 Osceola County by the Numbers

Osceola County has 353 farms on 584,279 acres (about 1,655 acres each). Together they sold $98.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow lychees, peaches and coffee. Beekeepers tend about 1,544 honey bee colonies.

19 farms in Osceola County already sell straight to the public, about $321,000 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 Osceola County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Osceola County counts 99,418 head of cattle, 478 sheep and 465 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 674 people run or help run farms in Osceola County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 66 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.