MARQUETTE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Marquette County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Beaver Grove, Big Bay and Negaunee. Michigan favorites like asparagus and cherries 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 Marquette County by the Numbers

Marquette County has 212 farms on 34,930 acres (about 165 acres each). Together they sold $3.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, hay & other field crops and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and sweet cherries, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, beets and carrots. Beekeepers tend about 105 honey bee colonies.

56 farms in Marquette County already sell straight to the public, about $409,000 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 Marquette County

Marquette County farms and homesteads keep 4,368 egg-laying hens, 673 head of cattle and 218 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 407 people run or help run farms in Marquette County, with an average age of 58. 42% of them are women. 29 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.