OAKLAND COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Oakland County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Michigan for Farmington Hills, Bloomfield Towns and Rochester Hills. Michigan favorites like asparagus and cherries show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Oakland County by the Numbers

Oakland County has 541 farms on 26,114 acres (about 48 acres each). Together they sold $38.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, corn and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 1,121 honey bee colonies.

134 farms in Oakland County already sell straight to the public, about $959,000 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 Oakland County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,445 egg-laying hens, 1,391 horses and ponies and 1,028 head of cattle in Oakland County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,016 people run or help run farms in Oakland County, with an average age of 55. 47% of them are women. 108 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 21 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.