DENTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Denton County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Denton, Carrollton and Highland Village. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Denton County by the Numbers

Denton County has 2,936 farms on 272,184 acres (about 93 acres each). Together they sold $135.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by horses, wheat and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce tomatoes, watermelons, potatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 14,252 honey bee colonies.

192 farms in Denton County already sell straight to the public, about $563,000 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 Denton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 28,204 head of cattle, 9,680 horses and ponies and 4,248 goats in Denton County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 5,148 people run or help run farms in Denton County, with an average age of 59. 43% of them are women. 324 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 Denton County stands out: it ranks #3 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies and #6 of 254 TX counties for number of farms.