ANOKA COUNTY MARKET

Anoka County, Minnesota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Blaine, Coon Rapids and East Bethel buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Anoka County by the Numbers

Anoka County has 355 farms on 30,064 acres (about 85 acres each). Together they sold $72.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, squash, cucumbers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 278 honey bee colonies.

64 farms in Anoka County already sell straight to the public, about $1.3 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 Anoka County

Anoka County farms and homesteads keep 1,883 egg-laying hens, 912 horses and ponies and 886 head of cattle. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 657 people run or help run farms in Anoka County, with an average age of 54. 39% of them are women. 91 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Anoka County stands out: it ranks #8 of 81 MN counties for selling food straight to the public.