LAPEER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Almont, Attica and Hadley buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Lapeer County by the Numbers

Lapeer County has 1,050 farms on 162,365 acres (about 155 acres each). Together they sold $123.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, chestnuts and peaches, and local fields produce onions, sweet corn, green beans and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 811 honey bee colonies.

183 farms in Lapeer County already sell straight to the public, about $2.6 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 Lapeer County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 10,151 head of cattle, 6,882 egg-laying hens and 1,426 horses and ponies in Lapeer County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,829 people run or help run farms in Lapeer County, with an average age of 56. 40% of them are women. 184 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 30 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lapeer County stands out: it ranks #12 of 83 MI counties for number of farms and #11 of 76 MI counties for egg-laying hens.