LA SALLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 La Salle County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Artesia Wells, Cotulla and and Fowlerton. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in La Salle County by the Numbers

La Salle County has 344 farms on 552,478 acres (about 1,606 acres each). Together they sold $7.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and horses.

Beekeepers tend about 84 honey bee colonies.

1 farms in La Salle 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 La Salle County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 11,909 head of cattle, 802 horses and ponies and 541 egg-laying hens in La Salle County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 676 people run or help run farms in La Salle County, with an average age of 61. 32% of them are women. 39 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.