DOUGLAS COUNTY MARKET

Douglas County, Nevada Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Carson City, Gardnerville and Stateline buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local melons when it comes into season in Nevada. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Douglas County by the Numbers

Douglas County has 246 farms on 121,231 acres (about 493 acres each). Together they sold $22.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes. Beekeepers tend about 58 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Douglas County already sell straight to the public, about $137,000 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 Douglas County

Douglas County farms and homesteads keep 13,072 head of cattle, 1,096 egg-laying hens and 945 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 419 people run or help run farms in Douglas County, with an average age of 61. 52% of them are women. 35 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.