ECTOR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Odessa, Gardendale and and Penwell buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local peaches when it comes into season in Texas. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Ector County by the Numbers

Ector County has 178 farms on 417,245 acres (about 2,344 acres each). Together they sold $3.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and sheep & goats.

Beekeepers tend about 8 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Ector County already sell straight to the public, about $8,000 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 Ector County

Ector County farms and homesteads keep 4,176 head of cattle, 990 horses and ponies and 872 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 303 people run or help run farms in Ector County, with an average age of 61. 43% of them are women. 25 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.