PASSAIC COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Passaic County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Paterson, Clifton and Hawthorne. Watch for local tomatoes 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 Passaic County by the Numbers

Passaic County has 99 farms on 1,830 acres (about 18 acres each). Together they sold $4.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, poultry & eggs and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow hazelnuts, pears and apples, and local fields produce cucumbers and cauliflower. Beekeepers tend about 36 honey bee colonies.

27 farms in Passaic County already sell straight to the public, about $308,000 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 Passaic County

Passaic County farms and homesteads keep 3,595 egg-laying hens, 309 goats and 126 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 201 people run or help run farms in Passaic County, with an average age of 59. 47% 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.