SILVER BOW COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Silver Bow County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Montana for Butte, Divide and and Walkerville. Montana favorites like huckleberries and lentils show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Silver Bow County by the Numbers

Silver Bow County has 156 farms on 68,857 acres (about 441 acres each). Together they sold $5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and horses.

6 farms in Silver Bow County already sell straight to the public, about $8,000 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 Silver Bow County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Silver Bow County counts 5,794 head of cattle, 591 horses and ponies and 289 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 301 people run or help run farms in Silver Bow County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 32 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.