PALM BEACH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Palm Beach County by the Numbers

Palm Beach County has 1,368 farms on 460,575 acres (about 337 acres each). Together they sold $1.3 billion of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, hay & other field crops and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, mangoes and lychees, and local fields produce sweet corn, green beans, bell peppers and radishes. Beekeepers tend about 20,618 honey bee colonies.

117 farms in Palm Beach County already sell straight to the public, about $2.4 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 Palm Beach County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,545 head of cattle, 7,761 horses and ponies and 5,431 egg-laying hens in Palm Beach County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,494 people run or help run farms in Palm Beach County, with an average age of 57. 42% of them are women. 211 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 31 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Palm Beach County stands out: it ranks #1 of 67 FL counties for total farm sales and #2 of 61 FL counties for honey bee colonies.