OCEANA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Oceana County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Hart, Hesperia and Rothbury. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Oceana County by the Numbers

Oceana County has 492 farms on 110,627 acres (about 225 acres each). Together they sold $212.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, hogs and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow tart cherries, apples and peaches, and local fields produce asparagus, squash, green beans and carrots. Beekeepers tend about 213 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Oceana County already sell straight to the public, about $604,000 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 Oceana County

Oceana County farms and homesteads keep 49,940 hogs, 5,392 head of cattle and 1,985 egg-laying hens.

About 904 people run or help run farms in Oceana County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 79 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 Oceana County stands out: it ranks #16 of 76 MI counties for goats.