WAYNE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Wayne County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Detroit, Dearborn and Grosse Pointe. 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 Wayne County by the Numbers

Wayne County has 309 farms on 10,392 acres (about 34 acres each). Together they sold $40.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, sweet cherries and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 3,164 honey bee colonies.

108 farms in Wayne County already sell straight to the public, about $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 Wayne County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,266 egg-laying hens, 857 horses and ponies and 400 sheep in Wayne County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 596 people run or help run farms in Wayne County, with an average age of 51. 40% of them are women. 90 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Wayne County stands out: it ranks #6 of 74 MI counties for honey bee colonies.