COLLIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Plano, Dallas and Blue Ridge buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Collin County by the Numbers

Collin County has 2,330 farms on 197,374 acres (about 85 acres each). Together they sold $98.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, apples and grapes, and local fields produce cantaloupes, okra, cucumbers and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 3,347 honey bee colonies.

220 farms in Collin County already sell straight to the public, about $533,000 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 Collin County

Collin County farms and homesteads keep 34,815 head of cattle, 11,629 egg-laying hens and 4,523 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 4,230 people run or help run farms in Collin County, with an average age of 58. 45% of them are women. 246 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Collin County stands out: it ranks #12 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies and #19 of 254 TX counties for number of farms.