DOUGLAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Douglas County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Minnesota for Alexandria, Brandon and Garfield. Watch for local honey when it comes into season in Minnesota. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Douglas County by the Numbers

Douglas County has 980 farms on 268,096 acres (about 274 acres each). Together they sold $168.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 57 honey bee colonies.

36 farms in Douglas County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 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 Douglas County

Douglas County farms and homesteads keep 14,600 head of cattle, 2,500 egg-laying hens and 1,885 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,755 people run or help run farms in Douglas County, with an average age of 57. 30% of them are women. 183 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Douglas County stands out: it ranks #15 of 81 MN counties for selling food straight to the public and #18 of 87 MN counties for number of farms.