SHERBURNE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Becker, Big Lake and and Zimmerman buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Sherburne County by the Numbers

Sherburne County has 494 farms on 85,044 acres (about 172 acres each). Together they sold $120.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and sweet cherries, and local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn, squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 248 honey bee colonies.

61 farms in Sherburne 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 Sherburne County

Sherburne County farms and homesteads keep 11,468 head of cattle, 592 horses and ponies and 479 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 891 people run or help run farms in Sherburne County, with an average age of 55. 37% of them are women. 103 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Sherburne County stands out: it ranks #9 of 81 MN counties for selling food straight to the public.