UNION COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Union County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Oregon for Cove, Elgin and Summerville. Oregon favorites like hazelnuts and berries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Union County by the Numbers

Union County has 806 farms on 342,913 acres (about 425 acres each). Together they sold $74.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow sweet cherries, and local fields produce potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins and fresh herbs.

76 farms in Union County already sell straight to the public, about $286,000 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 Union County

Union County farms and homesteads keep 33,358 head of cattle, 3,396 egg-laying hens and 1,583 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,496 people run or help run farms in Union County, with an average age of 57. 43% of them are women. 161 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.