COLEMAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Burkett, Coleman and Novice buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local citrus when it comes into season in Texas. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Coleman County by the Numbers

Coleman County has 1,071 farms on 758,719 acres (about 708 acres each). Together they sold $44.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes. Beekeepers tend about 100 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Coleman County already sell straight to the public. 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 Coleman County

Coleman County farms and homesteads keep 40,787 head of cattle, 4,210 sheep and 3,029 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,826 people run or help run farms in Coleman County, with an average age of 63. 37% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 82 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.