TRAVIS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Austin, Creedmoor and Manchaca buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Travis County by the Numbers

Travis County has 870 farms on 198,239 acres (about 228 acres each). Together they sold $63.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and figs, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, chile peppers and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 1,367 honey bee colonies.

81 farms in Travis County already sell straight to the public, about $5.4 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 Travis County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Travis County counts 23,635 egg-laying hens, 23,331 head of cattle and 2,067 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,478 people run or help run farms in Travis County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 107 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 19 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Travis County stands out: it ranks #3 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public and #18 of 231 TX counties for egg-laying hens.