SALT LAKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Salt Lake County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Utah for Salt Lake City, Sandy and West Valley City. 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 Salt Lake County by the Numbers

Salt Lake County has 393 farms on 49,566 acres (about 126 acres each). Together they sold $17.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 214 honey bee colonies.

55 farms in Salt Lake County already sell straight to the public, about $337,000 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 Salt Lake County

Salt Lake County farms and homesteads keep 2,877 egg-laying hens, 1,442 head of cattle and 1,268 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 733 people run or help run farms in Salt Lake County, with an average age of 60. 36% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 23 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Salt Lake County stands out: it ranks #4 of 25 UT counties for egg-laying hens.