GLACIER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Glacier County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Montana for Babb, Cut Bank and and Saint Mary. 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 Glacier County by the Numbers

Glacier County has 361 farms on 1,115,475 acres (about 3,090 acres each). Together they sold $116.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and barley.

2 farms in Glacier 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 Glacier County

Glacier County farms and homesteads keep 238,979 egg-laying hens, 35,695 head of cattle and 22,354 hogs. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 688 people run or help run farms in Glacier County, with an average age of 60. 38% of them are women. 48 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Glacier County stands out: it ranks #1 of 49 MT counties for egg-laying hens.