MACOMB COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Macomb County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Sterling Heights, Warren and Chesterfield. 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 Macomb County by the Numbers

Macomb County has 457 farms on 79,326 acres (about 174 acres each). Together they sold $116.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, walnuts and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, cabbage and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 412 honey bee colonies.

87 farms in Macomb County already sell straight to the public, about $6.1 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 Macomb County

Macomb County farms and homesteads keep 4,977 head of cattle, 2,860 egg-laying hens and 855 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 816 people run or help run farms in Macomb County, with an average age of 56. 32% of them are women. 81 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Macomb County stands out: it ranks #5 of 81 MI counties for selling food straight to the public.