COOS COUNTY MARKET

Coos County, Oregon Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bandon, Broadbent and Myrtle Point buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Oregon favorites like berries and cherries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Coos County by the Numbers

Coos County has 543 farms on 133,255 acres (about 245 acres each). Together they sold $66.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, fruit & nuts and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkins and broccoli. Beekeepers tend about 37 honey bee colonies.

41 farms in Coos County already sell straight to the public, about $142,000 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 Coos County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 24,272 head of cattle, 5,611 sheep and 2,491 egg-laying hens in Coos County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,064 people run or help run farms in Coos County, with an average age of 61. 41% of them are women. 75 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.