NOWATA COUNTY MARKET

Nowata County, Oklahoma Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Nowata County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Oklahoma for Delaware, Lenapah and and Wann. Oklahoma favorites like peaches and watermelons show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Nowata County by the Numbers

Nowata County has 763 farms on 292,351 acres (about 383 acres each). Together they sold $53.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and wheat.

Beekeepers tend about 56 honey bee colonies.

17 farms in Nowata County already sell straight to the public, about $122,000 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 Nowata County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Nowata County counts 53,563 head of cattle, 2,259 egg-laying hens and 1,482 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,377 people run or help run farms in Nowata County, with an average age of 57. 40% of them are women. 105 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.