DIMMIT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Dimmit County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Asherton, Big Wells and and Catarina. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Dimmit County by the Numbers

Dimmit County has 211 farms on 344,379 acres (about 1,632 acres each). Together they sold $10.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Local fields produce cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 14 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Dimmit County already sell straight to the public, about $3.3 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 Dimmit County

Dimmit County farms and homesteads keep 9,447 head of cattle, 550 goats and 295 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 355 people run or help run farms in Dimmit County, with an average age of 62. 31% of them are women. 13 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Dimmit County stands out: it ranks #5 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public.