BERGEN COUNTY MARKET

Bergen County, New Jersey Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Allendale, Alpine and Cliffside Park buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local blueberries when it comes into season in New Jersey. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Bergen County by the Numbers

Bergen County has 73 farms on 771 acres (about 11 acres each). Together they sold $10.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 221 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Bergen County already sell straight to the public, about $221,000 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 Bergen County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Bergen County counts 662 egg-laying hens, 238 horses and ponies and 20 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 138 people run or help run farms in Bergen County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 7 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.