Genesee

Genesee County, Michigan Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Genesee County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Michigan for Flint, Northeast and Davison. 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 Genesee County by the Numbers

Genesee County has 793 farms on 120,218 acres (about 152 acres each). Together they sold $83.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 1,260 honey bee colonies.

135 farms in Genesee County already sell straight to the public, about $1.7 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 Genesee County

Genesee County farms and homesteads keep 6,106 egg-laying hens, 4,805 head of cattle and 1,122 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,359 people run or help run farms in Genesee County, with an average age of 56. 37% of them are women. 134 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Genesee County stands out: it ranks #16 of 76 MI counties for egg-laying hens.