WICHITA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Wichita Falls, Burkburnett and and Sheppard Afb buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Wichita County by the Numbers

Wichita County has 632 farms on 298,639 acres (about 473 acres each). Together they sold $45.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and apples. Beekeepers tend about 107 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Wichita County already sell straight to the public, about $18,000 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 Wichita County

Wichita County farms and homesteads keep 31,475 head of cattle, 2,045 goats and 1,967 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,065 people run or help run farms in Wichita County, with an average age of 58. 38% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.