CAMERON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Cameron County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Brownsville, Harlingen and Port Isabel. Watch for local peaches when it comes into season in Texas. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Cameron County by the Numbers

Cameron County has 1,248 farms on 208,701 acres (about 167 acres each). Together they sold $128.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, nursery & greenhouse plants and sorghum.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapefruit, oranges and tangerines, and local fields produce sweet corn and carrots. Beekeepers tend about 21 honey bee colonies.

49 farms in Cameron County already sell straight to the public, about $113,000 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 Cameron County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 9,645 head of cattle, 5,620 egg-laying hens and 2,648 sheep in Cameron County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,055 people run or help run farms in Cameron County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 173 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.

Where Cameron County stands out: it ranks #48 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.