BRAZOS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bryan, College Station and and Millican buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Texas favorites like citrus and pecans 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 Brazos County by the Numbers

Brazos County has 1,103 farms on 277,682 acres (about 252 acres each). Together they sold $122.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, peaches and olives, and local fields produce tomatoes, onions, eggplant and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 1,272 honey bee colonies.

54 farms in Brazos County already sell straight to the public, about $1.3 million 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 Brazos County

Brazos County farms and homesteads keep 51,794 head of cattle, 2,506 sheep and 2,030 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,003 people run or help run farms in Brazos County, with an average age of 61. 41% of them are women. 190 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Brazos County stands out: it ranks #15 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public and #27 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies.