KALAMAZOO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Kalamazoo, Augusta and Parchment buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Kalamazoo County by the Numbers

Kalamazoo County has 607 farms on 145,225 acres (about 239 acres each). Together they sold $340.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, corn and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and tart cherries, and local fields produce green beans, pumpkins, asparagus and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 209 honey bee colonies.

61 farms in Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 108,243 hogs, 14,030 head of cattle and 2,622 egg-laying hens in Kalamazoo County.

About 1,100 people run or help run farms in Kalamazoo County, with an average age of 55. 36% of them are women. 143 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Kalamazoo County stands out: it ranks #10 of 81 MI counties for total farm sales and #12 of 76 MI counties for goats.