REEVES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Reeves County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Balmorhea, Saragosa and and Verhalen. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Reeves County by the Numbers

Reeves County has 150 farms on 830,657 acres (about 5,538 acres each). Together they sold $27.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, cattle and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 112 honey bee colonies.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Reeves County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 12,515 head of cattle, 218 egg-laying hens and 178 horses and ponies in Reeves County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 255 people run or help run farms in Reeves County, with an average age of 61. 37% of them are women. 14 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.