GUADALUPE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Anton Chico, Cuervo and and Vaughn buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local green chiles when it comes into season in New Mexico. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Guadalupe County by the Numbers

Guadalupe County has 267 farms on 1,258,863 acres (about 4,715 acres each). Together they sold $14.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, vegetables and horses.

Local fields produce chile peppers.

6 farms in Guadalupe County already sell straight to the public, about $53,000 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 Guadalupe County

Guadalupe County farms and homesteads keep 20,575 head of cattle, 2,304 sheep and 479 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 483 people run or help run farms in Guadalupe County, with an average age of 60. 35% of them are women. 47 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.