PARK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Clyde Park, Cooke City and Pray buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Montana favorites like lentils and honey show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Park County by the Numbers

Park County has 478 farms on 736,194 acres (about 1,540 acres each). Together they sold $43.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and barley.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce tomatoes, carrots, squash and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 139 honey bee colonies.

31 farms in Park County already sell straight to the public, about $402,000 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 Park County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Park County counts 41,838 head of cattle, 1,939 egg-laying hens and 1,914 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 932 people run or help run farms in Park County, with an average age of 60. 42% of them are women. 76 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 34 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.