GARFIELD COUNTY MARKET

Garfield County, Montana Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Brusett, Cohagen and and Sand Springs buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Garfield County by the Numbers

Garfield County has 238 farms on 2,325,298 acres (about 9,770 acres each). Together they sold $78.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and sheep & goats.

Beekeepers tend about 3 honey bee colonies.

1 farms in Garfield County already sell straight to the public. 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 Garfield County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Garfield County counts 69,989 head of cattle, 15,017 sheep and 912 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 457 people run or help run farms in Garfield County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 54 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.