CARVER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Carver County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Minnesota for Carver, Chanhassen and Mayer. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Minnesota. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Carver County by the Numbers

Carver County has 606 farms on 156,676 acres (about 259 acres each). Together they sold $172.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, squash, sweet corn and onions. Beekeepers tend about 415 honey bee colonies.

43 farms in Carver County already sell straight to the public, about $460,000 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 Carver County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 25,743 hogs, 19,459 head of cattle and 2,127 sheep in Carver County.

About 1,074 people run or help run farms in Carver County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 88 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.