OTTAWA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Ottawa County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Michigan for Holland, Allendale and Hudsonville. Michigan favorites like apples and blueberries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Ottawa County by the Numbers

Ottawa County has 1,040 farms on 144,491 acres (about 139 acres each). Together they sold $726.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, poultry & eggs and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and chestnuts, and local fields produce squash, radishes, celery and onions. Beekeepers tend about 2,337 honey bee colonies.

129 farms in Ottawa County already sell straight to the public, about $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 Ottawa County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,316,963 turkeys, 70,241 hogs and 38,173 head of cattle in Ottawa County.

About 1,905 people run or help run farms in Ottawa County, with an average age of 56. 32% of them are women. 181 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Ottawa County stands out: it ranks #3 of 81 MI counties for total farm sales and #4 of 76 MI counties for goats.