CARBON COUNTY MARKET

Carbon County, Utah Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Carbon County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Utah for East Carbon, Helper and and Wellington. 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 Carbon County by the Numbers

Carbon County has 330 farms on 204,872 acres (about 621 acres each). Together they sold $10.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and apricots, and local fields produce tomatoes, green peas, sweet corn and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 387 honey bee colonies.

30 farms in Carbon County already sell straight to the public, about $71,000 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 Carbon County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 9,919 head of cattle, 4,018 sheep and 1,009 egg-laying hens in Carbon County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 658 people run or help run farms in Carbon County, with an average age of 57. 37% of them are women. 62 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.