DOUGLAS COUNTY MARKET

Douglas County, Nebraska Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Douglas County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Nebraska for Omaha, Millard and Ralston. Nebraska favorites like apples and pumpkins 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 Douglas County by the Numbers

Douglas County has 312 farms on 52,000 acres (about 167 acres each). Together they sold $58.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 67 honey bee colonies.

19 farms in Douglas County already sell straight to the public, about $709,000 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 Douglas County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Douglas County counts 1,030 egg-laying hens, 719 head of cattle and 632 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 523 people run or help run farms in Douglas County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 34 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Douglas County stands out: it ranks #6 of 70 NE counties for selling food straight to the public.