PACIFIC COUNTY MARKET

Pacific County, Washington Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bay Center, Chinook and Ocean Park buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Washington favorites like apples and cherries show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Pacific County by the Numbers

Pacific County has 290 farms on 43,851 acres (about 151 acres each). Together they sold $63.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by aquaculture, fruit & nuts and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples. Beekeepers tend about 94 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Pacific County already sell straight to the public. 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 Pacific County

Pacific County farms and homesteads keep 4,475 head of cattle, 718 egg-laying hens and 147 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 534 people run or help run farms in Pacific County, with an average age of 63. 39% of them are women. 24 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.