BOISE COUNTY MARKET

Boise County, Idaho Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Banks, Garden Valley and and Placerville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Idaho favorites like cherries and honey show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Boise County by the Numbers

Boise County has 108 farms on 66,311 acres (about 614 acres each). Together they sold $7.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples. Beekeepers tend about 147 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Boise County already sell straight to the public, about $48,000 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 Boise County

Boise County farms and homesteads keep 3,212 head of cattle, 497 egg-laying hens and 180 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 204 people run or help run farms in Boise County, with an average age of 60. 45% of them are women. 5 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.