ARCHER COUNTY MARKET

Archer County, Texas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Archer City, Holliday and and Windthorst buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Archer County by the Numbers

Archer County has 457 farms on 577,879 acres (about 1,265 acres each). Together they sold $116.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and hay & other field crops.

Beekeepers tend about 19 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Archer County already sell straight to the public, about $114,000 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 Archer County

Archer County farms and homesteads keep 74,444 head of cattle, 1,180 sheep and 827 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 760 people run or help run farms in Archer County, with an average age of 57. 32% of them are women. 61 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 19 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.