ZAVALA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Batesville, Crystal City and and La Pryor buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Zavala County by the Numbers

Zavala County has 212 farms on 740,758 acres (about 3,494 acres each). Together they sold $86.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, cattle and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce spinach, cucumbers and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 12 honey bee colonies.

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

Farm Life in Zavala County

Zavala County farms and homesteads keep 38,198 head of cattle, 921 goats and 621 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 397 people run or help run farms in Zavala County, with an average age of 60. 27% of them are women. 34 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.