MORA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Mora County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in New Mexico for Buena Vista, Chacon and Mora. Watch for local pecans when it comes into season in New Mexico. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Mora County by the Numbers

Mora County has 501 farms on 684,546 acres (about 1,366 acres each). Together they sold $10.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow plums, pears and apples, and local fields produce squash, green beans and garlic. Beekeepers tend about 93 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Mora County already sell straight to the public, about $65,000 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 Mora County

Mora County farms and homesteads keep 13,647 head of cattle, 864 horses and ponies and 702 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 838 people run or help run farms in Mora County, with an average age of 63. 37% of them are women. 69 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.