CONCHO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Concho County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Eden, Eola and and Paint Rock. Watch for local onions when it comes into season in Texas. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Concho County by the Numbers

Concho County has 400 farms on 629,378 acres (about 1,573 acres each). Together they sold $32.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, cattle and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and plums. Beekeepers tend about 20 honey bee colonies.

2 farms in Concho 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 Concho County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 17,922 head of cattle, 12,602 sheep and 9,942 goats in Concho County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 744 people run or help run farms in Concho County, with an average age of 60. 33% of them are women. 66 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 39 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Concho County stands out: it ranks #15 of 241 TX counties for goats.