COOKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Cooke County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Era, Lake Kiowa and and Valley View. Texas favorites like citrus and pecans show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Cooke County by the Numbers

Cooke County has 2,188 farms on 513,278 acres (about 235 acres each). Together they sold $109.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and pears, and local fields produce watermelons, tomatoes, collard greens and squash. Beekeepers tend about 1,550 honey bee colonies.

81 farms in Cooke County already sell straight to the public, about $3.2 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 Cooke County

Cooke County farms and homesteads keep 92,296 head of cattle, 6,854 egg-laying hens and 5,018 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 3,707 people run or help run farms in Cooke County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 252 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 30 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Cooke County stands out: it ranks #6 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public and #23 of 254 TX counties for number of farms.