COLFAX COUNTY MARKET

Colfax County, New Mexico Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Colfax County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Angel Fire, Cimarron and Raton. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Colfax County by the Numbers

Colfax County has 269 farms on 2,035,008 acres (about 7,565 acres each). Together they sold $58.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and sheep & goats.

Beekeepers tend about 14 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Colfax County already sell straight to the public, about $87,000 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 Colfax County

Colfax County farms and homesteads keep 39,316 head of cattle, 791 horses and ponies and 489 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 491 people run or help run farms in Colfax County, with an average age of 62. 41% of them are women. 45 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.